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by civilian 10y ago
> I just started an internal IT tool ... I think a lot of your ease of use comes from it being an internal IT tool. It's allowed to be clunky, you probably don't have many eyes from marketing/design/product on it--
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by civilian 10y ago
Are your retros a small enough group? I am more reticent to bring up negative stuff, especially if it's mostly about myself, if my boss's boss, marketing people, lead of product, and the finance person are all sitting in on the re
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by civilian 10y ago
^ Couldn't have said it better. Best != perfect, it's always some kind of Nash equilibrium that makes the best tradeoffs available.
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by civilian 10y ago
Sarcasm? Reading comprehension for emails is so bad. And these are blue collar workers that you're targeting. If anything I'd have it be an item in a weekly team meeting, but don't you think these workers are _always_ hearing
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by civilian 10y ago
He said that they do honor it: > ... If I had a nickel for every time I've had an Amazon purchase refunded or replaced because ...
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by civilian 10y ago
A solid example, with biting British commentary to boot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbNq2xdvU_g
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by civilian 10y ago
Organizations are bad at communication. How do you disseminate that the information that "look guys, bicycles are fragile too" to ten of thousands of logistics workers? This is an awesome hack, and it's a great way to fix beh
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by civilian 10y ago
Yeah, idk if I have the tools to convince you. AnimalMuppet's response is good. If anyone is curious what The Economist's "bias" against Chavez looks like, here's a good article: http://www.economist.com&
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by civilian 10y ago
Communism is tied to state-run monopolies of companies. Yes, the main fault was an incompetent authoritarian rule, but it wouldn't have been possible if the oil company hadn't be nationalized. If Venezuela has an incompetent au
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by civilian 10y ago
I'm gonna blame it on communism. It's not that they don't know how to produce oil. It's that the oil company has been so heavily mismanaged and used for political purposes that it has become extremely inefficient. http:
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by civilian 10y ago
The mistake you're making is that the Chinese government has chosen one standard and applied it consistently throughout the web. I imagine they've applied it like a game of wack-a-mole: if a group embarrasses them, they block it.
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by civilian 10y ago
Yes Alan Watts, everything is connected, but organizations and people can still remain distinct and have different motivations. :)
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by civilian 10y ago
I agree with your analysis, except for some of Western Europe. In North-Western europe, Britain and Scandanavia greatly benefit from the Atlantic jet stream being fairly consistently aimed a little farther north; it gives them a warmer clim
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by civilian 10y ago
This is a really good wiki article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization There's a few key ideas here: The limiting factor in plankton growth is iron. So we can hit it with other things, the p
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by civilian 10y ago
No one is "dumping" plastic on the ocean. It's million of litterers and maritime equipment malfunctions.
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by civilian 10y ago
None of us should care about the chances . Let's study it! At the very least, look at the opportunity cost. You can have climate change as it's moving now. Or you can try your best at political solutions (good luck stopping China
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by civilian 10y ago
We have strong guesses on the direct guesses. And the scientists are refusing to look at his data because his study was done illegally. Your sarcastic tone is a great example of how deeply everyone has their head in the sand.
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by civilian 10y ago
Iron is needed for photosynthesis, and silicia is not. Iron is the key limiting factor in the growth of oceanic plankton, so it has to be iron. Optionally, we could use volcanic ash instead. But only because it contains a lot of iron. :) h
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by civilian 10y ago
You're right that creationists are pretty deep into idiot territory. But alsetmusic's fact-finding mission could still be useful! Right now he doesn't even know where to start on how to construct an argument, because he doesn
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by civilian 10y ago
Do we have DNA for Tasmanian tigers? I wonder if it would be valuable to have a biologist or forest ranger collecting fur samples that rub off on trees in the area where there's been some sightings.
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by civilian 10y ago
I think the personalty trait we call "grit" or "stick-to-it-ive-ness" is hard to test for. And I think the best way to test for it is by looking at someone's track record. And it's one of the big three require
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by civilian 10y ago
The long-term solution to this, of course, is the Alternative Vote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE
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by civilian 10y ago
Awesome to hear! So are you like, 2 for 4 as a mentor? That's much better than my 1 for 5. I have another teaching-inclined buddy who is 0 for 10. I have remained optimistic, but yeah.. I do my best just to casually mention it to eve
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by civilian 10y ago
I kind of understand how he got that. I do genuinely believe that hard work is the key to everything (although you do often need a little intelligence), but the way I talked was about what story would best help motivate people. It just he
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by civilian 10y ago
I think that what successful people tell themselves is not that important of an issue. What's important is the narrative we give people who are not yet successful. I have a friend who's smart, and is a really good listener. We ha
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by civilian 10y ago
I think you should read (or listen to) Sam Harris talk about psychedelics. (I really enjoy him, but my dad thinks that he's boring as shit. Either way, you can be reassured that he's not someone who jumps to conclusions-- he'
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by civilian 10y ago
Were we ever successful against rats?
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by civilian 10y ago
Thanks for the work! But I meant, get infront of this by advocating Kratom for schedule IV or V several years ago. Sorry, I'm being an armchair activist.
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by civilian 10y ago
I wonder if the kratom community should have gotten infront of this. If you think the DEA is going to come down with the Emergency Schedule 1 hammer, then maybe it'd be better to take action to make it become Schedule 4 or 5. First imp
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by civilian 10y ago
We're power users. We've already been burned by this, and we know how to defend against it. That doesn't help my mom when she's writing a long letter and (rightly) expects her computer's RAM to hold the information

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