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by dingbat 9y ago
based on the tone of this article, the writer of this article would judge anyone, including Frank Herbert, who professes to liking the film version to be lacking in understanding or appreciating Dune and SF in general.
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by dingbat 10y ago
> His insights have also attracted interest — and, more importantly, money — from policy makers. In 2014 the U.S. Department of Agriculture forked over a $5.5-million grant to support Wansink’s Smarter Lunchrooms program, which has since
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by dingbat 10y ago
> I think a better question is if society can adapt quick enough to fill the void left by the absence of work. i think that question has been answered to some degree by research (cant pinpoint off top of my head) which seems to indicate
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by dingbat 10y ago
stuck between fears is not good place to be. for reasons similar to yours i dropped out of the tech field completely years ago, touching upon the experiences you mention of your friends who did not find mgmt roles to be satisfying. one thin
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by dingbat 10y ago
> But in my mid 40s, I don't think my body could handle a purely physical job. not assuming your physical condition, have no idea if you work out or not, but still wondering if you think sedentary IT career has contributed to lack o
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by dingbat 10y ago
it seems like the exploding self-publishing market has coincided with a massive increase in fake marketing tactics, purchased reviews and copy-catting of any material that gets traction. as an indie publisher how do you compete in a market
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by dingbat 10y ago
well as long as they are honest about enjoying the brutality i guess they are being consistent!
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by dingbat 10y ago
thats a great distinction. sounds like an institutionalized version of the individual tendency to excuse poor emotional regulation with "it's just who I am, a straight shooter" b.s. authentic (foolish) straight shooters would
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by dingbat 10y ago
yeah i thought the simulation hypothesis is mainly coming from a probabilistic argument
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by dingbat 10y ago
it may be an underestimation of AI to assume that AI will respect the concept of human ownership
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by dingbat 10y ago
> What happens when those at the top decide it's not worth keeping 8 billion people those "people at the top" will (or should) be the first to go. these "wizards" will be unnecessary and redundant, offering litt
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by dingbat 10y ago
security is important, but lets not forget the strides theyve made in making meaningful connections with their audience via collaborative relationships with powerful leaders such as Katie Couric
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by dingbat 10y ago
must be the same genius technology that leads Amazon to load up my Prime frontpage with fashion accessories when I've never had any history of searching or buying such, and recommending the same shows "Mozart in the Jungle",
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by dingbat 10y ago
i think Paul Graham has talked about this, when he was doing the passionate starving artist thing in NYC, while he was stapling canvas in a studio, he heard over the radio about the huge amounts of money being made in mutual funds.. he like
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by dingbat 10y ago
Cialdini is a salesman with credentials who's spent most of his time studying good salesmen and selling other salesmen on the idea of learning how to sell better. At the end of his big bestseller Influence, he goes into a long-winded m
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by dingbat 10y ago
they should focus on being THE platform for key influencers, "thought leaders" and celebrities, mover-and-shaker types, kind of like Yahoo did with Katie Couric!
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by dingbat 10y ago
in order to extract value, isnt it first necessary to define that value (of broadcasting info and enabling real time conversations)? that would seem to be a big mystery.
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by dingbat 10y ago
> I have to wonder how many years (decades?) this has been occurring. another way in which Trump is a political tsunami... to paraphrase Warren Buffett: when the tide goes out, you can see who's been swimming naked
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by dingbat 10y ago
its also abundantly transparent now that "fact checking" services have lost all credibility, ie. "DT claimed HRC server was acid-washed: FALSE", "DT claimed HRC laughed at an 11-year-old rape victim: FALSE".
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by dingbat 10y ago
re: the example you give about VP Biden announcing secret cyber attacks against Russia during an NBC News interview, it isnt necessarily a waste to "burn processing cycles" keeping up with such news, when you consider that observi
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by dingbat 10y ago
in other words, its only a black mark from people who dont matter anyway
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by dingbat 10y ago
that fight club example is amusingly cynical, but a true cynic might think it idealistic to believe that high-level decisions are made according to any formula. if they were, what calculations could explain the decision to allocate resource
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by dingbat 10y ago
thanks for the worthy attempt at explanation, but the b-class sci-fi feel of this remains so strong, i cannot help but associate this having to do with Sleestaks and Time Pylons
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by dingbat 10y ago
> You're also implying that Machivellianism works better for individuals and corporations. my position is exactly the opposite of stating that Machivellianism "works better". in fact the comments i have been responding to,
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by dingbat 10y ago
critical thinking and Machiavellianism are orthogonal. if you read the comments i am responding to, you'd see that those comments are the ones which are making the assumption that critical thinkers are non-Machiavellian, which is just
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by dingbat 10y ago
please read the comments i am responding to. the comment i am responding to is positing that in large companies, the main product is political game-playing (i do not necessarily believe that this is true), stating that delivering and shippi
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by dingbat 10y ago
person i was responding to was defining "critical thinkers" as the ones who get sidelined and punished for challenging the status quo and focusing on priorities that are secondary (in fact not even secondary, #4, #5) to the purpor
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by dingbat 10y ago
in a large company, if the main products are management politics, as you say, a capable critical thinker ought to be able to dominate that game, instead of focusing on relatively unimportant priorities like "shipping". if someone
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by dingbat 10y ago
i think Watts considered himself more of a "spiritual entertainer", he would have laughed at the idea of being a "spiritual leader", being a rather cheeky rascal in the best meaning of the term. his audiobook lectures ar
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by dingbat 10y ago
cool, good to know that raining down a bunch of probes in this manner would most likely be a pretty light show. still i wonder about the plutonium aspect of this? it might be prudent to first consult with the legal experts and diplomats of

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