geomark

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by geomark 7y ago
Yeah, it's funny to argue over opinions about what is beautiful. It always annoyed me immensely and I never knew how to avoid it until I found a hero in Dan Gelbart when he talked about prototyping and how including adornments opens yo
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by geomark 7y ago
I grew up in a more rural area east of San Diego. Very free roam. Kids were spread out but we could bike to each other's houses. A couple of kids at my elementary school died. One in a cave-in of a small cave some friends dug in the si
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by geomark 7y ago
Maybe you can verify this story that I was told. On a few vacations to Greece I wondered why so many buildings of all shapes and sizes had some re-bar sticking out somewhere, usually at the top of a post. I was told that it is about evading
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by geomark 7y ago
Yeah, at a couple of companies I worked as a middle manager we had training on how to manage people and they made a point of telling us to avoid the shit sandwich. That it's really not effective and managers use it because they don&#x2
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by geomark 7y ago
They probably can't get warrants for what they are doing, which is trawling large swaths of traffic hoping to find something useful.
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by geomark 7y ago
"Capital accrued through the exploitation (yes, that's the legal and technical term) of labour." I started my businesses with capital I accumulated by being "exploited". "If everyone suddenly had 5m in their ba
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by geomark 7y ago
It's a hoot when you hear someone say something like that. I mean, nobody works in a vacuum. The boss used her capital and labor to put in place all the resources that enable you to work, and has to use his capital and labor to maintai
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by geomark 7y ago
I read that as there were injuries, but they were due to risks that had to be taken, not risks that were carelessly taken.
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by geomark 7y ago
At my kid's school they start teaching division as "sharing" - a kid has 10 pieces of candy he wants to share with 5 friends; how many pieces can he share with each friend. Later they describe it as repeated subtraction - how
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by geomark 7y ago
I don't understand why long division would be a mystery. It's just repeated subtraction - you are finding how many times you can subtract the divisor from the dividend, in a systematic way.
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by geomark 7y ago
For some people it's not an adrenaline rush but a strong curiousity about what the US gov doesn't want you to know. Like all the warnings I received about travel to East Germany even after the wall came down (I was working for a d
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by geomark 7y ago
Although all small particles are bad for the lungs, there must be a difference in their effects on brain and organs, depending on what those small particles are made of since PM 2.5 particles pass through lung lining and into the blood to b
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by geomark 7y ago
I suppose that is it, that if the volume isn't there then even the smallest risk is too much for the bank to bother with. So they just terminate. In a previous life I administered websites for a number of different businesses. One was
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by geomark 7y ago
This is the thing I find very disturbing. That an industry as highly regulated and essential to every day life as banking can pick and choose based on management's moral choices.
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by geomark 7y ago
If you have not watched Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay on the Joe Rogan show you should. Very entertaining and shows how ridiculous these publications are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg
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by geomark 7y ago
This caught my eye so I went to the Play Store and read the reviews. From the sounds of it, this used to be a very good app, but with after latest update it's 90%+ bad reviews.
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by geomark 7y ago
You said what I meant much better than I did in a sibling commment.
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by geomark 7y ago
It feels to me like he is just to taking the very old advice to "face your fears" and make it seem like he has something new to offer.
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by geomark 7y ago
Isn't the most useful model just the formla for the force of gravity? Sure there is lots of interest in understanding an underlying mechanism. But a useful model abstracts that away so you can predict behaviors.
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by geomark 7y ago
I was trying draw the distinction between being forced to comply and enforcing, but I guess I did not get it right, or maybe I can't really get it right. I feel like enforcing is making someone else do something, while complying is doi
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by geomark 7y ago
Me too. I'm looking forward to complete equality, when we are all equally rich...or poor, same thing when everyone is equal.
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by geomark 7y ago
It might be a bit much to require employees to break a law as it might expose individual employees to some legal consequences. But there are plenty of laws that are immoral. There are a number of good examples in the peer comments (some o
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by geomark 7y ago
I tried to watch the episode. It's not blocked here in Thailand, but the site throws up a "Due to copyright and other issues...blah blah blah...targets for US audiences...blah blah blah. So what's with that?
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by geomark 7y ago
I feel the same. Upvoted not because I agree, but because I disagree and want to hear arguments that oppose mine. That's how it's done, son.
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by geomark 7y ago
Some delicious foods smell terrible during cooking, or even emit slightly dangerous fumes during cooking, like dishes that contain a lot of chilis (the source of pepper spray).
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by geomark 7y ago
"You also need great parents." Indeed. I think the hierarchy of what factors make the biggest difference goes like this: 1. the kid 2. the parents 3. the teachers 4. the school The kid has to have at least the basic physical and m
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by geomark 7y ago
I hear you. I lived in SoCal for many years and fought the traffic on all those routes you mentioned. When I came back from trips to countries with working mass transit the awareness was even greater. But I think it's a hard problem in
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by geomark 7y ago
I gather that screen time is a contributing factor only because when you are staring at a screen you probably are not doing it outside in bright sunlight.
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by geomark 7y ago
I was one generation behind you. We had actual flip/flops and even small ROMs, made from something called CTL (complementary transistor logic) which was similar to ECL in its voltage and power requirements. But did not require water co
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by geomark 7y ago
You are joking, of course. A safe place would not have subzero temperatures during cold season. The world is full of much safer places where there are no weather extremes, earthquakes, or other natural disasters. Of course, you must also co

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