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4y ago
They do this with public audio systems for similar reasons.
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> In a request for comment, a Google spokesperson told DW that while users do need a Google account to use the "Google Play" app store, they can create such an account without using "Gmail" Really? Never knew this was
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Dense living is not unique to China. Its difficult to solve problems which don't have simple answers, if some artificial priority of 'getting along' is imposed. Different alternatives have to be tried. Mistakes have to be all
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> In their view, even Russia and Iran have more space for dissent The Chinese people seem easier to dominate, from what I have seen at work atleast. They wont challenge anyone to strongly, who they perceive to have more power. Russian ar
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4y ago
Steven Strogatz's Sync and Infinite Powers
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There was just too much 5th graders making fun of 2nd graders style humor. When both sides are inept there is nothing funny about it.
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The answer to that is the answer to the question I asked. Why do top athletes have so many domain experts around them?
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4y ago
Most people don't need it. Look at sports. Why do top athletes have their own personal coaches, fitness trainers, nutritionists, psychologists, data analysts etc?
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Just par for the course with tech. There are much more critical systems than twitter running all over the world that no one has updated or fixed in a long time. I worked with big telco a while back. The software/hardware we maintained
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Ya right. Its like trying to take "a courageous stand" against a contagious virus. A large well organized group is required to keep such things in check. There is no dearth of people (esp in the US) who will take stands and call
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I just tell them things they want to here in my updates. They have no clue about whats going on. Anything goes wrong, point at code from people/teams they don't get along with.
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Palantir is tanking ever since Trump left the building, so Thiel is mostly just having a anxiety attack.
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Man do these people have a lot of free time, when they aren't injecting ads into everything.
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Iger has said Disney has built enough capacity to generate more entertainment than the world has cash to consume. The mega machine has become so efficient, they can produce a new marvel level movie everyday if they wanted too. But there are
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My mom, cause of her eyesight, constantly increases default font size and every single simple action on her phone is like solving a sudoku puzzle. My theory is these designers dont have family members or they dont care about them.
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What are the colors of the nodes representing?
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Cant tell what level of the hierarchy this is coming from. Coming out of the chaos of Brexit and Covid and now with Ukraine, I am not surprised. Seems to be the mood in most large corps in the EU.
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4y ago
How do they come up with so many gifs is mainly what I want to know...
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I think the plan has always been - let London grow and let everything else wither away and die.
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Nature had a head start. If you give me 100 million years I can build an ant too.
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Its easier if you are working on some specific problems. There are too many tools. Too many framework. And most of them do exactly the same things. Once you know how one works its not that hard to understand what the others are doing. So pi
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More than laziness, it's too complex a problem for most decision makers. Environment is ever changing and extremely competitive. Most people don't handle such problems well and few get the training or have the support. It's p
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Its already a shit factory. Whatever more shit he adds, I am sure he can sell it off to Murdoch, Zuckerberg, Disney, Google, Verizon, Comcast, Private equity etc. Cause they all run their own shit factories and are constantly looking to exp
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> There’s really no moral or intellectual obligation to go down to the swamp to wrestle them Well we are where we are cuz its easier said than done. Plus people are more and more addicted to look to the web for validation, feedback etc e
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Make friends with some one who does network full time. People who are not engineers basically.
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Not new. Lot of examples from history under the Theory of Bounded Rationality. Theory says there is an upper limit to the complexity any group of chimps can handle.
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Where I work, most of the persons time is spent making sure customers/clients/partners/suppliers/tenants/banks/investors/employees/contractors etc etc honor commitments. Cuz most people dont. For all
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Elon is following the same trajectory as Obama/Trump. Like them he is propped up by processes happening at scales, he has no control over so there is no reason to believe he has control over anything or can exert control over anything.
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'Mating in Captivity' by Esther Perel is also quite good in terms of realizing whether you can meet the Needs of your partner and what to do if you cant.
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That's cuz saying you want to give it away is not a simple thing, when most people around you only have the skills to accumulate it or spend it on themselves. Not to mention all the pond scum it draws in that has to be constantly filte
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