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by jasdi 2y ago
Animal domestication is really wild. So we first select for neoteny (playfulness, dependency on caregiver, physical features people like) basically prolonging the juvenile state. Then we put them in controlled environments of abundance, we
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If you own and control more resources than anyone else, you can make things others can't. But in any ecosystem where other species are growing faster than you are, its natural they will eat into your share, unless the entire ecosystem
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If "feminine awakening" wasn't happening how did we get MeToo? That was an example of Women learning how to use tech/social media to make their voice heard. No Engineers were required. These are Social problems not Engin
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Its because the whole system is pretty abnormal and naturally unstable. The US Govt represents only 4-5% of the worlds population, but the US Market controls 40-50% of the worlds global market cap value. The difference between 1930s and tod
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People who have issues with it, just don't get Broadcast (one to all) messaging has always been controlled by the ruling classes. Freedom of Speech can be given to everyone very generously, if Broadcasting (distribution) is controlled.
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A viral TikTok video led to a year-long global shortage of Swedish candy(ici.radio-canada.ca)
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Cool idea. Making me think of turning all my ChatGPT conversations into anki cards.
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Why do parasites survive in Nature? A huge bunch survive even though they have no or negative value to the host. They survive because that survival strategy, works for them. Species emerge and survive where there is a unfilled niche in the
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by jasdi 2y ago
You missed Finance. There is lot of financial engineering going on to keep orgs alive and quickly adapt to ever changing needs. Dealing with cross border diff in taxes, subsidies, tariffs, regs, forex, interest rates, real estate/rent,
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McDonaldization - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwvL6XDq0BQ
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We had an exercise in school of estimating how much it would cost for the current McDonalds/Subway/Taco Bell biz model to cover the whole population. Fun exercise in realizing how unsustainable things are.
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If you want to have a say in how software works, then you have to control how companies run. If Technical folk are not on the Boards or have controlling share in an org, or don't know how to get into such positions then they have very
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I am going to borrow that "should is a lazy word" slogan. Thanks!
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Larry Ellison wraps up banner year as Oracle rallies most since dotcom boom(cnbc.com)
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Try framing it in terms of what you Need from people. Avoiding using "should" so much. It will help you become conscious of what your needs are. Confusing your needs with others needs is also a trap. We can only talk in terms of o
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by jasdi 2y ago
Are you close to a big tech hub? If you are not close try and get as close as possible. Crash with a fried or relative. Another option is to contact Profs at CS/CE Depts at universities preferably with Startup Incubators attached. The
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by jasdi 2y ago
You might like Infinite Powers (Steven Strogatz) and Faraday, Maxwell, and The Electromagnetic Field (Nancy Forbes)
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> I saw the unrelenting pressure investors put on insurers to spend less paying out claims Once your org has made bank, owns a chunk of the market, margins are stable, and things are coasting and self sustaining push the rent collecting
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> Lifespan differences among these slow-growing groups were sizable. Even the slow growers with the shortest lifespans lived an average 204 years. But the longest-lived trees grew for 1,724 years, on average Thats just crazy.
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Its not gone. Its evolving and adapting to changing conditions. As it always has done through out history. These complex problems and how society reacts are not new, if you know some history. They just look different today through the lens
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An artist once told me some people enjoy Making Contact with Beauty. In the Simplest of things. And that can become a goal or a guiding philosophy. It's like when you look at a facial expression in a frame of Calvin & Hobbes or Tin
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Has all the tech that has been produced over the last few decades caused a drop in prices of the big ticket items in life housing, education, healthcare, security/defense, oil/gas? In theory science and tech, knowledge and info ex