kodz4

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by kodz4 7y ago
Some part of the population is always going to use deception and weakness of others. I don't think there is a "general fix". You just have to constantly show them where the boundaries are and the cost of crossing them. Taking
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by kodz4 7y ago
> every day there is a new piece of bad news The better question is who has training to deal with problems they don't know how to solve being thrown at them everyday?
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by kodz4 7y ago
Yup in India you can find a different "traditional way" from street to street. And there are lots of streets there. When you have an actual problem and go looking for solutions you will find stuff. People who don't know what
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by kodz4 7y ago
Bullies on the team are useful. And experienced managers and administrators know this. Managers protect people from bullies, when the value of the person to the team is greater than the value of the bully to the team. #FactOfLife Look at th
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by kodz4 7y ago
Doesn't matter what type of crisis it is, just remember you have a Choice in what your mind Focuses on. Remind yourself of that Choice. Have a list of things you can switch focus too - music, going for a run, helping a friend out, plan
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by kodz4 7y ago
I think it boils down to energy. Much more than ability. If you don't have enough to handle an issue, you need to be around people who do. They need to be interested in the same issue and you have to give them reasons why you need to b
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by kodz4 7y ago
The world is not static. It's complex and ever-changing. And people aren't trained to think about that complexity or change. You can keep trying to reduce the complexity and change you see around you by pretending it boils down to
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by kodz4 7y ago
And it's going to stop by doing what exactly? The West has had a head start in science and tech. But China and soon India will catch up. It's a simple numbers game. They both have a billion MORE people each than the entire America
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by kodz4 7y ago
As with the 2008 financial collapse, triggering a cascade requires just finding the weakness in just a few who are ready to burn out.
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by kodz4 7y ago
Cause maybe she is tired of the routine. Has made enough money and is watching the effect its having on kids. There are thousands of reasons, because there are so many different unintended effects social media has.
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by kodz4 7y ago
This is great. Celebs need to be on boarded more than Geeks. Getting an Obama or Kim Kardashian to show support would have major global impact. A cascade would start.
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by kodz4 7y ago
Turn off the internet. I usually start out by creating an offline reference material dump (offline docs - zeal, offline stackoverflow - kiwix, ebooks, pdfs etc) so I have no great excuse to get online. Then I setup a schedule in my router t
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by kodz4 7y ago
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man", said Mr. Knowledge is Power, "And, therefore, if a man writes little, he had needed have a great memory; if he confers little, he had need of a re
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by kodz4 7y ago
Well written. And I agree with you. But... > the U.S. can minimize the loss of relative strength and maximize its absolute strength It's not an optimization problem that can be neatly solved. It going to be very chaotic. While the t
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by kodz4 7y ago
What does node mean?
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by kodz4 7y ago
Every time phones, OSes and websites update, I watch my parents struggling to deal with all the UI changes and I keep thinking I am going to be there one day. Maybe this is the solution to all the unending changes. In Vernor Vinge's Ra
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by kodz4 7y ago
> but operator guided machinery (ie CNCs, injection molding, task specific machines for things like packaging) glued together with flexible human workers isn't going anywhere There are funded companies already trying to get rid of a
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by kodz4 7y ago
The ad industry has a higher stake. What they do pays their mortgages/medical/college bills. When you fight someone who has more to loose, it usually is a waste of energy. If you want them to change you have to reduce the stakes f
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by kodz4 7y ago
Anyone know whats happening with Tristan Harris's Ledger of Harms? I thought that was a good idea. Like a bug tracker for social issues caused by tech.
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by kodz4 7y ago
hmm...next up FB, Youtube and Twitter suing the Feds to pay their content monitoring bills. Just have to plant the seed in Zuckerberg's head and am sure it will take root.
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by kodz4 7y ago
I maintain this list of things that I know make me feel good. What I call my daily sources of nourishment. When I encounter a negative trigger, I focus on things on that list. I know whenever I am fully occupied with things on the list, the
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by kodz4 7y ago
Thats one interesting theory. Made me think of hedge mazes.
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by kodz4 7y ago
The past few years I am finding the Avengers, Star Wars and James Bond movies hard to sit through. I really don't need 3 hours of over stimulation of all my senses. There are better things to do in life.
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by kodz4 7y ago
For me, it's find good food. Mango sorbet atm.
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by kodz4 7y ago
A good story helps. Why does a millionaire athlete walk into a stadium day in day out to experience pain, emotional and physical, at a level most people cant take? Why don't single moms juggling multiple minimum wage jobs even bother?
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by kodz4 7y ago
Every good story needs good villains. And the story of the 21st century is just getting started. We are in that phase of the story where the villains are pupating, given resources, and time to develop their own hyper efficient Amtssprache a
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by kodz4 7y ago
Far far away from that point. Maybe when people start buying houses and paying their medical bills with it. Which is not going to happen if the Big Banks have anything to say about it. This is mostly going to be small change transactions fo
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by kodz4 7y ago
Come on. You think Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, the Chinese and whoever else are going to let Facebook alone have this cake. We are not even talking about what the Big Banks think yet. This is just the first page of whats going to be a
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by kodz4 7y ago
“Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic language that invites us to talk about stability and constants, about similarities and normal and kinds, about magical transformations, quick c
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by kodz4 7y ago
You have to throw parallels in there - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9066609/fastest-possible...

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