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by kodz4 7y ago
Healthier to keep focus/learn/talk about on how good things happen.
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by kodz4 7y ago
You are connecting the wrong dots my friend. Just because you haven't wrapped your head around complexity or how good outcomes are produced, doesn't mean only bad things can happen. The internet does a great job of keeping people
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by kodz4 7y ago
There are lot of people connecting to the unbanked via facebook/whatsapp/insta and transacting with them financially off the network. When you have 1 network connecting 2 billion people why get off the network onto some other netw
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by kodz4 7y ago
There are lots of decentralized processes unfolding in your body that you have no control over.
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by kodz4 7y ago
These are news readers. Not journalists.
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by kodz4 7y ago
These days the workshed and the rack of tools available are infinite. What you need depends on what you do. Don't worry about what others are doing, until you run into a Specific problem with your workflow. That's the time you wal
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by kodz4 7y ago
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." All men are not equal, never have been and probably never will be. So why is that line so famous? Why has it influenced the course of history? Not just i
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by kodz4 7y ago
Usually they get propped into leadership positions when they have a track record of getting others to "dream more, do more, become more". Engineers as a breed usually run to mgmt/blame mgmt when they can't get their bret
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by kodz4 7y ago
Oh please. Heres a quote from Steven Stogratz - "Mathematics is usually portrayed as exact and impeccably rational. It is rational but not always initially. Creation is intuitive. Reason comes later" Maxwell would not have come up
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by kodz4 7y ago
It's not complicated. They need to stop showing people the upvote and view COUNTS. Behind the scenes they can still use it to make recommendations. Those numbers are pseudo signals of quality to people who encounter content they have n
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by kodz4 7y ago
Ya one day they are moving out of London because of Brexit, another day out of Hong Kong because of China. If these Financial "Centers" are easy to move why does anyone need a Center in the first place?
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by kodz4 7y ago
It would have been, if ISRO had hit their own projected timelines. They have been mucking it up for quite a while. That said I'll be rooting for them.
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by kodz4 7y ago
Chetty's own inequality/mobility data gets interpreted differently by the left and the right. There is no free lunch here, when it comes to dealing with people's vested interests (biases). Policy/decision makers know any
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by kodz4 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Redoubt_(Switzerland)
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by kodz4 7y ago
This seems to be the one guy on the planet who surpasses Trump in his ability to get into the news every 2 days. No tweeting required even. How are his staff not just jumping out of windows? I mean it's been one article after the other
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by kodz4 7y ago
Learnt something interesting today. Thanks for the cool link!
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by kodz4 7y ago
As someone who knows nothing about astronomy what are these rosette orbits? I was expecting just circles...what do I need to google?
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by kodz4 7y ago
I live close to this 1000 year old temple - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brihadisvara_Temple,_Thanjavur... You have to walk through a 100 foot gate of granite just to get in. It blows the mind everytime I walk through
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by kodz4 7y ago
When you are talking about complex dynamic systems like human group behavior you can always find counter examples to anything anyone points at. Here's an example of from Niall Ferguson's book The Square and the Tower - "Form
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by kodz4 7y ago
More like a bias towards people with the most energy. There are lots of loud and persuasive people around, but to stay relevant, social/news media selects for the ones that are tireless in performing their routines with robotic efficie
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by kodz4 7y ago
This is what happens when senior management gets overpopulated with corporate robots rather than characters with imagination. Fear and avoidance of anything unknown drives decision making. I just can't understand how they plan to inspi
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by kodz4 7y ago
People have found issues with Harari and Kahneman too. That's okay. But who else are you going to read to get a sense of these subjects? People attacked Faraday for suggesting electromagnetism was a thing, hardly paid attention to Maxw
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by kodz4 7y ago
Thanks. I had not heard of this effect. Now I am just wondering if it can be triggered by watching the earth on a large screen...
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by kodz4 7y ago
What I like about this article (despite slightly too much babbling) is a CS undergrad using lessons from Psychology and History to shape his thinking and conclusions. This was not happening 10 years back. In my experience the majority of 30
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by kodz4 7y ago
How come no Russian cosmonauts have reported this? Americans and their weird need to turn everything they feel into something marketable more like it...
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by kodz4 7y ago
Money is not magic. Yes it opens doors when it comes to political power, but it also paints a big fucking sign on the head of the spender, that this dude is the one to milk. They do get milked much more than they actually influence anything
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by kodz4 7y ago
Superior/inferior story is a very misleading starting point. There are 10^7 billion ants crawling around the earth, doing robotic mindless things for reasons no human can understand, without any machines controlling them. What's u
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by kodz4 7y ago
> Society and culture doesn't grow organically. They are created and manufactured by the people with wealth and power. BS. You give them way too much credit. The world is too complex and dynamic for a queen ant to "create and m
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by kodz4 7y ago
Everyone does, not just Americans. People aren't born knowing what they want out of life. So the first instinct or the default setting, is to do what everyone else is doing. If everyone around you is chasing X you are likely to chase i
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by kodz4 7y ago
A cafe or a bar is nothing but a "third space". Something outside of home and work. So don't take it literally. It can be the gym/dance/music/sports clubs/gardening/church/volunteering/fishi

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