kopo

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by kopo 8y ago
Well it's good to see. The transition from the "endless growth" and scale story to a sustainablity story is going to cause major tension given much more than just the financial stakes involved. There is no point talking abou
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by kopo 8y ago
You can rewind to the birth of MTV 15 years before that. "I Want My MTV" by Tannenbaum and Marks is a great book. Think of it as the bible of what a successful marketing execs wants to achieve. It's not a common tactic. It is
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by kopo 8y ago
Ceremony and tradition, parades and costume, medals and ribbons exist for what reason?
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by kopo 8y ago
I think the quote goes recognition and praise trumps sex and money. Guys join the army for what? Loose their lives for what?
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by kopo 8y ago
I would guess the internet/social media/news media info overload environment. Usually anyone dealing with too much info have to be trained to handle it - soldiers/pilots/ER docs/air traffic controllers etc etc. Most
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by kopo 8y ago
Well it has existed throughout history. We haven't discovered great ways of winning wars or building empire without being inefficient and treating people like pawns. Our history books don't spend time making us think about the mor
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by kopo 8y ago
This is really cool. Maybe it's my age but I am slightly out of the loop when it comes to dev's livestreaming. Didn't realize it was a thing. For some reason, it's reminding me of SOLE (self organized learning environmen
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by kopo 8y ago
Found this cool vid explaining things - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuNj_rqx04o
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by kopo 8y ago
Wow! I haven't seen projections that look that clear. I can't tell how they are even doing this. What are they projecting the light on? Is there a person in some spl black suit standing there?
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by kopo 8y ago
November elections are going to be very interesting. I think Bernie and the next generation of Bernie's who manage to also connect with some part of the rural votebase can take us in the right direction. Fingers crossed.
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by kopo 8y ago
People just have to be told what direction we can head in. I like the way Yanis Varoufakis frames the matter - do you want a Matrix style future where the machines control you or a Star Trek kind of future where the machines take care of al
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by kopo 8y ago
Privacy issues aren't my number one priority. I have lost count of the number of times people misunderstand me thanks to not knowing I am deaf or believing it, or me misunderstanding them. And as a techie I am not too bothered by Googl
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by kopo 8y ago
I am deaf. Been waiting for something like this for a long time, that I can use day to day hooked up to google/bing speech rec api's. Right now getting people to speak into a phone and getting the text creates a pretty unnatural (
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by kopo 8y ago
Well put. All the regulation and change Ralph Nader and co managed to make happen didn't take more than a few hundred motivated people - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OWxc_kYmPTE People are "lazy and don't ca
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by kopo 8y ago
Well since we still don't have any great explaination for the 200 year old double slit experiment, how do you know it is photons moving around? Could be star sized tsunami waves of light trashing about collapsing into photons when fina