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by m0llusk 4y ago
Physical notepad and pen. This works for me because I have a lot of calligraphy and art experience and can condense a lot of thought into a few phrases and pictures.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Spending a lot of time in coworking offices just getting people to put dishes in the dishwasher instead of the sink is a big advance only the better outfits master.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
> To build a truly meaningful company ... You need to take venture capital money and then grow as fast as possible. This is encouraging founders to take risky paths in order to generate the kind of windfalls that make venture capital in
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by m0llusk 4y ago
A potentially interesting contrast: Why our generals were more successful in WWII than in Korea, Vietnam, or Iraq/Afghanistan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxZWxxZ2JGE Briefly, minimize the application process and ag
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by m0llusk 4y ago
The problem is that at the other end there is also dysfunction. With high taxes and regulations keeping companies and profits in line the result is also a combination of structural inflation and stagnation resulting from the high cost of a
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Waited until my 50s to turn my life around. Keep using gratitude and appreciation to steer yourself in the right direction and with effort possibilities emerge.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Never is a very long time.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
The effect is stronger than that as it scales with population densities. Geoffrey West's works explore this in some detail.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
WeWork is living dead, taking down and feasting on the flesh of the living. Their financials are so bad that there is no possibility of rescue, only the matter of the timing and details of end. Meanwhile the coworking space continues to b
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Are they really hiring? Is the company healthy or about to go under? Will the pay and benefits be enough for you and any dependents to survive? Are they assholes or criminals or both? Are there opportunities for growth?
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by m0llusk 4y ago
There is an ongoing problem with small crimes damaging quality of life. When Newsom was mayor he set up a reporting system with a 311 front end reachable by phone or web where problems could be reported. This led, among other things, to t
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Generalizations like this miss the important successes along the way. In the early 90s San Francisco permitted a particular form of loft development that created a large number of housing units before it was shut down. Then when Jerry Bro
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Many lessons to be learned from Climate Corporation. They used satellite data and drones to make robust crop insurance and ended up being bought by Monsanto and changing their direction.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
More like trying to find out what works and what doesn't. One of the first big wind farms in the US was in the Altamont Pass which turns out to be a golden eagle nesting site and the result has been a serious problem with a lot of end
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Kind of interesting how electronic music then got taken up by the [ware]house scene which made the form into a kind of social public sharing experience yet was also strongly influenced by gay and trans communities.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Most don't recognize the visual references but every scene in that video is from a famous movie, show, or popular music video but remade with garbage blowing instead of snow or whatever. So it ends up being sharp criticism of society a
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Yes, but more important is that it is trendy and differentiated from similar options such as granite.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
This does seem to happen. The opposite may also be a problem. I know several families with concerned and involved parents who are constantly diving in and helping out with things, coming up with new activities, and planning schedules. Th
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Being skeptical makes sense. Abandoning science is less of an obvious step. This consists primarily of some initial observations and speculations being shared. These could potentially lead to a testable hypothesis which could then in tim
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by m0llusk 4y ago
There are many factors. The biggest is the failed drug war. Conservatives thought that by getting tough on crime and drugs that those problems could be eliminated. The result was the most full prisons on the planet. The prisons are so f
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by m0llusk 4y ago
A crime? Like there was only one? Seems more like a great pile of crimes all blended together to form a kind of crime emulsion.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Reminds me of an interview I had at a company that works closely with SpaceX and is staffed mostly by ex-SpaceX engineers: To get ready for the interview I made myself familiar with the technologies they were using. In the interview I was
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by m0llusk 4y ago
superforecasting, the (mis) understanding of markets
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by m0llusk 4y ago
It's a metaphor. Buying things is like going to the mall. Finding only three stores at the mall is like finding a majority of consumer items offered by a few sprawling conglomerates.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Forests regrown after deforestation have greatly reduced biodiversity. Because solar power is inconsistent production processes making use of it have incentive to collect solar power and store it in batteries instead of only using solar po
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by m0llusk 4y ago
It seems like there is room for more study here. In particular pain comes in many forms with variation in intensity and localization or generalization. My understanding from limited review of the literature here is that cannabis does not
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Unions can help companies identify and resolve employee problems so that conflicts do not reach this stage. It is an unfortunate failing that so many managers are so intent on power and control and minimizing costs that they fail to see un
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by m0llusk 4y ago
This all happened because of a strange economic imbalance. Essentially zero interest rates made money basically free to the wealthy. Homes are a special commodity as everyone needs one and land use regulations limit quantity. Thoughtfull
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Which dovetails with the way Charles V operated. Completely unlike egotist leaders who insist on doing things themselves, Charles V was fabulously rich, knew the power of money, and contracted everything out to the most talented people he
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by m0llusk 4y ago
You should research this more. Stripe is not a good product because this problem is widespread.

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