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by marnett 4y ago
What has worked for me is “priming” my subconscious with a place/person/thing I want to incorporate in my dream, and then finding the nearest door in the current dream I’m in (doesn’t always work, sometimes I gain lucidity in an e
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by marnett 4y ago
No need to attribute it to malice. Just community members following community guidelines to keep comments relevant, thoughtful, and substantive. Most of the low hanging “jokes” don’t really adhere to that ethos and are typically treated acc
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by marnett 4y ago
My understanding was it was mostly a satire of the often long winded and illegible legalese that is often on Supreme Court briefs. The section with random Latin phrases has me in stitches.
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by marnett 4y ago
Thanks for the reality check. It is so easy to take the product of our science for granted.
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by marnett 4y ago
Great tale. Thanks for sharing.
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by marnett 4y ago
What if the bottleneck of restaffing isn't training time but available labor pool? If Middle America Town #4 already has a majority of the young, able bodied labor force employed by Amazon then Amazon's leverage is heavily reduced
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by marnett 5y ago
Very relevant and very moving. Thank you for sharing.
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by marnett 5y ago
While it was matter of fact, I do not find it rude or uncalled for. But a call to action that in a one on one it is very much in one’s power to try to steer the format to more productive pastures, and perhaps worth considering if the majori
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by marnett 5y ago
> I seriously wonder what has happened to older people in tech, and sometimes wonder if one day I'll be taken out back and find out. Assuming moderate financial literacy, haven’t they all switched careers or retired?
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by marnett 5y ago
I don’t think GP’s logic extends to what you claimed. I took their post as saying all those who are being personally enriched by cryptocurrencies have to acknowledge and take responsibility that the one of most widely adopted, global use ca
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by marnett 5y ago
I interned with goldman in their 200 west office in lower Manhattan years ago. They pay, and paid well (still less than proper tech companies), and while no one I knew returned full time, the experience, prestige, and network of other young
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by marnett 5y ago
What an awesome collection/hobby Thanks for sharing. Is there any way to see all that you have?. I became interested in this after seeing someone with an Enron shirt on at a music festival earlier this year. Surely it was not an “origi
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by marnett 5y ago
I believe the company is referred to as MindGeek.
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by marnett 5y ago
You make a good point, but I think having open and honest discussion around compensation is better than having that conversation slip behind closed doors. I've always admired the software engineering field - it stands out from Investme
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by marnett 5y ago
This is a great bit of his. In his 2017 special he provides a darker, but similarly themed line of thinking. He has a whole bit about a man whose life is, from the outside, seemingly so dull and horrible. And the entire premise "what i
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by marnett 5y ago
Thanks for sharing this. Graeber’s name came up many times during a recent a deep dive on ancient Mesoamerican societies. I had seen his new book The Dawn of Everything as well as an older text, Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value, an
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by marnett 5y ago
I would very much consider Odessa, Texas as “Anytown USA”. Not to mention I would question if the small town had Belgian blocks. I read the post as referring to Odessa, UK.
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by marnett 5y ago
I dislike Zuckerberg as much as another fellow, but he is one of the few founder/CEOs who managed to not only maintain control of his company, but maintain complete, uncontested control over his company. There are so few businesspeople
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by marnett 5y ago
I am an avid lover of comedy, and Norm Macdonald was by far my favorite comedian. I am younger, and the first live show of his I was going to attend at the San Jose Improv was cancelled because of COVID last year. I am gutted. Norm really e
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by marnett 5y ago
Why do you say it is an oxymoron? With ~2.5bn global users, 5.8MM is ~0.2% of the total user base. That passes the VIP check to me.
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by marnett 5y ago
Thank you - I missed this while skimming.
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by marnett 5y ago
In-Q-Tel appears to be a not for profit venture capital firm explicitly with the aim of investing in companies that aid the US Intelligence effort. However, I just looked at their investment portfolio via Wikipedia and didn’t see any notabl
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by marnett 5y ago
Friendly plug for kanopy.com. Amazing, changing collection and likely free signup and streaming (monthly-refreshing limit) with your local library card (:
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by marnett 5y ago
Fantastic. Thank you for that! Excited to give it a listen
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by marnett 5y ago
Wow this is fascinating. Can you recommend any further reading on this subject? This is a degree of corporate espionage I've never thought of before.
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by marnett 5y ago
Retail Banks are highly regulated though..?
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by marnett 5y ago
I don’t know exactly how public any instances would be, but presumably the large and well funded intelligence complex of the US would have the cyber forensic capabilities to potentially trace bad actors. Pairing this with the physical intel
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by marnett 5y ago
Which half a dozen or so families are you referring to here?
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by marnett 5y ago
Yes we do have that responsibility and obligation. Reading his fallacious defense had me immediately thinking of the essay “The Ethics of Belief”[0]. [0] http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/Clifford_ethics.pdf
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by marnett 5y ago
That’s an interesting categorization of the sub-cultures/scenes you listed. Are there any sub-cultures you would classify as “other” (in the sense of being other than the status quo of its era) and having introspection and awareness?

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