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by mwattsun 5y ago
I did several tours underwater on a submarine. People ask me if it was scary but I never felt safer in my life, hidden away somewhere in the Atlantic cruising 400 ft underwater for months at a time. Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch https:&
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by mwattsun 5y ago
Zen Buddhism by itself does not cure alcoholism, although it can be helpful in recovery to prevent relapse.
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Right, but he's actually advocating Putin's thinking. He's the next best thing to hearing from Putin himself to my ears. But you're right, there's a lot available. My favorite: https://twitter.com/ka
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"Man on the street" interviews are not very interesting. I was referring to the Russian leadership perspective.
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I posted it because I thought the Russian perspective was worth knowing, not because I agree with it (retweet is not endorsement.) His attitude is pretty frightening actually because he thinks this thing is going to get much bigger. I feel
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https://archive.ph/DKNLg
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“Russia cannot afford to lose, so we need a kind of a victory”: Sergey Karaganov(newstatesman.com)
11 points by mwattsun 5y ago|17 comments
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I think the author Wolf Tivy is on to something even if a joke, but I'm in the middle of researching it so I haven't formed any coherent thoughts about it. I read this yesterday: Many of those influenced by Marshall McLuhan—inclu
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by mwattsun 5y ago
I was like, really?
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by mwattsun 5y ago
Larry David did an episode on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" in which he lost his small pocket notepad. In it he had written that he offered a $500 reward if lost and found. His next door neighbor found it in the yard and demanded the mon
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by mwattsun 5y ago
My feeling is that the trucker protests in Canada and D.C. were ostensibly about masks, vaccines and personal freedom, but a lot of people pointed out that didn't make sense since mandates were lifted, so they had anxiety about somethi
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by mwattsun 5y ago
Sometimes inaction can be a form of paralysis, so I like the OODA loop concept for acting based on your best information then re-evaluating as new information comes in. https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/definition&#x
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by mwattsun 5y ago
If I recall correctly, so did most people in 1929 but when it came time to exit, the to rush to the exits overwhelmed the order sale system so people couldn't sell until it was too late.
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by mwattsun 5y ago
If you haven't watched American TV you've missed the commercials touting gloves and elbow wraps made with copper threads woven in to help ease and heal tired muscles from a distance
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by mwattsun 5y ago
The ECASH Act would direct the US government to experiment with issuing digital dollars that are stored on hardware, not in bank accounts, and can be used without an internet connection.
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The Future of Digital Cash Is Not on the Blockchain(wired.com)
3 points by mwattsun 5y ago|2 comments
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My favorite is the supposed "special properties" of copper. I once knew someone who swore by the healing properties of copper.
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https://archive.ph/lzZLM
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How Ukraine’s Internet is still working despite Russian bombs and cyberattacks(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by mwattsun 5y ago|1 comments
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by mwattsun 5y ago
> What do I mean by working as hard as possible? I mean someone who can finish all the work that is expected of them in less than the total time that they are meant to spend working and then asks for more, similar, work to do. I was surp
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by mwattsun 5y ago
A good book about this is Bowling Alone. As much as I liked programming, I would also take the day off to go surfing if the waves were good. Another WFH benefit. http://bowlingalone.com/
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by mwattsun 5y ago
Works was my first job out of the Navy in 84, so I had no prior office experience. I spent 94' to 2000 working in 4 separate offices for 3 different companies. I remember my first office experience I brought in a cot. People looked at
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by mwattsun 5y ago
Macintosh Programmers Workshop had some tools but we mostly did it by hand so we tended to work on different parts of the program. If that was a problem our manager who owned the company would do a road trip to collect the new code that ano
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by mwattsun 5y ago
This was true in the late 80's early 90's when we used to go up to Redmond from California to pow wow, but I heard that's not true anymore. Also, if any Microsofties are reading this, how would I got about getting the source
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by mwattsun 5y ago
Admittedly what you say is true. People tend to believe other people think like them. I go on my own lived experience. Never once in 8 years did any of my coworkers suggest we get an office. We felt lucky to be able to work at home for all
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by mwattsun 5y ago
5 of us wrote Microsoft Works for the Macintosh while working at home from 1984 to 1992. Without the internet, we got together as needed to merge code, usually once a month, but sometimes once a week. We talked on the phone. We went to Micr
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by mwattsun 5y ago
Positive. Schizophrenia and bipolar can be controlled very well with medication, but patient needs monitoring. That's why the weekly visits to the psychiatrist.
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This is great. I didn't realize this. I was confused when I saw Amazon was charging so I went to PB
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John Markoff – Floating Upstream: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand (New Video)(youtube.com)
1 points by mwattsun 5y ago|0 comments
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Yes, I knew someone who works at Facebook with schizophrenia. Facebook does accommodate him in various ways, such as time off to frequently see a psychiatrist to keep him on track. But in other ways too, such as a flexible work schedule and

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