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by primordialsoup 7y ago
I read "ride of a lifetime" by Bob Iger last month. It was a pretty nice book, similar to ShoeDog by Phil Knight. I learnt a lot about leadership, about Bob himself and started to like him (even though I had no idea about him befo
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by primordialsoup 7y ago
This is unfortunate that she had to escalate it in this manner for the page to be gone. Now a search for her name will point to these articles.
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by primordialsoup 7y ago
Please upgrade to premium service to get an answer.
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by primordialsoup 7y ago
That's covering one marathon distance everyday!
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by primordialsoup 7y ago
> So the mainstream media and politicians would have us believe. Do you have sources from non-"mainstream media" that indicate otherwise?
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by primordialsoup 7y ago
But you most likely might have bought something that was powered by Shopify. And Shopify wants to keep it that way.
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by primordialsoup 7y ago
Another example: people walking around looking at their mobile phones.
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by primordialsoup 8y ago
I am an engineer who builds with a computer. And when I see such things as this, I sometimes spend a minute or so marveling and thinking about the complexity of building and orchestrating such a launch. In fact, I really cannot comprehend h
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by primordialsoup 8y ago
I agree. I tend to skim through articles and even books, and that's no good. Instead of the ten books I "read" last year, had I put in effortful attention, focused and thought through only two books last year, I would have co
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by primordialsoup 8y ago
You are right. I was trying to think who might have deep pockets to fund lobbying against genetic testing, that's all. Privacy is definitely a valid concern that I forgot about!
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by primordialsoup 8y ago
One company screws up, people start to look more carefully at others. But I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of such a lobby that you speak of, which is funded by.. umm.. crime industry?
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by primordialsoup 8y ago
When asked about the social credit system, some of my Chinese friends said they have no idea what that is and looked surprised. Do people here know if this is really not well known or just my friends feigning surprise for whatever reason.
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by primordialsoup 8y ago
Indeed, "spouse" would be a better fit here.
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On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules(blog.acolyer.org)
2 points by primordialsoup 8y ago|0 comments
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by primordialsoup 8y ago
I suppose the same applies to many other ML products? Like Netflix's recommendations, Amazon's suggestions and almost all the ads you see these days? I agree that the problem exists, but its not just Twitter, and this is an unfort
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by primordialsoup 9y ago
You picked a luxury shopping street as your example. I live in an apartment complex which also has trader joes and starbucks and a few other restaurants. I walk to those places every now and then. Now imagine scaling this up a bit more.
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by primordialsoup 9y ago
But none of the said footage is shown. So I have no idea if the footage is really fantastic, as the author claims.
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by primordialsoup 9y ago
I would love to increase my focus. Even if I force myself to sit tight, often times I catch myself reading paragraphs after paragraphs all the while thinking about something else. Meditation can help? What else?