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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Exactly what popped into my head first. Which then suggests an "Archer" phrasing moment ... after which interlude, vague seedy memories of other sorts ... arise.* First, I absolutely loved the "age check" at the beginn
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
There is a certain mindset that unfortunately has been ever more widely 'bought into' and is especially highly represented at the top levels of corporations in recent years* (particularly in the US). The mindset is fundamentally &
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
That's the great thing about 'game theory'. The rules can so easily be set up to funnel 'players' inexorably into "WarGames"-like resolutions. I.e., no matter how well the game is played, everyone loses (p
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Yes, I do chew my food very thoroughly.
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
I would suggest that since this is a court case, the rhetorical / commentary-like (aspects of) statements made by the attorneys in court will (especially at this level) almost certainly be 'parsed out' in facts. You're b
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Exactly. I consider it much like "types" in programming languages: middling to weak "formal verification". In the case of most calculations I've ever carried out substantially 'by hand' in physics /
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
This is fundamentally the problem. To expand / clarify slightly: REM sleep is absolutely essential to "higher animals". It is not, though, "deep sleep" in the sense that "long slow delta wave" sleep is oft
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Fluff comment, but it's slightly amusing to me that this piece on management* was posted by someone using the name of a certain milkman** in Pratchett's "Thief of Time". To quote Pratchett directly: "Chaos is found
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Yup, it's another great example of the sort of "late stage" problems you run into with capitalism, professionalization of business management (MBA degrees), and fundamentally just about any system w/ rules and "(sem
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
'it is just aliens' is no 'razor'... Possibly a 'spork' , but certainly no 'razor' ....
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Haha, interesting take. My wager (3 cents): a slime mold that adopted "potato chip bag camouflage" so that it could secret itself to the safety of the ocean via a shipping container - all part of a desperate bid to escape land and
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Nein. - Gödel "Ignoramus et ignorabimus." Turtles all the way down...
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Fortuitous timing from my perspective. I was just thinking in the past day or two about fiddling with numbers in the more mundane 'replace current energy use' w/ 'renewables' realm. The impetus being simply having a
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
PowerPoint is an impressively mixed bag. Something of an extreme example, in my mind, of the "amorality" of tools and, yet, the strongly "good" / "bad" that can come of them. PowerPoint, for all its putati
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Ok, I was all ready to attack this as simply another dodge in the unceasing dodges every industry (& corporation, especially) has ever used to "externalize 'costs'".* But, this involves funding development and use
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
I love this comment. You've packed a lot of snippets of wisdom and good ideas into an "economized" length (# of words). And, you're exactly right - I see a lot of "meat" here, but even a decade ago, I would hav
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Rubbish. That has nothing to do with this SPECIFIC argument, I didn't read a word of it. I.e., I'm not singling out this particular set of essays / arguments / etc. The problem is much more fundamental - this boils down
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Ok, I'm racking my brain (and tried a couple of searches) ... but, I don't know that space almost at all, and I just can't come up with a way to "un-Mad Lib" "ship of theseus". Unless you're being mor
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
¿Pourquoi pas les deux? Step 1: Lose a lot of money in crypto. Step 2: ¿ Step 3: Understand that it's a ponzi scheme & try to use what you've learned to recoup some of the loss. Also, I've taken the liberty of adding the
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Sure. Considering the US, though, just imagine the backlash. To be fair, some states have passed legislation regarding single-use plastics, and it's not as though measures in the EU didn't provoke whinging and pushback ... China,
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Uh, it has remained a significant danger in various regions for centuries. Perhaps you are familiar with this "meme"? https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/look-at-me-im-the-captain-now From a 2013 "big budget&
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Musk only cares about "getting his way" at this point. Years ago, "dark triad incarnate" was checked by lack of nearly as established a position* and a longer timeline over which to grow and consolidate wealth and power
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
What, you mean kinda like this? https://youtu.be/mH3La3RJdNA?si=qIojw1j5NkH0pBCj ... cause that seems like a pretty kickin' party to me. Oh, wait, there's nothing legal about some of what goes on at those concert
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Good points and info, IMO. One suggestion, though: I think the current antagonism is something that started with management many decades ago. I think the pattern goes back, well, as far as you want to go back. There have always been indiv
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Hey now, just because YOU haven't read the "unwritten Pittsburgh driver's manual (zeroeth edition)" doesn't mean NONE OF US have ... See here for pre-release addenda, all that's available on the public internet
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Several points: 1) Crafting some of these hats require an incredible level of human skill and time - i.e., a sort of fixed cost in time for someone to reach that level, and then a variable cost in crafting one hat with that skill. This page
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
I was millimeters away from responding w/ the pure inanity of "So can I. Once, anyway." But, your citation of OG meme-master Shelley inspired me to do better (18th century, and already prognosticating the rise of "CATS&q
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Only some kids truly have an aptitude for mathematics anyway. That's an absurdly strong and inaccurate statement that feeds into psychological walls that then get erected in the minds of the young and perpetuate ad infinitum. The psy
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
This is an unfortunately very uniform problem with "school", I'd say (in the US system / nomenclature) from about post-elementary up to "undergrad". Too much of the junior high school and high school classes en
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
This is true. However, much like "crackers" are always looking for the next exploit ... chasing that dragon of the next n00b who doesn't sanitize strings passed to their DB, or, above that rather script kiddie level, oh, say,

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