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by wombatmobile 5y ago
I had difficulty parsing the "Double Empathy Problem" because it's written with so much meta commentary and qualifiers. So what is the Double Empathy Problem? I'm still not sure what the article says after reading it tw
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Microsoft's evolution into adtech is the natural evolution of industrial capitalism. In the 19th century, mercantile giants evolved into banks, because after expanding to the limits of their trading turf, that's how they'd ge
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> Because society. Literally. You need to "predict" behaviours around you, But the models aren't valid e.g. astrology. Does that matter? It seems not really! Many folks still swear by astrology. How can that work? In mai
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Ways to categorize other people's personalities, such as Myers-Briggs, Swedish Colors, The Zodiac, McCarthyism, devils advocacy, racial profiling, Stockholm Syndrome, and hero worship have always been popular. Why? Because people need
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by wombatmobile 5y ago
> Email is our only reliable communication method between different organizations. Actually, that’s snail mail.
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> partners at top venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz, who have figured out ways to claim tens of millions of dollars in tax exemptions for themselves and relatives year after year, according to industry officials and lawyers.
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> Crisply articulate and build alignment around your decision-making criteria Corporate-speak like that is a recipe for bad outcomes. What engineers need to learn is the same thing corporations need to learn but avoid - plain speaking.
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> to grab a million tons of carbon, a direct air capture plant could devour on the order of 300 to 500 megawatts of energy per year—enough to power some 30,000 American homes.
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> What will it cost if the climate exceeds the Paris Agreement temperature goals this century—even if we later remove carbon dioxide from the air and manage to bring temperatures back down to meet those targets by 2100? And how does that
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> The web happened in the early 1990s and it surprised the computer science community as much as the commercial one. It then came to dominate much of the discussion, but not to much effect. . . > Research has contributed little, despi
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The doorway troubles me. The raised threshold is a trip hazard.
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And yet humans commonly think they are the most important thing on earth, placing themselves at the apex of some pyramid. E O Wilson gives us perspective by seeing the world not as a bauble in a real estate store, but as a canvas for all of
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"If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos." — Edward O. Wilson
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The transistor is amazing. What’s great about it is that we can completely ignore it and take it for granted 24/7/365 and it keeps serving us regardless.
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Knowing something about your prospects doesn't doom you to negative thoughts. In fact, the way the human mind works is often the obverse. "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conqu
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> Why not make the software into a proprietary product? ... There’s such a race there that it’s hard to commercialize the software for the long term.” Schatz continues, “Plus our work is largely funded through government sponsored grants
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Keeping a Grocery Store Lobster as a Pet(youtube.com)
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Start by offering to develop something pro bono for your local public library, or high school, or aged care home, or your accountant, doctor, or hardware store. It should be something simple like a spreadsheet or a web page or an app that o
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The reward system is functioning in ADHD subjects in some circumstances, just not in others. If that were not the case, ADHD subjects could never learn anything, and that clearly isn't the case. My friend gets excited about conceiving
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> Could you elaborate on what went wrong? Was that type of failure a new occurrence with the person? Thanks, good question. Yes it was a totally new circumstance with a friend I'd known for a year who has been minding my dog. To tha
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That's very interesting, thank you. It makes a lot of sense, and helps me to see how ADHD sets the trap for self disapproval, which is so costly.
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I was thinking of the concept of getting paid for completing a job! For example, mowing a lawn and getting paid. Serving a table and earning a tip. Have you ever had a job that works like that? A design or engineering job doesn't hav
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Thank you. None of what you say is intuitive or obvious to me. I have no way of working out what goes on without these candid insights you shared. Thank you so much. What you say seems to fit with what I witnessed in my colleague so at
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In energetic terms, localisable and quantifiable by biochemists, what is “desire”? How might we measure it?
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Could you kindly comment, if this resonates, or else set me straight if you can? Apologies in advance if I’m off beam. I’m really struggling to navigate this. When my ADHD colleague’s tasks were overdue and dragging the critical path, her r
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Yeah, ADHD is a difference to non-ADHD, but that doesn't make it a disability. It's just a different mode of thought, in the same way that introversion and extroversion are different modes of thought. Most people in fact have pe
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This is a useful post, thank you. I have only recently become aware of what it means to try to work with someone who has ADHD. I’d heard of ADHD but I didn’t know what it was or what the implications were. Then, a project went terribly terr
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Well, I'm using a Rodecaster in multi-channel mode with 3 mics so an hour is more like 450MB.
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I'd also like to know what's the best (or any) lossless audio compression process/tools. My application is to send audio (podcast recordings) to a remote audio engineer friend who will do the post processing, then round trip
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I use a 42" monitor and it's never worked as well as I wanted it to. I wanted to have 16 windows open at once so I could see all the spreadsheets, text files, folders, pictures relevant to the legal matters I was working on. The

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