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by xyzzy4 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_timeline_from_Big_Ba...
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
But on a long enough timeline, everything you do is pointless. Eventually the universe will be destroyed by entropy.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
I guess so but as a human you will naturally seek new experiences. I don't see why you need to adopt a growth mindset to try to expedite what already happens. Even if a growth mindset leads you to double the amount of experiences, on a
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Well what makes growing more interesting than not growing?
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Well the problem with the growth mindset is that ultimately you die, so your growth does a nosedive eventually. If something excites or intrigues you, then do it. But don't delude yourself that your personal growth really matters.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
I worked at a Regal Cinema when I was 16 for a year, so I guess that counts. There was a lot of monotony, but the experience still managed to be relatively interesting for my younger self. And I got to participate in a different social circ
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Classic example of the government preventing innovation.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Syria is bad because of cultural and political issues mainly.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
But it's only because they reinvest the money into research. Why doesn't that make sense to you?
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
One major mistake I see is when people look at statistics on a linear scale when often it should be on a logarithmic scale.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
I skimmed through the patent and it looks like it requires an extensive algorithm. How could that fit into a tweet?
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Can You Legally Remove That Bird’s Nest?(colonialpest.com)
1 points by xyzzy4 11y ago|0 comments
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Anything that is important enough in business can have its deadline extended. I think strict deadlines are more about managers trying to save face than an actual need.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
The reason is because of the anthropic principle.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Looks like somebody rediscovered how power law distributions are prevalent in so many different statistics.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
You have to work on something that provides so much value to you that you become obsessed with it.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
I have no clue what you're supposed to say, but the closest thing I'd have to a 5-year goal is "increase my net worth by at least 20% per year". Which has almost nothing to do with my job except staying employed.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
> Take the time, on a regular basis, to talk to your employees about their lives, goals and challenges. Ask them what they hope to accomplish, not just in the next week, but in the next year, five years and ten years in their careers. Li
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The Inflation Obsession(nytimes.com)
1 points by xyzzy4 11y ago|0 comments
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Caring about how good of an engineer you are is just an exercise of narcissism anyways. The best engineers probably focus more on the external world and their projects than on themselves.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
The quality of information you are conveying is often more important than the quality of writing. If you don't have anything to write about, then it doesn't matter how good of a writer you are.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
What about the insane housing costs for the poor and middle class, and the stagnation of wage growth? Clearly it hasn't played out the way they predicted.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Well the biggest obstacle to getting good at chess is finding a solid reason why it's worth pursuing, as opposed to getting good at something else (or doing nothing).
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
I did this also. You get all the benefits of deactivating your Facebook account, but without feeling like you lost something.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Tumblr is very culturally significant but not financially successful.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Well the main problem with Syracuse is it's not in commuting distance to a "global city". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Being risk-averse is typically a good way to keep your job. If he was riskier, there's a greater chance he'd have been fired faster or reduced his earnings.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Each assembler's personal speed level makes no difference. If furniture isn't getting built fast enough, more assemblers are hired or existing assemblers work more hours. Personal speed makes a lot of difference. For example, if
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
If women were better, you could have less workers for the same amount of productivity, and it would increase your profit margin.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
There's no way that women are better. The implication of that would be if you have a furniture assembly business of female employees versus male employees, all other conditions being the same, the female business would be more profitab

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