In a nutshell I'm spending most or all of my time using the tools (keeping up with a queue) not working on them. To work on them I need either permission to fall behind in the queue (probably not an option) or someone…
In general, the CIA or any similar agency might "help" any government to either commit, or appear to commit, an act which is nominally "against" a popular movement, but which (through heavy-handedness, brutality or some…
I'm having a hard time figuring out which side is the CIA's people. Maybe both? I'm half joking, but also definitely wanted to plant that idea for the American readers. Wherever there's chaos and instability, the CIA is…
Agreed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW6W9iOjTKM
Certainly agree about Germany - there seems to be no more anti-Nazi place than Germany today.
I found it compactly hilarious.
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I'm sure it's a little bit tongue-in-cheek.
It's always like that though. Everybody wants to be 'in' while things are soaring, but wants to be 'out' by the time it turns downward. Some people get out too early, successfully missing the low but also missing the…
The part about defining identity is, I think, referring to the fallacy of seeing someone in a context, and then thinking that they "are" that. Like meeting someone who is angry and storing them in your memory bank as…
Absolutely - most bigger companies have silos and can make excellent use of things like this.
In other words, everybody's a parasite on something. Lakota Sioux were buffalo parasites. Vegans are parasites of Daucus carota and Beta vulgaris among other species. Parasites of Homo sapiens are of course hated by…
This building is a masterpiece and a towering (no pun intended) achievement. If I were 18 I would make this my career, and today would be the day I would talk about with journalists 20 years later when they asked where…
Oh brother! This is kind of "concern-trolling" isn't it? "I'm concerned for you." Also see: "I'll pray for you," which passive-aggressive religious people say to simultaneously indicate that they disapprove of your…
I use ridewithgps.com. The managing & editing of tracks & routes has always suited my needs. I think they offer some of the more social-networky features too, but I don't use them and can't comment. I should also say,…
In some sense any technology is adopted or ignored based on its intrinsic merits or lack thereof. If we're about encouraging people to move to less-harmful technologies, making them genuinely better and irresistible…
Going on 8 years for me. Suddenly this feels like an AA meeting or something. "Got my 8 year medallion!"
Some classic rants and raves of the recently trying-to-do-better Linus Torvalds come to mind!
So-called satisficers are happier with their decisions probably because they are decisions, that give them a sense of control. "I chose this 'good-enough' option, I will now proceed." In other words, if there exists…
Since they're both valid uses, let's just partition/segregate the freq bands and be done with it.
For the curious here's a tsunami inundation/evac map of the Pacific Northwest coast: http://nvs.nanoos.org/TsunamiEvac
Defensively upvoted BeetleB because the comment is literally and factually true and I see nothing disingenuous or partisan about it, nor would I venture into such intent-divining, mind-reading territory. You're correct…
I'm not real happy with either of the two. They both have connotations that are irrelevant: "ephemeral" tends to mean brief/transitory, while any negation of "material" leans toward either non-existence or…
All this - being spied on 100% of the time - ostensibly to prevent something that has about a 1 in 600,000,000 chance of happening to you, ever. Oh but it must be a real and ever-present danger - I saw it on the news!…
Wow, this is pretty awesome, thanks.
In a nutshell I'm spending most or all of my time using the tools (keeping up with a queue) not working on them. To work on them I need either permission to fall behind in the queue (probably not an option) or someone…
In general, the CIA or any similar agency might "help" any government to either commit, or appear to commit, an act which is nominally "against" a popular movement, but which (through heavy-handedness, brutality or some…
I'm having a hard time figuring out which side is the CIA's people. Maybe both? I'm half joking, but also definitely wanted to plant that idea for the American readers. Wherever there's chaos and instability, the CIA is…
Agreed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW6W9iOjTKM
Certainly agree about Germany - there seems to be no more anti-Nazi place than Germany today.
I found it compactly hilarious.
its
I'm sure it's a little bit tongue-in-cheek.
It's always like that though. Everybody wants to be 'in' while things are soaring, but wants to be 'out' by the time it turns downward. Some people get out too early, successfully missing the low but also missing the…
The part about defining identity is, I think, referring to the fallacy of seeing someone in a context, and then thinking that they "are" that. Like meeting someone who is angry and storing them in your memory bank as…
Absolutely - most bigger companies have silos and can make excellent use of things like this.
In other words, everybody's a parasite on something. Lakota Sioux were buffalo parasites. Vegans are parasites of Daucus carota and Beta vulgaris among other species. Parasites of Homo sapiens are of course hated by…
This building is a masterpiece and a towering (no pun intended) achievement. If I were 18 I would make this my career, and today would be the day I would talk about with journalists 20 years later when they asked where…
Oh brother! This is kind of "concern-trolling" isn't it? "I'm concerned for you." Also see: "I'll pray for you," which passive-aggressive religious people say to simultaneously indicate that they disapprove of your…
I use ridewithgps.com. The managing & editing of tracks & routes has always suited my needs. I think they offer some of the more social-networky features too, but I don't use them and can't comment. I should also say,…
In some sense any technology is adopted or ignored based on its intrinsic merits or lack thereof. If we're about encouraging people to move to less-harmful technologies, making them genuinely better and irresistible…
Going on 8 years for me. Suddenly this feels like an AA meeting or something. "Got my 8 year medallion!"
Some classic rants and raves of the recently trying-to-do-better Linus Torvalds come to mind!
So-called satisficers are happier with their decisions probably because they are decisions, that give them a sense of control. "I chose this 'good-enough' option, I will now proceed." In other words, if there exists…
Since they're both valid uses, let's just partition/segregate the freq bands and be done with it.
For the curious here's a tsunami inundation/evac map of the Pacific Northwest coast: http://nvs.nanoos.org/TsunamiEvac
Defensively upvoted BeetleB because the comment is literally and factually true and I see nothing disingenuous or partisan about it, nor would I venture into such intent-divining, mind-reading territory. You're correct…
I'm not real happy with either of the two. They both have connotations that are irrelevant: "ephemeral" tends to mean brief/transitory, while any negation of "material" leans toward either non-existence or…
All this - being spied on 100% of the time - ostensibly to prevent something that has about a 1 in 600,000,000 chance of happening to you, ever. Oh but it must be a real and ever-present danger - I saw it on the news!…
Wow, this is pretty awesome, thanks.