CRConrad

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by CRConrad 1mo ago
Obviously, as can be seen from the word "International" in the name. (See also: "World League", etc, etc ad nauseam.)
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by CRConrad 2mo ago
Why would you necessarily need to be "active" in the first place? If you're obviously invited only as a "seat filler" (and why else would the meeting be boring?), I see nothing wrong with being passive.
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by CRConrad 3mo ago
Well, if the technology were even all that good, maybe. (Also, "innovation" just for "innovation's" sake is stupid. Lots of new shit is just that: shit.) And no, him being gone in two years isn't all that much
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by CRConrad 3mo ago
I might have bought the stuff about Austria, if it weren't for the tinfoil-hattery about Sweden. The authorities there were investigating Assange not because of any American phone calls, but because some of his Swedish sex partners rep
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by CRConrad 3mo ago
But that moment is gone.
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by CRConrad 3mo ago
Ouch - weird metaphor (or simile, whatever) in the very first sentence: "Pam is a product manager driving her team's roadmap." Huh? You don't drive a map; you use it to guide your driving. You drive a car, and read a
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by CRConrad 4mo ago
Yes, logically / mathematically it seems it must be: Those additional people also contribute their 40h/wk, so more work gets done in total. That should be sufficient to support even more more people, not just more people, if the
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by CRConrad 4mo ago
Who was arguing that technology is reducing our material "standard of living"? There's more to life than one's material standard of living. I think people were mostly talking about the other bits.
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by CRConrad 4mo ago
If you've been getting over $500k/year for years, you are "rich people". So no wonder you're not going to blame yourself for anything.
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by CRConrad 4mo ago
> Do you think you're conversing with a 14 year old, struggling with abstractions? Sure sounds like it.
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by CRConrad 4mo ago
Don't project your Potemkin village as "reality".
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by CRConrad 4mo ago
> But a lot of people disagree with you and think it isn't turning to shit They're wrong. Their little corner might not be, but the world as a whole is. > and in fact for most people on the planet, life gets better every yea
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by CRConrad 5mo ago
Or even worse, speak with Wales.
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by CRConrad 5mo ago
Funny thing is, that goes for the social sciences too, IMO. All a matter of having an open and curious mind, I suppose.
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by CRConrad 5mo ago
Could be (I have no idea), but it sounds like that would be possible to investigate only by complicated laboratory tests. Not a visible change that makes it easy to calculate age by just sawing up a cross section and counting visible rings.
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by CRConrad 6mo ago
> Having limited liability through some kind of corporation can be nice. I think this is the main point and benefit of the whole thing. It can be difficult and/or expensive to set up a limited liabilty company in many countries; as
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by CRConrad 6mo ago
I suppose there is one possible rather significant benefit, depending on where you live. If you're going to be an independant contractor, a freelancing "gun for hire", you may want a corporate entity to be your front: As a so
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by CRConrad 6mo ago
> I think it's important to start by saying that using Lotus Notes only as an email client misses the bigger picture No, it's not important to start with that. I already mentioned I (we, I and a few consultants) were consulti
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by CRConrad 6mo ago
"Join"... Sigh. Disgusting LI-slop language. Say "be acquired" when you mean "be acquired".
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by CRConrad 6mo ago
You can say "acquire", as the URL you linked to does. It's more honest than the mealy-mouthed "join".
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by CRConrad 6mo ago
But fortunately, you're not one of those idiots who immediately jump from that to the conclusion that "This article must be written by an AI!" — right...?
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by CRConrad 6mo ago
> At a time when personal computing was very much the model, it was like someone had sent this software from the future. The future, and mainly from the past: In the literal sense, it was derived from a mainframe application -- but abo
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by CRConrad 6mo ago
I've only ever used Notes as a mail client, at a company I did consulting work for decades ago, for most of the 00s. (Yeah, sure, we'd heard that it was more than an email client -- but what did we care, when we didn't use it
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by CRConrad 6mo ago
So what? A big piece of rock costs much less than half as much as an engine. Are you going to start putting big pieces of rock into your cars in stead of engines now, mr Ferrari Boss? No, of course not -- big pieces of rock suck at propelli
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by CRConrad 7mo ago
Maybe the median literate population member talked like this. :-)
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by CRConrad 7mo ago
It's just being accurate. There were two different written forms of the letter 's' back then.
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by CRConrad 7mo ago
You seem to be making the same error as many make about natural evolution: Assuming it does anything "to" anything, that it has a purpose. That's not how it works; it just happens. Maybe called the "teleological fallacy&
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by CRConrad 7mo ago
@huflungdung: Good for thee, ackcherly.
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by CRConrad 7mo ago
I think you can make it make sense if you think of it as "writing in a speech popular at the time". Nowadays we (sometimes, often?) write the slang we speak; in the 1800s, people wrote (and perhaps spoke?) in more flowery sentence
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by CRConrad 7mo ago
> strong and perhaps stiff or some similar word Steady or stout (which used to mean more "steady" than "thickset" as now), perhaps. > Heo sloȝ þe heþene men ... sloȝ hem and fælde hem to þe grunde > She slayed t

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