FlyingSideKick

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by FlyingSideKick 6y ago
I’ve studied Afro-Cuban percussion for 28 years now and I can tell you from experience there are some bata rhythms that definitely make the listener enter into a heavy trance state. Haitian vodun drumming is especially designed for generati
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by FlyingSideKick 7y ago
Most of the best boards don’t come off factory presses instead they are built by someone with great passion in a small warehouse or garage. These guys are happy just getting by and sharing the stoke with customers they know. Moreover, once
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by FlyingSideKick 7y ago
I have ADD and consider myself somewhat successful (top 2% income earner) but always beat myself up for what I could achieve. My career has mostly been a long string of failures with me being extremely “lazy” but with a few home runs which
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by FlyingSideKick 7y ago
By 2030: 1. Nigeria and/or Kenya's GDP will surpass that of the UK. 2. Global births will rapidly decline in all but the poorest nations. Data will show that "Peak Child" is near and will occur around 2040. 3. 4 day work
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by FlyingSideKick 7y ago
I love the new look and am curious about if the exoskeleton has crumple points to reduce the kinetic energy imparted to the passengers during a collision.
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by FlyingSideKick 7y ago
Yes. I have been lucky enough to attend two Theravada retreats in Thailand. However, the practice of daily meditation and adherence to the 5 precepts (not taking life, not stealing, not engaging in false speech, not engaging in sexual misco
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by FlyingSideKick 7y ago
As a citizen of the United States (a country that cut down nearly all of its old-growth forests) what can I do as an individual to slow down deforestation in the Amazon? What are some real solutions I could enact that would make any differe
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by FlyingSideKick 7y ago
I worked at T-Mobile and did some work on this very subject our studies showed that people are so addicted that unless there is a threat of jail time or drivers license suspension people will not put down their phones.
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by FlyingSideKick 8y ago
My Grandfather was employee #3 at his company and over 35 years of hard work eventually became CEO and helped grow the company until it was listed on the NYSE. He preferred to hire people whom attended state schools and with B averages. Mor
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by FlyingSideKick 8y ago
I’m a founder of a specialty outdoor apparel manufacturer. After a brief stint of selling on Amazon we know only sell our gear via retail locations and our site. After achieving first page ranking for the category, we encountered massive pr
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by FlyingSideKick 8y ago
While this is fantastic news on one hand, it is concerning that cheap launches will lead to so much debris in low earth orbit that future generations will find it difficult to orbit without significant risk of micrometeorite strikes.
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by FlyingSideKick 8y ago
Chinese citizens have en masse been exploited by those in power for thousands of years. Moreover, workers and peasants weren't critical or even overwhelmingly supportive of the cultural revolution. Now China near the highest income ine
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by FlyingSideKick 8y ago
$230k
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by FlyingSideKick 8y ago
As an entrepreneur I’ve never understood how closing a round of funding is somehow a badge of success. In fact it is quite the opposite. The ultimate businesses are those that are highly profitable and can scale using their own funding. Suc
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by FlyingSideKick 8y ago
The cost of healthcare and need for health insurance prevent many people from becoming entrepreneurs. Case in point one of my best friends is a talented physiotherapist who has dreamed of starting his own clinic for years, however he has a
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by FlyingSideKick 8y ago
My Mother started experiencing dementia at 57 and it has been difficult to see such a brilliant, adventurous worldly woman change. She is still the person whom she was but now she is a creature of habit and does the same thing and the same
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by FlyingSideKick 8y ago
My grandfather was CEO of an NYSE listed company and he preferred to hire people out of college whom had lower GPAs around 3.0 then perfect students because he thought these folks made for better team members and well rounded employees. Si
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Gene therapy dissolves scar tissue to heal rat spinal cord, reversing paralysis(bionews.org.uk)
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by FlyingSideKick 8y ago
The discovery of microbial life on another world would be as significant as the Copernican revolution. If indeed the methane signatures are not from serpentinization and we can somehow figure out how in situ to determine if the methane is i
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by FlyingSideKick 8y ago
I've been lucky enough to travel to almost 40 countries and unfortunately many locations designated as a must visit have been completely ruined by over tourism including Boracay, Varcala, and Mue Ne just to name a few. Often times by t
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by FlyingSideKick 8y ago
I see this as a good thing. Hopefully by helping other countries implement plans that engender educational and employment opportunities for women we can finally hit “peak child” and begin to slowly shrink our global population over time.
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by FlyingSideKick 8y ago
After having worked at large companies and startups including founding a few of my own it is clear that job and financial security is about equal between the two. The last Fortune 100 company I worked for would cull thier workforce includin
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by FlyingSideKick 8y ago
I’ve been considering taking these supplements but I’m concerned about increased risk of cancer. Have there been updates on this since the publication of this study? https://siteman.wustl.edu/pathway-linked-slower-aging-also
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by FlyingSideKick 8y ago
My missions are as follows: - Work: Create profitable businesses that enable my teams to have healthy life-work balance with 35 hour work weeks and 6 weeks vacation so that they have time for family, adventure, positive mental health and ti
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by FlyingSideKick 8y ago
How can workers change corporate culture from within to demand work-life balance? I asked an executive VP this at a one of the worlds largest company’s here in Seattle and she said “If the young talent we need coming out of school across th
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by FlyingSideKick 8y ago
I wonder if Amazon, Facebook and Google are using similar performance management tactics to drive the attrition of older workers? “A slide from a similar presentation prepared last spring for the same leaders called for “re-profiling curren
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by FlyingSideKick 9y ago
Let’s take the extreme example where a bug in a self driving semi truck leads to it mowing down 50 people on a busy sidewalk. How are the victims to get justice? In almost all incidents besides a human truck driver having a major health inc
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by FlyingSideKick 9y ago
It seems the settlement of a $500k for Holmes was rather weak justice and sends the wrong message. With the kind of fraud she perpetuated to investors jail time would be more appropriate.
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by FlyingSideKick 9y ago
Even with this revision the hourly wage is well below the $15.00 minimum wage here in Seattle. I wonder if after expenses Instacart and Amazon delivery drivers make any more than the typical Uber driver? I think contractors across all incom
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by FlyingSideKick 9y ago
I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child and given medication which made me feel numb and completely changed my personality. After a year or so my father decided to stop giving me the medication and I returned to normal which must’ve been hell

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