LordFast

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by LordFast 4y ago
What you said made sense until I said it out loud to my wife. Hoarding access to resources has /always/ been the name of the game.
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by LordFast 5y ago
Fellow kerbal space program attendee here: I believe that while smaller planes will naturally pitch up as speed increases, jumbo jets are much more lumpant even with the correct flaps. That's the terrifying thing in my understanding: t
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by LordFast 5y ago
Seriously. Did these pilots think they were playing Microsoft Flight Simulator or something?!
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by LordFast 5y ago
And how much did crypto go up this year compared to S&P500?
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by LordFast 5y ago
"In the end, the most important connection between the Metaverse and the physical world will be you: right now you are in the Metaverse, reading this Article; perhaps you will linger on Twitter or get started with your remote work. And
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by LordFast 5y ago
I personally think this move, and to a larger extent the current trends we're seeing in our industry has much more to do with revenue, profits and share price than it does with the product or any social consequences.
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by LordFast 5y ago
"I'm not aware of any effort to censor Galileo at this point. If that is the case I'd like to hear about it." He's saying Galileo was censored during the time Galileo was alive.
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by LordFast 5y ago
This is about as "us vs. them" as it gets, which is to say that it's about as political of a statement as it gets. I don't think any of this fight is about the actual issue of social media's impact, but perhaps I wa
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by LordFast 5y ago
"Everyone who came before me is a sucker; everyone who came after me is a cheat."
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by LordFast 6y ago
> The only self-restriction is by people that don't have the conviction to stand by their ideas, or actually have not thought through their perspective to adequate level of introspection and evidence that can survive free and open d
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by LordFast 6y ago
> The data show that middle income cities have, on average, grown at a much faster pace than the region’s poorest and richest locales. I'm not a housing expert, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. Middle income cities gro
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by LordFast 6y ago
Twitter always said they had more lenient rules for world leaders, and that part makes sense, since anyone that is an elected public official needs to communicate with the public and sometimes talk about controversial topics. But if that el
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by LordFast 6y ago
Trump wasn't banned before the elections. He wasn't banned after Charlottesville, and then wasn't banned for 3.5 more years while he continued to undermine American institutions. He was only banned after refusing to accept th
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by LordFast 6y ago
Utilities vs. Media
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by LordFast 6y ago
Sadly, they aren't the first, and certainly won't be the last. Silicon Valley isn't immune to the same virus.
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by LordFast 6y ago
"Practice makes perfect."
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by LordFast 6y ago
I actually had really low expectations for this game precisely because of how much hype and marketing there had been surrounding it over the past couple of years. IMO anything in this world that requires that much in-your-face-evangelism is
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by LordFast 6y ago
Do whatever you feel like doing, or not doing. I completely understand the background anxiety about not being in gear and moving towards something, but you don't control life. None of us do, and you're gonna be just fine. Accept t
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by LordFast 6y ago
Thiel is a very smart guy. I have no doubt that if there is an opportunity to frame the world in a way that is the most advantageous and beneficial to him and his beliefs, he would take that opportunity. Controlling the belief system is mor
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by LordFast 6y ago
Hey, just so you know, regardless of whether things work this way under /today's environment/ and/or whoever has said it as some "management wisdom", the words you have typed here represent some blatant power-t
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by LordFast 6y ago
Me thinks it's a common misconception for strongly opinionated people to believe that companies want to hire them in order for them to "fix things and make the company a better place". In reality, what every company/team
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by LordFast 6y ago
> This might be taboo, but every time I see a situation where there are multiple Indians in a reporting chain, I run. I'm glad these topics are brought up to the surface and being discussed, because the strategy of voting with your
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by LordFast 6y ago
Totally agreed. What I said does not stand in conflict with poverty-motivated education. I believe everyone should get as much education as possible whenever they want.
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by LordFast 6y ago
People have to understand the "why" behind the education before they can be fully engaged with the material that others have constructed in the aid of learning. I believe education should be a life-long thing. Citizens should be a
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by LordFast 6y ago
Bravo. Welcome. Keep up the good work, brother.
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by LordFast 6y ago
The level of emotionally and politically motivated anti-intellectualism over the past decade or so has grown so much and so exponentially to the point that all-out idiocracy now rules the day. It's become a fashionable sport to compete
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by LordFast 6y ago
Agreed. It always comes down to a base equation of who is willing to do what kind of work for what kind of reward under what kind of circumstances. After a decade of software being a desirable job and everyone trying to get into it, we can
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by LordFast 6y ago
Defining a filter in order to filter people out is fine, but we should be honest about the fact that it has very little to do with learning, and more to do with the willingness to deal with crap and jump through hoops. More amenable employe
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by LordFast 6y ago
Everything in life, including life itself, is temporary. Except for two facts: - Nobody has more than 24 hours in a day. - Nobody escapes death.
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by LordFast 6y ago
"Good founders". I think it's prudent to at least take a minute, step back and examine the potential cognitive bias going on in one's head when the belief system is built on something like "there's plenty of fo

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