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by earljwagner 3mo ago
There's another reason for Costco's appeal and trust among members: Kirkland Signature. Costco mandates that any KS product must be at least 10% better in quality than the leading national brand it replaces and/or cost less.
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by earljwagner 6mo ago
The concepts of Semantic Functions and Pragmatic Functions seem to be analogous to a Functional Core and Imperative shell (FCIS): https://testing.googleblog.com/2025/10/simplify-your-code-fu... The key insight of
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by earljwagner 2y ago
> He is trully obsessive about getting the most views, almost soullessly designing the perfect viral content, caring about every second. He literally starts with the thumbnail and title and only then works out the rest of the video! That
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by earljwagner 3y ago
Tom Wolfe, in "Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died", Forbes Magazine, 1996 http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/courses/psy115w/Fall02/TomWolf... Which brings us to the second most famous statement in all of mo
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by earljwagner 3y ago
As half of the pair programming team, why not just give him half of the story points?
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by earljwagner 5y ago
"I believe, if you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, 'What was Apple's greatest contribution to mankind?' it will be about health," Cook told [Mad Money's Jim] Cramer."
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by earljwagner 5y ago
Yes, learning NVC can really help in hearing where the other person is coming from. It's also useful for expressing yourself in a way that's least likely to trigger the other person. All of this takes practice, of course. I'v
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by earljwagner 6y ago
From an IFS perspective, it sounds like DMT introduces parts that guide our attention toward the Self. That's different from regular IFS parts - protectors and exiles - that guide our attention away from the Self.
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by earljwagner 7y ago
Obesity is increasing for animals - pets and even wildlife: https://psmag.com/social-justice/just-people-getting-fatter-...
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Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by earljwagner 7y ago|0 comments
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Genealogy records reveal how a harmful mutation can hide from natural selection(theatlantic.com)
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Geneva Drive(en.wikipedia.org)
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by earljwagner 9y ago
It sounds like Foucault's concept of a "discursive formation", basically a Kuhn-style paradigm. Foucault was interested in the social conditions and context that enable certain statements to be uttered, and interpreted as mea
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by earljwagner 9y ago
I can't tell whether this is satire, like "A Modest Proposal".
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by earljwagner 9y ago
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - US General George S. Patton It sounds like the expansive freedom in Holocracy to work on the Accountabilities for your R
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A 40-year 'conspiracy' at the VA(politico.com)
1 points by earljwagner 10y ago|0 comments
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by earljwagner 10y ago
Fascinating analysis. While it references Rudy Giuliani's leadership immediately after 9/11 and beyond, Trump is an even more interesting case. It looks like he approaches problems in the Simple and Chaotic modes, with specific bl
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by earljwagner 10y ago
From the perspective of a Dot/Graphviz user, this appears to allow you to define a graph, then program how it's laid out. Do I have that correct?
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by earljwagner 10y ago
We see similar phenomena in software: "software bloat", "feature creep", the "second system effect" (see Wikipedia for details). Linux provides the same basic functionality as Unix in 1980 but has orders of mag
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Neural correlates of maintaining one’s political beliefs given counterevidence(nature.com)
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by earljwagner 10y ago
Check out "An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization" It's a fascinating profile of the pioneering organizational cultures at three companies, Bridgewater, Next Jump (a tech startup in NYC), and
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by earljwagner 10y ago
You might also be interested in books that profile other companies experimenting with this kind of transparency: "Reinventing Organizations" by Frederic Laloux "An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organ
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by earljwagner 10y ago
Yes, there's growing awareness of this problem. This blog post summarizes the paper "Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt": https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/02/29/machi
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by earljwagner 10y ago
So, in other words, "Man is the measure of all things" – Protagoras "We see things not as they are. We see things as we are." attributed to Anaïs Nin
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by earljwagner 10y ago
As another data point, ITA software took steps to avoided gc-ing: "Because we have about 2 gigs of static data we need rapid access to, we use C++ code to memory-map huge files containing pointerless C structs (of flights, fares, etc),
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by earljwagner 10y ago
Sounds like the San Francisco Bay Area.
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by earljwagner 10y ago
It's not just people getting fatter, it's pets and even lab mice: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/08/the...
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Wyngz(en.wikipedia.org)
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by earljwagner 11y ago
Has anyone estimated how many early deaths were caused by the radiation exposure?
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by earljwagner 11y ago
While the modern state is indeed stable, environmental change has an impact even if not through apocalyptic natural disaster. A long term drought contributed to the civil war in Syria[1]. It may be the first of many around the world. Both

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