kodz4

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by kodz4 7y ago
My plan is to run for President or get into politics atleast. Watching all these Geezers having the time of their lives in their 70s and 80s has made up my mind. Just look at Ralf Nader, Ron Paul and Rush Limbaugh ranting and raving away wi
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by kodz4 7y ago
To vague. What do you want to achieve in this role? Varies a lot depending on personality type. Some people get their kicks from keeping everything running smoothly. Some people want to shape a product or a process. Some want to shape the e
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by kodz4 7y ago
> A trigger for this mission came from a landmark Delhi High Court judgment in 2016. The case revolved around Rameshwari Photocopy Services, a shop on the campus of the University of Delhi. For years, the business had been preparing cour
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by kodz4 7y ago
That's true. Maybe we are going through a transition where we shed some :) There is lots of evidence for it.
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by kodz4 7y ago
Wikimedia uses ES and you can download their entire index for any of their sites wikipedia/travel/quotes etc.
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by kodz4 7y ago
Ants don't meet at the bar at the end of the day to chill with each other. It isn't necessary. And their society isn't unraveling. The more connected the human ant hill gets the more we will behave like ants. Disconnected bec
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by kodz4 7y ago
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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by kodz4 7y ago
It takes time to adjust to hyperconnection. But the benefits will keep showing up and pushing things in the direction of more connection. Look at the number of collaborators on the Black Hole image or gravitational wave detection. You will
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by kodz4 7y ago
Lots of people worked at making it look like "dumb luck". That point gets missed. What they did is not well understood by most people who cry about the dangers of the next pandoras box.
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by kodz4 7y ago
While this is true, one thing that has changed a lot is how connected all the research labs of the world are across the planet and how that rate is increasing. While it creates a lot of chaos, distraction and trust issues to work through, t
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by kodz4 7y ago
These stories have played out before. Maybe the best example is Oppenheimer vs Edward Teller. There will always be an Edward Teller. Yet we still haven't blown ourselves up. If you ask why and how you will find hope.
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by kodz4 7y ago
idk...their political opinions can deeply effect the product. At Intel or Microsoft for example it doesn't matter as much, what anyone's political views are. Their products can't start riots tomorrow morning. Now ofcourse the
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by kodz4 7y ago
Interesting to see as polarization increases, as it will given the environment, whether a company can break into two along political lines. Has that happened before in history? I wouldn't mind a seperate conservative google and a liber
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by kodz4 7y ago
> infinite GDP growth was possible in a finite world A circle is finite but what about Pi? Does it ever end?
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by kodz4 7y ago
There are simple ways to deal with it. Remove the caps on Indian or other country Visas. The world is quite big.
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by kodz4 7y ago
:) cool phrase - "given a whiff of stature" - 0 hits on google.
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by kodz4 7y ago
You make it sound as if the Chinese are more imaginative than Americans. That's not the case. They just have more people. If I am sitting in NYC and need 10 programmers overnight for a boring IT project... no problem. But if I am sitti
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by kodz4 7y ago
Just point at the data. The extra layer of attitude doesn't sell your argument, but just distracts from it. Sort the first table by rank US - 87 UK -109 France - 117 Germany - 148. When we talk about the West who else is anyone referri
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by kodz4 7y ago
The US is a much more diverse population and a much larger population. It's going to be more chaotic than anything the Europeans have to deal with. But dealing with that chaos, at that scale, produces lessons and learning that won&#x27
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by kodz4 7y ago
Enough "Art" and blockbuster comedies have not been produced apparently :)
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by kodz4 7y ago
Do Like and View counts have effects on Individuals and Groups outside of whatever their designed purpose is? Its a simple question Facebook needs to answer. Those counts don't just effect my Aunt, they effect me too. If both the left
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by kodz4 7y ago
Thats awesome. Reminded me of the Russian Beluga story https://www.livescience.com/65359-beluga-whale-russian-spy.h...
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by kodz4 7y ago
Ask them if they agree the like and view count next to every post/image/vid has a psychological effects on individuals and groups. If they agree, ask them if there is anything blocking them from studying the cases where the effect
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by kodz4 7y ago
This is a layman observation. Was just reading about the C-Elegans worm atlas and it's feeling like this "bottom up" studying of brains will yeild more insight into how brains get built and operate, than studying the human br
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by kodz4 7y ago
Save up and eject as soon as you can, and be realistic about what you are up against. Thats been the MO for people at Big Oil, Big Pharma and Wall Street for a long time now. People are in deep denial about the state of affairs. These are &
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by kodz4 7y ago
The tech industry today, is captured quite well by Rolling Stone's Victor Juhasz illustrations https://www.instagram.com/p/BzJO6ELjJT9/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BzJP9nlDA5c/ Thin
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by kodz4 7y ago
32 year old on top of it. With the Andy Rubin news yday, it feels like the US is just flushing itself down the toilet everyday that goes by.
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by kodz4 7y ago
I always look for liquid surfaces, water in a glass etc. They will be busy oscillating much before the body makes sense of whats going on...
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by kodz4 7y ago
Get specific about the concern, otherwise it's easy to get afraid about everything. Govt's hardly own telecom infra, it's all in private hands. And when orgs get too big for their boots, things like this happen- https:/
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by kodz4 7y ago
I have seen these points made before, but I really like how well this post presents them. One thing interesting today is the world is highly interconnected. We are all part of a gigantic network. The hierarchies and boundaries of the past a

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