sbardle

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by sbardle 4y ago
Hey NoCoiners, can you give us some coin?
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by sbardle 9y ago
I didn't appreciate the severity of the condition. My apologies if I come across as insensitive, I should have paid more attention to the original post.
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by sbardle 9y ago
I certainly don't think "the disabled just aren't trying hard enough", I think you are extrapolating quite wildly there and I find the implication quite offensive. The point I was trying to make is that having supportive
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by sbardle 9y ago
I went to a school where a number of friends were not academic in the slightest. They left as soon as they could often with no qualifications but gradually learnt trades. Many now have their own businesses (one is a plasterer, another a bui
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by sbardle 9y ago
I think NZ could become a major tech hub over the next 15 years. The geographical isolation will be alleviated by the internet and the development of faster air travel. For anyone interested in tech, wanting to start up or grow in NZ, check
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by sbardle 9y ago
Moving towards an isolated environment is pretty much what pioneers do. If they succeed, people will follow and new networks develop.
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by sbardle 9y ago
In the seventeenth century, media shifted from manuscripts to print. Now print has shifted to digital, but with the rise of Social some of the earlier dynamics of manuscript circulation are coming back into play, e.g "scribal communiti
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by sbardle 9y ago
Good point. I think it's a combination of zealot-like intensity and humble open-mindedness which wins the day. Most people are one or the other (or somewhere in between) but to combine both in one human personality is quite rare. This
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by sbardle 9y ago
Sure, but I'd still want a bling tombstone (angels, cherubim, the works) to tell everyone I basically Owned It when I was alive.
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by sbardle 9y ago
How does a big ego and small ego exist in the same person at the same time? It sounds like a square triangle.
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by sbardle 9y ago
Just taken a look. I see what you mean, lots of nuances. Nice product!
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by sbardle 9y ago
Out of interest, for those who have been in the Bay Area for a while, when was the best time to live there?
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by sbardle 9y ago
Couldn't someone just do a hashtag search on Instagram? Why not just go big and do a social network for hairstyling in general? I think the social commerce angle could be great for revenue, esp now Instagram are starting to launch it.
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by sbardle 9y ago
Great point. Also, I think a problem is one person can only send one like. Returning to my example, I'd like to be able to give the litter picker 20 likes, and maybe the Selfie uploader 1 like. I think there has to the option of anothe
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by sbardle 9y ago
Dropbox is a utility/product/feature. It can be replaced. Snapchat is a network and therefore is open to network effects, i.e. the sum becomes greater than the parts. I think in ten years time Snapchat will look the more justified
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by sbardle 9y ago
Didn't Friendfeed invent the Like button? The article goes too far but there is something to be said about its core argument. I don't think the Like button or emojis are good at recognising Value. A popular extrovert with 1000 fb
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by sbardle 10y ago
I'm in on this, thanks very much.
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by sbardle 10y ago
Maybe it was also just a unique period of history, never to again be repeated.
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by sbardle 10y ago
At the risk of the grossest generalisation, the Bay Area has worked because it's combined two very different types of people. On the one hand, the engineers/techies (with roots in the defence industry and conservative midwest back
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by sbardle 10y ago
I'm hoping Basic Income will be up and running by the time I hit my late 60s.
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by sbardle 10y ago
As I understand it, the "herbivore" man is rejecting the "carnivore" existence of the Japanese male executive. So he is not working every hour of the day, he is just getting by. But you are right, they are not focusing
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by sbardle 10y ago
Tim Benners Lee refers to social "levelling". It's interesting to compare the inventors of the internet with the English Levellers of the seventeenth century. They showed great creativity early on, but gradually got worn down
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by sbardle 10y ago
The West is following Japan in so many ways, I suppose because they had their financial crisis before us. Herbivore men, minimalist living, collapsing fertility rates, we are turning Japanese.
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by sbardle 10y ago
The prestige angle is really important as a factor in why people go to law school. I know parents who have worked every hour God gives so their son or daughter can be a lawyer - they see it as a route for their kids into the middle class. I
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by sbardle 10y ago
I know a few people who still do "box moving jobs", and who are on good pay. But like you point out, I can't see it lasting.
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by sbardle 10y ago
I still think certain professional careers will always exist for the most passionate and high quality candidates (or, alas, the best connected).
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by sbardle 10y ago
Thanks for your considered response. You could well be right, but for the moment, I'd put a red-hot poker in my eye if LinkedIn is worth 26 big ones. Long term, tech is a great place to be, but this is getting silly, surely.
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by sbardle 10y ago
LinkedIn is a static and largely useless platform. I have been on it for many years, there has been no innovation, and I can fully understand why its share price has taken a beating. Microsoft are desperate and deluded. Who would want to ow
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by sbardle 10y ago
John Donne had a remarkable intellect. We live in a visual culture, but the early modern period was very much a literary culture, and the breadth of learning demonstrated in just a short poem by Donne or Marvell continues to astonish. Donn
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by sbardle 10y ago
There was some research a while back that people get happier as they age as their memories of painful experiences fade.

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