sgns

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by sgns 15y ago
I see two points to this: 1) It's a battle about what 'Climategate' meant. 2) The muddiness of the whole debate is a demonstration of the difficulty of applying science to public policy. As such it runs along the same lines as the problems
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by sgns 15y ago
There's an emotional connection that many geeks have to Yahoo: I know I'd still like to like it. If they made something that made us all go "Aaaaw....", we'd recommend the hell out of it, and soon enough it could replace Google News for som
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by sgns 15y ago
I suspect that a) the vast majority of womenfolk simply don't exist - that some are outliers doesn't mean that the majority are alike, because give it what you like, b) social conditions are changing, for both men and women there are very c
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by sgns 15y ago
I suspect that a) the vast majority of womenfolk simply don't exist - that some are outliers doesn't mean that the majority are alike, because give it what you like, b) social conditions are changing, for both men and women there are very c
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by sgns 15y ago
Thanks, that was interesting. Not least the comments, including one from "Too Smart", which said: "Being dumb is much better than having to play dumb. It does no good for a girl to be too smart," and suggested complimenting the girl for he
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by sgns 15y ago
I've done a little bit of fasting (I'm actually breaking a fast right now), it really is as simple as that: you simply start seeing whatever it is as not important. Sliverstorm, beagle3 and gwern are exactly right I think. What you wanted -
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by sgns 15y ago
I suspect he's kind of like Steve Jobs, if Steve Jobs had not been practising Zen-Buddhism. Instead he's learning how to follow through more directly by helping others do it. He's probably not alone about it either. A guy with a skill. It's
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by sgns 15y ago
This too -- I can identify precisely with this second paragraph. I can't be content with filling some kind of mould. But that's because I can see the mould, and it certainly isn't me. Seeing possibilities is not something one necessarily
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by sgns 15y ago
Sounds to me like you are in contact with your 'being'. That's rather good actually. The way I've come to think of it, when people get too anxious they start to make violence on themselves - and think they should be something they are not.
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by sgns 15y ago
My sympathies, I was there, too. The key to me was finding what I was really passionate about and doing it. Detaching from outcome.
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by sgns 15y ago
Yep, and differently from tv, consumption on the iPad is much more likely to be 'relatively' peer-to-peer. If we pay for content, there will surely soon be more producers around, given an easy-enough distribution chain/a flat-enough distrib
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by sgns 15y ago
I wonder if production is not more inherent to the human being than you give it credit for being. How, otherwise, did we get from TV-land to the internet? Was it not a case of frustrated need for self-expression and response to new stimuli?
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by sgns 15y ago
Great point! Illustrates just how we're still living with the implications of just how the first extremely undemocratic reality of 'code as content' – first encapsulated in program devlopment, then going through a slight democratization rou
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by sgns 15y ago
Interesting perspective. I wonder how likely those for whom iPads are the only computing device today are to ever think of using the 'production tools' specific to the PC though. Or is it simply that the iPad makes so much consumption so
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by sgns 15y ago
Yeah! What's easily missed too is that the 'free creativity and production for all' ethos on the web – all the good stuff that got us here! - so far largely missed out on financing for most of the traditional cultural sectors. Much of what
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by sgns 15y ago
Awesome take – it seems to suggest that what we're seeing is the creation of a new mobile nexus for people's work, slowly replacing the desktop as the center of our 'tool lives'. EDIT: Replacing the desktop – AND drawing plenty of other o
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by sgns 15y ago
There's also always Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance by Robert Pirsig, which at least i still find quite amazing. I also totally agree on the thing with working with your hands – it turns out we at least partially think with our bo
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by sgns 15y ago
What gets me, everytime I procastrinate along lines similar to those described in the article, is that the implicit assumption is always then that you're not very talented. You can develop your talent, or you can sit around and think you're
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by sgns 16y ago
yes you still can, it's just another option
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by sgns 16y ago
Having seen your landing page and the video, this about the app: - I liked the simplicity and the concept of the app a lot. - Does the msging in any way interact with sending SMSs/IMs? - It's a great idea to be able to message your sharing
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by sgns 16y ago
Speaking off-the-hook as a normal nerd, I like this angle. There's actually plenty of Google stuff I might be interested in, but their size and my privacy concerns, partly about Google, keeps me off. Cultivate your trustworthiness as Andren
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by sgns 16y ago
I agree with this, and think RIM sort of 'won' the smartphone throne without understanding good enough why. One can see that they don't understand themselves by what appears to me as an attempt to out-Apple Apple, or as you say, trying to m