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bliss

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    Comment #29342697

    I sit here quite impressed with my Pseudo 50s SciFi book cover https://imgur.com/a/NZuGTXU However... This gallery on imgur gives a better idea of capability https://imgur.com/gall…

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    Comment #25096559

    "however iperfect" encapsulates exactly my point - we can't know - but jeez, we try as best as we can

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    Comment #25096549

    I'm pretty lousy at asking people what they feel, my job role, thankfully, has an optional people management component, I've opted out. However a mandatory (welcome) part of my rol…

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    Comment #25096498

    Assumption

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    Comment #25096423

    I work for a well known media company where I live, a brand, our grad scheme is really good (disclaimer I'm a small part of that) and attracts the best of the best out of colleges,…

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    Comment #25096173

    Jeez, I read the whole of that, it was a rollercoaster of something (his art) or someone I thought I knew and somehow got to the person, good writing

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    Comment #25095722

    This sounds very much like the fraud/risk part of the business are not correctly joined up with the sales function. LEGO - you should have your guys talk to each other more often..…

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    Comment #25095597

    I interpret this to mean that human brains work best with constraints, artists do this all of the time, constraints are great

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    Comment #25095571

    This is the one - http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/

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    Comment #25095551

    My brother in law works in aerospace, he worked on a project which involved a mars mission - the catastrophic error was that part of the software worked in metric and part of it wo…

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    Comment #25095434

    I agree, empathy is a bit fake, you have to guess and I for one will do my very best to guess what others are thinking and feeling, but at the end of the day, being in someone else…

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    Comment #25094961

    btw - Caro Numquam is what I came up with

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    Comment #25094949

    Don't be me - at work c. 2001 - heard about a colleague who was "vegetarian" but ate fish and sometimes chicken... I wanted to create a pseudo-scientific name for this way of eatin…

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    Comment #24081254

    Ha, I have a couple, created in 2011 - who knew (well... remembered!) - now going to archive and delete them

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    Comment #22255316

    10 years ago, my daily grind, nowadays rarely, but good to have in the back pocket

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    Comment #22245481

    HR data is necessarily controlled though, there are pretty stingent controls in law around that. I understand the pain of not being able to report on stuff, but there is probably a…

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    Comment #22245298

    I love perl because it's fast, but it definitely follows the WORN pattern. Write Once Read Never. No matter how many commnets I leave for future me, it's always a voyage of discove…

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    Comment #22128024

    460-375BCE - Greece - Hippocrates on people who couldn't focus but were good at reacting to events - attributed to an "overbalance of fire over water" 1693 - Scotland - John Locke …

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    Comment #20615222

    Good material, nicely presented. This is similar to My Cognitive Bias - they have a browser plugin that opens a random cognitive bias when you open a new tab (chrome, firefox) - ba…

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    Comment #20565871

    David Graeber also did an excellent BBC Radio Series on the same subject - Promises, Promises: A History of Debt: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b054zdp6/episodes/player - (regis…

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    Comment #20565735

    That seems more similar to the plot of that Halt and Catch Fire show on Amazon Prime

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    Comment #14926495

    Apple's phone comes with a little adapter to connect up a 3.5mm jack - can't charge at the same time though, but I'm pretty sure there are solutions for that, with a bit of dongle …

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    Comment #14926494

    Apple's phone comes with a little adapter to connect up a 3.5mm jack - can't charge at the same time though, but I'm pretty sure there are solutions for that, with a bit of dongle …

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    Comment #14926472

    Microphone, speakers, charging port - lots of holes. The Sony Walkman Sport from back in the day was waterproof, it had a standard jack

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    Comment #14926464

    Horrible idea. I'm on holiday at the moment, didn't bring my headphones - don't often use them, but on flight and occasionally lazing by the pool would have liked to listen to my a…