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I presumed wrong, sorry, it seems I was guessing or rather projecting. I think I see. You come from a different place than me, surely. Our initial make-up I mean, whether innate or…

I'm afraid you misread my intentions. I can plead guilty of seeking attention (I figure 'commenting' is the first such step), but I thought the very length of that post is already …

You're welcome and I'm glad my intention quite perfectly matches your expectations. I'm pro 'reader's choice' indeed! An informed 'skip' button up top is really just good hospitali…

Well, that's a +1 for my list! Thank you for the recommendation. Love the title and fourth already — it seems that Mr Miller gets it in a way that would speak to me. I've seen the …

OK, I get it. I totally agree with everything you said. What you are rightfully criticizing goes under different names — "positive thought", "creative thought", "the secret". It's …

Disclaimer / TL;DR: This got out of hand. Too much time on my hands that I didn't have, today. Anyway. The gist is: yes, there's crap in "self-help", but it's the current name for …

It's actually much more than that, it's failing 99 times to get that one break; rinse and repeat 1,000 times to build something meaningful in 1~10 years. Failure is the mother of a…

There is one word missing from this post that contains a whole lot of the argument on the environment side: chaos . Those who learn to thrive in chaos are most dangerous out there,…

I've always known I should have been born some 420-490 millions years in the future¹. Now it's science fact! [1]: A good day for me is more like 27-28 hours, on average. Don't ask.…

The useful gist: > "To fully compromise EPID, hackers would need to extract the hardware key used to encrypt the Chipset Key, which resides in Secure Key Storage (SKS)," explained …

I, for one, as a human being whose root ancestors¹ infected planet Earth² which eventually produced me³ , am will to use a definition that qualifies viruses as very much alive. ;-)…

That's true and I'm certainly not advocating for dictatorship. There is a vast space of possible regimes and political systems in between total freedom and total slavery, though...…

The saddest truth is perhaps that functionally, we have the leaders we deserve. It's a simple projection from voter space to elected space. As a former pol.sci. student/researcher,…

Joe Rogan has had such an ad hoc expert just this week, highly recommended. A sobering cold and factual shower.

> Screening mammography aims to identify breast cancer at earlier stages of the disease, when treatment can be more successful. Despite the existence of screening programmes worldw…

Here we have a strong move towards what is possibly the next phase in the seemingly eternal tension between concentration/core convergence of resources versus distribution/meshing.…

I think it's cultural, acquired indeed. I've pondered on dates and how to divide the year down to how long weeks should be — for way longer than I care to admit. The thing is, we b…

> Already speaking English is a massive advantage in understanding and working with all of that. I think we're past that, it's become a de facto prerequisite now. You just can't be…

It's no wonder why the latin alphabet got chosen, the same reason why it became popular in the first place, thousands of years ago. It's just efficient to use 26-ish letters, like …

Oh my, don't get me started about Excel localization. It played a big part in my decision 20+ years ago to switch all my computers (any electronics actually) to US/English locale. …

Wow, that is everything I asked for and more; thanks a lot for taking the time and effort to summarize all this. Now I feel like I can get started with this tomorrow. Couple remark…

A few questions, as I don't know AWS much beyond basic VMs. - Is all this easy to do following their docs, are we talking 1 h setup or 1 day? - Cost: how much are we talking per we…

You're right about cathedrals, and it applies to several such big architecture projects (temples, etc). It's also how science operates when you think about it — that quest so far h…

You're right that "startups" are harder statistically I'd suppose, more moonshots. Still these numbers are general, not tech specific. The mindset in entrepreneur circles: - failin…

Haha I wish The gist of it, according to experts, is that fusion is so cheap and powerful that it's like sailing on Earth: didn't take "that long" (few thousand years) before we ci…