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Ramen?
Real ramen has nothing in common with those packaged noodles. A big bowl of ramen soup with lots of meat, seafood & a hardboiled egg is heaven.
Duh.
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Having been in this same situation at work and at home, I have to disagree with you. We go out to lunch several times a week, and unless someone is craving something, it almost always comes down to this. We use Subway instead of McDonalds, but the result is the same. There is no blame, we honestly can't think of where to eat until some idea is thrown out there. Then all of a sudden we remember that mexican place in t…
Seems a bit much you all should consistently be unable to "think of where to eat" when the question is asked "several times a week". Does this pervasive forgetfulness show up everywhere in your lives? If so, you guys should probably be mulling over doctors, not lunch. If not, you might want to reconsider what I've suggested and why you so consistently "forget" in socially arbitrated situations.
You really are being a dick. I'll agree with OP - fuck you, buddy.
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Wikipedia is actually a great example of how getting something started can eventually lead to something much better. Here's the first version of that article: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abilene_paradox... That's what Wikipedia was like after it was created: random people writing a few words about some subject they thought they knew something about. It didn't seem like it would amount to much, at the…
Maybe it hasn't amounted to as much as you think. In addition to a great deal of general information substantially duplicating what you already could have found on the internet (much of Wikipedia is actually scraped/aggregated from elsewhere, which is the real use of crowdsourcing here), it's also jammed full of trivialities and utterly biased, misleading, politicized articles guarded jealously by special interest gr…
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Exactly. I can't even begin to tell you how many times something that was supposed to be "just be a prototype" made it to production this same way.
You bet. I'm working on an application that is a prototype and a legacy application simultaneously.
My coworkers used to call these "straw horses". Like straw men, but attacking them is supposed to take you somewhere.
This is a well known psychological effect. The "powers that be" use it all the time to force their will on an initially resisting population. They first propose an obviously draconian and unfair legislation, which is then, after a public outcry, mellowed down to the originally intended form. Hey presto, everyone is now happy about "the concessions and safeguards", forgetting that in the process they got something tha…
How bad is eating at McDonald's for you? If you just get a BigMac and diet coke, is it all that worse than any other food establishment?
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Seems a bit much you all should consistently be unable to "think of where to eat" when the question is asked "several times a week". Does this pervasive forgetfulness show up everywhere in your lives? If so, you guys should probably be mulling over doctors, not lunch. If not, you might want to reconsider what I've suggested and why you so consistently "forget" in socially arbitrated situations.
Speaking of investigating life choices, you're coming off like an asshole. You might want to reconsider the way you talk to people. Here's the summary: 1. A post uses food as a metaphor* to make a point. 2. You basically say bullshit to the food, then rant about life. 3. Someone says "I dunno if it's BS, I've experienced this!" 4. And you say "then there's something wrong with you". Fuck you, buddy. *I'm the guy who…
That's amusing to see in a post where you've included both an "asshole" and a "fuck you".
>Here's the summary:
More like an angry oversimplification.
1&2: I think your post actually goes in two directions, finding individual motivation and catalyzing group motivations. The latter is what I chose to comment on.
3&4: The commentor offered an anecdote, I asked him to think critically about what he's saying versus experiencing. You've taken it upon yourself to assume a very specific response and quote it as a statement - ridiculous.
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Maybe it hasn't amounted to as much as you think. In addition to a great deal of general information substantially duplicating what you already could have found on the internet (much of Wikipedia is actually scraped/aggregated from elsewhere, which is the real use of crowdsourcing here), it's also jammed full of trivialities and utterly biased, misleading, politicized articles guarded jealously by special interest gr…
I disagree with your assessment that Wikipedia doesn't add value. It acts as an awesome aggregator and is usually a good place to start when learning about any topic. Im not going to play "name that fallacy", but your points against it seem weak to me. Of course its info is scraped and aggregated from other sources. Thats how information works. Thats normal even in academia. Im sure that on pages that don't have many…
And that's a good thing to you.
An unreliable encyclopedia is the most useless thing in the world. An unreliable encyclopedia with the most powerful SEO in history...is a grave threat to human knowledge.