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Comment · 6 years ago
We need foot pedals for Dvorak/QWERTY switching _in charwise situ_ … virtuosos of the finger arts, please stand up. And modes, obvi prose v code.

asking important question, can wha-wha be incorporated? Markdown, are you there?

Comment · 6 years ago
This guy minimalisms?
Comment · 6 years ago
I have one named thoughts.txt, and one named notes.txt, to separate daily scrum list vs. random idea or thought list. shortcuts on the desktop and aliases for easy access.

Also started using the notation

  [ ] thing to do
  [x] thing got done
Ok, I have some other special case ones like recipes, etc
Comment · 6 years ago
Here's an interesting paper: https://www.brookings.edu/research/a-dozen-facts-about-immig...

> Immigrants are 4 times more likely than children of native-born parents to have less than a high school degree, but are almost twice as likely to have a doctorate.

> Immigrants are much more likely than others to work in construction or service occupations, but children of immigrants work in roughly the same occupations as the children of natives.

Comment · 6 years ago
Ranked and unranked already exist to address your insight
Comment · 6 years ago
If you’re actually trying to do anything, and you are diligent, you’re really only competing with 10% of the pool. Now, you just have to beat 50% of your real competitors.
Comment · 6 years ago
People with enough gumption to upend their lives and leave everything they knew behind for an uncertain future … it's the "right stuff"
Comment · 6 years ago
In Korean cooking, there is a flavor known as "cool". Think thin, really heated broth, spicy with green pepper spiciness, the more nasal type (as opposed to red spiciness, more tongue prominent)

In Chinese cooking, there is the "numbing" flavor, red sichuan pepper, white pepper, cloves, et al.

Flavor is simply more complex than the headline that there are only four, and _______.

Comment · 7 years ago
JackFest!!
Comment · 7 years ago
During a recent discussion on this topic, this emerged with regard to "what is AI":

A. System should, without prompting, identify areas of improvement and innovation

B. Automated collection of data and the processing thereof, combined with application towards a concrete goal — does not qualify under A.

C. Part of A. is willing and unwilling discovery and exposure to both benevolent and adversarial environments and operating conditions

Comment · 7 years ago
It's sad and brilliant how they look the other way while launching Amazon Basics as a trusted brand
Comment · 7 years ago
Because it is more cost efficient to use other means to the same end (votes)
Comment · 7 years ago
It's OK, even the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th deviations have their "normies"
Comment · 7 years ago
"Advertising exists to make you feel bad about yourself, then inserts product as solution"

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