I think the theory is good for simplifying complex structures for quick understanding, but I also have some personal issue with broad statements that encompass whole groups saying - they are this way. I do agree that the default stance in classical religion can be the parent/child (even to the point for forcing everyone to call the man up front "father") but I don't think that's a default state of religion. In my personal experience I've met adult/adult with holy men and felt respected as a peer. On the other hand, I do stray away from a lot of the organized aspects of religion because of their implicit power structure.
I've also read it many times. I wanted the username isherwood but trying to reserve it tells me it's taken. When I go to the page it tells me there is no such user. Sad times.
I talk to 100 people and no one's heard of this. I post on thing online and someone has actually read the damn thing.
You really hit your stride after the first few paragraphs. I would recommend reading the first part again, maybe out loud, to edit for clarity. The world is solid and I loved the idea of a nobel magical city falling to the worst traits of human nature. More on that mundane moral decay might be interesting. It's a good story and it was interesting to the end. Well done.
Psychologists sold the C.I.A. and the Pentagon on a menu of aggressive interrogation techniques presented as scientifically proven to be effective; in reality, they were based on Communist methods designed not to find the truth but to produce false confessions that could be used for propaganda purposes.
* first thing * second thing Edit: got it. I think your slashes are backwards in pastebin?
I finally built a farm in Ark. I'm really not OK with that being the big accomplishment of the week but my work projects are all stagnating. I'm hoping I can jump start them soon. EDIT: Thanks for the motivation. I went looking for work and found an old script I made to save company time. With some recent changes I've gotten it working and with a few more I think I can implement it on a scale that will save hundreds of hours. Good stuff.
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I am cheap, my fiance on the other hand... I'm trying to convince her to go the park route. She's currently trying to find that one perfect place that has everything and costs nothing. Hopefully she'll find some perspective in her search.
Yeah, odd correlation. In my own mind saying "none of them is" sounds like it is clearly wrong.
Clicking the wheel will share the post with everyone who follows you. Clicking the wheel on a response to a post will only "upvote" that post in the thread.
My rules for writing are the same for writing prompts, even if there were rules I'd be disappointed if you followed them. You could come in here and post something that's not even tangentially related and I'd read it. The prompt is just for inspiration and motivation. I do ask that you make it clear if you want feedback. I'm no brilliant author but I can share my views. I just only want to do so if that's what you're looking for.
I would like to try. Should we QA for flaws or act as regular, honest individuals?
I can scrape data and pump out tables and shitty graphs, they just won't be pretty. I was planning on tracking the number of submissions and comments before and after the start of this anyway.
I would love Apple to find a niche in a high end personal privacy data solutions. Google already winning the personal information war through searches alone, which speak nothing of photos and emails and documents and whatever else they keep safe for you. Apple still has some ground on the "everything just works" aspect. If they could use that to make a personal cloud that never talked to apple servers and ran my personal needs, like home automation, personal storage and access to files from anywhere, they could continue to pump out hardware and create a much larger app ecosystem. Plus they could make personal privacy cool.
On PC. At first I hated it, the public servers were weird and the private servers were weirder. It was just too hard to find people who played in a way that meshed with how I wanted to play. Now I'm playing with some guys from work and we all seem to be on the same page. I kind of get to go off and do my own thing and can join up with the tribe on big stuff, and I don't have to worry about griefers and trolls.
I wonder how much the company is the community. That is, hoe much power users like gallowboob are made up of in house admins to provide front page content. We know that the early days of Reddit required admins to make conversation with themselves to show the site was active and I've never been convinced that such a practice isn't at the core of the business model.
Is it overwritten or appended? That is, are posts always limited to three tags?
Oh, I was replying specifically to the idea that submissions should cost some nominal amount of bits.
More ideas: This one falls under granular control, so I don't think it has merit for hubski in its current form but I think there's something in it. I've been doing writing prompts. If I wanted to hold a week long contest where solid entries get 500 bits, I'd have to adjust my bit rate every time I went back to the thread (because that's just too much to give to everyone). Some way to limit my donations to tags, or posts on my own threads. Maybe even a currency separate from boops. Imagine a golden hubwheel appears only when you have bits. you can vote regularly or with bits, your choice.
Yeah, everything I can predict this would be used for would be a trifle or a data dig. All of these innovations are neat, but as long as the data barron's are controlling our devices we just won't have any net benefit for us. I really want one of these struggling phone companies to say "fuck it" and provide a competing service for people like me where my data isn't shared or stored remotely. Where I control my own server from my own home. And where everything is easy enough for me to set up and maintain. I doubt it will happen. The data economy and escaping from the data economy will be the overbearing reality and fight of my lifetime.
Capital and connections. I'm working with a few non-profits to try to get the idea in places, but none are really willing to front the costs for the computers and games. I also need to find a "cosmopolitan" area that rides the line between a lower level affluent area and a higher level at risk area. There are a lot of moving parts, but I'm hoping to fill in the gaps.
Don't worry, I'm not confusing what I want to happen with what will happen. I would still like it though.
I think there's a lot to this. So much of the positivity in my life is physical. That is, at a certain point words become kind of meaningless in terms of making you feel better and it's a smile or a hug or going to do something else that really turns your mood around. Without that physical feedback you can kind of get sucked down that spiral more easily.
It's the training thing they mentioned. A lot of our our older employees are scared off by new technologies, making Chromebooks difficult to implement. Plus there's no remove duplicates, which is a must for my group.
news.google.com generally tells me what's going on in the world.
This is fantastic. It's a great world and an engaging character. I would read more about her life.
How helpful / beneficial this would be. What use does it serve? Does it make Hubski a better place and push us to be more thoughtful? The benefit would simply be to the curious. It serves to give some indication on the flow of users to the site. If, for example, conversations change or new names start popping up, we could look at the counter to see if there was a spike. It would also give us an idea of when internet drama is happening. I'm not sure if it would make this a better place or make conversations more thoughtful, but it would be a new layer of transparency. Are there any unintended consequences? Do other sites have this feature? Why? What does it add? What does it subtract? If it's a slow day and some people come to check out the site for the first time, they may be alarmed by low numbers or think the website is a "dead space". This could be good if it scares away those looking for popular opinion, bad if it scares away others. Reddit has a feature that shows how many people are in a subreddit at a given time. I don't know if I really trust their numbers though (they've always had a thing about appearing larger than they are). I don't know of many smaller social aggregators that have a current viewer count, I think mostly because it's always in their interest to seem bigger than they are. Would it break the site / unduly burden the site? That one I couldn't tell you, I'm no developer. It seems like it's not exceptionally complicated, but I have no idea.
Dude! I finished it on friday and raced out to get second foundation. The entire second half of the book I had a strong feeling that's who the mule was going to be, but he's just such a good character and the fact that the story doesn't end there is fascinating! I'm pouding through the third one now. Also, I love the fact the Futurama stole the idea for the holophoner from this. I just imagined magnifico as fry.