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if 9 to 5 job attitude can create any amazing startup, please give an example.


get the term "9 to 5" out of your head and start thinking about life balance. Startups that believe you need to dedicate your life and soul to them to be worth anything need to go back to the drawing board on 'culture'.


Fog Creek/Trello/SO


Baidu Baike focus on native stuff like Chinese celebrities, idioms etc, unlike wiki, which is much more internationalized.


As a (7 year * 4) old man, I dont really understand your explanation:(


What do you think about my explanation?: Bitcoin: The Simplest Non-technical Explanation: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=66

(Although, like the room full of piggy bank analogy, mine is only a partial explanation.)


How can I improve it?


> There’s a room that anyone can access. The room has security cameras that anyone can view, and every second of recorded footage is available online forever.

's/anyone can access/noboby can access/'

's/anyone can view/noboby can view/'

>Naturally, these piggy banks have coin slots, and everyone can see which coins are in which piggy bank.

's/everyone can see/nobody can see/' (Hide it == Show it)

> These piggy banks can never leave the room.

's/leave the room/leave to the light/'

>Then, I walk into the room with a ski mask on.

>> with a ski mask on.

Yeah, You mean it!

>Anyone in the world can see me on the security cameras, but not my face.

>> but not my face.

That's what we are paid for.

>“Who made the robot..?”

The same who made these schemes and manipulations to rule the crowd.


I don't quite understand your comment, mind elaborating?


Nobody knows what he works for. I mean mining. Is it for good things or not. That's the summary.


So do I.


Might sound harsh, but this kind of suggestion is no use at all. US was great and we know it is not that great any more at many aspects of view. US will fade out and other emerging countries will rock. This is HISTORY, any suggestion cannot stop the process of HISTORY.


Ignore the shitty political situation in Washington and realize the US has the largest freshwater supply, the largest amount of arable land, and the US is sitting on billions of gallons of oil and rare earth metals. The US is not going anywhere for a very, very long time.


Freshwater is not abundant in USA. Southern California has to import water from Sierras and as far north as Oregon. Colorado River does not reach the sea. Rio Grande does not reach the sea. Plains states have negative water balance and agriculture only survives by depleting the Ogallala Aquifer. Everything west of the Mississippi-Missouri and south of the Columbia and Platte rivers is at or beyond long term sustainable water consumption. Just add some global warming and see what happens. Read 'Cadillac Desert'.

Now if you said Canada has the largest freshwater supply, I might have agreed.


Go to the grocery store and buy a gallon of water. Imagine that water is what you have to drink, clean yourself, wash your clothes and dishes with. So yes, compared to most of the planet we have it in abundance.

Now the problem we do have is a water management problem. Most of the fresh water is used for agricultural and industrial purposes. We use a lot of water for dumb reasons and then dump it into the ocean.


I often see aged programmers are more tolerant with things they dont like,as they know most jobs are just boring from their years of working experience. Lots of them think job is just for paying the bill.


so how about things like this: I am married but I meet another woman who I cannot help falling love with. Shall I continue hang out with her, or stop seeing her(which I will probably regret)


One should always evaluate his emotions with a great amount of care. Be clear that I'm not suggesting in the least that a person should live 110% in the moment all the time; in fact the opposite.

That said, I'm not sure why a person would live the rest of their life with someone they don't love out of some sort of imagined duty. You certainly aren't doing yourself any favours, and odds are you are making your wife miserable too.

If you have truly found someone that you "cannot help falling in love with", then why wouldn't you be with her?


You're willfully sanitizing the anecdotal/hypothetical question.

Imagine he loves his wife but is also falling in love with another ... Only he is afraid to pursue.

Should he pursue or not? If not, why not? Is his sky-diving hobby any less "destructive" than his philandering?

Ah ... like the blind Colonel once quipped: "when in doubt, fuck."


You are married, but you did not say if you are in an open relationship ;)


I believe LIFE IS A RANDOM GAME. You may argue that hard working can change the fate. Yes. But hard working should also be seen as an attribute that is set in your body when you are born, and it is random. So a person is created with random attributes, and he will live with random chances happening around him. That's the game of life.


It would be super good already if the company could really operates like that


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