shellmayr

Very true - decision quality is super important! My point here is that trust erodes in the absence of good communication, and when that happens, your decisions matter less because you won‘t be able to deliver on them as effectively.

In your other point though, I‘ve seen highly effective managers who didn‘t understand much of what the team was doing technically, because the were able to build trust among everyone involved in major processes.

The text really captured my attention. I've recently been struggling with whether or not tech and the modern internet are a force for good. I always enjoyed tinkering with hardware and software, and have been working in related jobs because it pays well and there are always interesting challenges to solve. But the societal shifts ongoing in Europe, the filter bubbles and breaking down of discourse, the xenophobia and the growing divide between large parts of society as well as the erosion of (local) media and the crisis of mental well-being among both adults and adolescents, which I feel are at least partly attributable to technological changes in the past ten years, have led me to think that maybe the most important thing for people right now may be spaces without technology, without personalization and just being confronted with the community of others. This does not seem like a problem solvable by the means of technology and makes me wonder whether I've spent my life learning about technology only to abandon it at some point.

Are there any good resources about what I call my "tech hangover" to navigate how to move on, maybe convert this education into something of societal value beyond screens? Or am I being too cynical about everything and in reality it's all much better than I'm seeing it? Open for anything here really, but struggling with the status quo.

I wonder about this: how do people archive their information, especially photo and video data. I use an array of mirrored HDDs in different locations with everything on it, plus parts of it on a cloud hosting service. It isn't very convenient though and it seems there should be a better solution. How do people in here do it? Most solutions (for me) fall short on quick retrieval and possibility to visually browse photos.

I recently stumbled upon the word 'lakh' in the Indian number system meaning 100000 [1] , which according to Paul Thieme [2] may be related to the German word Lachs, for salmon, referring to the innumerable fish in a swarm. The way languages are connected in their histories while seeming so disparate today keeps fascinating me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh

“That is total political crap,” Cook fired back. He said he’d “love to bring it home” but doesn’t because “it would cost me 40%... and I don’t think that’s a reasonable thing to do. This is a tax code, Charlie, that was made for the industrial age, not the digital age. It’s backwards. It’s awful for America. It should have been fixed many years ago. It’s past time to get it done.” I'm a little insulted by the fact that Cook thinks it's up to him to decide whether or not his company should be paying taxes. Obviously they've found a loophole, but his phrasing suggests he's doing it for the greater good. Maybe if Apple and similar huge companies actually paid those 40% (I doubt it's that high a percentage) to government, public school could get more funding, etc. and the US wouldn't need as much philanthropy.

Projects like this are so fascinating to me. I saw an art piece once that consisted of a TV that rotated through all possible pixel combinations. Think about that for a second: at some point in time, it will display any possible image anyone could ever make or dream of (in that given format). Any person's face, any movie-frame, any written sentence, etc. So fascinating, the vastness of it all.

Yeah that's a good approach, thanks for the reply!

I'm missing some definitions here. Not sure if I didn't see something, but what are they assuming in terms of number of hours/week and what does "two-bedroom housing wage" mean: is this just the wage at x hours/week that allows you to rent the average 2BR or does it include some other kind of spending like food? Because what does it help if minimum wage pays for the apartment but I can't eat? On a different note, in relation to everyone asking why 2BR is important: please just imagine being a single parent with, say, 1-2 kids and a minimum wage job.

Wow, how can something like this happen? I thought airplanes had triple redundant software systems using 3-version programming [1] in order to avoid such bugs/problems. Can anyone familiar with flight technology shed some light on this?

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-version_programming

I'm not exactly an expert on search machine technology, so I'd be grateful if someone was so kind to help me out here:

I did a "conversational search" asking "what's an amazing voice" and Google returned a definition with a Youtube video of a woman singing. One of the comments simply says: "Amazing voice!" Why is this listed as a definition? What's happening here?