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| schestowitz | > Your statement could be called conventional wisdom. That is to say, it is | Oct 14 00:24 |
| schestowitz | > what we are taught to believe by people with a Pollyanna nature. | Oct 14 00:24 |
| schestowitz | I don't consider this to be conventional wisdom, but maybe it once was conventional wisdom. These days the young people are taught consumerism, materialism, etc. and I don't have a distance past point of reference to see if it was equally extreme a few decades ago. | Oct 14 00:24 |
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| schestowitz | > But deep in our hearts and in the back of our brain we know that failure | Oct 14 00:24 |
| schestowitz | > was of our own doing...either through lack of knowledge, blind enthusiasm, | Oct 14 00:24 |
| schestowitz | > unwarranted trust, overlooking the obvious, ignoring good advice, accepting | Oct 14 00:24 |
| schestowitz | > bad advice or 1000 other reasons, and we do not necessarily learn anything | Oct 14 00:24 |
| schestowitz | > from our mistakes. | Oct 14 00:24 |
| schestowitz | I am thinking mostly of career choices in this context. To some, losses of a spouse might seem more relevant. | Oct 14 00:24 |
| schestowitz | > Also, a false premise is... that someone with 50 years of experience is so | Oct 14 00:24 |
| schestowitz | > much smarter that a newbie. It could very well be that the guy with all the | Oct 14 00:24 |
| schestowitz | > experience stayed at the same level after the first year and continued to | Oct 14 00:24 |
| schestowitz | > function at that level for the next 49 years. | Oct 14 00:24 |
| schestowitz | It usually depends on what they achieve and by achievements I mean not wealth but maturity and inellect, which in few ways only correlate with money-making (usually more closely tied to ruthlessness, jealousy and competitiveness). | Oct 14 00:24 |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/sudhanwa/status/124561446976765954 | Oct 14 00:27 |
| TechrightsSocial | @sudhanwa: RT: @schestowitz: Dennis Ritchie was far more imp than Steve Jobs http://t.co/NOG4rYo7 achievements, not wealth #marathi #punetech #foss | Oct 14 00:27 |
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| schestowitz | https://identi.ca/notice/84570186 | Oct 14 00:27 |
| TechrightsSocial | @faither's status on Thursday, 13-Oct-11 15:15:26 UTC - Identi.ca: @schestowitz #Jobs is portrait a hero for putting people in jail and make them want to commit suicide. Something's so wrong in this world. | Oct 14 00:27 |
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| schestowitz | MinceR: RMS responded to me just now... | Oct 14 16:33 |
| schestowitz | > The people I mourne are those I had a close personal relationship | Oct 14 16:33 |
| schestowitz | > with. I didn't know Ritchie. I greatly admire freedom fighters, but | Oct 14 16:33 |
| schestowitz | > Ritchie wasn't one. | Oct 14 16:33 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 14 16:33 |
| schestowitz | > Any person's death is a tragedy, but this one doesn't cause me more | Oct 14 16:33 |
| schestowitz | > feelings than all the other deaths. | Oct 14 16:33 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 14 16:33 |
| schestowitz | > My feelings regarding Jobs are about his work, not about him | Oct 14 16:33 |
| schestowitz | > personally. What I said about Jobs was about his work. I could post | Oct 14 16:33 |
| schestowitz | > what I think of Ritchie's work, but it is a mixed bag, and I have no | Oct 14 16:33 |
| schestowitz | > particular reason to talk about it. It might be better if I don't. | Oct 14 16:33 |
| schestowitz | that's fair enough, I guess | Oct 14 16:33 |
| MinceR | indeed | Oct 14 16:33 |
| schestowitz | Th price of fresh commodities here seems to have just gone up. In Aldi, for instance, price of bread and eggs rose about 30% this month. | Oct 14 16:35 |
| qu1j0t3 | i'm not even sure 'any person's death is a tragedy' | Oct 14 16:36 |
| qu1j0t3 | it's an inevitability, that's for sure | Oct 14 16:36 |
| qu1j0t3 | death at 70 is hardly tragic | Oct 14 16:36 |
| qu1j0t3 | this plays into the north american insane fear of death, over-intervention, etc | Oct 14 16:36 |
| qu1j0t3 | death at 70 being hit by a bus is tragic | Oct 14 16:36 |
| qu1j0t3 | and yes we should mourn those who we have close relationships with, not fabricating mourning for strangers | Oct 14 16:37 |
| schestowitz | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15310066 | Oct 14 20:03 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: BBC News - Syria: Government forces capture weapons after fighting .::. Size~: 64.38 KB | Oct 14 20:03 |
| schestowitz | If US authorities confiscated one gun every second, it would still take decades to disarm the population | Oct 14 20:04 |
| qu1j0t3 | more guns than people | Oct 14 20:07 |
| qu1j0t3 | the effects are clear | Oct 14 20:07 |
| qu1j0t3 | another 8 dead in a shooting in Calif this week | Oct 14 20:08 |
| qu1j0t3 | one shooter | Oct 14 20:08 |
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