I wonder if there's any documentation of great panics around these.
I'd imagine the people of the time would think this was some sort of negative sign from their sun god (Horus) and madly prostrate or panic. I think it'd be abnormal for people to stare it as they'd be too afraid but that's just conjecture.
In it he explained how Civilization tested random negative events that could shape your world. He mentioned how this had a negative effect on the player experience and many times people would just grab a past save to avoid them IIRC.
>Agreed; the point of the game is to make you feel like a God.
I would actually disagree. There are plenty of power fantasies, most notably the spectacle fighter genre, which seek to make you feel powerful. Civ isn't about that.
Civ makes you feel purposeful. You nurture and grow your civilization, not for personal aggrandizement but for a feeling of progress and accomplishment. Your goal is not to be the most powerful ruler, but to have the greatest civilization. Human achievement and ambition is the theme of the game.
I'm a fan of the book "Win the Crowd: Unlock the Secrets of Influence, Charisma, and Showmanship" - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060742054
Written by Steve Cohen, a magician, on the subject of charisma and effective speaking to groups of people.
I personally believe that networking, at its core, is an exercise in effective speaking. The goal of it being to convince the other party you're interesting enough to warrant further conversations.
I'd say the main areas of personal development to increase networking ability would be:
- Effective speaking
- Charisma
- Interpersonal communication
- Strong personal interests
This is all my opinion but I think with those four elements anyone can succeed at networking with enough effort.
It's especially important to understand that a networking situation is a professional environment. I've networked with others before at events who immediately jump to some of the most inappropriate subjects and it just blows my mind. I think the prevalence of alcohol at these events leads people to that but it's just so unprofessional. I think if there's alcohol at a networking event people should just carry the same glass around all night. If you want people to listen to you being coherent and aware of social cues is key.
The last item is really just about having something to talk about. I was part of a coed business fraternity back in college and whenever we did pledge drives people would come to network with us to show their interest in joining. I remember how the ones who had the least to say seemed like they weren't doing anything outside of their subject of interest. Interests allow people to relate to others and gives them the ability to have something to say when communication has died down.
Again, just my personal opinion, and others may disagree which is fine. I grew up with social anxiety disorder which was so bad that I couldn't look at others in the eyes until late in high school without having anxiety attacks. I worked my way out of it by forcing myself into situations that made me uncomfortable and by looking into books like the one above to get ideas about how to communicate. The most important thing to do to become better at networking is to just go out and network -- nothing beats real experience.
Not sure if Amazon is just working through the remainder of their stock though if it is discontinued (they're listed as a seller on the right since some third part one is like a dime cheaper). I never was able to find the Microsoft dongle alone without the controller though so perhaps they did discontinue it.
Not a bad price for both the dongle and a controller though and always nice to have another one for when friends stop by for some Sonic Racing.
They'll probably always need some human around for liability reasons. That is unless the robot bartender is going to add some sort of breathalyzer component to see if people have had too much.
Also unless it's a club it likely would need to scan the person's ID and confirm whether or not the person was who the ID mentioned adding some complexity to the robot that otherwise wouldn't be required for just serving drinks.
The sysadmin person you mentioned could definitely take on that liability role in addition to anything else he needs to do to support the robot.
There's also the self employment tax to consider for contractors working for themselves in the US.
Employers pay 7.65% and you pay 7.65%. If you're on your own in addition to the income tax you have to pay you also need to pay the whole 15.3% of it. To compare salaries between a person working for themself and someone working for a company it should be taken into account since it's a big chunk of the money you're making.
I was sort of spitball including that in there in my calculations, but yes. This is an important thing for people to understand when dealing with or becoming a contractor/freelancer.
I think that a lot of people don't realize things like this when they do their back of the napkin calculations for freelancers/contractors. $50/hour != $100k salary.
In addition to assumptions of napkin salaries, the numbers could work in a place with very low taxes (10% on profit under a few hundred thousand), or friendlier contractor taxation locales, like Canada where you can do some reasonable income splitting between personal and corporation expenses.
It says he wasn't on the original occupancy as he wasn't born when the paperwork was originally handled but was one when the building was finished and moved in. He claims when he tried to get on it in the past via his mother the coop stalled until she was dead.
Since this will probably be the last time a comment of mine appears in HN due to the new system I figured I'd give my take on it.
I'm someone who doesn't join in threads pretty often; I'll chime in if I find the topic to be something I'm interested in but my ignorance to most other matters leaves me from wanting to join into threads because of a fear of people piling on negative responses or "schooling" me in terms of the topic at hand.
I don't submit new articles because most things I'm interested in are discovered by more well connected individuals so I'm usually late the party so my score is relatively low despite how long I've lurked.
I'm fearful this new system discourages my participation further; if I don't add some insightful comment or my ignorance of a topic causes others to question whether my opinion is worth discussing I'll be kept from participating because I haven't built up a score. I won't even have the chance to join future conversations because my comments will be pending so until someone decides my opinion has merit I'll be censored from joining into other aspects of an article.
I may not be the most social of the HN folks here on the board but I do like to join into conversations when the topic is of interest to me. I guess this sort of system just makes me feel unwelcome because I'm being punished for not joining in earlier.
Even the most negative comments incite conversation; a person who may have an unwelcome opinion or whose ignorance prevents them from understanding a topic can learn from discussions based off their response.
I understand the reasoning for this and I think, for the most part, it'll help keep the comments section fairly civil. I'm just worried by solving this issue you're throwing away a part of the community who haven't had a chance to prove ourselves over time. I'm regretful I haven't spent time building up my karma in retrospect.
Why wouldn't your comments get endorsed and be seen as much as anyone else's?
Have you perhaps misunderstood the karma restriction to mean that people with less karma will have their comments be less visible? That's not the idea.
The problem isn't that I think my comments won't be endorsed. It's more I'll self censor my comments that I think would be less popular because I'd be afraid if I'm censored I wouldn't have a chance to join in future conversations until someone would agree with me.
If I release more popular opinions by the majority I'll be instantly accepted and have a chance to further join in conversations. From a gaming perspective the correct choice to better adapt to the system would be for me to always speak to the majority to increase my odds of being accepted until I am part of the elite caste of folks who can vote.
You're missing two important facts: first, that your pending comment eventually (after 24 hours) expires of its own accord, and second, that you can always delete the comment if it's taking too long and holding you up on a better comment you could have written.
In reading a thread (say, over the course of 5-15 minutes), I will often want to post comments at various points. Because I am not in a popular HN timezone, if I needed to wait for comments to be endorsed, I would find this seriously frustrating. Waiting and checking to see if a comment had been approved would be a huge time sink.
Edit: I think that limit has been lifted to five now.
I'm on some Walmart T-Mobile plan. I heard about the plan after getting my Nexus 4 so went to a local T-Mobile store and asked them if they could give it to me as a new customer and they did.
$30 monthly, 100 minutes, unlimited texts, unlimited data with the first 5 GB at 4G speeds.
I mean the 100 minutes bit is a bit nasty as all minutes are rounded up so even a 1 second incoming call I pick up counts against a whole minute. I rarely go over the limit though and usually just throw an extra $10 in the account to deal with it if I go over.
My fiance has the same plan and uses her tethering for her Apple TV Projector setup in the art class she teaches since her school wifi is pretty bad. You get a small amount of free tethering with the plan but it's only $15 for unlimited tethering in addition.
I'd imagine the people of the time would think this was some sort of negative sign from their sun god (Horus) and madly prostrate or panic. I think it'd be abnormal for people to stare it as they'd be too afraid but that's just conjecture.