Yawn 44

Dec 15 - Dec 25

Awake. New mistakes uncovered before bed. Newer mistakes uncovered after. Shower. Enforce feeding. Start fixing things.

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Planning for the day. A great many tasks to mop up. Insufficiently impressive week, and quarter, track record. So, additional food inputs are being factored in.

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1. Remind self that is a good day to die, to generate stimulus.
2. Plan day.
3. Execute 2., with regular revision of 1.
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And people wonder how I get things done. Firstly, not a lot actually gets done. Secondly, at least some gets done. Thirdly, the only thing stopping anyone from hitting that lower bound is an absence of excitation from the prospect of discovering how their lives will end.
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I think people who are stimulated by food, travel, empathy, and other such phenomena, have it easy in that their cohort is broadly understood. The rest of us just examine them and ask, "why do you not [find these things predictable, easy to imagine in fullest detail], such that they are exciting as objects of pursuit?"

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Thinking about the nature of entropy. If one inconveniences oneself, it is easy to encapsulate the problem. If others inconvenience oneself, there appears a looseness of certainty with regards to the underlying cause to the source of inconvenience. I currently practice a mode of analysis which buckets these threats (business terminology: any external source of weakness is a threat, any internal threat is a weakness) into (a) laziness, (b) stupidity, or (c) malice. Regardless of (a, b, c), Machiavellian realism requires that we send messaging that the underlying cause is (b), most of the time, along with constructive advice on how to repair (b).
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The reason is, (a) cannot be easily fixed via external impetus, and (c) is not internally coherent with cooperative behaviour. By the time certainty clears (b) off the table, decisive action must be taken against (a) and (c), which tends to be unassistable by negotiation.
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Hehehe. I know, many who would quibble with this approach.

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Discussions on boredom are fun. I often get comments from people about how bored I am at my current job. But they don't seem to understand that my 20-year arc is driven entirely by boredom. On a scale of 0 to a 100, where boredom is maximum at 100, I generally decide what happens in my life by choosing between events on the 60 to 80 scale. So maybe 70 is the mean, and the standard deviation is like, between 5 and 10. That is to say, if you're a woman and scoring 50 boring points, I consider you someone I'd like to talk to forever, possibly the love of my life. As for why people don't get me, I think on such a linear scale, many people are scaled to a mean of 30-50, and they have standard deviations from 10 to 15...

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Enforced feeding and bed.

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So what's the cheapest legal, non-charity, way to get controlled drugs in Malaysia? Doctors consultation fees add a RM20-50 tax on to the price of any item you can find in a pharmacy, to treat basic infections of various kinds. Sometimes you'll find the pharmacy prices are somewhat higher than the consumer pricing guide on pharmacy.gov.my.

Ada jalan?

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One day, I will have a phone that run Instagram. One day, I will have a car, that can run my business until it pays me a wage, that can afford a phone, that can support the Google My Business Android app. #gonewiththespin

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Anyone looking into disrupting or rationalising the following in Malaysia?

- doctors writing controlled drug prescriptions
- doctors selling controlled drugs
- pharmacists selling controlled drugs without prescription
- market-based pricing of controlled drugs
- consumer price checking for controlled drugs
- reporting of regulatory non-compliance
- blockchain tracking of controlled drug import, manufacture, distributor pricing, retail pricing, prescription protocol, and transactions

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I like efficient regulations that minimise corporate profit taking at the expense of tax payers. Issues like the distribution of WHO Essential Medicines need to solved at national scale. This isn't the 1930s where we have to depend on a free market that hasn't discovered the Internet and global logistics. :)

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When are they going to invent energy weapons that move faster than bullets? And stop pissing on imperial stormtroopers... clearly every bad guy with a gun is just comic relief fodder. All the empowerment of black and brown and female people, and the scriptwriters still couldn't find a better punching bag. Well, by the time you notice that Mera comes of Merida's stock, you also think about how a piece of art is either enticing in and of itself (this is only slightly), or interesting as an addition to the continuum of art history (more this, than that). Biff, bam, boom, it's Adam West and the frogmen. She kills a TV, and faints like Jeannie...

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Adib is dead. Long live racial politicking among the peoples of Malaysia.

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Let's see how this takes to leak.

“The PDRM has warned that it is illegal to make known (sexual crime data) as it could cause anxiety and would not help in controlling the situation.

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I always believe in top-down approaches to mate-fitting, so I do a lot of leg-work. Sometimes it involves reviewing over a hundred profiles a day. It's a bit of a slog, but over the years, I've found it quite rewarding :) I guess I'm a... picky fucker... :-S

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The "create" button on the header:
'This is the most important UI improvement to Facebook I've seen in years. Top-level functionality. Good win, guys. I'll bet traction is up?

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I think we need to take precautions against a government that chooses to defend the rights of a deity which cannot speak for itself.

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Still not dead. But how will it die? An ongoing curiosity. Soon, time to enforce waking.

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The last six to eight months have been a good exercise in civic engagement. Perhaps, as the environment regresses gradually to business as usual, I should return my modus operandi to less lofty enterprise. Also, I have been sick for two months, while also nursing a friend, and this is beginning to take its toil on my cognition. I am looking forward to finding out how it ends. But none of this is anything, but ordinary business. Mostly the sort I am willing to afford myself. Perhaps a reduced allocation of interest in finding intelligence, and an increased allocation in developing it, will be timely. Perhaps.

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Every day, I wonder if I should incur the wrath of my stakeholders, and generally I decide that the definition of civility which I prefer, is to be kind to people regardless of how foolish they are. Especially when you are in control of your shared environment, and they have only wrath and squealing to offer. #totd #lifeinthetrenches #commerce

By the way, is that chap in the sticker... touching himself?

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Speed is difficult, while paying for the sins of the slow. Can't avoid slow people, without being mean in general, so better to encapsulate their weaknesses, and to work around them. Increases to efficiency may vary. After all, the best merely survive, and the worst fail. That is, if we remove all unnecessary excitement from the system. Put all the bombs in boxes. Hopefully you get containment and not an IED. Of course, supervised detonation in an open area is preferred.

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Briefly reviewing the sadness which I reserve for entities which seek their purpose in patterns of tea leaves. I mean this in the context of imputed patterning, with regards to the geometries of things observable. Aha, so-called humans witht their elevated rights are all too similar to tea leaves then... we all simply see how the crowd moves, and we decide on our interventions.

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Time to enforce feeding, and a review of priorities. Nothing exceptional. Just a return to neglected daily routines. But you know how tactical priorities are - they come out of nowhere.

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Every five minutes, a rejoiner, to check for incoming threats and weaknesses. Do we die first from:
- regulators
- machine failure
- meat failure
- incoming projectiles
- adverse contract counterparties
- slow business
- laziness

? There is only one of these which is easy to resolve.

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"how do you love someone so different from yourself?"
"what? you ah? ok, the real reason is probably "most people look the same to me.""
🙊
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This observation is not intended to function as relationship advice.

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"It is rare to see you display such emotion."
"Do not be misled by rhetoric. If you are an actor, you are supposed to cry. If you are a lobbyist, you are an actor.
If you are a business owner, and you talk about politics, then you are a lobbyi$t."

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I usually require myself to let staff mess things up x% of the time. Letting supervisors mess things up x% results in x^2% of time under mess, so... I rarely train supervisors. But when we do, I get less sleep. I do wonder if letting even higher levels of decision makers results in higher exponents of mess. x^3% or x^4% anyone? #agoge

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Time for a snack, and back to work. Hi ho.

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The worst case scenario is that Masz actually believes in violent subversion of non-Muslim religious belief. I will make a comment on how the best case scenario is more neutral, and leave it you to pin him on the map. Lol.

There is in English, a similar ambiguity to the words "mission", and "ministry", which can be applied very specifically to mean "to further the cause of providing help, via religious proselytisation." But also, there is a more general sense in which missions and ministries can simply refer to, "the cause of providing help in general."

Referring to the etymology (word origin) of [Da‘wah (also daawa, daawah or dakwah[1][2]; Arabic: دعوة‎ "invitation")], it is indeed often used to refer to the invitation for someone to study the practices of the Islamic narrative of what exists in the world, and of how we should act in the world. But in the more general sense, it can refer to a general invitation to study the nature of the world, and how we should live in it.

While these are two separate things, they are often confused inside the heads of people. This is an intentional and common vaguary among people who believe intuitively in "right ways to do things," because they strongly believe that there is ultimately one right way, even if they can't articulate it in detail. This pattern is viewable in people with ethical intuitions from any worldview, theist or otherwise.

The real mistake that Masz makes, as a person who relies heavily on his own intuitions, is that his language is not sufficiently polished for deployment in the secular sphere. Very few people would take issue with a Muslim man in a meeting of Muslim people, if he used Arabic words to invite other Muslims to spread civic consciousness and science in general. But using exactly the same words, and intentions, as a Muslim man in a religiously plural meeting, he lost a third of his audience.

Needs more media training.

11Dec: Parliamentary comment (https://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/sabah-churches-alarmed-maszlee-medan-095541843.html)

20Dec: Follow up comment on comment (https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/12/21/i-was-urging-them-to-have-integrity-maszlee-clarifies-miscontrued-statement/)

It remains irresponsible to assert that anyone knows what Masz actually means - but it is responsible for all of us to assert that there are a few things we do not want, and that a public official must be careful to avoid those things.

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Grandmaster is not yet irrevelent. Hehehe
(kit siang threatening to yank DAP from Harapan)

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Awake. Parts of myself have recuperated. For example, I now gain limited benefit from active attempts to dream. This means that I am getting enough sleep.
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My normal practice since college has been to actively avoid remembering dreams from being stored in conscious memory. This helps to keep I (my conscious self) from being distracted from real world concerns. I say, "remembering," because I am not sure that it is possible to turn off the activity of dreaming - but I am sure it is possible to not remember dreaming, because the latter is the result of my normal practice.
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However, when generally deprived of sleep, I may wake before my subsconscious cognitions have returned to a high degree of operation. In response to diminished conscious cognitive ability, I may force myself to consciously participate in the dream behaviours of the mind (engage with short term memory), as that seems to correlate with longer sleep, and then increased degrees of operation in subconscious memory, or access from conscious memory to subconscious memory, from the point of view of conscious memory.

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Do you fear loss? I was talking to a friend who fears losing his friends, because his friends fear things they do not understand.

Either we never meet new people, never fall in love, never feel pain from loss, or we must enjoy pain. Haha

It's fun watching people stop at each level of outcome.

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Siti Kassim's theory of mob fights is amusing to read. Can't comment on her posts, so I'll just make a note that I read some of those. Bruh, do you even mob? Aside: bruh, do you even hit people? The whole point of intentional hitting is to cause maximum damage with minimum effort, not to flail your attacks and pat the target on his hands, or on the shoulder...

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I'm all about minimum CAC, moderate ARPU, and minimum LTV.

(ok, ok, I'm hiding LTV)

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Altria is on a buying spree. What to do when you're cash rich and the markets are down?

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Tun & Masz.

I do wonder how much Tun leads Masz into saying this or that, before he goes out and throws the new boy under a bus every so often ;)

Or do they have rational debates on policy as equals, whereby Masz decides to do his own thing, and then gets slapped back into place? ;)

Option 3: they both know exactly what's going on, and have scripted practice three weeks in advance of the media circus.

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I have a data structure proposal for Facebook. This would really save me time from making the same dumb-ass comment on every share of the same dumb-ass URL that I encounter, in the process of countering dumb-ass comments from dumb-asses other than myself. Roughly:
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1. Every time a URL is Shared as a link, Facebook should store all Shares of that URL under a Canonical Object.
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2. Comments on the URL should be stored under the Canonical Object; each User is allowed only one Canonical Comment on the Canonical Object.
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3. When you share the URL anywhere (as a Post or Comment), you should be able to tick a box that captions the Share with your Canonical Comment on the Canonical Object.
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4. When User comments on any Share, User should be able to click a button and link in User's Canonical Comment on the Canonical Object.
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5. User may make further comments on the Shares.

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Of all people, the SPORTS minister can't demontrate team formation.

Then agan, you know, it's quite feasible that the entire PPBM posse is orchestrating its mass comms with great intentionality 🙃 I can see Syed, Masz, Tun, & co. having a good weekly laugh about which message to troll on next. But wtv....

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I realise from 20 years of data that I am not happy with the use of a Medium toothbrush. I want to trade back to a Hard. But I have five unused Medium brushes in stock :(

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After a whole day of cutting and pasting menus, I'm ready for something that isn't handicraft. However, that is the job. :)

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I like how we can probe and prod for weakness at a natural system for years, until a critical deficiency is found, and then it writes off the entire study.


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This is a problem with the tax structure. I work in the industry. I have done a cursory study of the problem. It is not well-regulated.
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Restaurants are motivated to add "services charges" which are SST-free (the service charge is not taxed for service tax?). Yes, you read that right. Other non-core revenues may be SST-free, which while efficient in theory, is not well implemented at the level of criteria for audit. That's all I can see from my point of view.
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My own business is too small to be SST-taxable. Why is this even an option? Now every large restaurant has an incentive to smurf their operations into smaller companies.

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Blame whoever you like for inflation. I'm blaming QE3...

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That's one helluva bogey today. What next?

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The remarkable paradox of analytical phenomenology is this:
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Every conscious experience is deemed quantifiable if it can be mapped to a geometric form. There are specific approaches pertaining to smells, tastes, etc. - the short story is that they are mappable to sounds, and sounds are mappable to quantities without question. So if you get good at this, then no conscious experiences ever seems original - they are all seemingly derivative of some qualia arranged in a specific geometry. The only things that seem original are geometric definitions which have not been articulated before. So you end up studying only geometry.
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But if you, as most people, cannot map smells to sounds, and all sensations to a common minimal set of qualia - then regardless of the geometric articulation, you regard each massive arrangement of sensations as unique. Then you become a student of food, or travel, or fashion, or cars, or watches, or whatever clumsy composition of patterns it is that you care to brain, and use in your daily language.
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And so we can say, that they who think of all things as quantities will find quantities to be qualitatively distinct... and that they who think of certain sets of things as qualities will find qualities to be quantifiably distinct.
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Erm. Yeah. That's all for now, folks. 😪😛


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20 years on, I still think General Artificial Intelligence research is interesting like flower arrangement is interesting.

But trying to run a restaurant startup is more in the ballpark of "shit, we are doomed," every morning, kinda interesting...

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I suppose, if you find people to be unique and exciting entities, then GAI is a really interesting problem.

But if you find people to be unfailingly boring and predictable, then the generation of intrigue must come from scaling up the study of one, to a study of sending dozens against thousands, and against the elemental markets, in real time, just for the hell of seeing if you can beat the odds...

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In either case, one is likely to work hard, mostly thanklessly, have few friends, perhaps an absent or complicated love life, fall ill, and die of boredom anyway. But, well, that's probably why one picks the job that pays better. Always follow the money.

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Many people who argue about religous truth miss the boat: the arguments are (a) about which set of language to use, to best describe the world, not (b) about what exists in the world, or (c) about how to act in the world.

Longer exposition not available due to time constraints.

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Merry Xmas, panda, wherever you are.

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(comment) I'd really like a redelineation of ministerial responsibilities:
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1. There SHOULD be a "Penerangan / Propaganda / Public Relations" DEPARTMENT just to specialise in making the message of the CABINET coherent; individual ministries should be banned from issuing their own press releases; this should totally aim to sync up messaging on a calendar with news cycles, and reduce cross-talk.
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2. There should be a MINISTRY of Constitutional Liberties (which covers the secular / Islam balance of language), which should have a DEPARTMENT of speech freedoms which has someone issuing the cabinet's take on what words mean what, and what's encouraged and what's discouraged, without escalating the language to "bans" (in most cases).
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3. There should be a MINISTRY of Information Sciences & Technologies, which basically functions like a value-adding IT department business partner to the country.
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4. I like how the MINISTRY of science and environmental concerns are tied together for the time being, though this is not necessary - we have a good complement there.
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Right now it seems like Gobind gets 2, 3, mashed together, and we see the anti-thesis of 1. throughout cabinet activities...


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What motivation have I found, to fuel myself through the upcoming work day? Only a reminder that weaknesses of character must be annihilated. 😁
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(Group) Just another work day for me. 😋 0538hrs now, haven't slept yet. Dropping a friend home, breakfast, wash up, then 0930-2230 peddling brown water, data entry, and indoctrinating recently added labour in the mores of our chores. 😴

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Dec 25, 2018, 9:14 PM
#til what is a warkah

Edit: Mujahid's epistle is either the latest example of a troll cabinet led by the prime troll himself, or today's greatest piece of accidental art...

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cohl furey is my new crush