QA in services is a matter of endless tutoring. :)
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No sleep yet. Enforced shower, workout, feeding, accounts, design, investor relations, machine monitoring, gogogo...
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If they capitulate by one day on the cigarette ban, I promise to vote against Harapan in the next GE.
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If they capitulate by one day on the cigarette ban, I promise to vote against Harapan in the next GE.
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Hardship porn: All I have to say is, if you don't enjoy the hustle, then get out of the porn business.
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I've been coming to this SBUX for a decade now.
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"gorton is god" - wait, is Lime still Mike?
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On regulators inspecting Snap for insufficient pre-IPO disclosure: Really? How about you go after GRPN as well lol...
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Nov 14
Short AMZN now. 15Nov market opening price. Buy and return stocks within 12 months. I have no material interest. Just curious.
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Am I the only one that thinks co-working space branding has turned into social club branding. And given that social club marketing is a negative sum game, we're just waiting to see what happens?
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Forum polemics. US (and generally) politics in a nutshell (or, "why it's good to put bad people into office, every now and then"):
- the argument elaborated sounds roughly like this;
- butter up a large mass of snowflakes, of the type that respond well to short term incentives;
- take votes in the short term;
- take away long term wealth from snowflakes, and most of the apathetic middle;
- use short term votes, to put long term structures into place to ensure that snowflakes don't "see it coming", and that by the time they do, someone else will take the hit for future short term losses;
- long term gains then accrue only among those who put policies into place; in fact, by the time those gains accrue, it doesn't look like they did it because they're not working in policy anymore;
- both (all) parties are doing this, they just differ on which snowflakes to bully 😛;
- the point about "it's good to have bad people in public office," comes back here: they all go bad eventually, so it's better to force them to play musical chairs such that bullying is more evenly distributed across different types of snowflake in the long run.
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Empowerment: Delegate, and then standby to provide upon failure... an option to improve, refund, or leave. ✋
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Well, taking it to the necessary conclusions, I look forward to a ban on male circumcisions in Malaysia - SJWs, over to you.
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Context:
(1) Minister misquoted by press - furor ensues.
(2) Some documentation with pointers to sources (unverified).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_female_genital_mutilation_by_country#Malaysia
https://orchidproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Malaysia-Final.pdf
(3) Pasting my comment from elsewhere:
"By some accounts, the quantity and quality of tissue removed in the majority of Malaysian female circumcision cases is equivalent to a male foreskin circumcision. Unverified, undocumented, unquantified.
FGM is a blanket term for any tissue removal.
MoH has a guideline for female circumcision in Malaysia. I have not read it.
My dataset is very small, I know nothing more.
🖖"
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Further further thoughts from another conversation (mostly paraphrased):
So I was talking to my friend. She thinks pedophilia can be framed as a health problem, but not as a public health problem. "It has to affect thousands-to-millions of people, before we should allocate resources to address it in a structural manner."
Hello, I'll leave it to the career activists and SJWs to argue that there is quantifiably widespread negative impact due to structural patriarchy, toxic masculinity, macro/micro-aggressions, reported/ unreported harassment, and straightforward abuse - they have better data and political will, until such time as I decide to write a proper thesis on this.
I think overarchingly my view is that we tend to cluster ideas like [crime / free will / individual agency / the justice system / good and evil] together, but separately from ideas like [culture / systemic pedagogy / determinacy / medicine / biology]. Whereas I see these as two lenses upon an information system (which is my prefered paradigm, for most things). So, when I look at the discourse around crime and public health, I see an inefficient segregation of these two clusters of language.
[... trying to remember what else was discussed... ]
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IIRC the first time I ever noticed that 1MDB was doing dodgy stuff, it was when Ananda Krishnan made an unusual premium on the sale of some power plants to the fund... in 2012. AK then stuck around and provided a mini-loan to 1MDB a little while later, before the stories went elsewhere. Whatever happened to all that?
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I have RM7 cash-back vouchers to hand out to anyone, for food and beverage in Petaling Jaya. Due to the volatile nature of the Internet, we have to do this offline.
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It should only take me a year to build drones that speak, listen, take orders, coach staff, and monitor customers... given how much of the heavy lifting can be outsourced to the cloud... anyone wanna pay someone else to do my existing job for me?😛
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The purpose of education public policy is to manufacture individuals that are able to operate the state. It's great to see parents and teachers looking out for pedagogical improvements, but let's not forget the overarching machinery: if any individual reaches voting age, without practical knowledge of how laws are made, of how they are interpreted, and of how to twist and break undesirable structures of the state, then that individual underutilises its function of citizenship.
;)
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The first rule of customer service, is that the customer is king. The second rule of customer service, is that the staff is the kingmaker.
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"Make the national education curriculum the purvey of an independent commission, by act of parliament."
(Someone sent me a form for submitting suggestions to the Ministry of Education's CRM.
From recent conversations, the first cogent suggestion I could think of was... )
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The baseline exit strategy for all infrastructure businesses is nationalisation.
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People keep trying to define information systems in terms of mathematics, when instead they should be doing it the other way around. Ok, fine, some circularity is involved, but I stand by the gist of it. 😛
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TIL #seranganmakcikmakcikbawang
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Well, I do spend most of my time vacuuming floors and arranging furniture. 🤔
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WHO Model List of Essential Medicines - Wikipedia
Need to memorise this:
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On the second half of Watergate.
Insightful review: a reminder that in the days of Mahathir's youth, and early premiership, corruption was de rigeur in international commerce. The Americans moved on, but Malaysians had the same boss for thirty years, and he didn't learn fast enough. Now he has had to come back to fix up.
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"I don't believe in royalty, because I don't believe that winning the genetic lottery should bequeath anyone with special rights."
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"Come, let us take this down the slippery slope of in-group/out-group identity...
... by the same argument there are people who fight for open borders, i.e. no one should have exclusive rights to any state-centric privilege just by winning the "genetic" lottery (in both your case and this one, we're probably both referring to happenstance class-by-birthright: royalty, citizenship, human rights...)
... and by the same argument: human rights should be accorded to all objects, too. "
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Marketing discussion: Oh god, what now? Only way to find out is to get out of bed...
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Reviewed the origin timelines of Gap, Hilton, McDonald's, and KFC after discussing consumer branding in a conversation on project timelines. Ho hum.
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Discussing immigration policy? I see your troll, and I raise you a point of governance: most civilians are not equipped with the data, or the political authority, to design and implement an economy's immigration policy. We can lean left or right on empathy, but it's quite faffy without the ability to operationalise a solution. But also people disagree on the role of citizens' sentiment in a republic such as the US or MY so oh whatever...
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Enforced waking. Enforced feeding. Enforced work, and generally enforced swatting of colleagues who encourage slacking. 😊
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First, they funded the taxis, and I did nothing because I thought traffic optimisation and nationalisation were both exceedingly old and boring problems with existing well-practiced solutions.
Then, they funded the bicycles, and I did nothing because I already had a bike.
Then, they funded the battery scooters, and I did nothing because this was another dumb as shit business model.
Then I tried to raise money, and there was no funding left for me...
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Also, posting legal information online could get you in trouble with people who don't like laws.
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From forum:
The current mom-and-pop co-working surge is going to deflate slightly, pretty much like most trendy bubbles. The less competitive 30% of outlets founded in 2018 will probably fold within a year of operations (changing business model counts towards this for the purpose of discussion).
The economics of co-working spaces in Malaysia haven't changed much since Fluentspace was kicking it in 2008 (?). A provider needs to collect RM600/desk/month... a user wants to pay RM300/desk/month.
The hard game is tweaking the quality of the amenity being rented. You can automate, use self-service, and prettify the finishings, and thereby increase capex to cut opex.
You can aim to boost volume (not price) by marketing a space using the next lowest-common denominator talking point: building a community that provides network equity (connections, friends, help) to its members, but all organisations should be doing this anyway.
In brief:
Co-working spaces that do not handle nutrition find it hard to take revenue away from coffee shops, because the cheapskate M40 user doesn't want a huge bill for food AND rent combined. Instead, the market being eroded is the whole-unit-office rental as observed by other commentors - people stop renting large spaces, because now it is easy to rent nice small spaces. But people who were paying zero in rent are not going to start paying a lot of rent just for network effects - usually, they are already curating their networks for free. Sure, some people will want a place to leave their stuff overnight - co-working spaces will help them too, as long as the spaces are also easily accessible by time and location from the user's residence.
At the end of the day, co-working spaces seeking to eke out margins will get into the provision of residences, gyms, laundries, and sundry goods. This is a natural progression.
Disclaimer: I don't run a co-working space, but I do run a restaurant that competes with co-working spaces for users. I tell staff that they have to behave like it is a hotel, because that is the long game, and sometimes the hipsters cannot brain it. Too bad for them 😛
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If I may weigh in with my usual spiel on the Darwin Awarded missionary... I'm not concerned about his religion much at all. What does seem to make me happy, is that there's one less person in the world driven to great lengths by intuited emotional motivations. I'd be just as humoured if he was an atheist looking for a selfie... ultimately, none of these people are very different from those of us in the middle. We all do what is right in our eyes, as long as we have breath.
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On consumer reports saying that prices are up:
Just great, in the month I cut prices lagi...😛
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"Causing death with intent to kill is bad, regardless of what one thinks life is."
"I have the same non-esteem of people who take for fundamental values things they read in a book, heard from someone else, or looked at in the world and simply decided was good. Basically, I prefer fundamentalist amorality to fundamentalist morality. :) Whereby of course the former is a sort of the latter, but wtf."
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Most of the time these day, my daily question mark is whether to keep my thoughts to myself so that I don't get distracted by people asking for attention, or to speak my thoughts more aggressively to remind people that they are foolish in their demands.
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Apparently, if I live another three years, I will have been retired for half my life... 🤔 ... why do I even bother? Guess it's still in the genes and culture to stay alive. Usually, I just say, curiosity.
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Cross-disciplinary martial arts fights should be banded by body weight, and possibly strength and agility also. Otherwise potentially meaningless. Who wants to see a young punk TKO an old man and claim it is a point of techne? Boring.
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Eww. Mouldy ice cream. (Not my business. But I want a refund.)
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IT IS TIME for me to start pretending that I care about food, by writing snarky food reviews on restaurants. Because, well, if you know, you know. And if you don't, then just presume I have reasons. 😛
(I never actually get around to this...)
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Why are there so many dumb shits trying to make things look two hundred years old? In another hundred years it'll be quaint to see humans running around with vacuum cleaners, manual light switches, etc. Stop wasting money on the past. You're already here... :P
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Thermal overload relay motherfucker. #pretendstounderstandself
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Talking about talent management with startup peeps.
"Case in point. Lol.
Today I had one staff getting off shift at 6:30pm, one at 7:00pm. Two others getting on shift at 5:30pm.
I give them each, individually, and as a group, instructions for a logistical task (move A, clean B, etc until Z). I do this in an almost fire and forget fashion, because I believe that people have to fuck up before they will be motivated to learn. I drop a few reminders along the way, as things don't seem to be moving.
So there are four staff. 6:30pm rolls around and the first one leaves. The other three are having coffee. 7pm rolls around and they are still refusing to ask for help. 7:30pm I come back from feeding myself, and find the second guy leaving.
The third and fourth guys are all gloved up and wrestling with objects. No one is serving customers. Bear in mind we run a REAL TIME operation, like a meat web server. So I have to break them up, send the senior back to the production line (bar), and leave the junior to continue, with me assisting him. The senior is informed that he fucked up badly, but that he needs to make sure that customers are babied, and that the junior is babied, because the junior is going to be exhausted by the time he finishes the extraordinary work. (We have turned off the kitchen production line due to this logistical emergency, and so ordinary business is now at half-tilt.)
Ordinary business is supposed to have two fresh workers at this hour. So instead of having two worn out workers, they have to be ordered to specialise in a fresh/worn pair configuration.
But this is not surprising. It is merely disappointing. Ah, life at the bottom of the pyramid...
😂 "
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I remain disappointed that so many people care that some bloke pissed off some people and that the latter killed him. No worries, world, I'm sure I disappoint you too.
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The reengineering of racial tensions is a bit too obvious with this one. Goto tactic in Malaysian politics.
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Maszlee posting Linkin Park lyrics:
As much as his press management is weak, I applaud this as a pretty epic trolling.
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Daily review. Awake. Only slightly ill. (Probably, more hungry than ill.) Much work remains undone. Enforced rising, shower, and food, then work.
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MAS needs to hang Josh Cahill out to dry. If there is an acceptance of his claims, a public statement must be produced in full. If there was a fradulent claim (and current information suggests there may have been many), then there must be lawsuits for defamation.
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Nothing like off-key karaoke rehearsals at club volume, from kept-women housemates, to get one out of bed. Lol.
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I think the natural progression from Haskell is to Rust...
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Ah, more crap. But that is the human condition, so as long as one works with humans, one only expects as much.
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What's the white version of an ABG?
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Math prodigy says he can't deal with highschool: Sorry kid, I was smart too. You can't wait for the others to lead you. You have to lead them. Now quit yer griping because it makes you sound like a pan lookin for a handout...
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Subang temple: Well, this is either the greatest theatre since May 13, or an upgrade.
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You all need to stop getting offended.
Get a lawyer lah...
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Being bedridden is really boring. But that's the nature of enforced rest. Enforced feeding in a bit!
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There are few things more amusing than being generally unimpressed by the world, and being berated for it by people who are only selectively unimpressed with the world. 🤔 I have been giving consideration to my peers who are enamoured by little gains in life, a meal here, a gift there, or an interaction of this or that kind - and generally I feel saddened by the small scope of their impressability. Of course, I believe they would be generally saddened in symmetrical form by my lack of appreciation for the things which amuse them. But such is society, we all find different things valuable, and so we assert our efforts accordingly.
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On the automation of labours.
I was talking to a friend about business today. People who talk to me about my work seem to find restaurants inherently interesting. It takes them a while to brain that I have no long-term interest in restaurants as a human activity. And while I believe restaurants and retail are always going to get more and more mashed up until we all live in resorthotelmalls, I have no long term interest in retail as a human activity, either. *
Retail is dying - we have all known this for a decade, but some of us choose to procrastinate about the impending fate of these jobs. As alien as it may seem to most civilians, the rudimentary interaction between human beings in casual settings, the gist of personalised service, is ridiculously easily automated. The oldest profession, the encultured gestures, the flirty melodies of speech, the diversity of human personalities - these will all be automated at fractions of the cost of human labour in the present. To cut a long argument short, skipping moreover the demonstration of robots that break the Turing test, consider this: interactions with service staff are often such that the service receiver classifies the service provider as the least complex of human interactors, having the lowest value of all their daily human interactions. The expectations for humans in the service sector are the lowest that we place upon humans in any business. This is why their jobs will quickly be eradicated. **
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(* Why I would bother to run an operation that I have no inherent interest in, is simply because (i) I view it as a means to the end of building a long-term interest in being a service provider to restaurants or the neologismic (and neologistical!) resorthotelmall, (ii) as a business owner, I would not want to outsource my supply chain to someone who hadn't demonstrated a comprehensive understanding of my value chain and operations.
** Don't ask me what what we're going to use the humans for unless you want to discuss other business models. Lol. Maybe we should leave it to the politicians - but probably not.)
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Probably controversial. 🙃
But worth addressing at the MoE level because Tun has spent so many years using the word "lazy" in public, that it is taken for granted as part of Malaysian culture. He got it from a Brit...
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Can we teach Maszlee's office to talk this? Been a fan of Muhyiddin's FB posts since his post-GE13 address to UMNO members. Well-structured. Keep it up.
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Today I lost a lover, and it made me very sad. But sadness is basic, and generally I do not make a fuss about it, because, it is so common. Work however, never ends...
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... back to common problems. Is it now the best hour to sleep, or work? Hmm.
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Healthcare systems doing daily, three layers of huddles in 45 minutes:I don't want to hear people say it can't be done for large organisations again...
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Anyone actually manage to get > 200mbps down on Unifi?
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On MBS's claims to innocence:
TBH, I would believe either party at this point. I reflect upon my role as a boss in the services industry, and OMG, sometimes you ask for something from a staff, and look at what comes back with complete incredulity.
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Next extra-curricular preoccupation: Might be worth having parliament pass better laws and protocol agencies on (a) anonymous letters (b) slanderous comments posted online (c) whistle dick blowing. Hehehe...
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I agree with the support of victims who feel disempowered to complain. And lowering the cost of complaint without compromising on due process for investigation is probably a hard problem.
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[As usual, I am making it a part of my work to lobby against this sort of practice. Personally, who gives a damn?]
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Back on creatine and whey supplements. Work is not well enough, without. 😛
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Enforced feeding, enforced sleep.
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On being comfortable knowing that relationships will end: Why would you date anyone with a lesser grip on reality?! Stay away from toxic deluders.
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Forum friend was complaining that science education fundamentals should come before martial arts exercises.
"For troll's sake, I'll point out that they should do both. Scientific thinking may be lacking in Malaysia, but the health of an organisation/nation also depends on other exercises. In fact, a real-time, mission-critical, study of security problems in an embodied context is quite a good example of small scale engineering problems that when solved, also provide solutions that can be used in other contexts. By the time you have a robot of normal human strength that can recognise how to beat a human opponent, you have already solved a lot of problems in general robotics. In other words, I'm arguing that martial arts are a liberal art. Learn once, apply everywhere... 😘"
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"Small spaces for local businesses, are trending, due to high rents. Do you think this is good?"
"What about it?"
"Is it good? Will it be profitable?"
"You are asking about setting up business in small spaces. It depends on your business objectives. If your business objective is to make money, you need zero space. Trade commodities.
If your business objective is to run a hospital, you need a lot of space.
Ok?"
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Most people solve problems that don't address the end-target of profitability in monetary terms.
In some cases that's because they have decided on a diversified profitability target, only one sub-target of which is profitability in monetary terms. The lingo for that is in the ballpark of balanced scorecards, triple bottom lines, and beyond.
But in other cases the end-target is simply monetary profitability... existing constraints such as target market, product format, plant & equipment, brand, etc. may result in work being done on intermediate targets within those intermediate constraints.
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"Small spaces for local businesses, are trending, due to high rents. Do you think this is good?"
"What about it?"
"Is it good? Will it be profitable?"
"You are asking about setting up business in small spaces. It depends on your business objectives. If your business objective is to make money, you need zero space. Trade commodities.
If your business objective is to run a hospital, you need a lot of space.
Ok?"
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Most people solve problems that don't address the end-target of profitability in monetary terms.
In some cases that's because they have decided on a diversified profitability target, only one sub-target of which is profitability in monetary terms. The lingo for that is in the ballpark of balanced scorecards, triple bottom lines, and beyond.
But in other cases the end-target is simply monetary profitability... existing constraints such as target market, product format, plant & equipment, brand, etc. may result in work being done on intermediate targets within those intermediate constraints.
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Forum comments - on the reasonable efforts that people make to save, invest, insure, and otherwise prolong their welfare with monetary tools. I generally do not. An article was discussed, showing how costly tail-events can be - medical fees will wipe you out. A friend said, it's worse if you do not die, only suffer - to which I said, that is easy, suicide is easy. It is even worse if you suffer and they lock you up to prevent your suicide. Haha.
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A near-worst case scenario (no one really knows what's worst): is that you get locked-in syndrome on an operating table, and get to feel the scapels slice in, tubes inserted into urethra, probes on organs, surgeons fingering your intestines, hands around your stomach, needles, knives, etc. Hahaha... prepare yourselves adequately. Money only gets one so far, and then decay sets in... are you operationally prepared, and adequately insured? Consider what will happen to your mind, if you are not.
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Briefly, back to work, after work, after work, after a social, after a shower, after work. Wonder what I'll do after work. 🤔😋
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M's priority is racial in-grouping of the Malays. He doesn't quite seem to care about how that happens. Islam is to some degree a tool for him.
To get completely off the wall and psychoanalyse the old man, I'd say he's hung up about being teased as a child about being a mudblood.
:D
I'm sure it's the sorry joke of his life - and in any event he has bravely shown them who's boss.
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Day off. Time to catch up on work before work self-destructs!
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It's nice to not have to worry about quarterly earnings isn't it? 😛
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Kula says they will create a million jobs.
I am trying to figure how this will be qualified. I have vacancies that cannot be filled. Will we have more of those? Hopefully not. The root of the problem, as highlighted in my letter, is that output per worker needs to increase per unit of purchasing power remunerated. That should be the focus of the ministry in times such as ours.
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Complex problems. Stressful concerns.
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(updated)
Things I had to consider doing today, and ignore: audit, monthly reporting, bill administration, staff welfare, menu iteration, website construction, cleaning air conditioners, expansion of digital marketing campaign to push traffic to other businesses in a B2B product development effort, completing a half-built exhaust vent to improve HVAC, cleaning the storeroom, visiting the city council to update our compliance synchrony, ingesting nutritional supplements to push up APM.
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Things I prioritised: troubleshooting fridges, troubleshooting toilet cistern, removing broken brackets from the wall, wrote a letter to multiple newspapers under our communications campaign to lobby for firmer rule of law, took photos of salads at FamilyMart for a friend, checked in via text on a girl I spoke to yesterday, showered, and did my Tinder homework (swiped till depletion).
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No no, we don't just decide to pop your bubbles. We literally read, "won her heart," as "gained her confidence, without prejudice towards the future welfare of the individuals involved." Lol
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Proof of the pudding. The audience always takes it more seriously than the players. THAT IS THE POINT OF SHOW BUSINESS.
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I am a horrible giver of pep-talks. My pep talks pretty much go along the lines of:
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"I notice that this work didn't get done because you did not do X. We have discussed this before, and you are afraid to do X. We cannot be afraid, or our work will be slow. We need to do X until it causes us no fear. If you are a timid person, you cannot work here. You must become apathetic to influence. If you are a timid person today, you must tell yourself, "in ten years I will not be a timid person, and anyone can tell me anything without influencing me to be shy." Then every day, you have the goal in mind, and you change yourself slightly until you become a good worker. Then our work will be faster"
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This obviously tells you a lot about how I view the nature of work, and why I exhibit a disdain for shyness and the people who value it for humanistic reasons. #notmyhumans :)
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So Unifi is not letting us downgrade Biz packages to the new, cheaper, Biz packages. Apparently, we can hack around this by registering as a different company...
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I disagree with criticisms of Kelantan. Their constituency, their rules.
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"Mak, kenape ada cuti?"
"It's an EVENT, bitches..."
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Hmm. Looks like I'm scheduled for my first day off 6-daily shifts since February... on 13 December. Quite a stint, these nine months...
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"I love that Age/2-7 floor idea. It explains so much!"
"... about why I feel like a creep... 😛"
"No, about the people I see around me."
"Not looking forward to being perceived as creepier as time passes. But such is society."
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Many people who use science as a talking point have no idea how to operate it.
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Caught up a little on sleep. Back to work
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1. Protecting jobs (which are not competitive) is the same handicap as raising wages (per unit of productivity). The sustainable solution is always to protect jobs only when the productivity (per unit of wage) in those jobs is increasing faster than the productivity in the same jobs at competitors, where at the same time productivity increases are greater than wages increases.
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2. The definition of being priced-to-market for any job, is, "you're the first guy to lose your job, when the shit hits the fan." This is the same as being priced-to-market for any product. If your company is not aiming to provide superior value for money to customers in the long or short term, then your company has no tactical advantage to compete, by the definition of competition. Any service buyer is the customer of a service seller - so the same tactical disadvantages apply to people who are trying to deliver just enough to not get fired on any given day. Market volatility will push them out of work eventually, given the laws of thermodynamics. You never have to run faster than a bear, if you can run faster than the guy beside you.
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3. Civil rights do not contradict the points above. Civil rights attach a constant term to the remuneration formula for all individual workers. Civil rights for individual corporations (corporate citizens being individuals by some laws) are the same. Competitive markets rely on action upon the other terms in a polynomial. Rights are constants, competition is infinite - or is it? The model for balancing limits upon competition i.e. inequality probably lies in prodding at this a little further.
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4. Watch governments closely. Can you see if they are creating value or merely buying votes at the expense of voters' eventual welfare?
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Who wants to go to the ICERD rally with meeee? Wearing white!
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This I agree with. After 40 years of M, all Malaysians are lazy.
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Done with tangential work for the day. Back to business as usual. Sleep. Accounts, more drains.
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On why scientists generally do not get excited about philosophers of science:
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"Probably posting in the wrong group if you're looking for a serious answer.
Here is a short attempt at a serious answer.
Scientists function under political economic structures such as having to worry about funding, salaries, and getting through gradschool. Those are practical considerations which strongly influence the practice of science at scale. Of course, scientists question their assumptions, and reinvent their methodologies sometimes. But they don't have the luxury of dwelling on those issues beyond the practical demands of the market.
Philosophy as a discipline reminds people to break things. Those of us who like breaking things more than making them, end up being more philosophical. It's not for everyone. "
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As to why we like breaking things? Well if the rest of you fuckers would stop building shitty things, maybe we would have time to want to build things of our own.
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Basic geometries for estimating attendee counts - much easier when there are big street photos. The whole street between the High Court and the Dataran Merdeka is about 50 people wide. Squish it to 60 for good effect. So a square is 3600 people. Count the squares.
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Fax: Kementerian Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia, KKMM please just ban it... everyone should be using email now.
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PAS = -[(-1)^(1/2)][2^(1/2)]
#changemymind
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Probably organically profitable in November, for the first time inover a year. Lol. Standby for crashes. Wee ooo
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Local council elections: 🐓. That being said, this is civil society's chance to partner with PAS on something meaningful... against Harapan.
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Fortunately, the only brand I have to manage is a work ethic. #circularreasoning 😛
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Should I move to BU11? Save money on food, cook at home, spend money travelling.
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BU11: The decision so far is to trade away social life, in the interest of nurturing an infant business.
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Not sure. But from my heteronormy point of view, Malaysian Tinder has gained a surge of users with religiously conservative fashion photography and profiles expressing an aversion to physical intimacy. Since I'm only ever looking for physical intimacy, my searches are 2-400% harder, and OKCupid generally seems more pleasant again. Everyone's welcome to use whatever app they want, but perhaps more specialised apps would be more useful for segmenting, if filters are not available. Lol cc: Tinder Confessions Malaysia
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Metabolism has been slow for weeks. Thisn is what I get for reducing nitric oxide foods, creatinine supplements, and exercise, without reducing workloads. Fix.
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One day I will have time to individually run staff through a holistic agoge.
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Happy to coordinate a parliamentary lobby requesting for comprehensive federal government policies and budgets for dealing with stray mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, birds, plants, fungi, prokaryotes, robots, cars, microwaves, badly written software, whatever, including humans.
Unless you can point me to such an existing lobby.
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As a recipient of an almost full scholarship for four years at one of these schools, I would agree with this article. It offers great opportunities for class mobility.
As for my own appreciation of that opportunity: I wasn't looking for upward mobility, so it was rather wasted on me. I spent most of my time on independent studies, and making fun of my colleagues...
Addendum: my undergrad period was mostly spent studying the architecture of two information systems (i) the body of human knowledge in general, for example, how the entire university is structured to convey this effciently (ii) human consciousness, whereby the output from my work was a basic understanding of how to quantify all of it.
Both fields of study were quite enriching, and I would have found it harder to do anywhere else, and without the institutional subsidy.
However, neither field is aligned with economic class mobility. — at Bates College.
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On the best way to save people from suicide, being to talk to them periodically.
This is pretty well written. My own thoughts about this.
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- I've known people who were successful, and unsuccessful at suicide.
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- I don't think suicide is inherently bad; personally I see it as a legitimate and reasonable method to terminate consciousness.
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- I do think that people who are incapable of considering suicide are JUST AS problematic as people who cannot not-consider suicide.
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- I think it's far dafter that so many people fail to kill themselves, and that society should support the agency of rational individuals in excercising a preference to die.
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I think I should eat and sleep. Still not functioning at peak asshole.
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On "make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal"
Not sure if I've managed that by accident. Here's what I spend most of my days on.
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- running a restaurant (don't care about food, but it is an amusing type of business)
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- running a business (don't care about commerce, but man's got to eat)
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- writing public policy commentary related to business (don't care about government, but not allowed to write about business directly -_-)
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- Tinder (is that app associated with personal, or impersonal social life? take a wild guess)
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Meme:
"what is the key to happiness?"
"do not argue with fools"
"I disagree"
"you are right"
This is why they say, the customer is always right (not a practice I recommend, by the way).
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Back to the office.
No sleep yet.
Duty this that...
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This coheres, loosely, with my understanding of how to manipulate human cognition at the tactical level.
(Acupuncture efficacy by "rewiring" of the brain.
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Contractors vs FTEs: Workforce management 101
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Enforced feeding time.
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Responsible Capitalism laws in the USA: This is the only kind of corporate social responsibility (CSR) which doesn't distract corporations from their core value chains. It amuses me that silly plebs may often consider other activities to be "CSR". LOL
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This is a survey about satisfaction with religious hegemony in Malaysia. State your point of view. Please state your age when answering. Also state if you didn't spend at least 51% of your lifetime in Malaysian.
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Proposition 1: It is POSSIBLE for a religious culture to set acceptable public policy (particularly in education), for a religiously plural citizenry (many religions including atheism, agnosticis, pastafarianism, etc.).
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Proposition 2: You are OPEN to the possibility of an ACTUAL implementation of (1.) in Malaysia.
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Proposition 3: You believe past implementations of (1.) Have been satisfactory (Malaysian history to-date).
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Proposition 4: You believe Maszlee is demonstrating a good chance of executing (1.)
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Proposition 5: The Malaysian constitution always REQUIRED one religious culture to permeate public policy.
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(Notes:
If you vote "1:NOPE", you automatically vote "2,3,4:NOPE".
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If you vote "2:NOPE", you automatically vote "3,4:NOPE".
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Let me know if you see other implications between propositions.)
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The core concern remains that Masz isn't very good at politics. I like his policies, but if he can't demonstrate the foresight to plan every public action with a critical media, and antagonistic opponents in mind, then he needs to appoint lieutenants who are capable. A chief strategy officer for his political operation.
Otherwise he will simply go down in history as a guy who could have done the job well, but didn't learn fast enough.
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When it comes to art, and I will quantify it, I believe in balance. About 50% of one's output should be fastidiously precise, and the other half should be decisively unstructured. Neither should take precedence: monocultures are bad, in horticulture; in art we say, they are boring.
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BREAK
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Back to the farm. For a bit.
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Sick, for a while. Kicking the can along. Doop dee doo.
