Thanks to Roman Skaskiw just met some amazing guys who run , Rebbix, which is a software house in Kiev. They are doing it right. Quality people. Quality work. Respect for the craft.
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-06 09:18:00 UTC
Is anyone else a late adopter? I have no interest in early adoption. Too costly in time. Bad return. Better to let the market do the R&D and select the best once established. But I mean, Viber is awesome. 🙂 Wish I was an earlier adopter. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-06 05:21:00 UTC
https://www.quora.com/How-could-the-conflict-between-Israel-and-its-neighbors-be-solved-to-the-satisfaction-of-all-parties-involved
https://www.quora.com/How-could-the-conflict-between-Israel-and-its-neighbors-be-solved-to-the-satisfaction-of-all-parties-involved
CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : BOMB SCARE
So, Johannes and I get up at 5:00am to catch the train to Lviv, and it turns out that our separatist friends called in a bomb scare – shutting down Kiev station. So no trait to Lviv this morning! But we managed a nice English breakfast and will try again this afternoon.
Sigh.
(Roman Skaskiw Andriy Drozda )
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-04 01:36:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gIhRkCcD4UBeautiful. Just absolutely beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gIhRkCcD4U
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-02 12:40:00 UTC
HUG-ABILITY AND KISSABILITY
If small children weren’t so damned huggable and kissable it would be much easier for parents and relatives to avoid common illnesses. …. But you know, it’s worth it. 🙂 And when kids get enough attention that they aren’t desperate for parental affection by unpleasant means, they are really a joy to be around.
I am not yet sold on high investment parenting. But I am certainly sold on high parental time and attention. Schools as we conduct them, as day care centers for laborers (laborers we don’t need by the way), have been tragic for children. As far as I can tell, there is no benefit beyond a half day of school, and more parental time and recreation. All we do with all this fallacious productivity is increase meaningless consumption of status signals. And we do all that merely because we didn’t get enough affection and attention.
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-02 05:31:00 UTC
Got another state department warning about kidnapping of americans…. Great…..
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 17:23:00 UTC
–I just realized how pervasive dependency upon the commons is in our speech.–
sigh
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 10:14:00 UTC
DONT BLAME THEM. **THE PROBLEM IS US**
You know, the problem isn’t catholics, islam, or judasim, or their least effective low trust peer: gypsies. Its **us***. If your society is defenseless militarily it is your fault for not devoting sufficient effort and resources to defenses. If your society is colonizable, then you have not worked hard enough to prevent colonization. If your society is convertible, then you have not devoted enough resources to resist conversion. If your society is deceivable you are not devoting enough resources to preventing deception. If you lack liberty, you are not devoting enough resources to the violence required to prevent tyranny.
We have been colonized, converted, and deceived with pseudoscience.
Guns, Germs, Steel ….. requires Institutions and Philosophy.
We worked too hard at production and not hard enough at defense.
COOPERATION DOES NOT MEAN SACRIFICE
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 05:53:00 UTC