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How to Commit to a Goal. Psychological experiments demonstrate the power of a simple technique for committing to goals.

How to Commit to a Goal

Seven Speaking Tips That Beat "Pretend Your Audience Is Naked. Aggh. Are You Living in a Simulation? Many works of science fiction as well as some forecasts by serious technologists and futurologists predict that enormous amounts of computing power will be available in the future.

Are You Living in a Simulation?

Let us suppose for a moment that these predictions are correct. One thing that later generations might do with their super-powerful computers is run detailed simulations of their forebears or of people like their forebears. Because their computers would be so powerful, they could run a great many such simulations. Suppose that these simulated people are conscious (as they would be if the simulations were sufficiently fine-grained and if a certain quite widely accepted position in the philosophy of mind is correct). Then it could be the case that the vast majority of minds like ours do not belong to the original race but rather to people simulated by the advanced descendants of an original race. How online job searches worsen the job crisis.

(Moneywatch) If tens of thousands of people applied for one job, what are the odds that not a one would be qualified for the position?

How online job searches worsen the job crisis

That's not a theoretical question. Peter Cappelli, a management professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, recently noted such a case after a company's resume-screening system concluded that none of the 29,000 applicants for an engineering job had the right qualifications.

Sadly, this does not surprise me one bit. With the current overflow of job-seekers and the ubiquity in corporate America of such resume software, companies often seek out the "perfect" job candidate. The sort of candidate who, given the nature of humanity, doesn't exist. While online job applications seemingly make life easier for all parties. Exciting Links for Boring Days.

Body Language. Table Of Contents Introduction 1.

Body Language

Understanding Body Language Basics. Top 10 Tech Concepts You Always Wanted To Learn About (But Never Did) Store your data on someone else's computer, hope they don't do anything bad with it or decide to shut down.

Top 10 Tech Concepts You Always Wanted To Learn About (But Never Did)

Stallman calls it "Careless Computing". If you put personal data in-the-cloud like future plans., trips, your current GPS location, then you should expect that data to be shared all over the world with nice people, nice companies and criminals (looking for when to rob you). Facebook connections and twitter followers provide information about you and your friends. If they assume you are similar to your friends, then the personal information those other people enter helps them build a profile of your likes/dislikes too.

How to Read Body Language to Reveal the Underlying Truth in Almost Any Situation. Spotflux - A more secure, private, and open internet experience. Phong [ photoshop tutorials, recursive pattern cognition, clear visions, etc ] 10/GUI. Thing in a Jar. Thing in a Jar 7 inches by 4 inches, mason jar Pictured above is the Thing in a Jar that's usually sitting in my office at work.

Thing in a Jar

The coolest thing about the Thing is that everyone responds to seeing it by asking questions. How to Plant Ideas in Someone's Mind. Typographer's Glossary. Serif: Serif's are semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols.

Typographer's Glossary

A typeface that has serifs is called a serif typeface (or seriffed typeface). Some of the main classifications of Serif type are: Blackletter, Venetian, Garalde, Modern, Slab Serif, Transitional, and Informal. Fonts in each classfication share certain similiar characteristics including the shape or appearance of their serifs. Serif fonts are widely used in traditional printed material such as books and newspapers. Show all Serif Didone is a typeface classification characterized by slab-like serifs without brackets; vertical orientation of weight axes. What can you learn on youtube? - Tomash.soup. Download Section. Take typing lessons, test your typing speed and practice typing for free!

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Take typing lessons, test your typing speed and practice typing for free!

Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. A person possessing touch typing skills will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory. It can improve any individual's typing speed and accuracy dramatically. Making Chloroform (recipe)@Everything2.com. Making Chloroform Here is a simple guide to make the chemical compound chloroform. Be sure to read the warning. WARNING: This isn't one of those bullshit 'something might go wrong' warnings. 12 Practical Business Lessons From Social Psychology. The Foot in the Door PhenomenonIt’s been said many times that business is all about people.

12 Practical Business Lessons From Social Psychology

That being the case, perhaps we should stop reading management books for advice and start looking at social psychology. Very simply, social psychologists study how people interact with others – their families, friends, and yes, business partners. Smart marketers and executives have been using the findings of this growing field for decades to close sales, hold effective meetings and get their way in negotiations. But rather than putting you through an academic psychology lesson, we condensed the most useful concepts into one article.