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stevedeery
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Crypto currency investor and miner. Film-maker. Studied philosophy
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btc
9y
Bitcoin is up 729% - Look on the bright side
Bitcoin might be down a tad from it's all time high. But let’s look on the bright side: Bitcoin is still up 729% since February 2017. But if Bitcoin is not a rollacoaster you can stand to ride. Buy gold
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campolo
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Tomorrow is Sunday - What is love? Anthony Campolo tells you all need to know
I saw Anthony Campolo give this talk at the 'Million Dollar Round Table' annual meeting in Dallas Texas in June 1983. I was about to leave the auditorium as the talk started slowly. But glad I stayed.
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ver
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Bitcoin Cash - Spendin' cash, talkin' trash
There are so many articles, tweets, op-eds and blogs about the ‘virtues’ and ‘supremacy’ of Bitcoin Cash it is hard to keep up. We are grateful Bitcoin Core have no impulse to promote their virtues so
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robin
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Allegories of a Great City - Nottingham
The carvings on Nottingham Council House have not been seem up close since the were carved back in the late 1920s when the building was constructed. The carvings were done by Joseph Else and his students.
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ripple
9y
Ripple's Missing 32,00 blocks - OUCH!
Unlike Bitcoin Ripple nodes keep a ledger instead of a blockchain. This ledger has no history but rather contains the current state of the network. So every few seconds, nodes jointly construct an update
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raindance
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Raindance - Live Love Remember
We wrote, shot and edited this piece in 48 hours for the Raindance/collabor8te 48 hour film festival. It was premiered in Leicester Square as part of the top 10 films on October 4th 2012 as part of Raindance
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weak-analogies
9y
#10 - 10 Sales Tricks to Avoid - Weak Analogies and Appeals to Ignorance arguments
Weak Analogies and Appeals to Ignorance arguments: Using analogies in a sales presentation can aid our understanding. Yet analogies often contribute less to the argument than we might suppose. The use
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selling
9y
#9 - 10 Sales Tricks to Avoid - Majority Belief and Perfectionists arguments
Majority Belief and Perfectionists arguments: It is not unusual for us to take our lead about what is an appropriate course of action on the basis of what the majority of reasonable people believe to be
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red-herring
9y
#8 - 10 Sales Tricks to Avoid - Red Herrings and Ad Hominem arguments
Red Herrings and Ad Hominem arguments: As consumers we are entitled to raise objections to any proposal put to us by a salesperson. However, we are often distracted from the main thrust of our argument
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begging
9y
#7 - 10 Sales Tricks to Avoid - Begging the Question & Straw Man arguments
Begging the Question and Straw Man arguments: Another source of poor argument is one that caricatures the real position making any objection raised easier to refute. Let’s examine the first of two such
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selling
9y
#6 - 10 Sales Tricks to Avoid - Conditional and Appeals to Force arguments
Conditional and Appeals to Force arguments: For an argument to be an argument it needs premises and a conclusion. But just because we hear a sales presentation where the argument presented has premises
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ought
9y
#5 - 10 Sales Tricks to Avoid - Getting an Ought from an Is argument
Getting an Ought from an Is argument: During a sales presentation errors in reasoning are not always easy to spot. However, they do undermine their persuasive force and should make us question the
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weasel-words
9y
#4 - 10 Sales Tricks to Avoid - Weasel Words, False Causes and Slippery Slope arguments
Weasel Words, False Causes and Slippery Slope arguments: While it would be desirable if salespeople presented us with reasoned arguments upon which we could base our decisions, it is not something we can
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closing
9y
#3 - 10 Sales Tricks to Avoid - Arguing from the Particular to the General
Arguing from the Particular to the General: In our continued look at the often unfair and foul nature of some sales presentations three more common fallacies or mistakes in reasoning will be examined.
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closing
9y
#2 - 10 Sales Tricks to Avoid - Selective Evidence and Complex Questions
Selective evidence: When sources of evidences are used to support claims made in a sales presentation that evidence needs to be appropriate, not selective. When it is selective we are being coerced into
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selling
9y
#1 - 10 Sales Tricks to Avoid - False Dilemmas & Poisoned Well arguments
What we want from a salesperson is advice presented in the form of a sound argument – a set of reasons or evidence in support of a conclusion. Only this gives us as consumers the opportunity to make an
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thriller
9y
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BFI winning short film - Just Talk to Me.
Three winning scripts from the BFI MacGuffin Short Thriller Competition were posted online. Filmmakers under 25 nationwide were invited via IdeasTap to create a short film for exhibition at the BFI Futures
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russian
9y
Davos - Bitcoin dimwits - Theresa May and Christine Lagarde
At their meeting in Davos World Economic Forum Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, said that the anonymity of bitcoins allows you to move hidden funds. Clearly she is not as bright
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free-will
9y
#4 - A Problem for Free Will - Determinism or Epiphenomenalism
§4. The Problems for Free Will: I began in §1.1 by outlining three propositions derived from Davidson’s opening comments in ‘Mental Events’. These propositions sought to establish the connection between
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reductivism
9y
#3 - A Problem for Free Will - Supervenience
§3. Supervenience and the Anomalousness of the Mental: 3.1 Incompatibility between supervenience and anomalousness of the mental: We saw in §2.4 how Davidson argued for ‘nomological slack’ relating the
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