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  • Another great example is probably starting a fire only using materials from the environment. Anyone can learn how to do so, but most people never have it come up during their lifetimes!

    Someone who knows knapping and how to start a fire is 90% of the way to surviving long term in temperate wilderness. Yeah, building shelter and knowing what to eat are important too, but making sharp things and creating heat are the two things that are make or break in a survival situation.

    Speaking of not leaving written records, a large number of cultures had strong oral traditions that passed information down for thousands of years. Oral traditions have the additional benefit of being taught personally, allowing for time to ensure it is actually understood! It does have the danger of being lost when the culture changes significantly.









  • “I know this is a controversial decision that may not be a fit for everyone, and there are definitely companies out there that thrive in remote or hybrid setups,” he added. “But that’s not right for our type of business, and won’t help us fully realize our potential as a company.”

    By comparison, Nothing’s demand for five-day office attendance may sting for employees who helped shape the company while embracing its founding work-from-home environment.

    Besides calling people who want flexibility children, the company was founded as work from home even though that wasn't right for the type of company. Sounds like the CEO doesn't know how the company works.






  • We don't insist on using them as identification. Insurers, credit companies, and other business interests used them as identifiers and then tried to magically make them secret for some stupid reason that probably involved saving them money.

    SSNs are just a string of numbers. My college test scores were posted by SSN in the mid 90s before the credit companies started to pretend they were secret, because it was an easy way to make them visible without posting people's names. It also helped avoid confusion when two people had the same name.

    Some company having access to SSNs should NOT be important in any way. It is, but only because of credit and other companies treating it like a national secret.