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    • scottalanmillerS
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      I think that one of the biggest behavioural things that is happening, but obviously I am only guessing, is that people do a lot of "do what I did" not because they have any reason to believe that what they did was the right thing but rather because they want other people to repeat their behaviour because it reinforces, in their minds, that what they did was correct.

      Basically, if I jumped off a bridge I want you to jump off of it too so that it feels like there is agreement that I made a good decision in jumping. It is a form of reverse-reasoning where humans like to justify decisions that are already made when they did not take the time to decide if they were wise decisions before having made them.

      It is well covered in "Predictably Irrational" and I see it constantly. It's not that they want others to fail, they just want "justification" for their own decisions since they lack any reliable way to defend what was actually a decision made without clear rationale (not that the decision was wrong, just that it was haphazard.)

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        @scottalanmiller said:

        I think that one of the biggest behavioural things that is happening, but obviously I am only guessing, is that people do a lot of "do what I did" not because they have any reason to believe that what they did was the right thing but rather because they want other people to repeat their behaviour because it reinforces, in their minds, that what they did was correct.

        Basically, if I jumped off a bridge I want you to jump off of it too so that it feels like there is agreement that I made a good decision in jumping. It is a form of reverse-reasoning where humans like to justify decisions that are already made when they did not take the time to decide if they were wise decisions before having made them.

        It is well covered in "Predictably Irrational" and I see it constantly. It's not that they want others to fail, they just want "justification" for their own decisions since they lack any reliable way to defend what was actually a decision made without clear rationale (not that the decision was wrong, just that it was haphazard.)

        I've seen you talk about that book before. I need to get it.

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        • scottalanmillerS
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          Great book, probably the best book that I have ever read that helped me to understand people (and myself.)

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          • scottalanmillerS
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            Elastix 4: Anyone worked with it and notice that under the hood the packages are all Elastix 2.5, but deployed to CentOS 7?

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            • JaredBuschJ
              JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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              @scottalanmiller said:

              Elastix 4: Anyone worked with it and notice that under the hood the packages are all Elastix 2.5, but deployed to CentOS 7?

              No, but it is what I expected.

              Elastix was abandoning the FreePBX backend. Version 2.4 was supposed ot be the last version. Elastix 3.0 was supposed to be a better thing.

              Then it all went to shit. They rushed out 2.5 and it breaks working 2.4 systems that attempt to upgrade.

              Then they came up with this idea to get money from KickStarter to get it ported to CentOS 7 and they would call it version 4. Note the term ported.

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              • scottalanmillerS
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                No updates since March, which is not THAT long ago, but it is pretty long in terms of a port 😞

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                • scottalanmillerS
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                  Was up until almost 2am working on the "AJ Plan", back at it again st 6:30am.

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                  • gjacobseG
                    gjacobse @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller said:

                    Was up until almost 2am working on the "AJ Plan", back at it again st 6:30am.

                    Uhm the "AJ Plan" -

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                    • gjacobseG
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                      Another day of off and on rain. Soccer was called, might have a game tomorrow. Getting the house ready for a disaster to occur... Son will have a sleep over tonight, so it will be interesting to see how much of the house is left when it is over.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
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                        Dealing with a water delivery that we did not order. They told us not to let random water delivery people into the house, but he kept saying that they called him for delivery. Argh.

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                        • gjacobseG
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                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          Dealing with a water delivery that we did not order. They told us not to let random water delivery people into the house, but he kept saying that they called him for delivery. Argh.

                          weird

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                          • scottalanmillerS
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                            Common thing here, very poor region, so people try to catch you needing watch to sell you more. It is $2 for 5 gallons here, delivered by bicycle. Problem is, if you let a random water guy in your house instead of the one from your service, they have a tendency to "find loose items" as they pass through. So you have to be a little wary. Nothing scary, just kids that might pocket something laying around the house while they are delivering the water.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
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                              I'm sure that that is not as common as the people make it sound, nothing ever is. Probably happened once. It's mostly just kids desperate to sell water.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
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                                Site is super busy right now, but no idea why.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
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                                  Pool guy is done, now to convince the wife to get ready so that we can hit the Choco Museum for breakfast.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
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                                    Planning on breakfast at the Granada ChocoMuseum.

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                                    • gjacobseG
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                                      @scottalanmiller said:

                                      Planning on breakfast at the Granada ChocoMuseum.

                                      Looks like a nice place. Maybe you can convince her to visit all of their locations at some point.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
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                                        Had a nice, long breakfast there. Hit the corner store and got the family back to the house. Setting Liesl up to play Lego Worlds and am about to set out on foot alone to do some sight seeing and shopping stuff downtown.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
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                                          It is Saturday and the four year old is begging to do school because she loves it so much.

                                          #justhomeschoolthings

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                                            @scottalanmiller said:

                                            Just found out that @thanksajdotcom is on a bus on his way to San Diego.

                                            Umm, nope...

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