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Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. 

You know the feeling.

Everything you try turns to dust. Or, worse, debt. 

You thought it was a good idea. It looked like it was working.

And then, well, something intervened. Or someone. 

Suddenly, you’re staring at having to explain another failure. 

Or what you think is a failure. Or, even worse, what other people think is a failure.

You want to scream. You want to rail at the fates, at your own decisions and at all the things you could have done differently.

Oh, I’ve described you too well?

I apologize. But I have something for you.

Watch this. All the way to the end. Don’t give up. Please.

No matter what the odds have faith in achieving your goal… pic.twitter.com/GcMMRzRYF4

— Tobias Ellwood (@Tobias_Ellwood) October 22, 2017

There.

How did that make you feel?

That your competitors are arrogant humans, who want to stomp over your every effort and then celebrate in your face?

That your co-workers would happily cheer your demise, because that’s just how they roll?

That there are times when you just stand there and hang your head, not knowing what else you’re supposed to do?

Or did it make realize that life makes no sense and success can be largely, very largely the product of stunning good fortune?

Did it make you want to get up tomorrow and still believe a little bit, just in case the orb spins your way for once?

I’m not one for mindless, self-help clappy-trappy ra-ra. 

I’ll never write My Fabulous Two-Minute Work Week nor The Secret Way To Overcome Every Obstacle Without Getting Out Of Bed. 

Nor even Macramé Management: How Knot To Be Successful.

But just look at that goalkeeper. The one who celebrated success just a little too soon.

And then be the player who took the penalty.

Life is even stranger than you think.

Tech

Roughly how many plane crashes do you estimate, based on some statistics, there have been in total? This question was originally answered on Quora by Tom Farrier.

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Flashback a few decades, to the days when this pilot fish is the new data center supervisor, and finally allowed to run second shift.

“It was Feb. 29th — I think it was 1964,” says fish. “One of the operators told me something strange was happening when he started to run the nightly production systems.”

The first step in the nightly production run includes entering the Julian date — that is, the day of the year, with Jan. 1 as day 1. Then the system responds with the current date in the normal month, day and year format.

But the operator tells fish that when he entered 60, instead of coming back with 2/29/64, it responded with 3/1/64.

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Securing the internet of things should become a major priority now that an army of compromised devices – perhaps 1 million strong – has swamped one of the industry’s top distributed denial-of-service protection services.

A giant botnet made up of hijacked internet-connected things like cameras, lightbulbs, and thermostats has launched the largest DDoS attack ever against a top security blogger, an attack so big Akamai had to cancel his account because defending it ate up too many resources.

It wasn’t that Akamai couldn’t mitigate the attack – it did so for three days – but doing so became too costly, so the company made a business decision to cut the affected customer loose, says Andy Ellis the company’s chief security officer.

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In 1964, the last time Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympics, the nation revealed one of the biggest mic drops in transportation history: the debut of the shinkansen, the world-famous bullet train that became a Japanese icon. The first high-speed train in the world, it spurred similar technology to spread to Europe and other East Asian nations, paving the way for current maglev trains and, arguably, the Hyperloop.

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Question by Lime Kitty – Atheati Emperor: Do you ever dream about Jesus?
Last night, Jesus came to me in a dream.

I said, “Hi, Jesus.”

And he said “Hi, Lime Kitty.”

And I said “What’s shakin’ big fella?”

And he said “I was thinking about coming back. But I’m afraid that if I come in on my flying cloud with my host of angels, the Air Force will detect us on radar. And since the cloud doesn’t have a radio I won’t be able to identify myself, and then they may launch missiles at us. I mean, seriously. I don’t even like iron chariots, you think I want a missile launched at me?”

I said, “That sounds like a serious problem, Jesus.”

Best answer:

Answer by LOL Jesus
oh hai

jeezus haz stealth coating

srsly

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