Darmani

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by Darmani 19y ago
I think it is moreso the ability to settle in one place that caused the growth of technology. The hunter-gatherers, no matter how numerous, certainly did not spend their free time building forges and experimenting with metal. Also note that
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by Darmani 19y ago
You might want to be careful about anachronism when stating facts. It is true that very few today farm, but take into account that, within the past century alone, the yield of farmers has increased by an order of magnitude, not to mention t
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by Darmani 19y ago
Interesting. I checked Wikipedia again, and apparently the issue of Napoleon's height is in dispute. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Bonaparte#Napoleon.27s... "Many historians have recently argued that, contrary to popular belief, N
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by Darmani 19y ago
Adjectives such as "short" only make sense used relatively. For example, Napoleon Bonaparte is of average height relative to early 19th-century France, and short relative to 21st century France. Similarly, with 63 pages worth of text, compa
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by Darmani 19y ago
I neither use Facebook nor watch television, so I'll skip 1 and 2. Number three is a very interesting question. Why did Reddit and Digg descend into their present state? I think something other than "the userbase has grown" is going on here
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by Darmani 19y ago
Apparently the reason Microsoft is dead is that Microsoft is suicidal. How 'bout that.
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by Darmani 19y ago
There is evidence to say that marshmallows are bureaucracy and office politics, and eating them is engaging in those activities, but there is also strong evidence to support that marshmallows are bugs (and eating them is fixing them). They
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by Darmani 19y ago
This slide show seems to be more of an effort to distort common and well-accepted applications of motivational psychology as originating from games. Of the five game mechanics listed, probably only one (points) originated in games: I collec
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by Darmani 19y ago
Actually, hiring assessments do exist and are legal to use. Creating hiring assessments is part of the field of Industrial/Organizational Psychology (I believe it's called "Work Psychology" in the UK). For example, one I/O Psychologist I kn