Helianthus16

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by Helianthus16 16y ago
remember the last Declaration was important, made by people with political power and influence. This is merely an idealistic essay rather than an action--it describes a movement, it does not _compel_ movement.
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A phrase _is_ a set of connotations, so I would argue that his problem is indeed with the phrase.
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>This classy response by Gates is but a brief glimpse of honesty from an otherwise hysterical, paranoid, and secretive government. I think you're making a really careless characterization here, and it's taking me some time to put a fing
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
What is interesting about this is not the damage it does, which will likely be minimal as it's really just embarrassing. What's interesting is the look into the hidden minds of countries. I didn't know, for instance, that so many Arab coun
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
I find it amusing that you are being downvoted for saying the same thing many others are saying, but less politely and more baldly. We are at a point where men are starting to realize that gender imbalance works both ways, where lots of com
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
If deep societal problems could be solved in fifteen minutes, they wouldn't be deep societal problems.
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Yeah, and an increasingly male population, a huge disparity in actual GDP, and the general maturity level of the country rated somewhere around "early teenager" says that China isn't going to take over anytime soon. China still _acts_ like
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Well... it might not be bonkers, but if you're positing absolute decline then not a lot of what we say is going to matter.
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"I've found a historical heuristic that might apply here."
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This is debatable. They are definitely throwing their weight around and playing some Machiavellian games with world opinion, flat-out denying things that anyone can see is probably true--look at how they re-directed network traffic.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
Hate to say it, but this felt... spammy. They didn't include any trending data from now, they just... kinda drew a line upwards? Yeah, solar power is cool, it's growing and reasonable to assume it will continue doing so. Article's rather
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
ha. what I've learned from reading the comments is that it's not necessarily necessary to compensate for this error. (I also guessed 400 as a lower bound.)
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Correlated. Just because we can say "This person is generally more attractive because of facial symmetry, well-aligned teeth, and x,y,z" doesn't mean we have any particularly useful quotient to judge the attractiveness of a person. Such a
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
Reading Scott Adams almost invariably just makes me irritated. A number of semi-plausible speculations coupled with intellectual smugness that's (dishonestly, in my opinion) protected by virtue of being explicitly just a guy's opinions. It
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
It sounds like he didn't get to it before running out of steam. Which is unfortunate, because that's really the reason I kept reading.
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>You're correct in assuming that it's difficult to extract correct conclusions from a psychology experiment, just like with any other science. In psychology it is much much more difficult to tease out "correct" conclusions than in, for
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
Speaking as a 23-year-old who graduated a year ago... -Because we came out into a terrible economy our professional lives are naturally chaotic. -Because we have little regard for the 'status quo,' the 'way things are done.' We've been tol
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
I wish this were actually about cold calling techniques--i.e., how to honestly approach someone and maximize the importance of the information you transfer to them--instead of how awesome cold calling is. excuse me, how awesome 'good' cold
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
When scientists say that an additional theory is ugly, they mean that adding the theory means ugly math. Ugly math is complicated, unsupported calculation--it's tweaking the theory to suit the data. In other words, the very reason they ca
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
I don't particularly view it as empty, I just think it lies outside the framework of practicality. It's like asking about the nature of hobbits. (Actually, this does have practical provenance in certain circles, but let's try to overlook t
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
No one will miss them much. "The RIAA? Or their lawyers?" Ohoho, ahah, I crack myself up. edit: ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT I'M SORRY I'M NOT FUNNY THIS LATE AT NIGHT I'LL NEVER MAKE BAD JOKES AGAIN
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
1) There are a number of physics equations that generalize physical equations--Lagrangian mechanics. (IANAP, but I have a physicist friend.) 2) It is a misconception that physics can trace the whole history of the universe, or even any p
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Meh. The whole question/controversy is just confusion about the word belief. Statements in our minds can sometimes be accepted axiomatically--that is, what you believe to be true about reality. We need a way to comment on reality's qualit
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He said, talking about all of life. >_>
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Forgot about this post. Maybe it's not sensible to come back to it, but whatever. There are several points of bullshit in your post. The first is that you are _absolutely_ ashamed of who you are. You don't think you'll be good enough for
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I wish he didn't try so hard to impress us, instead of writing an exercise in clear thought. I was with him up to the "Let's show off what I've researched about the history of Love," which turned out to be, yes: there have always been picku
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
Without a moment of hesitation? Ha. I'm no PUA, but I doubt you fall in love at the drop of a hat. And if you do spot a girl across a crowded room, and think, By God, I'm in love!, you're not going to walk over there and tell her that on
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Yes yes, this is one side of the coin; but you are willfully ignoring the other--willfully because it's presented in this topic. If there is no art to forming deep emotional connections, then there is nothing interesting about it. The game
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
>I have the personality of leader, You are entirely wrong, if you accept the rest of your post at face value. Women like leadership. Leadership in its most primal form is not about intelligence, decisiveness, alpha male-ness, or what-ha