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by apalmer 10y ago
Definition of sophistication from dictionary.com (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienc
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by apalmer 10y ago
Seems like you are reading into this much greater implications than is intended. Classical music is in general much more complex and sophisticated than pop music. This is undeniably true by any rational yardstick. Whether its better or not
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by apalmer 10y ago
Ehhh.. fundamentally I think this argument is flawed. It assumes harmony as the underlying driver of music. Majority of music across history is not harmonic oriented. Really only in western music is harmony the driving force behind music. n
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by apalmer 10y ago
UBI, is one of those things I just cannot logically compute. I am completely in support of the end goals of UBI. Just cannot fathom how UBI can even theoretically works. It seems to ignore Economics, Game Theory, and Human Nature. I just do
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by apalmer 10y ago
So many people in this thread trying to figure out reason for the evolutionary connection between excersize and brain health... And you hit it so effortlessly... Seems obvious
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by apalmer 10y ago
No, your missing my fundamental argument. Lets break it down to fundamentals. Definition 1) Society at its most fundamental is a group of individuals who enter into some kind of social contract in order to increase their own personal benefi
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by apalmer 10y ago
once again this is ideology over reality. Yes, at one level there definitely is factual that the top hunters can supply the rest of the tribe with all necessary resources. The problem is one of motivation... Why should they? It is the most
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by apalmer 10y ago
Brexit is a little over-focused on at this point. As far as the article, the beginning half was pretty good, relatively straight forward and even if you disagree with the conclusions the thought process behind them is well laid out and reas
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by apalmer 10y ago
Naw, its not really a hobby level thing. It is relatively straightforward to take a glassblowing class and make some hobby level glassware... This is a much different level of commitment and skill.
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by apalmer 10y ago
Well first its invalid to use 'assumed' IQ. Thats just nonsense metrics made up after the fact not based on science. Moving on I am always confused by these extremely low average IQ's for nations. 70 is the cut off for what i
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by apalmer 10y ago
American and Black. It is a bad part of american black 'culture'. It is illogical, and it is ignorant. Its not really anything more than that. Rap has done a disservice in that regards... on the other hand the only word that is pr
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by apalmer 10y ago
Actually, I agree with you as far as it being a good test of character... on both ends though... i have been on and seen these kinds of interviews where the applicant is deliberately put in uncomfortable positions to see how they are going
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by apalmer 10y ago
you got some points... but honestly discussion at this point is not going to 'improve' anything. Racism of all kinds has been around from the dawn of man and will be around till the dusk of man. The USA has actually outside of the
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by apalmer 10y ago
Your point is actually one hundred percent valid... I wouldn't be surprised if he was lying... but in this case he really isn't claiming that unusual a situation. Its not like he claimed dude came out in a grand dragon kkk robe an
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by apalmer 10y ago
It should be considered, dont know if it makes sense but the pros and cons should be weighed and respected international health organizations should weigh in. Overall though, think given the fact the facilities have not been fully construct
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by apalmer 10y ago
Tesla has one facility, which is definitely state of the art, and has some of the largest automobile manufacturing robots in the world... on the other hand toyota has about 40-70 plants of varying level of technological advancement... its q
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by apalmer 10y ago
the automotive industry has not changed since the 60s? Your just making completely factually inaccurate statements.
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by apalmer 10y ago
whoa whoa whoa... the foundation goal to which Toyota's strategies have been focused for the last 50 years have been explicitly towards improving quality of the vehicle once it leaves the factory... The time to market focus at the cost
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by apalmer 10y ago
What are you talking about. I mean specifically. What state of the art manufacturing/engineering/processes do you specifically speak of that Toyota can only dream of that Tesla can employ? Are you talking from facts? OR are you ta
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by apalmer 10y ago
There is a big difference between Electric Vehicles as a whole and Tesla. Electric Vehicles are 'probably' here to stay and will 'probably' eventually make up a significant portion of first world mainstream automobile ma
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by apalmer 10y ago
Wait why is apple being held up as an example of an innovative company again? As far as i am aware apple had the ipod in 2001, the iphone in 2007 and the ipad in 2010. Pretty much every release of any of those items in the last 6 years hav
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by apalmer 10y ago
This seems to be a commonly expressed concept, the idea that in large this phenomenon is strongly either caused or encouraged by a 'conspiracy' of the government.
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by apalmer 11y ago
you are absolutely right on one level, but to balance it out... really nobody involved really wanted to be at that concert as it was put together... it was purely a put together promotional gig by the record label... in other words, it wasn
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by apalmer 11y ago
Not sure that the whole ideal of job creators really holds up in the light of day. Or rather job creators as 'elites' with enormous amounts of capitalism and economies of scale dont drive jobs growth. I guess its a matter of scale
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by apalmer 11y ago
The parent can seriously be saying that. People believe different things, many people believe that they have no responsibility to other humans that they do not know. Further there are those that believe humans may be in someway responsible
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by apalmer 11y ago
Just so we are clear... what countries do you think are doing well? because i would posit that out of the countries that are economically performing well outside of the united states almost none have: low regulatory environments, easy acces
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by apalmer 11y ago
dont really think its that certain types of individuals being drawn to law enforcement, or rather i think that is true but i dont think thats the largest factor. I do not think its so much the type individual as the type of situation. Meani
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by apalmer 11y ago
I am going to respectfully highlight why I think this is a mistake. The original communication does not actually communicate the underlying issue in this particular case. Its not a 'friendly' vs 'unfriendly' communicatio
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by apalmer 11y ago
while your points are true, its kind of the whole point of the article is 'economic' (and of course race) are first-order approximations of 'social' class but they are NOT the same thing, only approximately overlapping.
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by apalmer 11y ago
Isnt this just advertising? I dont really understand how this is any different from other forms of celebrity endorsements such as basketball players pitching nike's. These guys faces are even on the flyers to the parties.

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