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by bh23ha 17y ago
The Roman economy was based on slavery, it collapsed when they ran out of slaves. When we get machines which are equivalent to human slaves, we'll still have rich people and politicians, and a large under class on social welfare. The more t
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by bh23ha 17y ago
Oh well then I guess we'll just have to give up on empiricism.
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by bh23ha 17y ago
It has been reported that a full 40% of executives describe themselves as introverts... Doesn't this disprove the claim that introverts are best leaders? What metric of best are we using and where's the hard data?
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by bh23ha 17y ago
I find it hard to believe any developed country or even a developing country like China would be shocked enough by drought to stop trade. Sure desalination is expensive, but that's all it is, expensive. On the other hand, countries currentl
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by bh23ha 17y ago
The buy local meme is everywhere and sadly like so much of environmentalism it is short on smarts, case in point: What they don't tell you: The transport of goods accounts for a small but significant proportion of the human impact on the c
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by bh23ha 17y ago
C on the JVM? Dear me!
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by bh23ha 17y ago
My impression is that the sperm are optimized for a brief period of super activity at normal human body temperature. This enables them to reach the egg once inside a woman's body. If they become adapted to this higher temperature then what
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by bh23ha 17y ago
the firm, launched last month, has a pay-to-play plan that works like this: As many as 100 startups each pay $5,000 to compete for a maximum $250,000 initial round of funding. The runner-up gets $50,000. The rest get feedback. This is a s
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by bh23ha 17y ago
Not quite 10 but yes 3 weeks paid has been standard for me in all 3 big companies I've worked for most recently.
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by bh23ha 17y ago
ONE amino acid! I know South Park used "Praise Science!" as a joke, but damn if I don't feel like saying it earnestly.
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by bh23ha 17y ago
I'm no Kent Beck, I'm just an average software engineer on the east coast with a bit less then 10 years experience. Recently I turned down 100K a year + 3 weeks vacation and all kinds of other benefits, from a large well known company. The
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by bh23ha 17y ago
This does a great job refuting one of Pinker's fact based counter examples. It in no way refutes the core thesis of Pinker's review, that Gladwell is full shit.
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by bh23ha 17y ago
I don't own my home, I don't have lots of savings, I have a job with a difficult boss. Because of the hours I work and commuting I barely see my children. I am utterly unhappy with my life. This does not seem to be an unusual position, a
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by bh23ha 17y ago
But I can't figure out if half the street was raised or lowered or stayed the same?
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by bh23ha 17y ago
I am not sure it is evolutionarily useful to become self destructive upon rejection, I imagine rejection has always been fairly common. I think the researchers' interpretation is very biased. I can easily imagine that the aggressive reactio
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by bh23ha 17y ago
That's true, we may not be in a recovery but in a restructuring. Restructuring an economy is much more painful then a run of the mill recession. However if we are indeed restructuring to be less of a consumer nation and more of a manufactur
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by bh23ha 17y ago
That's not the flaw of capitalism. It is a hopefully temporary result of a world wide obsession with financial speculation. Part of that is specific government policy resulting in financial speculation being more profitable then brick and m
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by bh23ha 17y ago
This community college surge is what might pop the higher education bubble. Let me explain, first I don't think pop is the right word, stock bubbles pop, real-estate bubbles deflate much more slowly and this will take a looooong time. Also,
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by bh23ha 17y ago
Their video shows people scanning bags of chips and jars of food and plastic containers. Wouldn't it have made more sense to scan more expensive items, electronics perhaps?
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by bh23ha 17y ago
I. Avoid war by every possible means.. Yes, they call Basil II ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_II ) Boulgaroktonos because he avoided war so much. IV. Replace the battle of attrition and occupation of countries with maneuver warfare
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by bh23ha 17y ago
Interesting investment, if the US economy is indeed undergoing a restructuring with the dollar declining and exports replacing imports, then this should create a lot of business for the rail-roads. However, while the transformation away fro
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by bh23ha 17y ago
Why do you think that this is a biological trait? I don't. It might be, it could be. Certainly religion, income, how you were raised, etc, all play a big role in how many children you want. But IF there is a genetic component to how many
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by bh23ha 17y ago
Of course there are wealthy families that have many children, but why will exactly that trait become dominant? I wish I could make this point more clear, but words fail me. From some of your discussions with others in this thread, I see t
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by bh23ha 17y ago
Wow: http://www.release.org.uk/nicepeopletakedrugs/deck-of-cards/...
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by bh23ha 17y ago
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKY0orWnYfQ
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by bh23ha 17y ago
I think it's more then speculation. Japan very anti immigrant has relied on much more robotics. The rest of the industrialized world, especially the US, prefers immigration.
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by bh23ha 17y ago
How is it that women working outside the home is better than women working inside the home? Depends on your definition of better. Ignoring difficult to measure benefits and focusing on easy to measure ones like economic output, it is easy
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by bh23ha 17y ago
I am not implying anyone will suddenly decide to have many more children. I know wealthy, well of, educated people with 5 kids, who have gone on to fertility treatments to get another couple as they age. It's rare but it's not unknown. Ther
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by bh23ha 17y ago
Hey, we're not the only ones. A known form of specialisation is when a mutant female prefers a slightly different kind of male. And her daughters have the same preference, and eventually you end up with reproductively isolated populations.
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by bh23ha 17y ago
Think of it as a virus that impacts fertility. Some people will be child-less, others will have just one, maybe 2 kids. A few will strongly want to and will have 3,4 and more. It's basic natural selection in practice. Wealth and the pill ar

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