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   by bklaasen 11y ago

   I'm 48, so I'm one of those 'older' folks who needs to stay sharp in order to stay relevant. Don't force yourself into a schedule, be a dilettante. Be voracious and promiscuous. The following work for me: 1. Don&#x2
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   Facebook's traffic to top publishers fell 32 percent since January(digiday.com)

   14 points by bklaasen 11y ago|2 comments
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   Wooden idol unearthed from Siberian bog a century ago is 11,000 years old(atlasobscura.com)

   3 points by bklaasen 11y ago|0 comments
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   by bklaasen 11y ago

   My wife and I spent three weeks in Iran, escaping Christmas 2008 (we're not religious and we don't have kids, so visiting countries where they don't do Christmas is a brilliant way to escape the madness). It was one of the mo
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   by bklaasen 11y ago

   > the role of an actor [is] irrelevant to the morality of the action [carried out by the state] That's precisely what I'm saying. You disagree, but that does not render my argument invalid.
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   by bklaasen 11y ago

   Right, and there's no qualitative difference between killing someone and locking them up. You've convinced me that I'm wrong.
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   by bklaasen 11y ago

   I've never understood the logic of a state killing its citizens in order to show that killing is unacceptable.
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   by bklaasen 12y ago

   The two books on systems thinking that I'd recommend are Gerald Weinberg's "An introduction to general systems thinking" and Donella Meadows' "Thinking in systems: a primer". Anything by Gerald Weinberg is