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by borroka 3y ago
"Beppe" and the less used "Beppo" are both diminutives (not nicknames) of the popular (especially back in the day) biblical name Giuseppe. "Chicco" is an interesting case in Italian, as it is more of a nickname
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by borroka 3y ago
Traditions must begin at some point in time. Clearly, "traditions" that started 5 years ago are not considered traditions in the common usage of the word and concept. But assuming that in Italy the tomato began to be used in 1550
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by borroka 3y ago
A talent for identifying talent needs to be supported with numbers and effect sizes. The relative absence of numbers from the conversation is what allows many directors of football/soccer (those who recommend the purchase or sell of pl
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by borroka 3y ago
The first lesson is quite interesting (and naive, I must say). The mother had a chance to succeed with her proposal to meet the violin teacher because other mothers or fathers or future students did not show up at the teacher's door to
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by borroka 3y ago
Assuming what you say is true ("50% of team members in mature organizations are a net negative on team performance, we should get rid of them and pay more the top talent"), what I gather from your comments is that you think the pr
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by borroka 3y ago
This seems like a broad generalization that has little support beyond -- perhaps -- the personal experience of the commenter, who, I suspect, considers themselves one of the "good engineers" and not one of the overpaid and decided
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by borroka 3y ago
The "real talent" is worth nx of the average salary when the work of the real talent makes the company better. If one (“talent") is a stellar runner, but when the team goes on a run the "talent" has to wait for thei
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by borroka 3y ago
Virtuousness is assigned to activities and pursuits that, in that context, to the non-virtuous may seem inconsequential, or worse than the "real thing", or a waste of time. Virtuousness is assigned, say, to reading, "she&#x27
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by borroka 3y ago
I may be romanticizing the past, but I have been interested in hypnosis and trance phenomena for 20 years, studied with teachers, got certified, practiced for some time with clients, and have, I may say, a good deal of experience in the fie
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by borroka 3y ago
"you are you no matter where you are. Banal, I know." -- I agree that it is banal, in the sense that it is a common and popular message, but I also think it is wrong. The environment, the context, all have a profound effect on peo
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by borroka 3y ago
Once again, you want to read into my words what you want to read and not what I wrote. Conte wrote in his CV that he had been a visiting professor/scholar at some foreign universities, while it appeared that he had only visited univers
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by borroka 3y ago
One thing I teach my kids is that you don't read what you want to read, but what the other person writes. And comment on the latter. In this case, the other person (me), wrote, with reference to the "scandalous profile" of ma
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by borroka 3y ago
Dodged which bullet? I have never voted for Berlusconi, but he has been a minor figure in Italian politics since 2011, and in terms of actual policies implemented during his governments, he has done very little that I would call dangerous,
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by borroka 3y ago
How and to what extent compared to the leaders of other Western countries? Take the United States, for example. Clinton? George W.? Trump? Biden? And I leave out Obama because he has a cleaner (but not immaculate) profile than the others ju
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by borroka 3y ago
It is a common trap to think that because an unlikely and successful technology--at the time, now obvious--has become mainstream, all (currently) unlikely technologies will inevitably become mainstream. But it is a way of looking at history
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by borroka 3y ago
Sergio Leone and the writers of his movies (Leone, Vincenzoni, Di Leo etc.) redefined Westerns, Clint Eastwood acted in the movies that redefined the Western genre.
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by borroka 3y ago
Philip Kerr was an extraordinary writer, very inventive and with a distinctive prose. One caveat: over the course of the BG series he became, in my opinion, a little too verbose, too good with words for the narrative need. But an excellent,
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by borroka 3y ago
I got hired by a FAANG when I was 38, but I was definitely an outlier (although someone older than me got hired a few months after me, both as IC's). Looking back, I was lucky to hop on one of the very last trains leaving the station.
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by borroka 4y ago
In 2006, for my first visit to SF, I booked a room in a hotel near Union Square. I was awakened around 2 a.m. by a group of crazed homeless people screaming like sopranos. The concert went on for 2 hours. Coming from a European country, the
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by borroka 4y ago
I don't see any inevitability in the development of human culture (and technology), which is instead often perceived as such when looking backwards and not forward. History could have been taken a million different trajectories and we,
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by borroka 4y ago
According to this comment, we should (just) accept that English, in a generation or two, will become some sort of world language with no interest in the preservation of other languages and cultures associated with those cultures. This is a
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by borroka 4y ago
"This is the kind of important government regulation that makes for a productive use of parliament time and the votes of the people" What is a "productive" use of the votes of the people is up for debate. I am not ashame
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by borroka 4y ago
Like many of the things that were said ironically in the past, this one has aged badly. Yes, Italians could be very passionate about the results of football matches. However, Churchill did not have to see how the English interpreted soccer
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by borroka 4y ago
It is a very poor argument and ignores the fact that the lives of people, institutions and countries are not just about (the very important) jobs and economics. I, who have lived in the United States for decades, cringe when English words a
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by borroka 4y ago
> "You seem to think that the obese are "unwilling" (whatever that means)." What means is that the person who is paralyzed from the waist down cannot run (unable), the person with a minor knee pain who is not running
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by borroka 4y ago
The starvation experiment was done on conscientious objectors (not "military deserters", although they might have been considered as such by some at the time) and it had the ultimate goal of understanding what was the best diet to
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by borroka 4y ago
I think, given current knowledge (perhaps in the future the difference between a simple desire and an irresistible impulse will be clearer), the question is philosophical rather than based on science. Is the violent person unable or unwilli
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by borroka 4y ago
I am not going to argue about your particular situation, I am not a doctor (in medicine), and it would be presumptuous on my part and largely irrelevant to the readers. What I can tell you is that, according to the literature and the experi
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by borroka 4y ago
It would cause weight loss in 999 out of 1000 people. You might be an exception, so my comment is not about you. My comment is about the fact that when you see reality shows (I also have examples of a stronger nature) like "Survivor&qu
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by borroka 4y ago
This is a rationalization of a natural impulse that chronic overweight people appear to be unwilling to curb. Just go back in time 30 years, and people were much thinner. Were they driving around with an empty tank? I don't think so, a

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