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by brc 13y ago
Bill Gates is pitching to have foreign aid directed through his charities. It certainly would make more sense for the aid to be directed through organizations with runs on the board and a capable organization. I think the parent should p
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by brc 13y ago
What could the pirates do? At the moment the hold the crew at gunpoint and ransom the cargo and crew for the insurance money. With no way to stop the ship, and likely no way to easily get off, the pirates would just be passengers until the
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by brc 13y ago
There is nothing wrong with buy and hold executed well...if that fits your investor risk profile and personality. But you're dead wrong if you think large-cap stocks provide safety from risk. Plenty of large-cap stocks have disappeare
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by brc 13y ago
This is a time-honoured tradition. The dirt in england is awash with buried hoards, where people buried their currency and valuables to hide them from the government. The list is fascinating.
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by brc 13y ago
Well, currency is defined by divisibility, durability, scarcity and difficulty of forging. Humans desire a medium of exchange to better facilitate trade. The desire to trade creates the requirement for currency. The desire to collect ma
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by brc 13y ago
I would say brinkmanship and groupthink are a much more likely explanation than theories about defense spending or oil production or currencies, which fall flat on analysis. Not to say that people didn't make hay with government contr
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by brc 13y ago
>what happens to those jobs when Google (or someone) builds a mass production driver-less car? Lots of people will no longer be employed in low-productivity jobs of driving vehicles. That is exactly what will happen. >as none of us c
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by brc 13y ago
No, definitely not. A company with big revenues and a small staff means a very productive company - someone delivering lots of value for very little work. Whenever you have a productivity multiplier working away, jobs are being created. Th
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by brc 13y ago
I much prefer early pg to current-day pg writing. Hopefully handing over the reigns will bring back some clarity of thought. This is a good article which highlights several things I agree with: >The prospect of technological leverage wi
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by brc 13y ago
No..the trick is to find some sort of network of friends before you go. I went to London with about 500 pounds of cash and no concrete job, on a one-way ticket. For a start - renting is out - you have to find someone who is willing to len
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by brc 13y ago
I find it very depressing that socialism gets tried over and over again with the same predictable results. Power-mad but charismatic leader, wrecked national econonmy, widespread shortages of every day items, suppression of free media and
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by brc 13y ago
Which is precisely why a re-nationalized telecommunications provider was such a terrible, terrible idea. Google cannot install fiber in Australia even if it wanted to, because competition to the NBN is illegal. It's now 7 years since
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by brc 13y ago
Australians already eat 16,000 tonnes of shark per year. Culling a few more to make beaches safer for swimming is hardly an issue. This regularly happens in other parts of Australia and certainly other parts of the world. However, suddenly
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by brc 13y ago
The Australian Navy doesn't do this at all. There have been calls for the navy to do so, and calls by politicians and activists for more intervention, but the Navy does not put itself between Japanese whaling boats and whales.
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by brc 13y ago
OK. But does whale meat have a culinary term? Do the Japanese, Norwegians or Icelanders have a term for it, that is not a literal 'whale meat'? While on the topic- why does english have a term for most domestic meats except for
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by brc 13y ago
Eventually you hit a wall - because the other costs mount up and the efficiency point has a lower bound it can't get past. Solar is stuck with only being productive at most < 50% of the day. It's like designing a super-effici
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by brc 13y ago
It's chance. Even two cars of the same type never seem to match up. They will often sync for a while, but then gradually get out of synch until they are 180 degrees different. I suppose it is down to minute differences in lighting cir
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by brc 13y ago
I also saw this somewhere else, and one of the people worked for 'Tata Motors' - seems a stretch to call this finance. I don't know what the population of VPs and CEOs worldwide is. Given that it is overrepresented by men be
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by brc 13y ago
You must love the cold. I cannot fathom living in an area like that.
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by brc 13y ago
I make no claims about anything - I merely read an interpret the published results. The reason 'healers' are wrong about mental illness is because their hyphotheses are either untested, or proven to be wrong. Not because lots of
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by brc 13y ago
Perhaps my question wasn't clear, I'll rephrase. ID is a specific theory which you either support or you don't. When does a person specifically support 'climate denial'? If I say that the observed sensitivity is les
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by brc 13y ago
2.4 M in 85 years? That is 28 mm a year increase - current observations are about 3mm per year. That is an exponential growth that is unlikely to occur.
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by brc 13y ago
I have tried to point out the fallibility of consensus and suggestions to actually look at the actual observed climate sensitivity throughout these comments. It seems that you cannot reason people out of a position they didn't reason t
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by brc 13y ago
I understand what you mean by intelligent design, I've read that theory, and it's that certain characteristics observed in nature are irreducible complexity, which supports the hypothesis of a supreme being. It's certainly a
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by brc 13y ago
It's still the same thing. You can state that the researchers say one thing... but that doesn't make that thing true . 10 years ago if I had a stomach ulcer, all the researchers and doctors would have told me I had stress and tha
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by brc 13y ago
Consensus means nothing. If anything it encourages groupthink and makes doubt and scepticism unfashionable - which is the exact opposite to what you need for doing good science. What matters is predictions, hypotheses and observations. Th
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by brc 13y ago
I appreciate that you're clearly a passionate activist, but your statements are alarmist and counterproductive. 'Whole countries wiped off the map'..'mass famine and suffering'...'yield rates going down'..
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by brc 13y ago
Argument by consensus is simply argument by headcount. It isn't an argument. I can point out a long laundry list where the 'consensus' was completely wrong, yet every person with a letter behind their name supported it. Cons
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by brc 13y ago
What you are saying is that the observed climate sensitivity to co2 has been much lower than the modeled climate sensitivity to co2. And that the earlier, alarming models showing large temperature rises are most likely to be incorrect for a
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by brc 13y ago
I knew someone who I have since amateur-psych diagnosed as being psycopathic in part (not a real diagnosis). I met this person while they were going through a divorce. We worked together on a few things for a while - charm and glib is a g

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