comrade_ogilvy

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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
I would argue that many more people monitoring can encourage the fear of making the wrong call. "Hey, someone smarter and more experienced than me should makes sense of this." "Hey, the smart new guy is supposed to be watch
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Yours is the correct viewpoint: it is incompatible with human cognition. If an alert system is not perceived as highly reliable in directing positive action, then the humans involved will inevitably disable the alert system, either by pul
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
These are pros who are paid very well to have a clue. It is not silly if "acting stupidly" is described in writing, such that all parties adequately understand when the hammer is likely to come down. I am sure a lot of traders p
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
>It seems to me that these kinds of discussions tend to conflate forced government surveillence with voluntarily giving your information to other people (such as Facebook). They are inexorably linked together, but we must speak precisely
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Yes, the act of making an apology will be perceived as implying that the speaker is more than willing to help improve the situation, regardless of how we got there, thus what you said.
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
>> I'm surprised that you agree w/ the conclusion of the review that segregating talent into higher and lower achieving groups is bad. >I think it's bad too, and here's why: The teachers & staff in charge of
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
"Enforcing a low ceiling" is a very bias conclusion, with no logical support provided here. The school system as we know it is a mass education "factory" system. There is and always will be cracks for students to fall t
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
What is likely to be true is the pharmaceuticals will allow a conscious choice among a menu of tradeoffs, on a daily basis. Such tradeoffs might be possible now, for those with sufficient discipline, but switching between very different one
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
>>What assumption does atheism make? None. >Atheism makes the assumption there is no God (read creator). >Creationism makes the assumption there is a creator. No. You are using the word "assumption" incorrectly. In th
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Thanks for all the info! It seems possible that torturing animals for days on end could be fatal to the victim. I hesitate to suggest to try adding doses of sleep to this diabolic regimen, for fear it would be attempted.
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
It is not the neurons themselves, but the the glial cells that keep those very large and (potentially) active neurons healthy. Presumably the glial cells must partially shut down in order to physically shrink, thus the neurons must notch d
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Probably not. If a lot of energy is being used in the clean up process, then the need for sleep is most likely driven by the physical advantages of sleep, not the advantage of using less energy or similar. Note this quote: "Cells in t
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Heck, how to classify even existing living and breathing specimens is not always clear. Genetic sequencing has resolved some, but not all, such questions. Fundamentally, there is no obvious and unambiguous definition of "species"
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
But those are not any kind of axiom, because neither is a self-evident or clearly correct version of truth. Two poor examples of an axiom are not "on the same level" as axioms. >Either of those axioms requires an assumption, an
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
False equivalency. It was only the House Reps who were claiming the moral authority to hold a gun to the head of our economy, in order to squeeze concessions that they cannot possibly win by any normal legislative procedure. Senator Reid co
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Your examples demonstrate the point, because the Persians, Arabs, and Mongols did not conquer in the colonialist model common to Western powers. The closest would be the rapacious Mongols, who burned much and built little. That is not exac
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
>The leverage you can get is fantastic, and the interest payments are generally similar to what you'd be paying in rent anyway. Careful. The interest payments are only one piece of the puzzle, albeit a big one. A renter does not ne
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Not really. That is not intrinsic to the reform movement. That is the educational system responding to political pressure. The reformers have to play the game by the rules as they exist in the moment. If the standardized cookie cutter t
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
While a radical departure from the old school methods, Montessori is not intrinsically "progressive". It is built on the idea that there is a clear curriculum with the very big difference being children are primarily responsible
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Right. Actually doing the exercise or actually eating the vegetables is at worse a minor nuisance, that on most days has enough immediate positives that it is self-reinforcing. Once we have the running shoes on, we probably find ourselves
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Bingo. Bill Gate entered the upper class based on birth. His own efforts brought him yet higher. But Bill Gates proves exactly nothing about how hard working people move into the upper class, because he never ever did so himself.
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
If it only applies to 1 in a million, it is not even demonstrably useful information about the upper class itself. From a matter of plain definitions, Bill Gates started in the upper class from the moment of his birth. His circumstance did
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
The beauty of a systems approach is that it takes vastly less willpower. It is very counter-intuitive to most people: "Gee, doing that every day, that sounds so hard. I can barely get exercise twice a week; therefore exercising every
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
I don't get the complaint either. It is comparable to white rice in preparation time and comparable to brown rice in flavor and nutrition. As someone raised on lots of rice at the dinner table, I think it puts rice to shame. No, it is
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
That's nice, but the problem is that "selling out" has strong pejorative connotations, while being completely vague. Does Bill Gates have a positive moral duty to all those "stakeholders" employed at MS, until the d
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
It does not work that way. The finite Easy Oil is the proverbial tip of the iceberg. The price point just trends upwards after the relatively easy material is successfully mined/drilled -- there is plenty more, it is just harder and h
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
I have often wondered if the CO2 is really the most dangerous ecological experiment we are applying to this planet at this point in history. It is, after all, a plant nutrient that eventually goes away over time. 3.5 billion years ago thi
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Well, for one thing, the "impossible" comes with large error bars and thus is difficult to trust, even those trained in the sciences (or, perhaps, ESPECIALLY for those trained in the sciences). At least the pragmatic buys time, i
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
>For example, if the skies of tomorrow are filled with inexpensive drones, it's grossly cost-ineffective to fight with long range guided missiles. Perhaps. But human dogfighting skills will prove even more worthless in that future,
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by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Keep in mind that even if the tenured faculty of yesteryear do not disappear, the numbers are likely to not do better than flat. Consider the numbers... A successful professor, who brings in the grant money, can supervise 10-30 graduate stu

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