dingbat

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by dingbat 10y ago
if even a tiny fraction of those 1000 tiny probes hit that planet at 20% of speed of light, could that pose a problem? it sounds like a shotgun approach, not so figuratively, using pellets loaded with plutonium.
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by dingbat 10y ago
for some reason its difficult to even imagine two male bankers sharing one umbrella together
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by dingbat 10y ago
> Real kudos to the press who broke and made very public the stories. This was the media at its finest. On the other hand, most of the press was more than happy to play along with this charade. Those in the media who ran with lazy profil
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by dingbat 10y ago
interesting article but was it necessary for the authors photograph to be as large as the entire text itself?
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by dingbat 10y ago
do your attempts in explaining this make any difference at all in terms of making things happen? or are they also failures?
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by dingbat 10y ago
not to discount your experience, but how do you know that your sense of being part of the core group that actually "makes things happen" isnt shared by many others who also feel that they belong to the group that really runs the p
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by dingbat 10y ago
i remember the sequel "Cyberjudas", fun but frustrating too. was excessively impressed with how the game used CIA world factbook info.. "whoa, this is like so real dude!"
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by dingbat 10y ago
unfortunately would have to say no. bells and whistles and alien fungi but missing the spirit. Stellaris however is AMAZING.. its got the feel of original Master of Orion and old time Civs.
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by dingbat 11y ago
picture is worth a 1000 words, the photo of the laughing audience tells the demographic tale. it seems to me a lot of comments here are focusing on the tech aspects of this (no surprise i guess) instead of the point: this is a marie antoine
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by dingbat 11y ago
who needs functional email.. Y! really needs more katie couric, to retain loyal users like your mom
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by dingbat 11y ago
interesting that "not losing" (avoiding mistakes that lead to "blowing up") also seems to be common philosophy shared among very successful investors of wildly differing styles, who are playing another sort of game in th
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by dingbat 11y ago
im not sure if youre joking but in my experience this is pretty accurate.
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by dingbat 11y ago
it may have been misunderstood: when I am referring to "high-end/low-end" I am referring to Emily as high-end, Amber as low-end --- not Lakisha. I do not know what the equivalent comparison would be using the example of Lakis
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by dingbat 11y ago
further complicated by the tendency towards aspirational naming, as over time formerly upscale names like Emily / Alexandra / Madison etc become associated with low-end socioeconomics due to overexposure. however, you'd have
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by dingbat 11y ago
if you read the article its clear that Tegmark is raising deeper questions, not claiming to have the answers.
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by dingbat 11y ago
hi lord krishna i am a fan > To action alone hast thou a right and never at all to its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motive; neither let there be in thee any attachment to inaction
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by dingbat 11y ago
> I can agree with the distinction of 'fixed' versus 'growth' mindsets (although... .. how do you measure that?), but that success is guaranteed if you believe and try... Not necessarily. where does Dr. Dweck make tha
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by dingbat 11y ago
things change, CBT appears to be losing efficacy: http://digest.bps.org.uk/2015/06/is-cbt-for-depression-losin...
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by dingbat 11y ago
you are correct re: the modern day Oprah culture, but at the same time it is pretty clear that stoicism is having "a moment" precisely as a reaction to the saturation of the "get joy now!" self help book-club glurdge.
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by dingbat 11y ago
damage to the pancreas and related hormonal systems is cumulative, often not apparent until its too late. people can be pre-diabetic and not obese. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-01-26/more-than-.
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by dingbat 11y ago
fantastic. you might also want to check out the lost ending of his classic Phase IV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beLpsWaUDNk
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by dingbat 11y ago
neurologists at UCLA Alzheimers center have developed a formulation of Curcumin called "Longvida" which appears to reduce the accumulation of this brain plaque: http://alzheimer.neurology.ucla.edu/Curcumin.html C
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by dingbat 11y ago
HN was down earlier today too, or at least timing out on my end. never saw that before.
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by dingbat 11y ago
this sounds like whats happening during an approach that is sometimes used in therapeutic settings: where a patient or client is induced into recalling a memory with negative emotional content, and then guided into transforming that memory
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by dingbat 11y ago
its pretty simple, there is obviously a very ingrained faith in the standard organizational structure w/ management, staff. its so obvious that is how things should be (its "fundamental"), that its difficult to consider that
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by dingbat 11y ago
well another way to look at it is that there is already a fundamentalist organizational religion that most people adhere to, they're just unaware of being part of one already