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   by djdj123 13y ago

   You may have picked up on the author's not-so-subtle self-congratulation in the use of the phrase: "our great culture". There is a lot of wonderful material to be absorbed in the ancient texts of India, but the text of that p
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   by djdj123 13y ago

   This generalization gets bandied about too much. Crime trends and patterns are highly local. I'm sure violent crime is dropping in many places, but in other places it's spiraling out of control, for example, South Chicago, East
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   by djdj123 13y ago

   Another criticism of Gladwell's writing by Steven Pinker some years ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/review/Pinker-t.html...
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   by djdj123 13y ago

   Er, iphones and other fancy smartphones are being stolen because they fetch hundreds of dollars from black-market wholesalers and unwitting craigslist buyers. Not because people don't use a PIN. Of course, using a PIN is a good idea
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   by djdj123 13y ago

   Living in a bay area city with a recent alarming increase in armed robbery due to a shrinking police force (guess which one), I would suggest that crime, like real estate, is local, local, local. Perhaps Times Square and Talinn are safer