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drilldrive
8y ago
I suspect that the high price may be in part due to Amtrak renting the private railroad tracks for its use, though I definitely do not know the exact cause.
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8y ago
For short distances, Amtrak is better than flying. A ticket from LA to San Diego costed me $35 compared to $80 flying one-way.
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8y ago
I cannot see how spandrels would be particularly controversial, though you need to have the right perspective of such. I believe a spandrel in theory to be the potential minus the solution at hand; in certain problem spaces a spandrel may b
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8y ago
The only problem that I have with this line of reasoning is why we ended up being capable of complex thinking processes at all, though I do suppose then that is answered by how rare such an evolutionary line is (with a 'success state&#
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8y ago
My reading of Gould found that he is quite propagandistic with his claims, and that the ground that he covers would be more suitably done by a more careful analysis, which I believe to not exist currently.
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8y ago
Yes, but the question is in part of why is the bell curve centered where it is today? Time was not against our side in the past, in that we had plenty of time to evolve for stronger intelligence criteria. Thus there must be a counterbalance
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8y ago
Sorry, I should have given the quote that I was referring to: "It must also be said that given that the average life expectancy of a patient diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease is eight to 10 years, Reagan, who died in 2004 (10 years af
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8y ago
Yes the right wing does have worse-off sourcing in general in comparison to the left wing. But the left wing is what has been holding power, a la the article here, with the partisan Snopes given control over the content of people's fee
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8y ago
This exact scenario is what I find to be a call to a fullness of individualism to be quite inappropriate. We are not just ourselves, but of our parents and grandparents, and of our children. And to forget our lineage is to forget ourselves,
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8y ago
How so? They allowed the license to expire?
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drilldrive
8y ago
I like to think of smartphones as the "devil's gadget", alluding to the original conceptualization of Satan: the being of natural tendency.
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drilldrive
8y ago
Okay, but the headline does say "bold theory", which is a mischaracterization, yes?
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drilldrive
8y ago
A hair off topic, but is Muskrat ever used as a denotative?
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drilldrive
8y ago
Why do people put their cards on Facebook then? It is absolutely not safe to do, especially if you have (young) children.
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drilldrive
8y ago
But how about transportation as a whole? Wouldn't people have better transport than ever these days then? I doubt that public transport is ideal anyways.
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8y ago
This is quite disgusting. How will these companies rebuild their reputation of their URL's after this? So there will not even be a redirection to the new site?
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drilldrive
8y ago
Oh of course, Brexit in particular is for the British and the British alone. But perhaps if you seed similar movements to other EU partners then you could benefit Europe as a whole. That would follow the logic of the above post.
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drilldrive
8y ago
You should set up your own archive website with plans for long term (post-mortum) servers.
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8y ago
Because their goal should be what is best for Europe, not what is best for the EU.