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by dsq 4y ago
In the past, white, refined bread might mean keeping your teeth intact. Sifted flour meant no sand or gravel that could crack them.
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by dsq 4y ago
Thanks for those examples. Great reading!
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by dsq 4y ago
Absolutely, John Wick stands out. Though I think he started out villainous in the backstory.
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by dsq 4y ago
Popular culture can help us out. When the villain has a 'personal pet', as opposed to a shark tank or alligators, it's generally a cat. Though sometimes dogs, either a Doberman or German shepherd. So, relatively big dogs. I d
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by dsq 4y ago
At least the US founding fathers had the foresight to put in the emoluments clause: "...no Person holding any Office...shall...accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign S
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by dsq 4y ago
Perhaps Canada itself will hot experience starvation, but an overall fall in calories (and nutrients) produced will put pressure on world food prices.
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by dsq 4y ago
To address your question, the point is for you to click on the link :). Otherwise, I think that the fall in work motivation is definitely connected to inflation. First, the money you make is worth less, so it seems pointless. Second, you se
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by dsq 4y ago
I recall that in the wake of the end of the Cold War, the US began hiring former Soviet nuclear/bio/chem weapons experts to prevent them from selling their services to various regimes. This could be a good time for govt and milita
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by dsq 4y ago
I know people who are very hand-wavy about technical development or engineering. They think everything just appears from thin air, like a cartoon genie. When I debunk that with details of even the simplest code, they respond "soon AI w
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by dsq 4y ago
I think so, given a healthy market. Sometimes fiat decisions or policies can discourage or outright prevent local supply from developing. The key is balance.
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by dsq 4y ago
Absolutely, that's why it's a silver lining in a very dark cloud. Ordinary folks (myself included) suffer greatly in inflation. The only real beneficiaries are exporters of locally produced goods or services
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by dsq 4y ago
Quite right, imports get more expensive. I guess it's only beneficial if you have most of the supply chain in-country.
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by dsq 4y ago
A weaker currency is better for exports. So Italy can export cars, or olive oil, and the foreign currency it receives will buy more euros for paying employees, local suppliers, etc.
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by dsq 4y ago
The silver lining is that a weaker currency means EU exports are more competitive.
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by dsq 4y ago
When i read the title, as a non-physicist, non-scientist, it sounds like the precursor to...teleportation! Over 20 miles distance. What is wrong with me for thinking that :)
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by dsq 4y ago
Total energy consumption or just electricity? Because electricity is itself only a third of total energy use in, say, Germany. So a third of 45 percent is 15 percent. Good, but doesn't save the day. Also, is that steady throughout the
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by dsq 4y ago
The problem with nuclear right now is that even if we decide to massively increase the share of nuclear power in the energy mix (in itself a very good idea), it will take a lot of time to build up the human technical capital necessary to pl
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by dsq 4y ago
Lawyer-run government is the norm in most Western countries. Software dev today is dominated by the US because of the brain drain great sucking noise.
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by dsq 4y ago
I read Hobbit, LotR, Silmarillion. Until Numenor fell Arda was flat as a plate, which would prevent formations of coal, oil and other minerals necessary for basic industrial technology. While it's true that in the third age the world b
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by dsq 4y ago
Not to be that guy, but: What is the unique selling point to choose blockchain over other solutions already existing in the market such as Tibco, or even a centralized database containing the various business rules and logic? After all, th
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by dsq 4y ago
In an economic sense, using average is a way of obfuscating inequality. Average salary, for example, includes every salaried employee, such as the multi-million dollar a year senior executive, thus giving the mistaken impression that '
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by dsq 4y ago
Would these friends/coworkers be those who have no or few commitments such as dependent children? This is an honest question, not sarcasm.
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by dsq 4y ago
Absolutely. No amount of lipstick can transform a pig into a prince[ss], but sadly GIGO still holds and the trash in the ether distracts and stupefies. That is, you can make a potentially smart person into a dumb one.
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by dsq 4y ago
This is probably a very real problem. Perhaps not biological IQ per se, but culturally Western populations have been dumbed down significantly over the past few decades. This is actually my only objection to nuclear power: it requires a ce
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by dsq 4y ago
Oh, absolutely. I use a fan from April through May. Come summer with 35-40 degrees and 80-90 percent humidity, as is the case for six to eight months of the year in many places, no fan will help, only true-blue A/C. Moving air also hel
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by dsq 4y ago
I definitely sleep less well in the hot, humid, summer than in winter. When it's cold you can add layers. When it's hot you reach a limit of zero layers of clothing/coverings and then have to move the heat and humidity elsewh
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by dsq 4y ago
It is important to note that if you depend on WhatsApp then there is no straightforward, dependable means of transferring WhatsApp from Android to iOS (the other direction does have an accepted solution). You will have to pay for a third pa
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by dsq 5y ago
It's probably more the propertied class leaning on the board who in turn lean on senior management. "Do you want the board to approve that x million dollar bonus this year or not? We need rents back up."
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by dsq 5y ago
At first this seems logical: solve the existing probleme on Earth, and only then devote resources to 'nice to have' projects. The counter arguments are: The money saved would probably not go to solving real problems (who gets to d
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by dsq 5y ago
I was careless in my phrasing. What I should have said was that only a fraction of the males in a generation are necessary for fathering the next generation, and that all the other males can be diverted to other tasks or simply left to fend

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