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by hugh4 11y ago
I assume that's recess, in addition to lunch.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Doing either of those things is very hard. I am wary of those who want to "change the world". Change the world for the better, or the worse? What makes you smart enough to be sure you'll be doing the former and not the latt
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by hugh4 11y ago
> maybe the category "conspiracy theory" isn't so useful? Maybe not. The defining aspect of silly theories isn't just that they involve conspiracies. However many silly theories do wind up involving conspiracies, beca
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by hugh4 11y ago
What we need is more people capable of entertaining an idea without necessarily believing it. People who can acknowledge multiple possibilities and put reasonable plausibility ratings on them without getting too emotionally involved with an
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by hugh4 11y ago
I reject the premise that San Francisco should be planning for an ever-increasing population. At some point I think that San Francisco should look at itself and say "Hey, we're a small, earthquake-prone hilly penninsula, we can&#x
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by hugh4 11y ago
> It's a good thing that upper middle class people today can't afford to have lower class people do domestic services for them. It's an indication that lower class people can make a lot more money doing non-domestic work.
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by hugh4 11y ago
And yet the US government still managed to get by, and the US grew rapidly to become the richest and most powerful country on the planet.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I must admit my BS detectors are set off when anyone claims that their own little field of expertise is going to have a major impact on brain dynamics and quantum technologies and quantum gravity.
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by hugh4 11y ago
>America is spent out. The US personal savings rate is under 5%. Everything else gets spent, and the saved money gets spent later. There's no "pent-up demand" waiting to be unlocked by advertising. Though potentially you c
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by hugh4 11y ago
For many students, the answer is "to get a visa to move to a first-world country". If you're a smart first-worlder, there's many careers more lucrative than scientific research, so you'd only go into it because of p