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by jbattle 8y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the article - but it sounds like there was a drop of 95% in the population of males living in Europe / Africa / Asia? What kind of World War Zero could possibly explain this? I really can't pic
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by jbattle 8y ago
Also Libya's economy was very dependent on a small number of energy resources. Which very often drives a lot of problems for a country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse I'm hopeful for Ethiopia tha
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by jbattle 8y ago
There is a rule of thumb that relates the size of the brain to the size of the body. A bigger needs more brain mass just to operate (more nerve endings?). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalization_quotient
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by jbattle 8y ago
A lot of these would be good submissions to the Ministry of Silly Walks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2ViNJFZC8
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by jbattle 8y ago
> Also, be careful with the word meat in old texts Reminds me of the barnacle goose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle_goose#Folklore Folks in the middle ages had some confused ideas about where the adult geese
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by jbattle 8y ago
I think you would like Dead Souls by Gogol. It has the same kind of biting criticism as the idiot, but it's a bit darker (if I remember right) - not as dark as C&P, but darker than the idiot
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by jbattle 8y ago
I took as the point of the article THERE IS NO HOW-TO GUIDE You arrive, disoriented, at "real adulthood" and realize you don't have THE answers, and also that no one else does either
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by jbattle 8y ago
We've worked at different companies. I've seen the opposite. In smaller organizations there's more of a ... for lack of a better word ... team spirit. Conflicts rarely devolve to a zero-sum faceoff and people are more likely
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by jbattle 8y ago
Yeah it might add up to a few thousand dollars. Maybe 10. Oh and a week or three of time. No need to send a sizable team of people. I'm being a little flippant but really - it's not an insurmountable expense. Contrast that with ho
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by jbattle 8y ago
I've never understood why this topic is being studied primarily through archaeology. There are plenty of humans alive today that live far from much artificial light and could tell you exactly what their life is like right now, what the
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by jbattle 8y ago
Shifting heating & cooling demand sounds difficult. Without a lot of distributed energy storage
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by jbattle 9y ago
There are plenty of places in France that are still off-limits to human habitation due to unexploded ordinance and chemical contamination from ww1 (100 years ago). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge My guess is t
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by jbattle 9y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the window is already closing for this constructed personalities where you can't tell if they are real or not. People get relatively savvy to the nuances of new media fairly quickly (within a few years).
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by jbattle 9y ago
I'm actually not that optimistic, but it seems like after nearly two decades of declines due to the internet, serious news outlets are getting more people to pay for online newspapers https://techcrunch.com/2017/03
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by jbattle 9y ago
Google has and does change our society, it always has. It has always been implicitly premised on the idea that there are new and better ways to do things. Remember life before google maps? Before youtube? If they are willing to rethink how
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by jbattle 9y ago
I have a rift and it has exceeded all my expectations in terms of performance. Sure I would be happier if it was lighter and had no cord. But the big issue is the dearth of content. There are a handful of high quality games for the thing, a
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by jbattle 9y ago
You got downvoted, but yeah - I do think that's part of the plan. To sow confusion and distrust. An article on NPR talked about how russian bots were playing both sides of the gun control question in the last few days. If the goal is j
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by jbattle 9y ago
I got about 3000 words in and lost interest but I will say this - I always wonder with posts like this whether you are seeing examples that are representative or cherry-picked. I assume the latter. Which implies that we are reading about wh
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by jbattle 9y ago
Honestly I bet it doesn't matter what products or setup you use - sounds like you as parents made words and reading a ever-present part of the environment. I'm 98% sure that general atmosphere is important and has big results, reg
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by jbattle 9y ago
Your car payment is fixed, but you are likely to need to replace the car X months/years sooner if you put miles on it more rapidly. So the question isn't whether you need to spend extra on your current car because of Uber, its w
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by jbattle 9y ago
I'm not anti-bodycam at all - but they don't seem to have had the effect we all hoped for... https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/20/558832090... From a minute of googling, look
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by jbattle 9y ago
My neighbor maintained a bird feeder which brought in tons of different species. He moved and we're back to sparrows / pigeons / redwing blackbirds (summer) and the occasional crow . Ironically the birds I was most enjoyed wa
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by jbattle 9y ago
My oldest son (the only one that's shown interest in programming) really liked Scratch. One feature of Scratch that I didn't expect to be part of the appeal was how easy they make it to share your work. Every time he build someth
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by jbattle 9y ago
As a kid I played D&D and heard all the stories about how demons would posses even the game books. There was a small part of me that wanted to burn one of my books, just to see what would happen (the story I heard is you'd see scre
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by jbattle 9y ago
I saw the exact same thing at one of my jobs! Kids barely out of school convinced everyone over 30 was completely out of touch and unable to learn new things. After two years of working they all expected to be "architect" this an
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by jbattle 9y ago
The term “dehousing “ (used by the British to describe their bombers targeting the houses of German workers) is one of the most chilling and inhumane words I know. The official story is they were just trying to deny shelter to German civili
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by jbattle 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemi... Silicon has a lot of chemical possibilities similar to carbon. Also methane can perform a lot of the same functions as liquid water (though at very differ
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by jbattle 9y ago
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon
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by jbattle 9y ago
Back in the old days, before computers could run multiple programs and switching between them was easy, some games had a built-in "boss mode". You'd hit a function key and the game you were playing would be replaced with some
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by jbattle 9y ago
Babies are hard. Real hard. It gets easier (never easy), but this phase will for sure come to an end.

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