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by jensen123 11y ago
I live in Norway, and used to have a big problem with SAD and longer-than-24-hour-cycles. I tried a few of the commercial lamps like he did, and my experience was similar. They helped some, but not enough. My current solution is to take a 1
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by jensen123 11y ago
Guess I'm somewhat ignorant about history, so maybe this is a stupid question. But I've been wondering about this: Until about 500 years ago, I guess China was ahead of Europe culturally, economically, scientifically etc, but then
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by jensen123 11y ago
It's great to see more people working to solve the problem of intrusive ads! I wonder what exactly they mean by intrusive ads, though? I hope it's more than just ads that don't respect your privacy. To me an ad is intrusive i
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by jensen123 11y ago
Rural areas in jurisdictions that have big cities, such as the UK or the state of New York, will of course be impacted by such laws (if they pass). However, rural areas in other countries/states that don't have big cities are less
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by jensen123 11y ago
I'm wondering - are big cities becoming obsolete? I suppose there is no coincidence that some of the worst anti-privacy stuff is coming from big cities like New York or countries that are totally centered around a big city such as the
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I wonder if this would have happened if the US hadn't been meddling so much? For example Bush's "Axis of Evil".
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by jensen123 11y ago
I guess maybe you're right and that is the reason why (people making assumptions). However, I've never said any such thing, and no I don't think it would have been ok by the Nazis to simply exile the Jews back then.
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by jensen123 11y ago
I'm being down-voted. I wonder why? Maybe most people prefer to believe some pleasant lie (that their own country was "good", for example) rather than seeing some unpleasant truth? Or maybe I simply didn't explain myself
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by jensen123 11y ago
I'm surprised how little focus there is on noise insulation for apartments. This does not seem to be a high priority for most apartment complexes being constructed. For example, most people seem to care more about the size of the apart
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by jensen123 11y ago
True. But it's much harder to block a low-frequency sound like a thumping bass, than a high-frequency sound like a crying infant. Thicker walls etc. would take care of the sound from crying infants, but can it ever get rid of a thumpin
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by jensen123 11y ago
Much of what I read about Hitler in the mainstream media seems kinda black and white. This paragraph of the Economist article, for example "Woven into the prose are crude Social Darwinism and anti-Semitism that resonated even beyond Ge
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by jensen123 11y ago
On the other hand, I would think that a language that uses tones has higher "bandwidth". When you use tones, you can use shorter words. With these shorter tone-words, you can "transfer" more information in less time, com
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by jensen123 11y ago
If intelligence is not heritable, then sometimes chimpanzees will have children with an IQ of 170, whereas often humans will have children that are as dumb as chimps, right?
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by jensen123 11y ago
There are many arguments in favor of income equality/social democracy, and some of them make sense (less crime for example). However, I've never heard anybody point out before that it's not genetically sustainable in the very
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by jensen123 11y ago
It's weird how people's brains work. Some people are quite capable of seeing all the bad things governments do, but are like totally blind when looking at the bad things corporations do (many of the free-market people, libertarian
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by jensen123 11y ago
So, I googled for grass eating apes and found this: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=128106 Is this what you were thinking about? The evidence seems rather sketchy, though. From the article: "If earl
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by jensen123 11y ago
It's nice to see an article that explains that too much animal protein can be bad for your health, without advocating a 100% plant-based/vegan diet. We humans are apes, and when you look at other apes, they eat mostly plants, but
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Maybe he has become some sort of brand name status symbol? I have the impression that most people are more interested in status symbols than art itself.
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That's an interesting point. The last time I was in Japan, I could not read anything. However, I've learned some now, so maybe the ads will be more annoying the next time I visit :-)
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I think we ought adopt a writing system similar to the Japanese, with Chinese characters. When I've been to Japan, I've seen areas with lots of advertising, but it looks pretty because of the Chinese characters being used. So, I&#
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by jensen123 11y ago
I guess you are correct that there is a lot of racism here and there. However, there is also a lot of rabid anti-racism. For example, you'll never read an article in the mainstream press about how blacks, on average, have lower IQs tha
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by jensen123 11y ago
America is a democracy, where a majority of the population supports the War on Drugs, War on Terrorism etc.
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by jensen123 11y ago
Interesting article. However, at the end there is this idea that the government should fund news reporting. I grew up in Norway where the government did exactly that (the only TV channel when I was a kid was run by the government). Thing is
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You are probably correct that it would be cheaper to purchase nuclear power plants from others, rather than developing yourself. I'm thinking though - maybe many countries would be reluctant to rely on foreigners for something this ess
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I love this idea of tiny houses and 1-person vehicles! I'm currently living in an apartment and using public transportation, which of course is what many environmentalists are recommending. However, this is not a good solution because
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He does not mention bombs. I'm certainly no expert here, but I think I read in the book An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore a long time ago, that if you have the ability to build a nuclear power plant, then building a bomb is not very har
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In the examples you are listing, the activists are using force to change the world into something they want, as opposed to using free speech to try to convince others. A while ago, I read the book Hitler - Memoirs of a Confidant by Otto Wag
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The Internet certainly is making it a lot easier to go directly to the source, and skip the old-fashioned media.
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Have you actually tried to calculate how much money you could raise if you increased taxes on the richest 0.01%? And have you checked how much money is necessary to pay out pensions in the future?
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It never ceases to amaze me how irrational most people are. On September 11, 2001 about 3000 people died in a very dramatic way, and the US launches the whole war on terrorism boondoggle, pretty much throws out the Constitution etc. But her

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