jivardo_nucci

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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
Surely you could provide a reference not behind a paywall?
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
1. Concerning your first argument (consequences of birth): Since the results of the process (birth and rearing) cannot, in a free society, be taken away from an individual and used to benefit others, then what might you propose as a sociall
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
The simulation studies of Bouchard & Mezard show that, regardless of initial conditions, wealth distribution ends up a Pareto distribution with a small percentage taking almost all of the goods. The take-away of Bouchard & Mezard&#
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
> "So if you inherit a $10M business, the only way to pay > your tax bill is to liquidate the business..." False. Any business in good financial condition can obtain loans easily, especially in the current economy. And why w
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
"User interface woes" is my guess. I found USENET and associated newsgroups to be better than the WWW, especially for discussions of software. I once even promoted the use of internal newsgroups w/in a corporate environment,
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
We're talking about _root_ _canals_, not dental fillings! Other than the anaesthetic, the materials used in root canals are are entirely different from those used in a dental filling. Furthermore, root canals require different training
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
You're right, my bad! I should have said "Aristotelian mechanics" instead of "Galilean mechanics". Galileo saw his physical intuitions but, being the scientist he was, corrected them.
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
They miss the most obvious aspect of being gorgeous for women - men will pursue them relentlessly for sex. Probably few young girls are adequately prepared for the onslaught. I've had women friends who fit into the gorgeous category.
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
Try buying a _used_ car! I've had a 1992 GM car for 18 years. It runs great, gets OK mileage and repairs are ridiculously cheap. Only downside: soon it will become a "classic car" and I'll have to pay more for insurance.
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
Is it necessarily the anaesthesia or a hemorrhage? Have they considered removing the root canal? Sometimes removing the materials from a root canal has improved a patient's health significantly. Certainly one could understand why the d
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
Wrong on two levels: Our physical intuitions are Galilean, not classical, mechanics (that is, they are non-Newtonian). For example, our intuitions tell us that an object set in motion eventually slows down and stops. That's Galilean (a
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
URL to actual article(PDF) in 31 OCTOBER 2014 SCIENCE: http://cs.brown.edu/people/tld/publications/archive/Marcusan...
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
Very easy recipe (takes about an hour, mostly waiting for milk to cool): - Buy a container of your favorite _plain_ yogurt and a gallon of milk, - Boil the milk in a pan, - Cool milk until it is warm (usual baby formula test - you can drop
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
... and adopt and raise children, pass their SS to their spouse when they "die" (go bankrupt?), marry human "persons", marry horse, dogs, the subway train et al? They have no SS? Absurd, why not?
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
In the midst of reading this I was struck by the question "If corporations are persons, can corporations marry?"
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
Yes, the civil and legal ramifications are important: - my inheritance: my spouse can get my SS income when I die, my wife inherits my goods by default, etc. Now gays get the same treatment. - taxes: are different for married and non-marri
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
The woman in the photos is wearing swim fins, which makes an enormous difference. Give a freestyle swimmer the same fins and (s)he'll blow the underwater swimmer away.
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
"Empathy? Empathy? We don't need no stinkin' empathy!" Uh, perhaps you meant "delegation"? No one uses the term "empathy" in reference to any OOP languages AFAICT except the authors of that non-text s
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
"The ones who were able to migrate to safer places with gold, restarted their life much more easily..." IOW "The wealthy were able to migrate to safer places and restart their lives more easily." No surprise there. So it
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
I was brought up with Lincoln logs then Tinker Toys. When I saw Lego blocks I thought "Those are for dumb kids" and kept on tinkering. It's an easy step up to chemical models from Tinker Toys. The difference is generational:
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
I doubt that. It is more likely that you are impatient. Recall of older experiences can be frustratingly slow. To recover old info, first concentrate on it and recall as much as possible (what you call "metadata"), and then simply
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
Sounds like the dog vaccine works in humans. How is dose adjusted (by weight, by surface area, etc.)? Anyone know the cost of the dog vaccine?
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
Looks like a candidate for a fecal transplant: http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/clinical-upd... Most facilities do it the fancy way (use a tube down the nose or up the rear), run tests and, as usual, cha
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by jivardo_nucci 11y ago
I hate to be a downer but this "idea" will vanish like morning mist with the first terrorist nuke. Urban designers for densely-populated countries should plan instead for people and industry to spread out as much as possible to el