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Sure, and when they are doing that they are doing goon work. The rest of the time they're doing what they are actually employed to do. All jobs are made up of numerous tasks, but just because the CEO tidies his desk periodically does n
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Humans suffered colds without antibiotics for hundreds of thousands of years. Just because we can endure certain circumstances does not make them optimal. Our ancestors certainly didn't avoid softer sleeping spots because of some benef
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Sprain both knees and ankles and red light treat opposite ones (ie randomly select right ankle + left knee or the opposite pair).
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Space Shuttle hasn't flown in 14 years, the decision to retire it was made 21 years ago, they stopped making space shuttles 33 years ago, the system was designed over 50 years ago when the current NASA administrator was a child. What a
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Pretty sure it's the same type of politics. If you think private, profit driven corporations are reluctant to deal with individuals viewed as problematic by their customers, wait until you see how elected, popularity driven officials d
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No, it was part of the failure mode. The next line you quoted is the result. > Which is definitely not how the world is currently treating Trump. I don't know what world you're referring to, but the one I'm living on has
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Pissing off allies was part of the first failure mode: "Riding a political tide of disillusionment and despair, a far-right patriot captures the presidency with thundering rhetoric, demanding respect for American authority and threaten
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They weren't testing a safety procedure, they were testing whether they could get rid of a safety feature. Specifically they were checking whether the plant's turbine could provide enough power to keep coolant flowing without th
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> How much of that is because of politics? The US government is a lot more affected by politics than twitter will ever be.
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None of these people were let go because of the quality of their work. What incentive would they have to do their job well if their continued employment is not based on merit?
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Because we're proud of our country, unlike certain traitors.
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No, 'rare' in this case means dilute. They were named this back at a time when there were few uses for the substances and they were generally considered worthless.
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Requirement changes on cost plus contracts are endemic. And it's not one way - typically the pipeline is starting to work on the project with requirement A under the assumption it will cost X, find out a decent way through that it&#x27
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> A bad hire is much worse than no hire. Within limits. Obviously toxic employees pulling in the opposite direction are a major issue, but mildly suboptimal hires are generally not a big deal. Conversely when a team is chronically overwo
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That would not have an affect on human evolution. The time period was too short, too recent, and that was a series of independent local events. Further, wars were almost always between regional neighbors then as well.
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Whether something is acceptable depends very heavily on cultural norms. If lots of people do it without condemnation, that is compelling evidence there is a cultural norm which accepts it. That's a cromulent argument.
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I mean there are certainly vulnerabilities that are substantially asymmetric.
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Actually in hunter-gatherer societies inter-tribal violence is extremely rare, with intra-tribal violence being way more common. One has to remember that in hunter gatherer societies concepts like territory and property are not as important
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And I can't think of a period in history where I can use a tiny device in my pocket to order a coat with same day delivery, but somehow invading Russia in winter still seems like a bad idea. I see no reason to believe that democracies
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I don't think you are getting the idea. ANY military operation of this scale, be it a massive blockade, an invasion, a coordinated strike on multiple US bases, they all are impossible to hide. Such large scale conventional strikes are
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One has to wonder what our "hate running water" thing is - ie something we feel compelled to do which seems perfectly sensible to us but is really just an evolutionary gimmick that some other species would think is weird.
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I mean that is how GDP works. Wasting billions on something stupid counts just as much as spending the same amount on sound investments.
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What would be the cost to do it artificially?
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> They're building those anyway, which suggests they have some sort of plan to use them after the antiship missile threat has been eliminated in the region. The most plausible way to accomplish that is to paralyze the American respo
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We know from fossil evidence that spotted hyenas used to live in egypt but died out there about 5000 years ago. The striped hyena remained. This was not some improbable random event that took 5000 years to be observed. Climate change recent
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Let's say you are a detective investigating a murder for hire. Why did the hitman kill this person? If you stop your questioning at "Because he was paid, duh" you're a really crappy detective. A good detective would then
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Airbus's other European competition disappeared at around the same time Boeing's US competition did. Further, the time is not how long it took for the problems to manifest but how long they took to be recognized. Boeing was not pu
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Has there ever been a period in history where the dominant military power said "okay, no one can challenge us, let's roll back our military spending" and the peace remained? I can think of a lot of previous hegemons who got c
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Which would be relevant if the US wasn't dominant before WW2. But it was. Ironically, the end of WW2 actually hurt US shipbuilding because there was a huge glut of surplus ships on the market and for a brief time a massive drop in trad
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Is there an ocean between you and your adversary?

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