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by jordan0day 11y ago
I've never lived near alligators, but my guess is that the father had, and had a decent understanding about the level of risk involved. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_alligator_attacks...
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by jordan0day 11y ago
> Everyone else should get up to speed. Why? Admittedly, everything I know (not much!) about critical theory comes from hearing people talk about critical theory , and not from first sources, but I don't see why it's more comp
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by jordan0day 12y ago
I was just thinking -- if there was a way to somehow be able to offer instantaneous discounts on "damaged" products, supermarkets could probably avoid throwing away a lot of "damaged" goods. But then I realized people wo
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by jordan0day 12y ago
> I'm now horrified I ever did it, and even more horrified that I cognitive dissonanced my way into thinking it was not just OK but perhaps even noble Your whole comment is great, but this line especially stuck out to me. It's
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by jordan0day 12y ago
I do like the framing of the issue as a sort of bacterial tragedy of the commons. > The virulent forms, which descend deeper into the respiratory tract, are actually less contagious. The same goes for bugs such as Hemophilus influenzae a
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by jordan0day 12y ago
> It is useful primarily for converting someone who is on the fence and is considering deferring a purchase decision on the assumption that the decision can be later with no cost (other than delay in getting the product). That's the
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by jordan0day 12y ago
I wouldn't use the "scumbag" term, but "intelligent marketing" can sometimes be quite "scummy", in my opinion. Take the example given above: "Scarcity: '3 products left in stock' " W
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by jordan0day 12y ago
That seems a bit glib, seeing as how many of those people were probably spending a great deal of time worrying about keeping their home and trying to find new employment.
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by jordan0day 12y ago
I disagree -- there's no question mark at the end of the title, nor any credulity-challening with "You won't believe what happened next!" I think this is just a well-written headline. Or, to think of it another way: It&#
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Who would pay for it? We've already seen that people aren't willing to pay for quality journalism, so we're left with advertisers? Who obviously don't want their own products being investigated. Perhaps though if somehow
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by jordan0day 12y ago
On the one hand, I'd love to believe that people were rational and would actually examine the data before rushing to follow some advice they got on a site like seeking alpha, so that bad actors wouldn't be able to profit by spread
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by jordan0day 12y ago
> but at the end of the day, very few forms of altruism exists [citation needed]
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by jordan0day 12y ago
So you're telling me that when I buy the store brand toilet paper, I'm wreaking sudden havoc with the lives of thousands of families, all for the sake of saving some money? I guess I better start buying Charmin. The $0.37 of savin
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by jordan0day 12y ago
A naive person might then ask, "$5.5 in profit? So why lay off all those people?"
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Apologies -- I was being glib. I had originally considered adding a parenthetical "well of course you don't actually have to wear clothes, but you know, we live in a society, etc." to my comment, just to head off such a &qu
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by jordan0day 12y ago
> The main reasons I wear clothing during warm weather are social and legal pressure, So what you're saying is... you gotta wear clothes?
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Eh, I meant the "obviously... has not killed" as more of a "If it's dead, why are there so many freaking Kay Jewelers commercials on TV?" In all honesty, tech probably is "digging the grace", so to speak
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by jordan0day 12y ago
> Intuitively, I think the Millenial generation cares less about ways to show material wealth I want to believe that, but, you know, "millenials" are still human beings, too. I'm going to err on the side of them being just
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by jordan0day 12y ago
My gut reaction is: Let's hope so, and if it has, good riddance . Obviously, though, tech has not killed the jewelry industry. Jewelry suffers from being the fashion industry at it's most reductive: all form, no function. That
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by jordan0day 12y ago
I don't really understand the emissions argument, though? If I'm trying to break the law (either tax law or emissions laws), why would copyright law (or laws around reverse engineering) deter me?
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Is that really true? I guess I've always seen the meme that our (in the US, that is) food is artificially cheap , because of subsidies for farmers and ag companies. Or does your "artificial scarcity" phrase really just mean
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by jordan0day 12y ago
I have not read Mandelbrot's book (yet!), so I can't really compare it. I don't know what sort of depth you're looking for, but I'd call CBoN a "medium"-depth book on the subjects involved. It's possi
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by jordan0day 12y ago
I really loved CBoN -- it really is a very good book. I felt like each chapter was approachable enough that I could just casually read it and felt like I "got it", but when I sat down with pencil and paper and worked through it I
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Wow, that looks beautiful!
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by jordan0day 12y ago
For something in a similar vein, but perhaps more approachable, check out The Computational Beauty of Nature ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Computational-Beauty-Nature-Explor... ).
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Was originally going to post "Well that's a big fat 'DUH!!!!'", but then I thought better. It's good to have studies to back up these sorts of things that typically get treated as common sense.
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by jordan0day 12y ago
That's a bit of a loaded question. If "laypeople" just means "not financial industry insiders", then no, it's not necessarily bad. If "laypeople" means "people who haven't bothered to spend
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by jordan0day 12y ago
I don't think most people would consider the UK a "relatively minor economic and military power". It's a G7 country, after all.
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Clearly there is a need for something like payday loans, where people in dire straits can get small cash infusion to get them by. It also seems to be the general consensus that these same people are "high-risk", and so require h
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by jordan0day 12y ago
It seems to be really easy to make a new TV channel these days (relatively speaking, that is). It seems the Discovery Channel (or the very missed 'The Learning Channel'), used to be able to make ends meet in their old, educati

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