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by meric 8y ago
SHRDLU? It was goal oriented.
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by meric 8y ago
Tell truth at all times. Start at $25 an hour doing freelancing and work your way up. After a couple of years your rate would be > $75 then transition into full time tech job.
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by meric 8y ago
Let's do an exercise as presented in the article and accept CO2 level increases are irreversible: The Jurassic had 5 times more CO2 than today. [1] Modern climate change is slower than the K-T mass extinction event, when photosynthesis
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by meric 8y ago
In every civilisation there’s founding myths, Romulus and Remus from Rome, Yellow Emperor from China, Abraham from Israel, the Dreaming for indigenous Australians. I wonder how much those myths might actually be telling us about those other
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by meric 8y ago
If they just graduated high school they’d remember their science classes. The coal burns, it generates steam which rotates some magnets and produces a current. If they’re fresh high school grads they might even have the textbook at home sti
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by meric 8y ago
We don't need mining - The metal in junk yards and recycling centres are a lot easier to access than building a mine in the middle of nowhere going underground 50 to 100 metres. The only reason we do mine and need new metal is because
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by meric 8y ago
Or the subconscious memories could have been transferred through other methods, e.g. socialising with people who knew the donor.
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by meric 8y ago
Oh I thought stock implied ownership. Maybe it doesn’t mean that in this case.
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by meric 8y ago
Federal reserve bank isn’t owned by the government. The federal reserve is owned by commercial banks who receive dividends. It does report to the government and pays the treasury excess earnings. https://www.federalreserve.gov&#x
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by meric 8y ago
I’ve read quite a few Chinese articles about a trend of Chinese expats working in Siberia marrying with local Russian women. I don’t know how accurate they are so I won’t post them here. It was interesting read though.
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by meric 8y ago
I don’t think that chart means what you think it means. In any case can you clarify your comment? 550 females per male?
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by meric 8y ago
In life people make mistakes. Picking the wrong finance option for the first car is a relatively small one. :)
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by meric 8y ago
By poor I mean lower GDP rather than poverty. The countries up top have lower cost of living and the bottom ones higher, the countries at the top of the table have less parents working, and the bottom, more. Therefore the countries at the t
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by meric 8y ago
By poorer I mean less income counted in GDP. The lower cost of living make it more viable for parents spend more time with children. I could also argue India is rich compared to, say, Japan, who don’t have much resources to spend on havin
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by meric 8y ago
Two parents working have more income counted in GDP than one parent. Higher GDP is thus correlated with more parents working. More parents working means less parent hours available. In the table the bottom countries have highest number of p
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by meric 8y ago
National income is correlated with percent of population in workforce. Poorer countries are correlated with lower levels of total employment. Assuming all else being equal then parents with less time involved in employment will have more ti
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by meric 8y ago
I suppose non-physical phenomena is currently studied by mathematicians, computer scientists, IT security researchers, psychologists and monks.
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by meric 8y ago
Civil engineers also use same common brands of cement and standard steel girders. They also often re-use the same blueprint for multiple buildings. The creativity isn’t in the form but the ordering and process in which a given form is const
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by meric 8y ago
The best way to unleash it in our system without doing harm to the ecosystem is to be patient. There is energy content in the plastic and over 100-200 million years the chance is extremely high Earth’s ecosystem will adapt to the abundance
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by meric 8y ago
One quarter as many deaths as World War 2, all of it in southern China.
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by meric 8y ago
I tend to think of it as classical versus Vulgar Latin. I can write Cantonese phrases word for word (with a few Cantonese only characters) and mandarin only speakers won’t be able to understand it, or I can rephrase it into a “classical” wa
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by meric 8y ago
Could be used for VR phone calls between long distance couples.
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by meric 9y ago
Her livelihood was destroyed by a YouTube algorithm change and she couldn't handle it emotionally, and attacked YouTube headquarters, as a result YouTube takes down her remaining home exercise and vegan videos. It doesn't need to
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by meric 9y ago
> By Tuesday night, YouTube, as well as Instagram and Facebook, had taken down her pages and videos. Her videos seemed quite harmless - home exercise, veganism, animals. I don't understand the motive for YouTube to take down her rem
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by meric 9y ago
We've always been at war with IRA.
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by meric 9y ago
He can try fix it by giving an apology, having thought over it and missed the value his colleagues contributed, etc.
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by meric 9y ago
Getting asked for opinions in order to read an article about someone getting fired for showing an opinion about people showing an opinion about a form asking for an opinion.
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by meric 9y ago
There’s life beneath deep oceans that thrive on geothermal - I think it’s possible some life can survive.
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by meric 9y ago
Refusing to engage in whataboutism makes you vulnerable to propaganda from your own country - it allows your government to redirect negative attention towards it's own behaviour to other countries by influencing media organisations to
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by meric 9y ago
You are a foreigner. Even your children may be foreigners. But their children and generations after them, if they all have children with non-foreigners, won’t be.

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