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by new2628 7y ago
- what I have for dinner (ok, sorry, it said global problems), so maybe: - collapse of bird, insect, reptile populations over all the developed world due to pesticide use, habitat loss, etc. - decline of natural environment, waters, forests
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by new2628 7y ago
> biggest upcoming global problem after climate change? maybe, but climate change is around number 20 in that list for me.
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by new2628 7y ago
Depending on how you view some aspects of this modern way, it can also make you hopeful.
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by new2628 7y ago
> They're in a professional environment, they shouldn't have to deal with this. Tell that to all the millions of people who are happily married to people they met in professional environments.
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by new2628 7y ago
I sincerely hope that you (or others) will not get around to implementing this idea.
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by new2628 7y ago
I don't know, I'm much more terrified by the collapse of bird/insect/fish/etc. populations, which happens in front of our eyes, largely _not_ because of climate change, but most likely because of industrial agricult
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by new2628 7y ago
The term that may answer your dilemma is "investor story-time" -- open offices tell a story to investors, acquirers, etc. of a docile team that collaborates in a creative way, without too much annoying individualism. This story is
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by new2628 7y ago
Why leave out the symmetric case of women who are not "adjacent" to any men?
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by new2628 7y ago
I see why friends who are busy with family would not have time to go out, but those in the middle of a divorce should be prime material for drowning a few beers together.
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by new2628 7y ago
Why would someone look for a commercial alternative?
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by new2628 7y ago
Firefox does tend to reshuffle the interface occasionally though.
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by new2628 7y ago
By leaving those people alone to continue living their lives as they like?
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by new2628 7y ago
Well, "always been this way" also seems fitting to the Epstein story in the sense that the rich and powerful got their ways, whatever they wanted.
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by new2628 7y ago
Yes, these cross-national committee-based institutions tend to be cost-effective and efficient.
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by new2628 7y ago
Nice finds, and both quotes strike me as quite insightful and prescient.
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by new2628 7y ago
I agree with what you say, and I think it is wrong for the parent comment to use such derogatory terms. That being said, your comment also strikes me the wrong way, and I have received similar comments in real life where I had the same reac
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by new2628 7y ago
Yes, or a kind of cognac -- also "vinars" comes from "vin ars", literally meaning "burnt wine", possibly a mirror translation of "Weinbrand" in german or transylvanian saxon dialects.
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by new2628 7y ago
Listen to this guy, he speaks the truth :)
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by new2628 7y ago
Why the downvotes, this is an insightful (if inconvenient to some) point.
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by new2628 7y ago
My hypothesis is "compensatory excess". As men do less "manly" things then they used to, have less responsibilities, etc., they compensate on the outwards signals: beards, muscles, tattoos.
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by new2628 7y ago
Why anyone sane would marry such people is beyond me.
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by new2628 7y ago
The downside of this French attitude of everyone being "just French" is that the earlier diversity of identities/languages has also been largely homogenised. Think Alsacian, Languedoc, etc. The effect reaches well beyond Fran
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by new2628 7y ago
I wonder why the downvotes -- this was a very insightful observation.
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by new2628 7y ago
Have you been reading Krugman recently?
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by new2628 7y ago
That's still a much better place than the one where it really belongs to.
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by new2628 7y ago
I surely enjoy wild associations as much as the next guy, but I meant more pedestrian topics such as: - are you eating meat or are you vegetarian? - do you take a car to work or ride a bike or take public transportation? - do you drink tap
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by new2628 7y ago
That sounds like a fine approach, but unfortunately politics creeps into more and more aspects of life, hardly any topic remains apolitical. Like that quote "you may not be interested in war, but ..."
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by new2628 7y ago
Sure, I got the point, one cannot do the exact same thing in both places. > This would be like telling people who want better working conditions to found a company and implement them. In some situations that may be a reasonable thing to
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by new2628 7y ago
> A guy from the Ukraine cannot be a Stanford professor and be close to his parents at the same time. They can, however, use their experience from Stanford, and try to improve education in Ukraine, be an independent researcher in Ukraine
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by new2628 7y ago
The paradox is that something can be "dying" and "more popular than ever" at the same time.

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