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by new2628 7y ago
You make it sound like all these have been fully figured out.
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by new2628 7y ago
I meant communist texts from Eastern Europe where they expressed the attitude of having advanced beyond capitalism.
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by new2628 7y ago
Who knows, maybe the social attitudes/standards will revert to those before the 90s, and then in a few decades we'll seem funny exactly because of our "outrage" at earlier times. EDIT: such a reversal would not be unhear
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by new2628 7y ago
Honest question: why do you consider it great when women win these races, as in, is it in some sense worse when men win them?
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by new2628 7y ago
Or Kempe's (mistaken) proof of the 4 color theorem.
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by new2628 7y ago
..it surely precludes the environmental measure of not having a car.
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by new2628 7y ago
"too cynical for Bukowski", that's a good motto :)
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by new2628 7y ago
Resource curse is an interesting phenomenon, but I think biodiversity (~ the healthiness/robustness of the remaining natural environment) and e.g. the amount of accessible oil/gas a country has are fundamentally different aspects
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by new2628 7y ago
This seems to contradict the simple observation that, by and large, the poorer a country the more biodiversity it has.
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by new2628 7y ago
It also helps that as a famous person one can take credit for other people's vision. In case of tensegrity in particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Snelson
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by new2628 7y ago
Nice, thanks. Sadly he passed away not too long ago. An image search for "umberto eco library" gives some impressive pictures.
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by new2628 7y ago
The purpose of a personal library is not necessarily to keep all the books you've already read within hands reach. I personally prefer to keep books I have never read but may one day be interested to read, so when I approach the booksh
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by new2628 7y ago
I find it worrisome how preoccupied you seem to be with the skin color of others.
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by new2628 7y ago
I agree 100% with what you say but have to point out that your last "even" is a small example of how politics creeps in. In short, what often happens is that statements that are highly opinion-based are presented as broadly-agreed
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by new2628 7y ago
Not sure, what to take away from this list of numbers. From 2000 to 2010 I see a lost decade, with the index back where it started. You added the note "beating the high of ...". why not add two years afterwards "beating the l
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by new2628 7y ago
Let's revisit this thread in few years.
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by new2628 7y ago
Surely you can think of stuff that got worse with time, development seems to be a tradeoff in general.
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by new2628 7y ago
How do you know that the next crash doesn't wipe out cash savings in some way or another?
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by new2628 7y ago
Making an educated/uneducated dichotomy is part of the problem, the educated have also made plenty of horrible decisions, not paying any price for it, and lecturing the rest all the same. Nassim Taleb's framework seems to be more
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by new2628 7y ago
With all respect, this attitude from the researchers side is exactly what maintains the system and what Elsevier and co take advantage of. Signed: a professor who never published with Elsevier.
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by new2628 7y ago
My grandmother told me, as a child she and her peers only wore shoes in months "with an R", as in September to April, and walked barefoot the rest of the year. EDIT: the place was: first Romania, then Hungary, then Romania again,
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by new2628 7y ago
It is quite rare to use it as a verb to be honest.
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by new2628 7y ago
The question asked whether it grows in America.
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by new2628 7y ago
This sounds a pretty good attitude actually ... within reason you can even involve the kids in doing the chores.
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by new2628 7y ago
What is the penalty for mistakes for those "certain professionals"? What are the incentives when they make decisions?
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by new2628 7y ago
Just do less of it, there is no way to offset anything.
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by new2628 7y ago
What about all the male car mechanics?
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by new2628 7y ago
I don't think it is just a "common rhetoric", but rather a common mainstream truth that the change from the Mark to the Euro (which can be kept weaker) allows German companies to export cheaply while making people's sala
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by new2628 7y ago
I would say striking up conversations is possible in EE and US (and everywhere else?) to about the same extent, but just like language, social norms, attitudes, social clues can subtly differ in various places, and a strategy that works in
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by new2628 7y ago
For the record, I agreed with your comment and your decision to detach the thread and regretted my hasty comment. Seeing my initial comment now dissected like that is somewhat humiliating as well. In any case, keep up the good work, and al

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