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by philk 17y ago
The amount of vaccines are not a problem. If a kid puts a dirty toy in their mouth (something kids will do all the fucking time) they will be exposed to many more pathogens than the standard schedule of vaccines. If anything we should be c
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by philk 17y ago
Weightlifting is a useful adjunct to a well thought out diet as it encourages the body to retain muscle and drop fat. Ideally you'd add in some decent lifting with free weights three times a week with the standard compound exercises (bench
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by philk 17y ago
I really like some of the points of your blog post, namely: - Apple does marketing really well. - Apple does ridiculously awesome UIs - Complaining about the fact that it's not particularly technically impressive is irrelevant, most people
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by philk 17y ago
I think you're going a bit over the top by saying they've killed every photo frame company on the planet. People aren't going to buy five iPads and put them up around their house.
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by philk 17y ago
Women enjoy increased testosterone levels from exercise too (although not very much compared with men).
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by philk 17y ago
That article has some really shady analysis in it. An example: Despite there being diminishing returns on my time beyond a certain point, there are still positive returns. To elaborate, if my first 10 working hours per day are worth $10 p
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by philk 17y ago
It doesn't get any better; later he complains that some of the members of his retail workforce clock off as soon as their shift ends.
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by philk 17y ago
Sales is and will always be important, but you forget that: a) Entry level sales jobs can be soul destroying. b) Selling something you have trouble believing in is really hard. c) Sales isn't a monolithic field. For instance, compare, sell
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by philk 17y ago
Given how plastic the brain is I suspect that the limit on social relationships is more logistical than physiological. ie actually meeting, being social for long enough to develop a relationship and then maintaining that relationship with s
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by philk 17y ago
And the the related: you can't con an honest man. Of course you can. Here's three types of cons that would work on honest men: 1) Romance scams: The con artist develops a relationship with the target (mark). The con artist then develop
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by philk 17y ago
I can't help but feel that perhaps Mr McCormick should be out there himself searching for bombs with his device.
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by philk 17y ago
It's disturbing to think that these people are responsible for the safety of our flights.
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by philk 17y ago
I agree that some people are better at communicating in different mediums. However, in your example, I don't think that you really got much further. You still blew it at the "talking in person" stage. It's just that you took longer to ge
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by philk 17y ago
Pressured by making statements in public and wanting to act consistently with him. Robert Cialdini describes this in some of his awesome books on social psychology. Basically, if you make a statement in public you are much more likely to ac
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by philk 17y ago
If you're awkward in person you're going to have a hell of a time overcoming that with indirect interaction, just because at some point you have to physically be around the object of your affection. Also from experience being really relaxed
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by philk 17y ago
People also derive pleasure from how their present is received. If she'd been creeped out or something then he wouldn't be as happy. That said, she seemed to think it was a cool gift and he had fun doing it so more power to him.
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by philk 17y ago
To be fair, while it's a cool present she's probably only going to see him because she posted it on Reddit and she felt pressure from all the people she'd told to make the flight. If she hadn't posted it on Reddit she probably wouldn't be g
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by philk 17y ago
Yeah he seemed hilariously biased. Also his comment that the free market is lousy at fighting poverty seemed particularly egregious since: a) Capitalism and free markets hav done far more to fight poverty in the world than foreign aid; just
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by philk 17y ago
The article started off well with a look at the way we give undue priority to terrorism, then seemed to deteriorate into an anti-capitalist rant. Yes, humans make bad choices. However, I have never seen it explained to me how government, m
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by philk 17y ago
While the "China in Africa" analogy is not particularly well matched, the specifics of the message from the Chinese spokesman are irrelevant. These sort of things are always diplomatic theater. Ultimately the message is "It's our country,
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Cultivating Failure: School gardens are cheating vulnerable students(theatlantic.com)
3 points by philk 17y ago|1 comments
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by philk 17y ago
It's an AI concept for representing knowledge. Here's the link: http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Frames/frames.html And here is a wikipedia article describing the concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_(artificial_intelligenc
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by philk 17y ago
I wish them luck but given the majority of people read newspapers for entertainment/distraction I have no idea how they'll compete with the avalanche of free content online. Personally I'd pay good money for a paper that did lots of investi
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by philk 17y ago
Never let reality get in the way of a good moral panic.
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by philk 17y ago
From the article: "It portrays indigenous Australians in the most unsavoury light possible, and you wouldn't want a child stumbling across it," he told ABC Radio. I'm getting really sick of people playing the "won't somebody think of the
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by philk 17y ago
From the NY Post article: "His wife had recently given birth to preemie twins, the sources said. "They were in some kind of argument over caring for them and all of a sudden, in the middle of the argument, he jumped over the 16th-floor balc
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by philk 17y ago
I'm not sure you can call the collection of taxes unjust. Obviously the system needs a lot of work but the overall idea (collecting revenue to fund government and shared services/infrastructure) is a sound one and integral to the operation
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by philk 17y ago
I suspect that there are actually a couple of other reasons why muslims are better integrated into the US than Europe: a) It's more geographically remote from Islamic countries hence you have fewer unskilled immigrants turning up. b) Americ
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by philk 17y ago
He is a 19 year old college student; hence his downside risk is fairly limited. On the other hand, he's received global coverage and now has the potential to make a substantial amount of cash. There's also the real possibility that negativ
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by philk 17y ago
I'm not sure that "when you've just received a huge amount of free publicity" constitutes a good time to quit.

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