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by pingou 11y ago
I'm not sure I understand, you say they have no idea what they're talking about, but understand that they may feel threatened by immigrants taking their jobs. Seems like a not so irrational fear. The article is even taking about o
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by pingou 11y ago
"No longer able to fish, since they lacked the lumber to build canoes, the islanders established a diet based on rat meat. Their soil degraded by the rapid ecological change, they burned trees and planted gardens of broken rock to enri
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by pingou 11y ago
There's a documentary about this with the scientist who wrote the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepless_in_New_York
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by pingou 11y ago
Doesn't seem so unjust to me, as long as the government is efficient. It seems to me that taxes are beneficial to poor people, as government spending benefits the poor the most. At least that's the theory. Or they can directly red
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by pingou 11y ago
Well it doesn't mirror my experience at all, at school or at work, but yes I'm pretty sure it does happen. I didn't say there wasn't racism in France, more that the concept of belonging to a definite community depending
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by pingou 11y ago
That's why I said "try". And I'm not saying that French are less racist than American, there definitely is some discrimination going. I was more talking about cultural assimilation, I think a black american feels a lot m
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by pingou 11y ago
Well I'm not an expert but it seems to me that in France we expect minorities to leave a good part of their culture and become "real french", eat cheese, wear beret and never walk without a baguette under their arms, whereas
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by pingou 11y ago
"as the only African American on her team, she didn’t feel she had much in common with her colleagues. “When I went out to lunch or something with my team, it was sort of like, ‘Soooo, what are you guys talking about?’ ” she says"
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by pingou 11y ago
I don't understand your point, poverty in Eastern Europe has fallen tremendously after the switch to capitalism, but you're saying it has nothing to do with it? Inequalities might have risen a bit though, I don't know.
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by pingou 11y ago
"If a bird flew just above the beam director during operation, the power density it would experience is 1,000 times lower than at the rocket, which is well above the altitudes of birds and planes" Can someone explains me that? It
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by pingou 11y ago
It's cute, but is it a joke or something more serious ? I don't see any use for it, except perhaps saving bandwidth. Surely it must takes some time for the device to find out that you're actually sleeping, then you anyway hav
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by pingou 11y ago
http://www.damninteresting.com/one-small-step-for-mail/
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The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield(nytimes.com)
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by pingou 11y ago
I am surprised by the weight they mention in the article (and on Wikipedia). 6600 tons for more than 40 000 trunks, considering that Populus tremuloides are usually 20–25m tall at maturity (again, according to wikipedia), seems very low.
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by pingou 11y ago
"The average number of Christmas cards mailed was 68.2". I think it was the most impressing number for me in that article, although only based on data from 43 people. Do they spend their whole Christmas writing cards?
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by pingou 11y ago
Can someone explain the comments on the linked page? Is that a new sort of robots posting nonsense and replying to one another? OR is it an 4chan elaborate joke? That's the first time I see that.
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by pingou 11y ago
According to the article, the number of colonies is bigger than before because bee keepers simply buy more bees as replacement, but it doesn't explain where they come from. Also: "put half the bees into a new beehive, order them a
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by pingou 11y ago
Although I think it's irrational to be afraid of flying, I disagree with your example. I was under the impression that many people had the tendency to just ignore the possibility of terrible things happening, as in the black swan theor
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by pingou 11y ago
I thought it was supposed to fly above the clouds to get as much sunshine as possible but apparently the cabin isn't pressurized, probably to save weight.
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by pingou 11y ago
"The success rate of the training centers is high. About 60 to 70 percent of those who go through France’s practice firms find jobs, often administrative positions, Mr. Troton said. But in a reflection of the shifting nature of the Eur
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by pingou 11y ago
From the article: "MBDA's tests have also helped to debunk the science-fiction idea that reflective armour would defend against laser weapons. They found that any dust on the mirrored surface would get burned in, and lead to the d
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by pingou 12y ago
I don't know anything about the subject but still feel like it's a strange explanation. To me it seems like it would be a great advantage for the species if you could reproduce past the normal reproduction age, if you made it this
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by pingou 12y ago
"Curiously, infected men found cat urine odor more pleasant than uninfected men; in women, the opposite occurred." I read somewhere that they sometimes put this odor in perfumes (such as Chanel 5), I find it interesting to see thi
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by pingou 12y ago
That looks good to me. What I'm wondering if that it only means that people have better motor control or coordination, or that it can also help people be good at math, for example, or at least help them if they decide to learn math?
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by pingou 12y ago
"To concentrate these cells in a sample, they filtered groundwater collected at Rifle, Colorado through successively smaller filters, down to 0.2 microns, which is the size used to sterilize water. The resulting samples were anything b
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by pingou 12y ago
Yes, the more particles Joe has, the less it is likely that it will be recreated elsewhere. But here I'm talking about particles not being Joe, the rest of the universe. I see it this way, it doesn't matter that I get 10 times a 6
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by pingou 12y ago
So if I get it right, there can't be another you because there are too much particles (and possible interactions between them) in the universe. Perhaps there isn't a universe where every particle is the same as in ours, but we cou
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by pingou 12y ago
"At this time, funeral processions and other public gatherings were also suspended in a futile attempt to stop the spread of plague" Futile? Well, perhaps unsuccessful to stop the spread, but I can see how it could help. I was sur
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by pingou 12y ago
I was surprised to see he was breathing through a mask and seriously wondered what would have happened if he had vomited in it.
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by pingou 12y ago
Isn't it supposed to have a very high glide ratio?

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