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by renjimen 7y ago
Rain pants? Pretty standard here in Copenhagen. It helps if it's coldish, otherwise you either sweat more or cycle slower. A change of shoes and socks can also be appreciated if it's tipping it down.
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The companies that ran Fukushima failed to implement tsunami-proofing measures that were standard internationally, and studies had shown were necessary at the site [1]. So back to my point about complex failures: an engineering project&#x27
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Nuclear power plants are designed with scenarios like terrorist attacks in mind. The problems we've seen have all stemmed from systematic failures that were complex and hard to predict.
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> It's fairly well accepted that the Jewish high intelligence is genetic I haven't found anything conclusive for genetic differences in intelligence. The increased Jewish intelligence (at least, amonst Ashkenazi Jews, which is
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I used to think along the same lines, but I believe the harsh winter thing has been debunked. At least, Jared Diamond did a good job of it in Guns, Germs and Steel. From what I remember, we are physically and mentally challenged to similar
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Do you have anything to back up these claims? They seem outlandish to me. For example, there are plenty of African migrants in Europe. I've never heard anything about a vastly reduced life expectancy. There are some small dietary probl
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It's interesting because excess stress can actually damage your DNA. How much so and how much it affects your children, I don't know. I suspect if you took an average European child and plonked them in a deprived part of Chad, the
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You're right, cultural norms work both ways. Work needs to be done on both sides so that both genders are free to choose what they do with their lives.
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So geography, external influence (e.g. colonialism) and climate (e.g. drought, as mentioned in the article) have nothing to do it with? Do you think Europeans have superior genes to Africans?
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If you measure gender inequality by more than just higher education enrollment, then yes, woman are disadvantaged across every single country on Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measures_of_gender_equality
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I'm going to guess that you didn't even read the article.
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> Healthy, mentally-stable parents Do you think that people in Chad are inherently less healthy or mentally stable, or might it be a product of their environment?
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And why should men be the primary breadwinners of the family?
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The point is choice. As a woman, in many places you have no choice about what you do with your life. Of course, in many of those same places, men have little choice about what to do with their lives, but as the article points out, men tend
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You're not classed as unemployed if you're a stay-at-home mother. Likely some of those do so because of social norms, not because they don't want a career.
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> The difference is that people who aren't looking for work are "not participating" but not "unemployed". If you're a stay-at-home parent then you would fall under the "not participating" category,
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Well true, I don't know enough about tracking to say for sure, but I'm much more likely to trust a website if they don't obfuscate the options to turn off tracking.
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It was never going to work perfectly at first time of trying, especially when the industry is already mature and is set in its ways. As experience continues and education in privacy matters continue then I am confident things will get bette
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Because the poster thought it might be interesting to those who frequent the site? Considering its position on the front page at time of writing I would say he thought correctly.
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Snap! Just finished this last week too. An emotional rollercoaster and really interesting to boot. It inspired me to go out and buy a pair of thin-soled running shoes.
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I find his stories really cut to the core of an idea with so little excess, as you put it. The ideas he explores are so well chosen too.
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Great story! Thanks for sharing. The older I get (33 now) the more I realise that keeping yourself moving forward, learning, experiencing new things, comes down to chance encounters with people and opportunities. We just have to get out the
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I really appreciate career changes and variety in my friends because it keeps it fresh in my mind just how much we're all wingin' it. There's something liberating about that feeling.
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Wouldn't you expect an AGI that can perform human-like actions also be able to exceed humans in speed, accuracy and recall, simply because it is not built of biological matter with evolutionary constraints on storage capacity, senses,
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Maybe being part of a religious organisation helps to ward off loneliness, and maybe being religious helps instill values that help people trust and communicate. But you still have to believe in some magical being(s), and so do all your mat
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Or maybe she just didn't want to work for a company with questionable morals anymore.
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A positive development for investors, sure. A negative development for anyone with a working moral compass.
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There's also the methane hydrate just under the seabed of the continental margins of the world's oceans. A rise in water temperature may destabilise large quantities, releasing huge amounts of methane, accelerating climate change
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Yeah, Steam does a good job at the moment of including user and professional reviews on the game pages. The fact they let you sort and filter game searches by average review is great. Also, the tools to track changes in reviews over time is
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Great that they're experimenting with content discovery mechanisms. Unfortuntely, with these micro trailers they seem to be going the same route as Netflix: enticing people with flashiness alone. I think most people will go to the revi

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