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I wonder who came up with the idea of calling their response flowchart a "specialist."
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You're thinking conscription. E.g. - we go to war and need new people so we just start grabbing any able bodied man, and even woman in some countries, to train up and deploy. Compulsory enlistment is different. What generally happens i
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This [1] is likely the source for the entirety of research that was done for this article. It's a voluminous article on the lady with extensive citations, sources, and information. Suffice to say she stole way over $40k, and way over $
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This [1] is a far better written version of the same tale, and I expect the entirety of the "research" for this article. It actually tells the story (in incredible detail) instead of glossing over it, cherry picking, and and using
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Seems this is one thing that nations with compulsory enlistment really have an edge with. It helps offer perspective on top of providing useful life skills, instilling more self confidence, physical training, and so on. Big problem is that,
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On top of this there is currently a push for a mix of censorship and 'compulsory removal' on the internet. For instance the Canadian Supreme Court ruling Canada can force Google to remove worldwide results for something, the UK ce
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I don't understand something from this article: "Our margins had declined and our revenue growth had stalled. ... I was becoming increasingly worried about our team and our turnover numbers. We are a people business and in some d
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The pink elephant there is profit. Discussion with strangers is not difficult to solve. Even going back to AOL style topic driven chat rooms, which are just a step above IRC, it all worked just fine. BBS style systems also worked phenomenal
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I'd separate use cases. If you want to talk to/about yourself or if you just want to rant at somebody, post memes, etc then Twitter is easy and natural to use. If you want to have meaningful nuanced conversation, Twitter is useles
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One of the biggest dangers is to forget that organizations, be they companies, governments, or whatever else are made up of people. So you're not voluntarily conceding your information to some organization beyond the base interests of
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There's also the curiously peculiar, and consistent, wording from companies that deny their involvement in programs such as PRISM [1]. As people seem to have forgotten about PRISM, NSA slides not meant for public consumption stated it
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And you are also straw manning. > "Their results on Alexa [2] show a similar online trend, and that is very much in spite of the fact that Google is constantly 'recommending' them which is providing a major inorganic boos
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I think reading on the history of past events can answer this question quite clearly. History has this very odd tendency to repeat itself with striking similarity. This [1] is a reasonable brief on leaded fuel. You can find much more in dep
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You're setting up a straw man. Google's 'favorite' site was CNN, ending up as 11% of all impressions, nearly twice as high as any other single site. Quantitatively CNN has seen their viewership plunging to the point that
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Is the company biased towards their interest or towards the customer's? If Google was simply a provider of information then the answer would be that those are one and the same. But they obviously are not. One conflict that already pr
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Imagine there was a hunter-gatherer society was able to observe our own. They'd undoubtedly be amazed a the marvel's we've been able to achieve: men walking on the moon, a global internet stretching from one side of the plane
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Aside from what everybody else mentioned about the worldwide postal treaties (which strongly favor developing nations, including China) this could be done profitably. It all comes down to profit margin per pound or volume. If it's comi
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I think this is an overly polarized view of history. We can often see the past in the most accurate fashion by looking at the world today; history has a habit of repeating itself. Genetics especially seems to be playing out this scenario, p
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Apologies here for the length here. As Twain might say, I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. I was simply responding to the statement that "never before have we humans been on the cusp of ec
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The point is not to be drawn into sensationalism. For instance you responded to my comment by comparing time frames of hundreds to thousands of years to the heat death of the universe, which is something on the scale of 10^100 years. For so
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How would they know they would be temporary? The Cold War lasted more than 40 years without stopping and no clear way out. People grew up knowing nothing but the Cold War. They had children who knew nothing but the Cold War. Each and every
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Check out the global temperature record. [1] In particular this [2] is the temperature from ice core readings for the past 800k years. Modern humans evolved sometime around 300k years ago. Can you imagine going through such sharp changes wi
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There was an absolutely phenomenal piece written recently: "How the news took over reality" [1] It goes into some degree of depth about why it is exactly that ever more people are increasingly feeling every pulse of every issue. A
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Consider the very foreseeable 'unforeseen consequences' of suggestions such as this. Think of all the views you may find undesirable. Now how many of them do you think could round up 3.5% of people to engage in disruptive behavior
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Let's assume this is true. What happens to the rest of the population? For instance there are many issues that have far more than 3.5% of people that feel very strongly about them, and other people feel very strongly about them in the
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It seems like this would be extremely difficult to accurately measure for many reasons. Two big ones immediately come to mind. 1) Confounding variables. She essentially states that she looked up resistance movements and then quantified what
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Exactly how many meaningful crimes have been prevented or busted because of this behavior? I think sacrificing liberty for security is generally a bad idea. But it seems we're increasingly sacrificing liberty for nothing, which is a ra
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Comparing multiples of minimum wage is one of the worst imaginable metrics because minimum wages mean very different things in different countries. The US minimum wage, relative to many less developed nations (which are all that is compared
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There are numerous studies you can find showing how learning a new language helps the brain in various quantifiable ways such as increases in white and gray brain matter. But these can be discovered by a simple search, so let's conside
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It may vary depending on language but there's definitely a speaking component in Duolingo. In a language I am learning it gives a sentence in the native language, asks you speak it, and then grades you on a per-word performance. Only d

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