rollo_tommasi

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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
What skills does one typically acquire as a temp packing worker in a highly automated warehouse?
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
I wish more people understood that the models they were taught in Microecon 101 are not a particularly accurate representation of the actual inner workings of human society.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Leaving aside for a moment the huge number of people who have moved to North Dakota - so many that energy boom towns are experiencing severe housing shortages - working in the oilfields is physically grueling, and so unsuitable for anyone
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Clearly you ought to parcel out the women on your team to the other teams until you've reached parity across the board. Change begins with you!
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
I would take this measure of comparison with a large grain of salt; the Chinese scores especially are almost meaningless: http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts...
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Or maybe he just lied? He doesn't seem like the most trustworthy kind of guy to begin with.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Beijing is generally worse more often, partly because they get hit by dust carried from the increasingly large Gobi Desert in addition to all the man-made pollution.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
The Northeast Corridor metro areas (Boston-NYC-Philadelphia-DC; dense, 4mm+ pop centers all located within a few hours of one another) and a handful of other regional short-haul routes (San Diego-LA, Boston-Portland, etc) account for almost
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
You're describing one method of coping with the inevitable decline, and I think your advice is excellent and I'm glad it works well for you. But the OP was complaining precisely about a decline in energy and that 'sense of no
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
You have aged. Your energy level and motivation will decline until you die. The rate of change varies from person to person, and you can probably reinvigorate yourself to a degree with a better lifestyle (more exercise, a better diet, a sti
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
One suggestion: Adjust the game so that the player is only presented with countries that have populations within a certain distance of each other. Right now I'm getting a lot of "Marshall Islands vs Pakistan" type questions.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Is there a difference between using Startpage through DDG, and just using Startpage?
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
There is a huge degree of difference between being denied entry to a foreign country and having punitive action taken against you by the government. Your second case is about a guy who was thought to be making immediate threats, rather than
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
It's worth noting that in the United Kingdom, you can already be fined or jailed for tweeting. Neither of these would be criminally actionable offenses in the US, and the first one especially would be clearly protected political speech
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
If the jackboot fits...
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
A lot of people are extremely touchy about their third-tier M.A.s, including probably a lot of the people who write these kinds of articles.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but haven't most of these 'quit/don't go' essays come from academics in the humanities? Are there similar essays coming from science or engineering grad students / tenured profe
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
There's no reason to think that Al Jazeera will be a player in the 'adversarial journalism' game. It's a massive media conglomerate just like NBC, CNN, or FoxNews; at best, watching al-Jazeera will just become a way for
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
You would then need to sift out all the international tourist visits that are Schengen-area residents visiting other Schengen area countries. I suspect this would have an enormous impact on Europe's numbers.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
It is definitely enough to have CBP flag any packages crossing the border that are associated with that name, for which no warrant is required. After that, well, I'm no lawyer, but I think intercepting a package full of fake IDs is eno
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Brain technology. Eventually 'wireheading' is going to stop being science fiction and start being science fact. The people who commercialize that technology first are going to swim in oceans of money.
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The Coronado Company(periodic.atavist.com)
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
Well, the question we should be asking is, how can we replicate this experience for kids all over the place? How much of this happy story comes from the methodology and commitment of the teachers, how much of it is generalizable to other ti
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
It is beyond ludicrous to suggest that a C-suite executive at a media company is "the powerless".
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
While I can't say whether this is true on a larger scale, you may be interested to learn that Paul Kagame, the ruler of Rwanda, put together a team specifically for the purpose of maximizing his country's ranking on the World Bank
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
A considerable amount of macroeconomics is constructing airtight justifications for what you would like to be true, without any fear that your theories will ever be subjected to rigorous testing. Hence the situation you describe.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
I prefer printed books, but I frequently am reading on the subway, the train, the airport, etc, and so the portability of ebooks is a huge advantage. I'm definitely excited about being able to both pick up a printed copy of a book for
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
If you can't sell the form it's not going to matter what the function is.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
A little disheartening to realize that Leonardo is basically applying for a post in the Sforzan NSA.
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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
There was recently an exhibit in NYC showing off the underground 'light-forced garden' concept, although it was a park rather than a produce garden: http://thelowline.org/

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