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541.
by rubidium 8y ago
Families form tribes Tribes form society Society forms the state State destroys the tribes State destroys the families State controls all.
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by rubidium 8y ago
Not the most likely thing though. kids like playing with water and it gives them something they know how to do and control.
543.
by rubidium 8y ago
If people want to set up annuities that is totally welcome. But they shouldn't be tied to the employer. It should be a separate company that exists solely for the purpose of paying the benefits at retirement. Depending on an employer f
544.
by rubidium 8y ago
The climate and economy are the only real concerns. Human population, energy, and food production are on a good track getting better.
545.
by rubidium 8y ago
material cost: $60,000. Labor cost: $40,000. Profit: $200,000. Somewhat made up, but these are a bit out there.
546.
by rubidium 8y ago
Definitely not getting a price advantage of modular with prices at $200-400 / sq ft. That's squarely in the custom stick-built range.
547.
by rubidium 8y ago
Depends on the domain. Undergrad humanities? Sure a community of professors and books is sufficient. If it's graduate education in the sciences or engineering, then world class research laboratories are required.
548.
by rubidium 8y ago
You snuck an assumption in that last point: “and the husband fully controls all the finances”. Why?
549.
by rubidium 8y ago
Link to project?
550.
by rubidium 8y ago
I live in a Christian community focused on in-common living. Community requires commitment to stick things through. Having a common vision is important. More important is having the commitment to sticking with it, and relationship tools to
551.
by rubidium 8y ago
And have succeeded until relatively recently... technology isn’t the solution to this.
552.
by rubidium 8y ago
It's not entirely clear from the article, and I can't find the Nature publication yet... but I think you're wrong. It does carry it's own power supply and battery: "Finally Barrett used a computer model to get the
553.
by rubidium 8y ago
There's been similar moves in the past. Most famous of which is Ford's $5 / day. http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/01/03/blogs/post-per... Ford's quote from the time is relevant
554.
by rubidium 8y ago
Even if the scooter craze crashes and burns (either due to regulations, insustainable business model, or lack of sustained customer demand aka here comes winter) it's gotta be helping drive down prices to manufacture and improving elec
555.
by rubidium 8y ago
Agreed. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
556.
by rubidium 8y ago
Timely, as I am just finishing a study of Buffett. Some additional recommended reading about/by Buffett: Buffett's bio by Lowenstein, "Buffett: Making of an American Capitalist". A collection of Buffett's writings i
557.
by rubidium 8y ago
Re: "any advice on how to write better quality articles" My route to learning how to write quality papers: Find an expert in your field to tear your paper apart, and then get to work rebuilding it. Rinse and repeat 20 or so times.
558.
by rubidium 8y ago
Yes. As noted in the article, the now-extensive reach and power of CPS-type investigations is the most damaging typical harrassment. Other parents concerns are annoying but a bit silly. Cops don't have much legal ground in the minor th
559.
by rubidium 8y ago
Chances are your leadership style matches certain employees but not other ones. There's a nice little theory (always messier in practice) around situational leadership by Blanchard and Hersey. 4 different leadership styles are needed t
560.
by rubidium 8y ago
it's being downvoted because it's not a relevant reply to the original comment, and has potential to provide a flamewar on a topic entirely different than the original article.
561.
by rubidium 8y ago
"journal of food engineering"
562.
by rubidium 8y ago
The one that has hit me the hardest is imagining the Beringia tribes that moved to the americas in 15,000-11,000 BC. Living thousands of years in relative isolation from the world while living the same pattern of life from generation to gen
563.
by rubidium 8y ago
I think you're over-reacting. artificially: by means of human (or in this case programmed) intervention rather than naturally. intelligently: in a way that maximizes efficiency.
564.
by rubidium 8y ago
Next big movement in understanding the physical laws of the universe is going to come from the areas we least understand. Right now, that's astrophysics. As John Mather put it, right now we're not even sure what the right question
565.
by rubidium 8y ago
This a 1000 times! It's been the nail in the coffin everytime I try to replace our outdated document management system.
566.
by rubidium 8y ago
Not always. At the fortune 200 company I work at, they just introduced paid 8 weeks maternity/ paternity leave that can be taken in any form over the following year. All the engineers think it's great(ok the ones past prime childb
567.
by rubidium 8y ago
It's strange to me that you talk about 1969 as early in the "history of technology". We had the wheel, bridges, steam engine, cars, refrigerators, air-conditioning, nuclear power, early robotic manufacturing, computers, and a
568.
by rubidium 8y ago
great reference, thanks for sharing. This type of systems level analysis is what I've been looking for (and I think what all the av hype is ignoring).
569.
by rubidium 8y ago
Outlook on the web is certainly better than the application on windows... word won't be too hard. Now excel, that's the one I'd be surprised to see.
570.
by rubidium 8y ago
So we've found after a little looking that this is a terrible system. And it has a big team of qualified people working on it. This is an example of why "ai" is still a one (ok maybe a few) trick pony.

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