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However, since there was a significant form of textual analysis that predates Postmodernism it shows that forms of textual analysis have had later philosophical movements. It also shows that Postmodernism itself is the second form of textua
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Another thing about some form of linguistic analysis being the final form of philosophy is that another form of linguistic analysis, that of Wittgenstein, predates Postmodernism by 50 years. In addition that Existentialism is after Wittgens
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Except that Wittgenstein and much of Analytic Philosophy was already there 75 years ago and was largely ignored by Foucault, Derrida and others. Wittgenstein is all about trying to work out how language works. Postmodernism combines Nietzsc
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This is exactly what happens with football (US soccer). FIFA has most of the licences while PES doesn't. PES is set up to be customised. Football fans then fight about it online. There is someone on Metacritic who pops up as practicall
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The Australian National University, headed by the Nobel Prize winning Brian Schmidt is going to change their admissions policy to be more like the US. http://theconversation.com/anus-new-entrance-criteria-wont-d... Amongst
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The winner for an individual WC is hard to pick and there are usually 4-5 big teams that could win but they have changed a little bit. France hadn't won a WC and kept choking until 1998. Spain were the same until 2010. Italy and Argent
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Oh gawd. Please stop. The Economist is doing it. 538 has done one. Everyone is doing it. They all wind up with similar predictions. Germany, Brazil, France and Spain are favourites. This is what the betting odds, transfermarkt and the mean
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This is bang on. Looking at the graph look where Harris County (Houston) and Dallas are. If the graphs were plotted with increase in population against the change in fertility then those places would be outliers. Texas zoning and tax on hou
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How about forcing lists of donors to, say, a labor activist being used to create 'no hire' lists? What about anyone funding a tenancy advocacy organisation being added to a 'do not rent to this person' list? What about p
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The Race to Make a Great Fake Steak(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Metacritic does this for games, music, tv and film. Aggregating what they regard as reliable reviewers is pretty reasonable. For general products it's much harder. There is less of a market. But perhaps it'll come. Aggregate Ars T
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That's a great map. That could be taken and with the method in this paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w8835 The added cost by zoning in area could be calculated. It'd be absolutely massive. Perhaps someone al
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HN generally doesn't like humour - but this resonates with a lot of people who have worked at home : http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home FWIW I did it for a while and even though I had some social contact at
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Also look at how Houston has grown: http://www.harriscountytx.gov/CmpDocuments/74/Budget/FY18%20... It's grown by 67% since 1990. Far greater than NYC or LA or SF in percentage terms. The other thing tha
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> In markets like NYC, where demand is ever-increasing and for various reasons supply cannot keep up with demand, maintaining rent-controlled apartments necessarily drives prices higher overall. It's because of zoning. Allow more hi
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Have you read Factfulness - the book mentioned at the end of the article? Hans Rosling has had lots of these conversations with people. They are detailed in the book as described. It's a fantastic book BTW.
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The Economist. It's classical Liberal. Derided by the left for being pro market. Nicknamed 'The Ecommunist' by bond traders. The articles are short. Read through it every week and you will get a better understanding of the wo
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Scissors for cut. Underline anywhere. Paragraph justification. Copyboard for paste. Fill bucket for fill. These are intuitive for most people for whom they were targeted. Three bars for a menu is not intuitive.
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The price of real estate in Australia more than 10 minutes drive from many people's work is often hundreds of thousands of dollars less than close to their work.
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Wow. I was there ~15 years ago and it was bad then. It's remarkable that it's even worse now. Stockholm is a fairly small city too. A million or so roughly.
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Perhaps it's a victory for the publicist of the people against it. It would be very interesting to see if there were many, or even any more people than in that photo at the protest. When I was at Uni I went to some protests that had ~3
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All we need to do is put a bell on the cat! Several thousand armed people acting in concert without detection? The Australian military would also still exist even if such a thing could be done. Not to mention that then landing ships in Sydn
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Yep. The book 'Quiet your mind and get to sleep' has this sort of advice. For me something that helped was a cheap fitness watch for $29 that showed me how much sleep I was getting according to the watch. This certainly isn't
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> It could simply be that everybody knows that blue collar job are eventually going to disappear. You don't want to build your latest factory using technology that will make you obsolete in a few years. Plumbers are not going to dis
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The graduate program gets money and cheap labour from enrolling students.
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Waymo is going to have a service on the road in Arizona for the general public this year. Sure, it isn't cars in every environment without having seen the territory, but it is an incredibly useful product that can be extended into more
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How can you be smart enough to get into an elite graduate program in Philosophy and not be aware that this is exactly what academic life is going to be like? In the 1990s in Computer Science people were well aware that being an academic cou
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Income and Education: Who Plays Video Games?(priceonomics.com)
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Reviews here to save people doing what I just did: https://www.techradar.com/reviews/pinebook-14-inch https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/pinebook-64-review/ It looks like it might be worth the pri
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That would be a great website to set up. "How many trackers" and report on media sites.

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