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by spodek 9y ago
Patents are government granted monopolies. When you create monopolies on intangibilities, you get results like this, where monopoly owners do what they can to keep and extend their monopolies, as the framers of the Constitution anticipated.
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by spodek 9y ago
> Prime age men who are out of the labor force, however, report less happiness and more sadness during their days than do unemployed men, although they evaluate their lives in general more highly than unemployed men. Prime age and olde
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by spodek 9y ago
Hardly a word about reducing production and consumption. There's no mystery where the plastic is coming from -- us. We can live without it, certainly with a lot less of it. While we wait for legislation, at least on a personal level we
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by spodek 9y ago
Ironically, one can teach active, experiential courses that teach skills. As a professor at an elite school, I can say from experience that you wouldn't believe how hard it is to get the administration to support such classes, though.
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by spodek 9y ago
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in jail before becoming president and father of a nation. While "only" 4 years, Muhammad Ali sacrificed what would have been the prime of his boxing career as a conscientious objector. He was famous a
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by spodek 9y ago
Practice, practice, practice. The best advice in the world only works in the context of practice. Practicing makes advice meaningful. Practice and then practice more. Then practice more. Get feedback. Seek advice. Iterate. But practice. Nam
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by spodek 9y ago
There's a big difference between Nazis in 1934 and now. How comparable are they? How many in 1934 have foreseen what was to come?
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by spodek 9y ago
> Unix got its start as a volunteer project with no organizational recognition from Bell Labs, and Linus Torvalds started working on Linux as a hobby. I'm not Richard Stallman, but I consider it worth mentioning the middle steps o
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by spodek 9y ago
The quote you mentioned results from the process he criticized, not his criticizing it.
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by spodek 9y ago
What is it with business media fawning over SEALs? It has nonstop SEAL articles. The articles all suffer from the same problem: they tell you the results, implying that reading about them will get you the results, at least partly. If that w
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by spodek 9y ago
It is if the president is. I'm not saying our current one is, just that logically, if the president is, then it would be moderate to describe him as he is. Also, a comparison to them in the 1930s, say pre-Kristalnacht, is different and
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by spodek 9y ago
Lowtechmagazine.com is a site worth reading article after article.
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by spodek 9y ago
> One year later, his management companies closed the gate and put up a no-access sign. A billboard that had advertised beach access was painted over. What a jerk.
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by spodek 9y ago
Reading The Myth of Male Power led to situations like these make a lot more sense. It offers a different perspective than the predominant view that I find more consistent with experience. I read it because I thought for sure the author wa
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by spodek 9y ago
1. Working on the different problems you described is not mutually exclusive. 2. How many aluminum smelting plants are there? How many light bulbs? The decimal places seem to go the other way. This Wikipedia page -- https://en.wi
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by spodek 9y ago
Hacker News seems to have interesting collective beliefs such as that it's easier to go to Mars than to turn off the lights when no one is in the room.
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by spodek 9y ago
We'll probably always need electricity, so we need some solutions, but nothing compares with reducing consumption -- principally each person using less and having fewer people to use it. As in business, you don't only increase rev
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by spodek 9y ago
The population then was about 1 billion. With 7.6 billion people, greater access to education, and more travel, how many meetings of comparable people happen today?
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by spodek 9y ago
To Sundar Pichai: How could someone express the views the author felt without getting fired, while still promoting discussion? Is it possible , just possible , that Google's policies are counterproductive? If so, how would Google fin
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by spodek 9y ago
Does anyone else see the article presenting for a mutually agreed on act as women innocent / men predatory? For example > The Swedish or Nordic model takes aim at the demand, making it illegal to buy sexual services but not to sell
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by spodek 9y ago
If you are serious that a helmet costs you nothing in inconvenience and creates no trouble, do you wear one when you walk down the street? You have it with you, you could fall while walking, and it could protect you.
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by spodek 9y ago
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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by spodek 9y ago
> Who are you to decide where that line should be drawn? The law regulates behavior that affects others. As they say, you're free to put your fist where you want, but not when it hits my nose. If you pollute your home, that's
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by spodek 9y ago
Prepare to get downvoted. People can't stand being led to face the stories they tell themselves to sleep at night when they say one thing and do another. Most would rather blame you for making them feel guilty for revealing their denia
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by spodek 9y ago
Let's not forget the consumers paying for the meat and eating it! ... The industry isn't doing it for charity. And the governments (and voters) subsidizing them.
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by spodek 9y ago
Also mentioned in the article: 91% of plastic is not recycled. How many readers have disposed of a plastic container today?
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by spodek 9y ago
I don't follow recipes, but make tons of vegetable stews in the pressure cook. This video -- http://joshuaspodek.com/20-minute-vegetable-stew -- shows how I do it. The video isn't supposed to be entertaining or gl
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by spodek 9y ago
Two practices forced me to learn: 1. I joined a CSA with a rule for myself not to let anything go to waste. That forced me to figure out how to prepare local, in-season fresh vegetables and fruit. The first year I did it, I had to steam a l
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by spodek 9y ago
One person above suggesting produce , then someone responded about pasta, hot sauce, and other things that aren't produce. Even letting slide that moved goalpost, some things requiring packaging doesn't merit disparaging the id
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by spodek 9y ago
It's more convenient because I cook many meals at once so have several containers worth of meals in my fridge almost all the time. Also, when meeting people, I have them over for lunch or dinner more than before learning to prepare foo

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