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by squozzer 12y ago
Let's say, as an experiment, we decide to work four days a week. Which day do we take off? Just a hunch but the top two candidates most likely are Monday and Friday. Friday's claims: 1) "TGIF" now has some teeth. 2) Frie
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by squozzer 12y ago
Now that I'm 49, here's my 2 yen. After a certain age, I didn't care as much about the "challenge" of a new position so much as the money and power I would receive. Shocking, I know. I also acquired a certain ruthle
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by squozzer 12y ago
"For superior beings they sure like to rub it in." - Marge Simpson "Obviously, I. Asimov was a robot." - I. Doo Notremember
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by squozzer 12y ago
Or maybe it's part of the global project to eliminate the world's installed base of land mines.
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by squozzer 12y ago
The police believe themselves to be at war with everyone. They'd kill anyone they pleased if they could get away with it.
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by squozzer 12y ago
Some of the problem, as Locke1689 said, lies in how non-philosophers perceive philosophy. I'm betting most of the laity were exposed to philosophy through low-level survey courses where notions such as substrata and monads were thrown
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by squozzer 12y ago
Tasty. Too bad people like him don't practice deprogramming us from greater evils than two-bit cults - for example, communism, capitalism, patriotism, orderism. Each of these isms also demand suspension of thought and beliefs in either
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by squozzer 12y ago
The article merely scratches the surface. We can probably agree that corporations have certain structural flaws, but I doubt making a CEOs life more burdensome - who would take the job under a claw-back regime without some kind of financial
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by squozzer 12y ago
Moral of today's story - sit down, shut up, and do as you are told by authority figures who are morally and socially superior to you.
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by squozzer 12y ago
Who has done more to damage America's social cohesion - Snowden or the NSA? If Andreesen didn't have a billion or so dollars riding on how the world perceives SV, I might find his opinion more creditable. And while a lot of the di
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by squozzer 12y ago
I think you're on to something with the anchor-chain analogy. It's also possible that the government lies about economic growth.
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by squozzer 12y ago
At my last job I had a private office, my first. Now I work in the most open office I've had since leaving the Army - my office there was called "The Motor Pool" I didn't find it as distracting as I thought - but I am so
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by squozzer 12y ago
I wouldn't wind myself up too hard about something in HBR. HBR's editorial policy seems to boil down to the following: 1) If America sucks at something, it's because Americans are dolts and/or the US government is run by
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by squozzer 12y ago
Maybe a better question to ask is, "What is success?" We tend to focus on the trappings / assets of success - title, salary, neighborhood, spouse - while neglecting the liabilities - stress, debts, time demands. And granted,
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by squozzer 12y ago
Typical legislative sleight-of-hand - welcome to the sausage factory. Further developments will probably reveal that the new law enshrines the status quo.
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by squozzer 12y ago
As a medical study, I won't pretend to know whether it was properly designed. As policy fodder, which it is first and foremost - it might have benefited from additional control groups - using substances such as alcohol, nicotine, caffe
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by squozzer 12y ago
Not really, at least on the issue of pot. What passes for news turns out to be the most lopsided propaganda war since Rome v. Carthage. Now that pot has regained something of a legal tolerance, medical studies will once again, as if on cue,
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by squozzer 13y ago
Maybe worse, studies have become a bludgeon to justify government policy.
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by squozzer 13y ago
I think the larger question is what exactly will raise the living standards of a poor neighborhood without gentrification. I am not sure. A lot of the poorer neighborhoods in my city (Atlanta) were built as bedroom communities for factory w
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by squozzer 13y ago
What dignifies people is autonomy. Someone intelligent enough to write for The Economist should be able to figure that out. That they couldn't (or chose not to) makes the article little more than propaganda.
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by squozzer 13y ago
My reading of history tells me the human hunger for wealth and power (what some call greed) would easily adjust to any increase in prosperity, no matter how large. And some materials would still be scarce. They could not replicate dilithium
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by squozzer 13y ago
I would say for most of us a more accurate phase is, "The Day We Decide To Fight Back."
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by squozzer 13y ago
I think Camden and other cities in similar situations can provide us with learning -- 1) Can cities outlive their usefulness? My answer = yes. 2) If yes, what should happen when they do? My answer = most try to hang on or re-invent themselv
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by squozzer 13y ago
Of all of the sad things I read in that article, the phrase, "the allegations against him must be taken as accurate if they are claimed to be so by the government." Some might call it presumption of guilt.
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by squozzer 13y ago
You mean double (not so) secret emergency.
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by squozzer 13y ago
I loved the game but my favorite was the "Gule, Gule" story in Sudden Death, especially the line, "their high school guidance counselors had steered them into a very deadly profession."
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by squozzer 13y ago
It's a good thing the military and NASA (or other space agencies) didn't hire solely on experience with rocketry. Sure, von Braun and the other Germans had experience, but most of the American / Soviet engineers and scientis
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by squozzer 13y ago
You would think we'd learn by now that when someone proposes a tax to control behavior, it's not about the behavior, it's about finding a justification to grab money. For example, the soda tax. Why not treat them as controlle
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by squozzer 13y ago
The big lie about torture is that it's actually relevant to the matter under pursuit. The government really doesn't care that much about guilt or innocence, once it decides someone needs removing they go about doing it in the most
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by squozzer 13y ago
You may be a little off. Americans like porn and weed as much as anyone. And who regularly vies with Germany for having the most violent football (soccer) brawlers seemingly as a matter of national pride?

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