twillerelator

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by twillerelator 16y ago
They mentioned something about overhead electrical cables.
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by twillerelator 16y ago
They assume that the purpose of study is to pass tests.
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by twillerelator 16y ago
It is axiomatic around here that large corporations cannot change, except by acquiring start-ups. Why? Because any organisation with more than N employees starts to behave unconsciously, evolving according to profit and logic-of-the-situati
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by twillerelator 16y ago
This is an illustration of Sturgeon's Law.
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by twillerelator 16y ago
OK, good point -- by all means enjoy having defended yourself. Just don't enjoy inflicting suffering on others (lest you become a bully yourself).
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by twillerelator 16y ago
Having got the three guys off your back, how do you feel then?
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by twillerelator 16y ago
Sure, getting physical may sometimes be necessary. It's worth adding that it's important not to enjoy it . (Maybe this is how new bullies are formed?)
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by twillerelator 16y ago
>Defend yourself and the innocent fully, but don't think that means you can't also love your enemy Let me add the rationale: if you don't try to love your enemy, or try see something good in him, then you will hate him. His hold over
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by twillerelator 16y ago
I believe in gradual change. Ending the extrajudicial punishment of children is not such a big step, because it entails only a small extension of human status (having already incorporated women, slaves, foreigners, etc.) I doubt that judici
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by twillerelator 16y ago
It sounds crazy, doesn't it? Of course, the idea of not punishing one's wife after she had done something which she understood to be wrong, once upon a time, also sounded crazy. This applies to all moral progress. Any prediction about mor
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by twillerelator 16y ago
For their own good: locking children up in schools; telling them what to learn; coercing them in the name of health and education; punishing children at home. These things won't happen eventually. Yet future generations will take education,
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by twillerelator 16y ago
>underlying sense of panic Indeed. Quality thinking can't be forced or managed. I really do feel that this time management business is a will-o'-the-wisp. Time spent thinking about time management is time not spent thinking about intere
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by twillerelator 16y ago
Premise: learning is fun. Premise: school children are bored. Conclusion: learning is not taking place in schools. This seems as true now as it has ever been. The belief that schools can be fixed is one of the main reasons people beco
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by twillerelator 16y ago
>People know that vegetables can improve health More like: we were cajoled and coerced into eating vegetables by our parents, who were in turn cajoled by their parents, etc. We then spend the rest of our lives rationalising this uncriti
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by twillerelator 16y ago
>No down voting: So people will not lose karma just for having an opposing view. Still better would be to make downvoting cost one point to the downvoter. This would discourage rather than prevent downvoting (and people will happily pay
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by twillerelator 16y ago
>keep electronic media, especially video games and recreational Internet, under control (that is to say, almost completely absent). Then fill your shelves with good books. The problem with these books is that they interfere with the mor
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by twillerelator 16y ago
>why did the obesity crisis only come about in the last part of 20th century I can guess at two factors. Firstly, food started to get really cheap in the 1960s. Secondly, and not entirely unrelatedly, since that time we haven't suffered
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by twillerelator 16y ago
$59 could also buy folic acid, vitamin d3 and choline capsules. There's a simple exercise you can do in the final weeks of pregnancy to encourage your baby to lie in the optimal position for childbirth (which is ofc free to view, but, amazi
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by twillerelator 16y ago
I am one of the few who (I believe) has made a transition from 'high latent inhibition' to 'low latent inhibition'. It happened through no intention of mine and was quite a scary experience, like letting go or admitting defeat. With respect
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by twillerelator 16y ago
Thankfully there are now some door safety devices on the market, for example: http://www.fingersafe.com
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by twillerelator 16y ago
It's been speculated that Sidis's intelligence was due in part to having thin-walled blood vessels in the brain, making it easy for nutrients like oxygen to diffuse into brain cells. This theory explains his and his fathers' premature death
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by twillerelator 16y ago
There are social factors that magnify worrying about children. For example, in the UK over 0.5% of children are in state care. Thus parents also worry about what other adults think of them.