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You cannot challenge science with teams. Science can only be challenged with evidence. "Prominent scientists operating outside the scientific consensus on climate change." That's already a red flag. Prominent scientists have,
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This statement is about a specific type of behavior conducted often by a specific type of person. It's the person that believes they are not stupid, that they are right, and that the world is at fault, when actually they're just d
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Right. But to your advantage, here you've demonstrated how you've interpreting evidence to fit with other evidence and knowledge to strengthen your set of facts. Most people will not see what you saw and think what you thought. An
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Right. But seeing retreating glaciers after being told why they are retreating is still relying on something you were told. As long as we are being "told" we can change the channel and choose our preachers. There is nothing that
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Fake news is essentially a man-in-the-middle attack. Who's actually been to Iraq or Afghanistan? Who has actually seen first hand evidence of global warming or water pollution or of anything? Most facts are too detached from ordinary r
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Regarding everyone who thinks LA offices are not centralized... think Tokyo. It's multiple cities connected at the hip. LA never ends between them, and is actually worse for traffic because people need to travel through them. Like Toky
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Although, the elephant in the room is most piracy happens under their roof, at least for music. I used to "steal" music on p2p. Now I just "watch" youtube. http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2016/05&#x
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The browser is far more than a program that outputs just that one page. If one page is all we needed, we wouldn't need the program. We'd just need the page. If we are considering all possible input as input, and all possible outpu
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Two words that weren't repeated enough in this essay, especially one with a focus on trust. 1. EMPATHY Great leaders have empathy towards their customers, their employees, and above all, to their cause, which is what is contagious. Thi
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> everything is protected and you can always get a refund. Hardly. No guarantee that anything is authentic or not stolen. No refunds outside the return window. And you need to know how to use ebay to force your refund. If your return pac
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Good points. For Steve Jobs: "If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts." Also I looked up Larry Oracle, and for him he q
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There really is only one myth that needs to be busted for the universe to retain order. "they rush out of university to start companies regardless of having no experience of working in the private sector, thus increasing the chances of
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Work is not about building character. It's about getting shit done. The delusion isn't in work itself. It's in thinking it somehow makes or breaks us. In reality, it has nothing to do with us. Once you get your ego out of the
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Basically, science is incapable of introspection, at least at this moment in time. But a good scientist will make good science out of any social subject. Academic scientific activity is still mostly a social activity because it is done thro
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I encourage you to revisit what I wrote then. I was raised in Japan. I am Japanese. I'm not just a westerner making half-baked conclusions based on what I see outside looking in. I'm a westerner too, and that's what makes my
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Women are different. The moment they become mothers their role changes. It's more of a switch society flips for them. So single mothers are probably the most independent and competent of any demographic. Unfortunately high paying work
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Yes. It is an interdependence. Extended family. Also for the youth it provides the perfect excuse to consume alcohol and be "irresponsible". They drink irresponsibly responsibly. These are all trends of course. Student activism is
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Western tribalism is the emergence of a common voice among those who exercise their voice. At least those who take part take part on their terms and by enacting their will. These tribes are, for better or worse, movements. There is no triba
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Sorry, I'm only talking about pure voting, not "pure democracy" as in everyone votes for everything. Your support for the electoral college is still support for all votes not being equal at the voter level. My claim is that t
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Independence as in independent physically from their parents who may be far away, but not as in independent psychologically to make responsible, self-governing decisions based on their own free will. The former is not that surprising consid
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Actually you're right. But that change would be for the better. > Republicans in California now have a voice, Democrats in Texas do too. This sounds better to me. It sounds like how it ought to be. If Hillary lost the popular vote,
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Ah yes. Pure voting. It always slips my mind that this thing called "pure democracy" exists as anti-representative democracy (which I don't even consider a sane option, so it never crosses my mind). Whenever we are measuring
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> we should adapt it so it works best for us This is the very definition of rigging. The democratic primary was rigged to favor Hillary (the establishment), and Bernie lost. The national election was rigged to "balance" the voi
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I'm not sure if democracy failed us by electing the pussy grabber or democracy won by reminding us who we truly are as a whole. After all, we the people voted. But then when I hear the popular vote, I SMH. Hillary should have won if ev
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The impeccable insight of Peter Thiel. http://gizmodo.com/peter-thiel-goes-all-in-for-donald-trump-... I didn't realize how "simplified" his convention speech was until I saw this. In hindsight (of about a we
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Peter Thiel Goes All-In for Donald Trump (10/31)(gizmodo.com)
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The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. / I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature. / Great liars are also great magicians. / I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few. Trumps ha
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If you have a unique or novel idea/technology/angle, then great. But whether you succeed will depend on your entrepreneurial prowess, your team, and your resources. As long as you're the better entrepreneur, having your idea
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> remind myself of the fact that I was never special I have a tee shirt that reads "PERFECT HUMAN". I love it when people react to it because it says so much about them. I'm not even well groomed. I'm clearly not perf
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This. I tried StayFocused [1] and Forest [2] (both excellent btw) but self-restriction is no substitute for self control. I'd be restricted, but still unable to focus. And when I could focus, those restrictions were distracting. Inter

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