woodandsteel

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by woodandsteel 6y ago
I should have been clear that the idea about guns is what conservatives believe, not that I think it is correct.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Great but more important is how battery prices keep falling. Power density is already high enough that long range versions of the Model 3 can go 400 miles, which, with fast charging available when needed, is enough for the vast majority of
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
A key part of conservative political philosophy is a set of arguments that the people in governmental bureaucracies are invariable incompetent and act against the welfare of the larger society. There is, however, one simple way to cure this
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Here's something else that seems to support the gesture-first hypothesis. A friend of mine worked in an institute for severely developmentally children. Many had little or no spoken linguistic ability, but most of them had a considerab
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
(9) Talking in a group. It seems to me with gestures you can understand only one person at a time. Though maybe deaf people who use sign language have a good way to handle this.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Good point. Like suppose some men are coming back from a successful hunt, and each of them is using both hands to carry a limb cut off from a large animal. Another case: when two people are swimming in deep water.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
The basic question here is the finitude of human existence. We have negative emotions because human beings are finite, ie are not immortal gods, and so are vulnerable to various types of harm, and negative emotions motivate us to take actio
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Oh, ok.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Interesting, but the SpaceX Starship/Falcon Heavy, which will start flying in a few years, will be able to do this a thousand times better.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
I have not read the article, but assume that their use of the term "poor" was carefully defined.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
>Some people are poor because of their habits and inclinations and they just don't change those habits (for one reason or another), so they stay poor. That's true. But often the reason they have those bad habits is they were ta
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
So it looks like I was wrong. Thank you very much, that's just what I was looking for.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
The Zoe has a short range in part because when it was first designed batteries were relatively low in power density and very high in prices. When batteries improved on both of these, the range was upgraded. Battery density and prices are go
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Ok, we agree that Leninism leads to oppression. My point is that, as far as I can tell, Chomsky doesn't agree, and the same is true of many on the left. And that this is why he took the position he did on Cambodia, and why so many defe
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
This is behind a paywall and so I can't read it. I think HN should have a rule that any link that is behind a paywall cannot be posted unless a way around the paywall is provided.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Leninism has always lead to great oppression. But that doesn't mean that the people who supported it understood that. Lot of bright, well-meaning people have philosophical, political and religious beliefs that are very wrong. Also, re
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
The reason that the article doesn't go into that sort of thing is it was written for the general public. I am not expert in this area. I do know that over the years I have read a great many articles for the general public that refer to
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Not just pipelines, but roads, foundations of buildings, storage tanks, and so on. And don't forget that oil prices are low and will get lower as the world transitions to renewable energy, so there is no money to pay for fixing all thi
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Very detailed observation, in particular using video tapes.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
The question here is infant and child psychology, and for that you need direct observation. Freud didn't do this, and he came up with an infant psychology that in key ways was simply wrong. The same is true of Lacan. Klein was a step
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Peer relations are very important. But from what I recall, that book doesn't really address what the article is about, partly because many of the developments took place after it was written. And by the way, are you saying that, if you
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
That's quite true. However, the article doesn't describe parents as such, it describes the actually style of parenting that took place, whatever were the reasons things went that way rather than another.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Yes, you might call this the psychoanalytic idea of transference. However, the psychoanalytic understanding of infant psychology, and the infant-mother relationship, is radically different from the one presented here. Furthermore, Freud dev
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
As the article makes clear, it is not just general good feelings, but the specific, back-and-forth interactions between the therapist and the patient.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
I have worked in psychotherapy research. One way the possibility you raise is dealt with is by comparing what goes on in successful therapy with what goes on in unsuccessful therapy.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Part 2 (sorry, the order is fouled up here) Ok, with respect to your views, I think I can narrow it down to a single question. I said that Marxism-Leninism has goals that can be achieved only through a great deal of violence against the po
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Ok, I'm back. I've been thinking about this, and I think it would be best if I presented my own ideas in a more organized form, and then said what I think you are saying, and ask some questions. So here is how I look at things To
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
That's good to know.
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
That was the original plan. But according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_Centaur they went ahead without funding it, though they may some time in the future. So for now Vulcan is going to have a disposable fir
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by woodandsteel 6y ago
Sorry I haven't responded. I've been busy. I plan to respond tomorrow

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