xherberta

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by xherberta 9y ago
Unfortunately, you can't quit alcoholism. Also troubling: what if the child service algo happens to predict that brown families are more abusive?
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by xherberta 9y ago
Yes, that's interesting. Similarly, Yellowstone-area grizzlies were supposed to lose protected status when the population reached 600. It's at 2,000, they're mauling people and livestock, and they're still protected. Bea
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by xherberta 9y ago
>> I'm not sure how much we can trust our own guts when it comes to seeking out nutritious foods; Right. Our appetite is adapted for pre-industrial times, when craving sweet berries while they are in season would be a good thi
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by xherberta 9y ago
I appreciate the correction!
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by xherberta 9y ago
> Kids are society's problem Respectfully, I'm sad for children whose parents think society is going to look out for them. Every kid deserves a couple of people who take personal responsibility for their behavior and well-be
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by xherberta 9y ago
It sounds like when the poster said "address business issues" they meant "enhance regulatory/bureaucratic issues."
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by xherberta 9y ago
I think the Proto-Indo-European language is at play, there.
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by xherberta 9y ago
This featured an illustration from Eco's "The Three Astronauts", a children's book in which an American, a Russian, and a Chinese walk into a semiotic space rocket... Turns out they're making it into a 21st century
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by xherberta 9y ago
All hamets (leaven) that is in my possession, that I have seen and not seen, that I have beheld and not beheld, that I have removed and not removed, let it be nullified and like the dust of the earth. This could be fun as a basis for a me
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by xherberta 10y ago
In terms of food and disease, I would argue they're better off 'seafaring' than settling down in dwellings. In terms of predation, dolphins are close to being apex predators. Some species and populations have no natural enemi
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by xherberta 10y ago
I agree, learning to really communicate with some other species on earth seems like a worthwhile challenge that would push us in interesting directions. On another thread (about dolphins finding ways to eat octopi without getting suffocated
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by xherberta 10y ago
> Americans have always been a lot richer Not always. I do recognize the economic sacrifice the UK made for the sake of winning WWII. It's a beautiful thing - altruism on a national scale.
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by xherberta 10y ago
Highlights: while most people like the notion of free time, actually having to deal with it is horrible. It’s a deal with the devil. At least when they’re employed they don’t have to deal with the freefall; the nothingness of free time. (
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by xherberta 10y ago
>> Focus on development of human resources. I would like to tangentially note that NASA couldn't have done what it has done without the post-WWII Operation Paperclip, in which the USA literally stole Germany's rocket scie
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by xherberta 10y ago
To give the adults a little credit, the students may have had more time to work on the mystery. The adults on the hiring committee were simultaneously holding down jobs, maintaining homes, changing diapers, cooking for their families, etc.
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by xherberta 10y ago
If you're named after your daddy and he had the degree or certificate, changing the date would help.
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by xherberta 10y ago
You say "the only reason," but I'm not sure. I think one barrier may be that we're not that interesting to them. Perhaps, rather than sending literal-minded scientists to attempt communication, we ought to send poets and
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by xherberta 10y ago
Interesting thought! On the other hand, what is the point of building stuff if you don't need protection from rain and snow, vast swaths of ocean are just the right temperature for you, you can sleep with half your brain at a time whil
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by xherberta 10y ago
The author's last word: we need to consider that the system of cancer goes far beyond the biochemistry of cancer cells. Cancer relates to our fundamental constitution as multicellular organisms, our limited lifespan, the epidemiology
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by xherberta 10y ago
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence The takeaway that's quickest to explain is that the best things in life are priceless. You might be surprised how few $ you can happily live on.
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by xherberta 10y ago
I wonder if The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander would be similarly interesting. It's not trying to be a novel, but explores similar concepts.
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by xherberta 10y ago
"Information, as a source of national power, is now the most precious staple, resource, and commodity: information is not only a means of waging war, but the stakes of war... "The lesson of the first Gulf War: ...military success
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by xherberta 10y ago
Agreed. Yet, there will be prices to pay. Last December the courts sentenced a man caught denouncing the wilaya [guardianship rules] on social media to a year in jail. Another Saudi study, at a university in Mecca, acknowledged that some r
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by xherberta 10y ago
No. Male relatives have control over whether and where they can work. It even sounded as though it's the male relatives who complete the job applications for the women, and often come to the job interviews.
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by xherberta 10y ago
Key point: women in Saudi Arabia are subject to male guardians who control whether they are allowed to "travel, work or study abroad, receive hospital treatment or an ID card, or even leave prison once a sentence is served." Iman,
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by xherberta 10y ago
I read it a little differently. He cites "THE cleverness which...", implying that there's a particular form of cleverness that manifests in "continual lying." I wonder whether the Russian word translated "cle
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by xherberta 10y ago
Agreeing with zaccus here, but from a different angle: "Striving to be cultured" is not the same as "social climbing" and ultimately is not an end in itself. Cultivating oneself is a way of using one's limited lifet
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by xherberta 10y ago
One thing you're seeing in the burn rate crescendo is that just before the acquisition, jet bought small rivals such as hayneedle.com so as to bargain based on a higher market share.
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by xherberta 10y ago
Agreed. All this fuss gives Russia more prestige/soft power.
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by xherberta 10y ago
Wow! I heard that when the UK began using radar to down enemy planes at night during WWII, the gov't claimed the pilots had been "eating a lot of carrots."

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