DabAsteroid

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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
...Also a book and an April 2004 article in the Atlantic Monthly. http://www.google.com/search?q=The+Case+Against+Perfection+M... The Case Against Perfection What's wrong with designer children, bionic athletes , and genetic engineering
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
we only have large-scale climate readings for the last 100 years or so. Past that it's sparse readings, interpolations and projections. ...And these paintings: . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
my friend, who just graduated with a PhD in astrophysics from Princeton, and is now a postdoc at Berkeley. She http://www.google.com/search?q=princeton+affirmative+action+... http://www.google.com/search?q=berkeley+affirmative+action+g
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
women, who have their professional involvement with math decrease dramatically as they enter the working world and need to support themselves. There's a strong, though not certain case for a cultural effect here. It would be interesting i
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
And by the way, on color? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink Did you check the references cited by that paragraph?
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
No-one in Iceland thinks it's odd that a musician should also be a VC. http://www.google.com/search?q=bono+u2+venture+capital
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
I had a heart attack. Why did that happen? Most people do not have heart attacks.
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Handguns: Revolver or Pistol? A revolver is a type of pistol.
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
why a gun instead of a pistol? A pistol is a type of gun.
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
scrap our entire welfare system and just give every man, woman and child in the country GBP 3000/year, no questions asked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Income
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
a 6.5x decrease That would be negative 5.5 times, or 5.5 times below zero.
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
were y'all only thinking about the USA? Yes. Thank you for broadening my perspective.
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
http://www.ups.com
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
41 miles per gallon is still terrible ... Ford do rather better with the cars they sell in Europe We don't have to wonder why. European countries tend to have lax safety and smog-emission standards. If America had those same lax standards
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Glass at normal temperature flows, but incredibly slowly, you can see from old window glass which is thin at the top and thicker at the bottom. . Urban legend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass#Behavior_of_antique_glass The observatio
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
We don't really create-- we merely transform physical resources from one form to another If I were to give you an equal mass of rocks in exchange for everything that you own, would you be equally wealthy (equally secure)? If society were
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Would it matter if humans were also creative of resources, rather than simply consumptive of resources? http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource/TCHAR0... Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontane
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
They became the wealthy tribe once they were free of the mainstream Malaysian class system. Malays have little to do with Singapore's economy.
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Singapore had no resources other than the brains of its people; they were the underclass who were booted out of Malaysia Han Chinese are not Malays. From Appendix 1 of "IQ and the Wealth of Nations" by Lynn & Vanhanen (p218): Singapo
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
How?
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Why would one want population to stop growing? http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
(Top Gear) tested [the Tesla Roadster] last week. ... The thing ran out of juice after 60 miles of track time. 55 miles. http://www.google.com/search?q=top+gear+tesla+roadster+55 The Roadster has also been informally tested by a Hacker
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
A friend mentioned to me that the macbooks have gotten bigger over the years and there was on that was 12 inches (?) that they no longer make. Part of the "increase in size" is just pretend. Modern notebooks are not as large as their quot
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Every country that has a 'research' nuclear reactor spends hundred of million to do 'big' science. What would that have to do with the nuclear power industry? . Producing isotopes is the main use of the [research] reactor. What would me
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
The full letter is scanned-in here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_letter
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Members of my own family died in the nazi death camps Which camps? Were they in Germany or Poland?
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
From that Jay Cross flashpaper: Alexander goes beyond the drought-resistant, no-maintenance yard to the maintenance-free, barren yard. Natural as a hippy’s armpit, this hardscrabble, lifeless expanse, especially in the midst of neighboring
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Gorging on pasta when pregnant will just produce a type I diabetic child. I think you meant "Type II".
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Nobody, as far as I know, buys luxury goods which are absolutely indistinguishable from cheaper versions. People pay more for wine in bottles, even though the same wine in a box is cheaper. http://www.google.com/search?q=%22No+cork+sniff
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
A manufactured diamond is not a mined diamond, and it never will be. A manufactured diamond cannot help but lack the authenticity of a mined diamond, even if the two cannot be told apart. It is where a luxury comes from -- not what it ends

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