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by dingbat 7y ago
yup, and since Sen. Manchin took credit for bringing them in and giving them tons of public money, doubtful he'll be up for that crusade
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by dingbat 8y ago
Vallee is a serious person worth paying attention to, a rarity in that field. Spielberg used him as the model for that French scientist in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Another good book of his is "Messengers of Deception",
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by dingbat 8y ago
Holiday as a "public intellectual"? he's always struck me as a marketer, retweeter of self-help quotes, and curator of other people's ideas, at best. something about him tells me there's nothing there.
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by dingbat 8y ago
might be slightly off-topic, but what are your thoughts on those air purifiers that people can get for their office/home?
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by dingbat 9y ago
amusing that a comment designed to mock the irrationality and simple-mindedness of "Americans", itself provides a strong example of overgeneralizing entire populations, society and culture into simple, easy-to-understand tropes su
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by dingbat 9y ago
> If we actually understood that people literally died of not having enough money, or of lack of willpower to deal with a bureaucracy, or of homelessness, or of their mental state, there’s every chance that something might change. if you
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by dingbat 9y ago
assumes there is a singular root cause. "he died lonely of a broken heart?" but why was he lonely? "he died because in his entire life he failed to develop relationships with people" or "he died of loneliness becaus
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by dingbat 9y ago
no thanks, when you go would you really want your last statement of who you were to be created by some random medical practitioner who decides on your behalf that the sum of your life was "he died a sad lonely man". > he died b
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by dingbat 9y ago
i hope the undeniable pleasure that cop took in playing this lethal game of Simon Says was worth it.
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by dingbat 9y ago
ah thanks for that bit of info. still, even pre-Vegas, i think it is reasonable to label pointing a rifle outside a hotel room window as "careless", which is the point i was responding to. the commentor seemed to conflate the ques
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by dingbat 9y ago
it was called in because he was pointing the rifle out of his hotel room window. i guess it's up to you to decide for yourself whether or not that could be called "careless". or whether it would be reasonable for a passerby t
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by dingbat 9y ago
if i recall correctly Shaver was not wearing pjs, he was wearing shorts. but yes, he appeared to pull up his shorts which were being dragged down because he was being forced to crawl on his hands and knees. i would bet that almost everyone
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by dingbat 9y ago
do you personally sleep while wearing form-fitting pants with a belt?
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by dingbat 9y ago
and being woken in the middle of the night, wearing boxers or pajamas with hands in the air, better pray that they don't happen to slip down causing you to instinctively "reach for your waistband" in order to hitch them up
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by dingbat 9y ago
on a related note, i recall Peter Drucker writing about how many people, executives in particular, often talk about volunteering or "giving back to the community" once they retire. but Drucker noted that in his observation, execut
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by dingbat 9y ago
yes i understand decoherence at different scales, but my point is that the Arrow of Time exists for both a real physical object, such as someone falling off a cliff, but also a non-real object, such as someone dreaming of falling off a clif
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by dingbat 9y ago
has anyone gone down the list of most popular TED Talks and run similar replications of the claims made in other presentations? itd be interesting if there were some ratio that scored most-popular TED Talk vs. "B.S." content. i wo
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by dingbat 9y ago
would note that near the end of the article its noted that Cuddy has conceded that the specific cortisol effects touted have not been borne out. she is "still fighting" for power posing but only as a useful technique which sometim
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by dingbat 9y ago
the article discusses that in detail, but the article is not really about the merits, or lack thereof, of that study, its about something else.
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by dingbat 9y ago
if it's exactly the same, that would imply that quantum mechanics and decoherence effects are equivalent for both internally generated imaginary stimuli, and external stimuli based on "real" physical objects. but it seems lik
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by dingbat 9y ago
so how does quantum mechanics explain the continuous and coherent (more or less) sequence that is perceived even in a non-physical dream?
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by dingbat 9y ago
whether its about decoherence or "observer time", I wonder how either explanation can explain why Times Arrow seems to exist in dream. ie. if decoherence was the basis, what is being "decohered" in a dream?
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by dingbat 9y ago
even aside from the billable hours issue, there is the less obvious problem that in many cases, it is in the interest of the client that there be less transparency and more obfuscation of material that might be unfavorable. improving proces
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by dingbat 9y ago
i wouldnt put that much meaning into reasons for the misleading headline choice. simplest explanation is "Opioid Use Explains..." is better clickbait than "Not Sure if Opioid Use is Causal or Symptom"
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by dingbat 9y ago
i see you deleted your previous comment saying that the way this 20-year-old passage has suddenly been noticed is "banal" and passage itself is not newsworthy, because HRC was not newsworthy anymore until she ran for president. th
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by dingbat 9y ago
to me one of the most interesting things about this issue is how it trended recently because someone actually read and thought for a moment about what Hillary Clinton wrote about in her best-selling book "It Takes a Village", abou
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by dingbat 9y ago
> If Amazon was smart its one thing to have alternative opinions about their strategy, but im not too sure about judging Amazon / Jeff Bezos as lacking in business smarts
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by dingbat 9y ago
> Badass gay character, humanized gangsters, contra-Reaganesque attitude to drugs, aim at corruption and money, etc. you must be pretty young to think these themes were revolutionary in the early 00's, and that the "media has c
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by dingbat 9y ago
i thought it was brilliant at an even more meta level: McNulty made up a fictional but fact-based story about a series of killings, with a dramatic flourish of "the Red Ribbon Killer", in order to get resources and attention on wh
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by dingbat 9y ago
> Taleb believes that this is true of markets and he may very well have a similar strategy (consistently buy out of the money puts). im not sure that statement is an accurate description of Taleb's barbell strategy; for one thing it

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