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by sigvirt 8y ago
There is similar premise in James Rickards 2014 book The Death of Money. He describes trade dynamics and international organizations, including the Bank for International Settlements and their unit/basket of reserve currencies called
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by sigvirt 8y ago
Anne Applebaum's book Gulag describes similar psychology and social dynamics. It's an epic work of scholorship that examines the surrounding society as well as the camps and the prisoners. A wide range of inmate experience shows
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by sigvirt 8y ago
Being potentially wiped out by a healthcare incident is not simply a matter of the looming bill. Your recommendation (i.e. to carry on by ignoring the bill) assumes the illness causes little disruption and the cure is complete. Many illne
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by sigvirt 8y ago
Also include the simple motivation of greed. A lot of war and genocide is simply about profiteering. Some perpetrators do so knowingly. Other miscreants feel need to invent some excuse, such as dehumanization, and repaint their predation
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by sigvirt 8y ago
Ben Ferencz says much the same. [1a] - http://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-the-last-nuremberg-prosecut... [1b] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14437511 [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by sigvirt 8y ago
The Silicon Graphics crew did like their case mods. Adding to the list: a demo team had a deskside O2K with a top air-intake and side exhaust pipes like a dragster engine.
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by sigvirt 8y ago
Near Y2K, as development slowed, several of the hands-on QA teams were found to be astonishingly good at Quake. Later, as labs high and low were decommissioned, a couple of sysadmins consolidated equipment and absolutely dominated the SETI
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by sigvirt 8y ago
Also around 1993, Onyx with RE II was used by Nameco and a company called Magic Edge to build actuated flight sim pods [1]. Coincidentally also in 1993, NASA published a guide [2] to their Vertical Motion Simulator [3]. At the time, the V
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by sigvirt 8y ago
Propublica [1][2] has done some investigation into the amount of waste, beginning with a 2012 report by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. The unnecessary costs amount to roughly 5% of US GDP. For comparison: the defens
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by sigvirt 8y ago
This group (near Stanford with other locations) has some effective methods to help clients reduce pain or discomfort and improve physical ability. The Balance Center - http://www.balancecenter.com/overview.htm I am not afil
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The Balance Center – reduce back pain, improve ability, comfortable posture(balancecenter.com)
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Yes. Well put and necessarily said, 62991. Hopefully, one has the peace-time luxury of a leisurly acclimation toward the deeper end of the pool; too many in the world sadly don't. Absolutely, awareness and preemption are paramount.
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by sigvirt 8y ago
Training is your friend. Learn to be on both sides of the fist and stick and gun - what is and is not possible. For some illustration of outcomes, see youtube for "28 foot rule" or "21 foot rule". Learn to see the set
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by sigvirt 8y ago
To feed everyone's inquiry/discussion of diet, nutrition, and western disease (though not fasting per se): two particular researchers/authors had much mindshare and influence in Bay Area circles a decade ago. They've no