When I've been involved with nature sits involving bird language/calls, if the participants are new they invariably misjudge the direction where the bird alarm or call was made. It's been accepted by many doing this kind of work that 1) it's almost universal for new people, unless the person's background involves a…
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To your direct question: I did make up my mind: my first assumption (being an optimist with minimal insane partner experience) is that this represented a good thing. I like knowing where I stand, and have no problem looking someone in the eye and challenging them on whether they want to accept my non-conforming…
Um.. just an observation here: you do realize that most of us do exactly what you're describing, right? We just don't write it down, and when it doesn't materialize, we just move on and make do? We have a difference of opinion about whether this person in the article would respond that way or not, which is cool.
Ahh, advanced management techniques required.
Well, I'm not going to say one thing is better for another, because everyone is different. What I will say is that I'd lay down money that your opinion would change when you meet a woman/partner that really knows what they want. In that moment, you'll understand exactly who you are in relation to them, and by my…
"40 years old." OMG. *blows mind* /sarcasm
True enough. But the report says that is was risk to the corporate entity for *their* reputation, political position, and finances. It doesn't involve the *public* tradeoffs at all.
I'd argue that the misnomer is the inability to take the current technical arc of capabilities and pretend that it stops at the current state. Those "brains" are soon destined to be mobile, the capability of what's demonstrated in this video is as good as "done", if you extrapolate (even just a little bit.)
"primitive science guys" is actually being used as an exact term, not a modifier. When survival is on the edge, you don't use *anything* that is an unknown or unproven, because people are going to die if it's not really and truly true. This *is* an argument I would want to have with someone that could listen,…
What are you asking, really? I qualified my comment about hunting with "primitive" which, presumably, is not *your* personal experience (fair enough). But you seem to be ascribing a meaning to my words, in which "small portion of the population" was every-fucking-one when the qualifier of "primitive" is placed in…
Define "hunt". I define it as "putting a knapped arrow tip from a handmade shaft with natural fletching from a self-bow or long-bow into an animal from a distance of no less than 40 feet." You're listening to the birds, or you're using a rifle/compound bow. Period.
The centralization argument hasn't had a real conversation in a while. What is the economic benefit to the resiliency of decentralized systems compared to centralized ones? What is the economic cost of "use more, pay less" or "economies of scale" when larger users tend to waste more? What is the economic cost of a…
"What the Robin Knows" is a good introductory book if you want to understand what the heck the birds are actually doing when most people think of their behavior as "random." It's a form of cooperation (even sometimes inter-species) that helps to keep the group surviving. The western science guys are just now…
As for the rebuttal, I dunno. When it's personal, it's personal, and not something that gets generally talked about (even when it seems like the raw information comes out like in the SJ biography, you can bet that's not the whole of the picture, either.)
Oh, I'm sure it (google) does. Eric S. has an opinion, you can bet, and I'd wager it even makes total sense. The trouble [sic] is that these people (Jobs, Eric, the Google Twins, etc.) all have a supreme ability which helps them be successful: they know how to turn a problem on its head so the view is different,…
3rd nipple? No problem - wrap a puka shell string around your neck connected to the camera and voila', instant High Tech Bohemian Hippie Affectation.
He doesn't care, I'd suspect. His dogma was run over by the article's karma.
Ah - yer right. Control is doing nothing. My bad.
I think you're missing another facet to this. Not only do you have to not *do* anything wrong, you have to avoid the *impression* of doing anything wrong. More and more, due to data collection, being in the wrong place at the wrong time is literally coming to mean you were doing something wrong. Even if they relent…
Placebo (control) was 50% cure rate. Drug was 52% cure rate. Statistically the drug is exhibiting the placebo effect. That makes sense, yes? As opposed to the placebo not doing anything. (Anyway - that's they way they presented it to us.)