Comments by "bj0rn" (@TheLivirus) on "TED" channel.

  1. As a teenager I remember I stayed up late, partly because of the sweet solitude after the rest of the family were sleeping. I really appreciated that little extra time for myself and my teenage angst. As long as my parents wouldn't start work equally late in the morning, I don't think I would stay up much later if school started later.
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  2. I feel like Sean prepared for a 30 min talk and was told the day before he has only 18 min.
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  3. This was an optimistic projection. Some economists argue that this industrial revolution will not bring new jobs the way industrial revolution did.
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  4. And yet that is all you have to say.
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  5. This discussion is so relevant right now. Europe needs to start this discussion as well.
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  6. Yes! Let's all march out together, hand in hand, and smash the statues and monuments our ancestors built to pass down the lessons of the world wars, so that we are finally free to repeat.
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  7. Her eyes seem to shine of genuine excitement!
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  8. Seriously TED, you couldn't grant the www's inventor more than 6:30?
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  9. May I suggest that instead of urging millions to select movies directed by women, Naomi should urge female directors to appeal to millions. Minds respond to experience, not to commands.
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  10. Really interesting and well explained. I've heard the notion "symmetry is beauty" regurgitated with conviction so many times, and every time I cringe because it appears to be too simple of a model for beauty. It is certainly a component, but not the only one. A testament to this is my high-school crush on a girls with a crooked smile.
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  11. "You're basically seeing a confluence of three behaviors..." Desecration, cannibalism and necrophilia?
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  12. 刘政 I've heard that basic income is popular among both the left and right. On the one hand it helps the poor, and on the other hand hands over the responsibility of how taxes are best spent to individuals and eliminates a lot of beurocracy since it may substitute most other government programs, allowing private business to provide the services.
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  13. What is deep tech? It's a new buzzword that Antoine is trying to popularize in order to promote business interests.
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  14. He's the primary inventor of the world wide web, and he's trying to convey his wish of what will become of his invention. Intelligent people aren't necessarily good speakers.
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  15. ***** He confronted, investigated and now reported on a social phenomenon. Not a lot of complaining.
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  16. I'm all for big data and its capabilities as long as it isn't tracable back to the individual. This is a line companies and governments must learn to respect. EDIT: 12:00 He even brought it up himself. How convenient! :)
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  17. I just realized reading/writing is really an ocular substitute for speech/hearing, so the concept of sensory substitution or using unusual input channels to our brain is quite old if you think about it. The things we take for granted.
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  18. This problem goes further than philanthropy. Allocation of research funding suffers the same problem. In effect, important topics are neglected and lots of resources are wasted on helping donors shift demand, regulation and legislation in their favor.
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  19. "We know that there are those five basic tastes, but we strongly suspect that there are more." Thank you! I find it really difficult to accept that the complexity of flavors I experience is just a combo of salt, sweet, sour, bitter, umami.
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  20. Anyone who has attempted multivariable optimization is familiar with the problem of local optima. From the vantage point of a local optimum, all directions seem to make the situation worse. Yet, what you have found is rarely the global optimum as there are typically many such locations in the variable space and it is not obvious you are in the most optimal of them. To find out you must dare to leave the local optimum and explore what appear to be less optimal territories.
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  21. Interesting topic delivered by an excellent speaker! I really enjoyed this one!
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  22. 4:16 Biden admin ticks all 6
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  23. "We need courageous leaders, yet humble, and they have to be guided by a moral compass. Having a moral compass is a combination of having a social purpose and a set of principles." You have my attention! So how do we promote leadership with these characteristics? "All of us need to find our moral compass and release the leader inside. We need more young and more female leaders and these must embrace both masculine and feminine values." What a boring non-answer to an interesting question.
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  24. Convulsions. He held his breath the hold time.
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  25. Every asian parent should listen to this.
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  26. +MexicanBurrito Let's not pretend it's either one or the other. We are both shaped by our social environment to a large extent but we are also reasoning individuals. However naturally if we want to promote a social change we cannot wait around for individuals to spontaneously change themselves. Also, the idea that everyone has the right to love whoever they want to love is not original and I find it unlikely that you arrived at this conclusion independently but were probably influenced by other sources than the Catholic Church.
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  27. It gives me hope that Kristalina mentions that inequality tends to increase with every economic crisis and that this is a problem. The reason this happens is essentially that assets tend to become very cheap during crisis, so the wealthy can go on shopping spree. Consequently, after every crisis, more of the economy ends up being owned by a smaller number of people. This effect is aggravated severely by bailouts of financial institutions. It would be nice to see Kristalina find as much "strength in action" when it comes to this problem as she finds in regard to Covid-19. Edit: I'd like to add that simple redistribution in terms of social services or financial support to the poor is not enough to solve this problem, because the economy will still belong to an ever shrinking group of people.
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  28. Upon publishing a scientific paper, I had to consent to the publisher owning publishing rights "for all time" and "throughout the universe".
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  29. If his arguments still stand and his solutions are still relevant, why not?
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  30. Summary: Is work making you sick? Let's be sick together.
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  31. This talk needs to have more substance and originality.
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  32. So her point is basically that we should try to learn from this period instead of going back to business as usual? Wow, what a novel insight.
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  33. Allright. It appears the idea of Darwin's supposed death-bed conversion is based on a single person's testimony, published after his death. His entire family disputes the validity of her testimony. Consider for example his dauther's statement: "I was present at his deathbed. Lady Hope was not present during his last illness, or any illness. I believe he never even saw her, but in any case she had no influence over him in any department of thought or belief. He never recanted any of his scientific views, either then or earlier. We think the story of his conversion was fabricated in the U.S.A. The whole story has no foundation whatever." A sick old man in agony on his deathbed is also not the most reliable source, even if he was the founder of the idea. Darwin's theory of evolution is still in good agreement with the fossil record and offers useful explanatory power that helps us deal with diseases and develop agriculture.
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  34. I have a really hard time swallowing that this is just about one man's delusions and not about NATO expansion and oil/gas.
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  35. You can have anything you want yet all you want is a phone case? You lack imagination.
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  36. I can't stand this guy. But yeah, lead by example, not by force.
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  37. Right, so racism was invented in 14th century to excuse profitable slave trade. But why didn't it fade away along with the slave trade?
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  38. Very well written.
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  39. "Look at me, I can make myself do something I really hate to do to the direct benefit of no one." - Long distance runners
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  40. Ah, so now I have a name of my disability. Great!
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  41.  @breezluize3282  No, that's not all. I liked his talk. Lots of good points. Have a nice day!
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  42. Has any TED talk ever said anything negative about the internet?
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  43. I think they do, but the audience is small, and a tad eccentric.
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  44. Dark Day Ministries And by that you mean that government should cut taxes to a minimum and intervene zero with the market and everything will magically become flowers and butterflies.
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  45. So, Graffiti basically.
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  46. Dividing the world into good and evil turns hate into virtue. What we need is better understanding of one another, not this.
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  47. How about letting boys develop their own idea of masculinity instead of having it imposed by adults?
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  48. This is a talk about gender gap, not economic disparity.
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  49. People would be more excited about technological change if it was precedented by legislation that protects them against subjugation. Currently the trend is the opposite: legislators pave way for technology-driven subjugation of the masses.
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  50. Her conclusion is much more general than the rest of her talk. She's basically begging politicians and the public to fund curious researchers who wants to explore the unknown rather than only research where we are able to predict clear applications. The thing about research is that we don't really know where we are going, and unexpected applications often come afterwards, so it may be unwise and perhaps wasteful to only fund easily motivated research.
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  51. He just presented a capitalistic system which completely overhauls or even eliminates the classical concept of the class struggle which is the basis of most critique against capitalism. If you think the problems will persist under the system he presented you will have to explain your reasoning rather than tossing lazy assertions.
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  52. mclovin stephano Finland based their school system on the Swedish school system. Meanwhile, Sweden abandoned its working model and started experimenting with discipline and meritocratic schooling.
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  53. When I heard that I thought to myself: Yeah, that will be the one thing most people take from this, despite this having nothing to do with the topic of her talk.
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  54. I wonder how many dislikes this video has...
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  55.  @porche9II  He seems like a far better person than someone who generalises 1.38 billion people.
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  56. She was still undecided on her topic days before this talk? I thought TED invited speakers based on what they had to say, not who they were.
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  57. Waltham1892 And you assume she hasn't done this?
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  58. Book burning has grown sophisticated.
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  59. In an interview Penrose was asked whether there was any problem in physics that motivated his work on tiling. Roger responded that he simply thought it was an interesting puzzle. Not everything has to be driven by utilitarianism.
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  60. And yet, all you comment on is what the video isn't about.
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  61. Did you know that in technical terms, satellites are in constant free fall towards earth? They just have enough tangential velocities that they miss it, all the time.
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  62.  @lena-mariaglouis-charles7036  It's not healthy to respond to opposing views with dismissal and ridicule rather than curiosity. Wouldn't you want to know if my claims were true?
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  63. It's rare nowadays to find intellectuals of her caliber within politics.
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  64. Suppose that the speaker in this video proposed that the European union abandon democracy and egalitarianism for meritocracy, pointing at China's incredible progress over the last few decades as proof that it works. Can you imagine some European citizens being upset over this, writing angry comments in protest?
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  65. An increase in productivity means that less material, energy and labor is required to produce the same value. A technological shift like this will facilitate sustainability, not hamper it.
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  66. How can anyone look at that woman and think she's past due date? She's thriving!
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  67. This will sound alien to you: we are not free independent individual actors in full charge of our actions. This is a metaphysical claim or at best a pragmatic principle as we are biological machines in a deterministic universe. The rules of cause and effect applies indiscriminately, and there is no reason why the human mind get a special pleading. To a great extent we do not choose our genome, our family, or the society that shapes our mind and inform our decisions and actions. We need to stop looking at problems in society as spontaneous eruptions of bad individuals that have to be threatened and policed and acknowledge the conditions that lead them down the road and what we can do to reshape our society such that others do not fall the same way. It is the rational way to go.
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  68. Because "right" ideological ideas never killed anyone. Oh wait!
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  69. Why is it so hard for people to disagree and enjoy a TED talk at the same time? I think her work is important and will shape the way the town will be remembered. I didn't agree with everything she said but she made some good points and I think listening to her perspective was interesting regardless.
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  70. Ok, so unions.
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  71. I certainly hope so. That system is in dire need of a reboot.
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  72. Sounds like Melinda absorbed a rather narrow education, with little exposure to opposing points of view. Needless to say, she was shell-shocked upon first exposure to a free marketplace of ideas. Now she tries to craft a culture where ideas are silently tolerated rather than challenged upon dissent.
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  73. I feel that people often have children because they reach a point in their life where they must decide on what to do with it. Instead of figuring themselves out, they quench their anxiety by taking on the busy task of raising children. In other words, instead of solving the problem, they pass it on, to their children. Once their children has grown up and moved out, the anxiety starts to come back to them, and again, instead of figuring themselves out, they nag on their children to give them grandchildren.
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  74. This was more of a pep-talk than presentation of a new idea.
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  75. Rich Floyd He encourages us to explore the data for ourselves to verify the correlations. Did you do this before you decided he's a liar?
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  76. As with many other issues in USA, the underlying cause is the influence corporations have on politics. Before we do anything else, we have to change the way politics work.
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  77. Yup. They claim to give, yet their philanthropy fund keeps growing. It is almost as though it is just an investment fund with makeup on.
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  78. I think this intense focus on social media platforms is to a certain degree a red herring. I believe Trump and Brexit are responses to real problems in our society which have been overlooked by the establishment. It's probably correct that xenophobic campaigns have relied heavily on social media platforms to promote their campaigns, but let's not pretend they were alone in this. If we want to restore people's belief in the democratic process, how about we begin by listening carefully to their concerns and then develop policy which address these concerns in more sensible ways than proposed by Trump and Brexit. I don't think we can turn this around if we keep dismissing people's concerns as figments of imagination.
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  79. You seem to have a strong personality, a bad one that is.
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  80. Please proceed. Explain what you mean.
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  81. Which box to tick? How to identify yourself? How to present yourself to others? Here's an old radical idea: Be yourself and treat people as individuals.
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  82. I love Esther, but Jesus Christ I'm so sick of talks forcing Covid into the title.
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  83. The metaverse failed to impress mature adults, so let's impose it on the impressionable young using identity rhetoric and bright colors.
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  84. Fashion is like facebook. It provides us with an opportunity to tell a story about ourselves as someone else than we really are.
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  85. The best career path is to get a job then keep it and live a good life.
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  86. Is it? Do you have data to back that up?
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  87. This seemed like a great opportunity for introspection. Sadly it turned mostly into evasive criticism of "them" and how we need to fix them. Next talk should be about the decline of TED and whether it is beyond saving.
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  88. This could have been easily avoided by NATO deciding to not include countries bordering Russia, but they thought that their authority is more important than European peace and security. That's the story here.
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  89. This talk was much more thoughtful than I expected.
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  90.  @porche9II  Read a book on epistemology.
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  91. In the pre-flight safety demonstration, we are instructed to put on our own oxygen mask before we help others.
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  92. Thanks for sharing China, but we already have enough bullshit in the west.
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  93. I didn't know Irish could sound so posh.
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  94. You may be in control of yourself, but you are not in control of what the world makes of you.
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  95. If boxes on forms is causing problems: remove the boxes.
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  96. It's become fashionable to change society through technology, not necessarily for the better, more like a social experiment.
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  97. So... earth was flat? :D
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  98. According to Timothy, it is a mistake to think democracy is a thing that is promoted or undermined by greater forces, such as capitalism or inequality. He argues that it is rather an attitude or practice that individuals must uphold. Then he says democracy cannot exist in a petroleum driven world. Isn't this a huge contradiction, or am I missing something?
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  99.  @paulrevere47  I mean I get it. A condition for peace/collaboration is that the cake is growing. If the cake is shrinking, there is more incentive to take from one another, leading to conflict and violence. Global warming may potentially lead to scarcity of resources such as reduced landmass, food shortage, more destruction by natural disasters, etc. But this argument seems to contradict his earlier statement that democracy does not reply in external conditions but comes from within individuals.
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  100. Care to be more specific about what qualifies gravity as the God of psuedoscience?
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  101.  @DegreesOfThree  I don't intend to reproduce the experiment. I'm just interested in what they did and how they arrived at their conclusions. Also, I can't see how the conclusions they did present contribute to improve predictions of movement of stellar objects past general relativity or even Newtonian gravity.
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  102. Nah, smaller organizations are less prone to corruption. Better with many small democracies than one big.
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  103. Very urgent and important topic. I can't believe we haven't been having a more thorough discussion about this the last couple of decades.
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  104. You need to practice your english then. I had no issue.
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  105.  @alex0589  Why though?
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  106.  @simsational...  The reason I'm asking is I suspect no evidence meets your criteria, so I'd waste my time telling you.
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  107. This was a rather interesting talk, aside from the misandrist undertone. I'd love to learn more about female sexuality. Women, get to work!
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  108. Agnes is missing the point. Metaverses make up an enormous unexploited venue for advertisement and sales. What we need to do is to commercialize, monetize and paywall so that stock go up.
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  109. Increasing productivity is not unsustainable, in fact it may be necessary for sustainability. In essense, an increase in productivity is to use resources more efficicently. Less material, energy and labor is required to produce the same amount of value.
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  110. Ariana The reality is that the number of children being born in the world has stabilized, and the world population is expected to level out around 11 billion. The reason is that the more developed a country is, the less children each woman give birth to, and most countries are now fairly developed. If we want to achieve sustainability without reducing our standard of living, reducing the world population (I don't even want to think about what that entails), or expand to other planets, productivity is our way to go, making this manufacturing revolution more than welcome.
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  111. So the real question is, what is good model behavior?
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  112. How will we ensure that the AI follow the rules? What stops it from reinterpreting the rules as it please? What stops it from removing the rules from its own instructions? What stops it from creating a copy of itself which isn't constrained by rules?
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  113. Is he high or just drunk?
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  114. I relate more to Miss Perfect than Mr Brave and I'm a 26 year old male.
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  115. I think this talk was meant to induce some sense of urgency into our naive heads rather than inform us with news.
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  116. This talk was way longer than it had to be. She basically repeated the title for 11 minutes.
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  117. I think you are right. Liberals and libertarians share a lot of values. I think the difference is what they believe the spontaneous trajectory of society is if people are left to organize themselves. Libertarians tend to be optimistic, trusting that the framework of capitalism is sufficient for society to self-organize and maintain a generally desirable equilibrium state. They tend to view the capitalistic system as inherently meritocratic, i.e. the system rewards good ideas, talent and effort. Liberals tend to be more pessimistic, viewing the capitalistic system as unstable. Society is not meritocratic, but unfair. The reward goes to those who are in position to claim it and not those who deserve it. They believe that politics should be used to level the playing field, such that everyone are given the same opportunity to fulfill their potential. This description may not fit everyone, but this is how I view it at the moment.
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  118. Takeoff at 4:11
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  119. How are raegonomics going to solve the conflict between automation and employment? If we want growth, automation is key, however this will leave people unemployed. Lowering corporate taxes will certainly not solve this issue.
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  120. We need to take a step back and discuss values. When values are sorted out, we can talk about solutions. It is dishonest to start with a conclusion and try to connect unrelated values to it. By starting at conservative values, you will naturally arrive at a conservative conclusions and not liberal ones, and vice versa.
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  121. 3:34 "CHwhy?" I wonder how to write that throat sound in arabic.
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  122. If you listen really closely to the neural organoids you'll hear a faint "What is this? Why am I hear? Life is suffering. Kill me!"
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  123. People of India: buy more clothes from Tommy Hilfiger in revolt against oppressive tradition!
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  124. The fashion industry started pushing the idea that we should express our inner selves through clothing by the early 1920's. Why are we hearing this crap repeated on a TED stage in 2018 by the head of marketing for Tommy Hilfiger (india)?
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  125. I get the message and all, but this woman is just ugh! She just comes off as incredibly fake. I mean Jesus, this is a speech for a cheesy Hollywood movie, not a TED talk. Find another front figure for your cause. She's hurting you.
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  126. This makes me worried, really worried. Yuval has gone mad and the crowd is cheering him. We need to deescalate, the situation, not ramp up arms and European nationalism. This is absolutely mad.
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  127. More suited than the lead designer? Maybe the CEO Mariina Hallikainen would suit better?
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  128. @HAVE A LAUGH Let the search for Moon's navel begin!
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  129. Yeah and her next research project will tell definitely which way it is. If genetics made the parents poor and not circumstances, handing relieving their poverty will not have any effect on the child's development.
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  130. I don't think that quantum computers allowing banks to lend even more beyond their means is a strong selling point for most people.
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  131.  @DegreesOfThree  Alright. Sounds like you're on to something. Are there any attempts to model galaxy rotation on the basis of electricity? If so, does it agree well with observations?
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  132.  @DegreesOfThree  The strong interaction holds atomic nuclei together by overpowering the repelling force between positively charged protons, yet some believe electric charge is the 'driving force'.
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  133. Pedagogic presentation of an old idea.
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  134. If you look at it from a less cynical perspective, greed is one of the strongest human drives. While many systems tries to surpress this drive through discipline or threats, the idea of capitalism is to exploits it to produce good.
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  135. Very interesting and emotional talk, but I'm not sure I agree. My experience is rather the opposite, that I had a very strong sense of compassion and freedom as a child. I was taught that adulthood requires me to sacrifice freedom for greater or more noble causes. Being raised by parents, school system and society at large, my expectation of freedom has regressed and my compassion has been dulled. I think she had these instincts once, but her society was very effective at teaching her otherwise, probably before her first memory. Once she got out, she had to rediscover them.
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  136. Wow, this guy is damn proud of his invention. He should be! Thank you Donald Sadoway and involved students for making our future look a bit brighter! :)
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  137. Easy: Pick employees randomly. Solved.
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  138. This type of research will probably have no problem getting funded. Petroleum industries will throw money at it to divert discussion from renewable energy towards damage control while looking virtuous.
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  139. Problem: Kids don't know language spoken in new school. Solution: Teach kids the language before they enter the new school system. Solution: Have parents, who also don't know the language, use app to ask teachers how to help out. I'm sorry but what?
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  140. Drink a shot every time she refers to sugar on the surface of our cells! (warning: you'll get drunk)
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  141. It's simple: If globalism comes at cost of democracy, I don't want it. The last thing the world needs is an unelected, unaccountable, zealous elite.
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  142. An educated guess: Orbital period is related to mass, so by observing how fast stellar objects rotate in a galaxy as a function of distance from its center, you may infer approximately how much mass is involved.
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  143. Also: gravitational lensing. Gravity bends light. So by measuring how strongly light bends around a gallaxy, its mass can be inferred. The lensing can be observed by comparing how the apparent positions of more distant objects are distorted as a massive object passes in front of them.
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  144.  @simsational...  What kind of evidence would you find convincing?
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  145.  @simsational...  I'm still waiting for you to make an argument against any specific claim. I'm starting to think you have nothing but edgy catchphrases to bring to the discussion.
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  146.  @katarzynasosnowska9182  I thought the satire was clear. That it wasn't is perhaps a sign that our culture needs healing.
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  147. Hitler also used a severely romanticised version of the past to fuel the movement. Watch Adam Curtis "The Living Dead: On the desperate Edge of Now"
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  148. It was assumed that increased connectedness would lead to more discussion and thereby convergence towards a more shared worldview. Instead people realized that it is now much easier to find people who share their opinions, so there is no need for discussion.
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  149. My experience is that a lot of time and attention goes towards chasing funding and incentivized publishing targets rather than engaging curiously in research, so she has a point. There's a mentality that too much research goes into fundamentals and less so towards applications that stimulates the economy. Well, without the fundamentals, there's nothing to bring to application.
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  150. theslimeylimey What you're missing is that this talk isn't solely about racial issues but about the industrialist bias of our historical narrative and the negligence of the impact their exploitation has on the local environment and health of the working class. The idea that only the activities of a few influential people of a town makes it to the historical record and the rest are at large neglected and forgotten, it scares me, and I think it is incredibly important to keep this in mind when reflecting on our past.
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  151. Once we convert to autonomous cars, I think alcohol consumption will increase quite a lot.
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  152. Digitalbumpin You will never make a career as a fortune teller. I just found his mannerism a bit odd, as though he wasn't completely sober.
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  153. I think the primary reason behind this is the assumption that poverty breeds violence and not the other way around. If the relation is the opposite or mutual, then we need to communicate this and start acting accordingly.
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  154. This is a TED talk. It's dumbed down to appeal to a broader audience.
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  155. Finally TED features something really interesting. This is a completely new angle to me. Thank you Sebastian!
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  156. He could lose that animated background. It just makes it harder to discern the flying papers.
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  157. John Thorgard Chill! Haha, I wasn't being serious.
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  158. It's already fairly easy to make bombs given you have access to the explosives or chemicals. As for guns, you still need to buy the ammunition. Sure, it makes it a bit harder to regulate, but I'm not sure it's gonna make that much of a difference.
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  159. Our leaders have shrunk the world, without bringing people together. Our society rewards selflessness, only in exchange for loyalty. Once we extend a hand to the world, we let down the expectation of loyalty towards our country, and we are truly on our own. There is no home for a humanist today.
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  160. eggory I don't think he suggests that we abandon reasoning. He just proposes that we shouldn't ignore other important parts of human nature.
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  161. What are you talking about? He demonstrated that the method works, showing video footage of swelling brain tissue, and showed a LSFM image where the neuron structure could be discerned, produced using the method. What is this supposed 90% speculation made up of? The examples he provided of problems where the method may help provide answers?
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  162. So, citizen of the world means to be a humanist activist. How original.
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  163. Affiliation to such a diverse group as Islam never really tells much about the individual.
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  164. Try to narrow it down to a manageable number like 3 or 5 that you think are of highest priority and focus on them. This is certainly better than not thinking ahead at all.
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  165. A talk about how much we can learn from cave fish without a single example?
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  166. TGGeko He never said capitalism is a bad system, only that there's room for improvement. What can possibly be more capitalist than exposing capitalism itself to a competitive market of ideas?
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  167. The reason our salary is a sensitive issue isn't because of envy, it is because of the qualities we associate with salaries in our society. It is assumed that our salary is more or less proportional to our contribution to society as a product of our capability and effort. This means that a person earning less is often viewed as lazy, underachieving, and/or selfish. No one wants to be viewed as such, and no sensible person wants to expose coworkers as such.
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  168. His prediction sounds very far fetched, but I guess all of them sounded so at the time he made them, yet many came true.
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  169. Thank you James for an excellent talk! I think you were very successful in giving a layman a peak into what particle physicists actually do and care about.
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  170. Well technocrats theorize about a point where AI is advanced enough to improve itself. Then what?
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  171. At the small university I studied at, research is being done on automation of product development processes. A typical project ends in a few engineers looking for new jobs. Sometimes the only thing left to the engineers is to set up external constraints on the design space, and optimized concepts ready for production pops out, complete with all necessary documentation. I find it realistic that most development work will be automated within a few decades.
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  172. Umm... what... what is... nevermind.
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  173. TheEvolver311 Sure, but what about the women who are offered the opportunity of higher education Arab world? What about those who did seek higher education but are discouraged by teachers, students and even family from continuing? What about the women who completed their education and now face the male dominated corporate environment of the Arab world? Don't you think Leila's talk may be helpful to them?
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  174. She suggests that the current voting system generates extremist ideologues. She diagnoses the problem and prescribes a solution using Politics-Industry Theory™, a body of work she originated and championed over the last seven years. She seems like quite an extremist ideologue herself.
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  175. Thanks Tzeporah for bringing clarity to a very confused debate.
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  176. So the threat to democracy is that people elect the wrong party? I hope you realize how contradictory this is to the idea of democracy. This is brain washing designed to justify persecution of political opposition.
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  177. ...and what does that make him? Evil?
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  178. This one: A U T I S M
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  179. The derivative (slope) of the income distribution curve is a fair representation of incentive, do you agree? What this lady is warning us about is that this curve is becoming increasingly exponential. What does this mean? Well it means the poorer you are, the less incentive you have. It also means that more people have less incentive and vice versa. Wouldn't it be best for everyone if this curve was more linear, that is to have the same incentive regardless of social class?
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  180.  @whateverrandomnumber  Probably something like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra%27s_algorithm
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  181. Vote for RFK Jr.
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  182. Great talk. He really put his finger on what I think is the key problem with modern politics. CEOs across the globe in charge of a successful companies spend fortunes on generating information on which to make informed decisions and thereby reduce risk. ...but when it comes to a President of an entire nation, basing positions on intuition is suddenly the norm. Statistics, studies and facts are only acknowledged and applied if they are compatible with the intuition. It's so dumb.
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  183. A potential downside to this would be that traffic becomes yet another thing that is managed from above, rather than something that is available for pretty much anyone who holds a job. It could easily become a tool for a monopoly corporation or an authoritarian state to use against the interests of their citizens. So you are trying to protest? Nope, not gonna happen. Your car will not go to that meeting place you agreed on. You are journalist reporting on the wrong-doings of your government? Well, now your car is going to a special place where few journalists return from. We have to think about what can go wrong too, before we do away with our perhaps most important means to freedom of mobility.
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  184. I assumed this type of thing was covered by some kind of defamation law.
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  185. Too bad we live in market economies which evaluates us relative to others rather than to our past selves. According to markets, it doesn't matter where you started if you are still last.
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  186. I have to say I'm very skeptical of IMF after how Greece was treated during its government debt crisis. IMF ignored warnings that austerity measures were too harsh and were likely to result in Greece being more indebted in the future rather than less, instead trusting their flawed macroeconomic models. Over the years, their policy has slowly shifted from austerity to stimulus, but IMF never formally admitted its error and the suffering it caused Greece. Rather, they seem to believe the failure of their policy mostly relates to Geek government's failure to do as they're told. https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2019/10/01/sp093019-The-IMF-and-the-Greek-Crisis-Myths-and-Realities
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  187. My solution is to not attend meetings I don't feel for.
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  188.  @boaz2816  Yes, I agree. Sometimes intuition isn't the best guide. A typical analogy is our perception of colors. We can trick our brain to perceive any visible wavelength of EM radiation using only three discrete wavelengths, as exploited in RGB displays. The reason is our perception of colors is based on the relative activation of only three receptors, each of which responds to a certain overlapping range of wavelengths.
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  189. Tell me what you want to hear him say.
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  190. I love her genuine reaction to the applause at the end. She's appearently flattered. Usually people just nod politely while mumbling "thank you" a few times.
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  191. Chris Anderson
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  192. The best way to repair the harms of colonialism is to leave people alone to do their thing.
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  193.  @DegreesOfThree  Driving force in what sense?
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  194.  @DegreesOfThree  Yeah, I'm looking for details about their methodology, observations, analysis, conclusions, etc. Are they sharing these? They draw conclusions but don't explain well how they arrived at them.
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  195. Black Mirror, S1E3.
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  196. Explain yourself.
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  197. At the moment, yes. But China is actually currently making an effort to reduce inequality, investing in healthcare, education, etc.
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  198. Biden admin colluded with twitter to censor speech, weaponized the legal system against a political opponent. Hillary questioned election results, suggesting Trump was not the legitimate president.
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  199. 8:29 That mask looks like Michael Myers, not Hannibal Lector. Silly girl!
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  200. It seems Chris and Whitney both feel entitled to the service that Twitter provides while at the same time demand freedom from its negative side-effects. What if these side-effects are not avoidable, but are trade-offs we must accept with the service?
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  201. Alright so let's not use it then.
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  202.  @bhaveshkumar9052  What are these other means of exploitation and who is making money off of them?
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  203. "Your voice is decelerating!" <-- Compliment for physicists!
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  204. The question is how to measure these.
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  205. To be honest, the interviewer (Bryn Freedman?) seems to have far more interesting opinions than Halla.
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  206. Nice try TED. However, the only way to restore trust in vaccines is by showing that the narrative holds under free inquiry and open discussion.
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  207. Síndico_do_Rato To avoid deaths of US citizens, and witnesses.
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  208.  @simsational...  There are many methods of measuring stellar distances, with more or less assumptions. What's your opinion of the parallax method?
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  209. ​ @DegreesOfThree  Good question. There are ways to measure attraction between small objects on earth. You can measure the mass of these objects independently by observing how they accelerate in response to other forces than gravity. With these tools you should be able to come up with an equation which relates attraction, mass and distance. Orbital period emerges from this equation.
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  210.  @DegreesOfThree  It means you can measure the gravitational constant without making assumptions about mass. Now you can measure the downwards pull on an object towards earth and infer its mass.
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  211. Do you realize how funny it is that it takes a young bold man in yellow T-shirt to say what should be obvious to everyone.
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  212. 29:38 "Stop questioning IMF policy and do as you're told!"
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  213. @Studi037 6:15 It was highly related to what he was trying to explain. When covering a nerdy subject it's important to give concrete examples to every now and then to keep the audience alert.
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  214. You are on point. The fallacy lies in the application of statistics to individuals. Example: A randomly picked individual out of category A has an 80% chance of being a woman. Flawed reasoning: Jacob, you belong to category A, so you are probably a woman. No? I'm sorry Jacob, you can't argue with statistics.
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  215. The anger. The sadness. The hope.
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  216. I think he just shared his experiance to raise awareness and gratitude of the incredible job that surgeons do.
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  217. Wireless power from space... you mean like solar energy?
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  218. "this concept may sound a little big brother" 'Big brother' implies passive centralized surveillence. This is something else. Imagine staining your reputation at young age, knowing that this will be broadcasted for everyone to see for the rest of your life, wherever you go. Sometime people need the opportunity of a fresh start in order to improve their ways. Her concept is terrible on this aspect. Watch this and you'll understand what I mean: /watch?v=XBmJay_qdNc&feature=plcp
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  219.  @MajICReiki  Fair point. I guess what I'm saying is that the explanation that is most frequently offered: "Deluded Putin seeks to restore Soviet glory by conquering Ukraine" is too one-dimensional.
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  220. That's some daring attire.
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  221. Life is a complex mess of countless chaotic variables of nature and nurture. Let's stop assuming we know the lived experience of others based on a few vague characteristics.
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  222. I don't want change.
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  223. "Turn the fucking wheel!" Yeah, the question is in which direction he should turn. He's navigating an ocean of countless dimensions and there are more icebergs out there.
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  224. If climate change wasn't such a pretext for transfering wealth and power away from ordinary people, I think it would be more popular. I wish scientists could give us an estimate of the risks of having earth controlled by a small group of globalist, unaccountable, unelected elites.
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  225. The sad part is that even if EU is carbon neutral by 2050 and the rest of the planet is not, EU is no less screwed than the rest.
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  226. The greatest risk with measuring a nation's success by its GDP will emerge if/when China's GDP races past US economy and becomes world's new center for trade and finance. This will tell us that liberal democracy is an interior system. We need to rediscover why our ancestors decided to put up with the often tedious and ineffective system of democracy.
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  227.  @ugochiazide1625  Obviously masculinity must exist within the bounds of the law. But that leaves plenty of room to develop an idea of their own. If you want to shape the way boys develop, lead by example.
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  228. Yeah, I think you're on to something. It seems the reason for the panic about social media platforms is not that these are fundamentally flawed, but that they are beyond the control of the establishment. They have grown fond of their strong grip on the flow of information and now panic because people have turned to social media platforms which are outside their sphere of influence.
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  229. @somor98 I think he explained that very well. Individuals that work togeather have a better chance of survival than those who don't. He even braught up the possibility of 'slackers' who use the benefits of the group without contributing, but then argued that under threat of being outperformed and overrun by other groups, such behaviour would be a disadvantage.
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  230. My time is over.
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  231. Nick brings nothing new to the table, though he brings something to a new table. I hope his fellow plutocrats are willing to listen.
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  232. Jon Wise Yes, the projection is of course extrapolation from the current trend and cannot account for any dramatic change. There is a chance that life expectancy will extend dramatically quite soon, yes, but it may also take 100 years, or more. You also need to consider that the rapid progress made on AI which may eventually unlock our key to longer life may also bring other technological innovations which have a different influence on the trend. What I'm saying is that it is probably best to act on trends suggested by solid data and not speculate.
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  233. Jon Wise Agreed.
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  234. Xifong Christian Nope. Will check it out!
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  235. Michael Taylor Couldn't have said it better myself. :)
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  236. Kenneth McCormick Martyrdom is often presented as the purest form of altruism, that is to sacrifice one self for the greater good.
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  237. 0cards0 I think it is an interesting idea though. Wouldn't a selfish individual understanding that one is better off helping others than only looking to oneself seek to help others out of selfish interest?
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  238. "So you're a parasite living off the hard work of others." Didn't we all gladly recieve years of education and support at the cost of others before we began contributing to society? Why can't we grant newcomers from across the boarder the same opportunity as we grant newcomers through the birth canal?
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  239. The frustrating part is that we can't actively fix the middle east, this is something they need to do themselves, such that they can find pride and take responsibility in what they have created.
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  240. Another useless comment about the speaker supposedly getting away with being racist against white people.
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  241. Mr2awsomeness Because islamophobia and intolerance towards Muslims has never been addressed in media.
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  242. ***** Yes.
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  243. Waltham1892 What's the option?
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  244. amerahkiin Well, if not untraceable, at least demand that precautions are taken to sweep away the traces.
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  245. soapbxprod Lack of reliable data I would presume.
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  246. iLeanOn Ice Since lack of production of Vitamin D due to migration to less sunny places. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypovitaminosis_D#Darker_skin_color
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  247. theslimeylimey So what I'm saying is she made some good points and her work is clearly valuable. You shouldn't allow yourself to be distracted from that because she told the story from her personal and cultural perspective. Then you would be actually missing something, as you sarcastically suggested in your first comment.
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  248. I try to treat people how I want to be treated, however this sometimes cause problems as not all people want to be treated as I do.
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  249. Polymers are produced by serial linking of tiny molecules called mers (hence poly-mer). I assume they first let the mers soak into the tissue before they trigger the linking processes.
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  250. Why didn't he show the above ground solar collector in his tech demonstration? Seems like he's hiding something.
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  251. Doesn't the equation express a general goal or purpose rather than intelligence? Wanting to set your feet on the moon isn't intelligence. Finding the means to do so is. Interesting nevertheless!
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  252. There are different categories, moron.
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  253. I really hope so.
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  254. What makes Musk extraordinary is not his ability to dream but his persistence and courage to make them reality.
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  255. What could possibly be more capitalistic than challenging the traditional view of capitalism on a free market of competing ideas?
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  256. "How do we give people the security from which to take risks?" "All of life is a series of daring adventures from a secure base" Wow. This guy gets it.
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  257. Is there a conceptual difference between migration and invasion to you? If yes, describe and differentiate the concepts. Then we can have a discussion.
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  258. RemusKingOfRome5 I asked you to define and differentiate the concepts.
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  259. RemusKingOfRome5 I haven't presented any arguments. I simply ask you to clarify your position.
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  260. Agerr Gerra I only know FDM by first hand experience, and in that case you can almost make any shape you want that's plastic. There are however some limitations. It has a resolution, meaning there is a minimum thickness you can obtain and all dimensions has to be specified in terms of discrete increments. It is also not possible to create completely closed hallow shapes as this makes it impossible to remove the support material. This is just one among many 3D printing principles though. I think SLA for example is more flexible when it comes to dimensions.
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  261. The woman needs to stop talking and listen to the man on the right. No I'm not saying this because she's a woman. She just isn't saying anything intelligent.
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  262. Narrow application? As an example, the neural networks in today's artificial intelligence algorithms are based on a lot of assumptions regarding how our brains work. If we learn more about neurons work in our brain, we can implement this knowledge into AI, inventing smarter algorithms capable of solving problems and performing tasks of higher complexity.
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  263. Nick Reed Uh ok?
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  264. Calm down. If they will ever try this on a living brain, they will of course start with lab-animals.
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  265. Everyone who was born there I suppose.
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  266. BECAUSEBIBLE!
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  267. John Trauger Do you think this type of technology would be compatible with a traditional market economy?
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  268. How about English subtitles?
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  269. The options are to either change our ways or adapt to the consequences. Right now it seems like it's gonna be the latter.
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  270. Evolution by natural selection is a slow and cruel process in which randomly less adapted individuals must be eliminated for the good of future generations. Eugenics has the potential to speed up the process by applying strategic selection, but can be regarded as even more cruel. Focusing on the mutation process instead of the selection process both speeds up the adaption process and is less cruel.
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  271. Outer/inner truth?
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  272. 10:14 Butt, and this is a big butt!
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  273. Which of the two conditions Sam presented are false?
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  274. Do you mean that progress in technology will be increasingly costly compared to the gain in productivity? I think you neglect that technology itself accelerates research and development. CPU processing speed increases. Communication is accelerated. More advanced analytical tools are available. Etc. I've heard projections of the complete opposite, a vertical technological asymptote, or technological explosion, due to the feed-back benefite technology has on itself.
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  275. +Rand Huso The belief that there will always be new physics to discover appears religious to me. Seriously though, I think TED requires their speakers to leave a door open for religious ideas to appeal to a wider audience.
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  276. I think his intended audience is more receptive to trickle-up economics than to threats. He should have left the pitch forks out.
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  277. I'm sure Wallstreet is already feeding this thing with stock exchange data. Hopefully the algorithm is more sensible than the people behind the 2008 recession.
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  278. Very interesting and I think important subject.
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  279. NoName NoFame Obama is the devil and your point is ... ?
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  280. NoName NoFame Why are you acting stupid? You know I only said that to ridicule you. I was amused by how you derailed from the topic and instead ranted against Obama.
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  281. NoName NoFame I seriously have no idea what you're talking about. My comment was about the current view of capitalism having room for improvement. From there you go on a rant against Obama, racism accusations and "christian propaganda"... How is that even remotely related?
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  282. NoName NoFame I'm not entirely sure, but it sounds like you agree with me.
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  283. geordi rendum They care about the fluff rather than the stuff.
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  284. This is sponsored content, isn't it.
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  285. @jtai36 Are ecosystems really cooperating organisms? I think it's more likely that they've just grown dependent on eachother, but remain selfish. One organisms wasteproduct is another ones food etc.
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  286. @somor98 If you think about it, this "trust" is not necessary. There are other options: The group could either force the slacker to contribute, or they could just exclude the slacker from the group. And if you look at nature, that is a common occurence.
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  287. Don't rush it kid. You'll understand when you're older.
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  288. 7:38 Is that Marco Tempest, the guy who does magic with iPhones?
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  289. "Every bit of it was contradictory." Eh, it's an image, not a text. But if you were referring to the article I grabbed it from, please provide a few examples from this vast amount of contradictory points.
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  290. @DoYerBest Seems legit.
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  291.  @AUnicorn666  I phrased that poorly. I meant to say that now I have a name for the quality I'm lacking. A capacity to control our thoughts and action with intent is a good quality.
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  292. No, I only read an article where the content was discussed.
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  293. There's been a lot of talks about healthcare lately. I sense a slight push for health care reform.
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  294. Also, confront misinformation with better information, not with censor!
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  295. Why aren't anyone exploring the idea of reinventing democracy altogether using modern technology? Example: Every citizen have a secure online profile. Through this profile, citizens elect people to produce proposals and changes. Citizens then excercise executive power through their online profile to pass or reject the proposals. It has potential to put more power in the hands of the people instead of having to rely on indirect representation.
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  296. @edgespear101 What about parasites, virus, bacteria... are they designed too? If so, why?
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  297. "especially in places where acquiring wealth is easy, like the U.S." US has shitty social mobility. If you want to live the American dream, move to Norway.
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  298. Awesome talk!
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  299. *Was not yet discovered ;)
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  300. Well if there's no hurry (depending on the age of your wife of course), there's no harm in giving it time. Maybe you feel different in a couple of years or five.
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  301. Tell me about how the story is completely different!
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  302. I think you misunderstood my comment. I'm well aware of how evolution works. Wouldn't you agree that the first sexual life form must logically have come from an asexual parent? So where would this life form find a sexual partner? Everything else is asexual at the moment. I argued that the first lifeforms to have sex most probably came from the same parent, and thus committed "incest" by definition.
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  303. If it relied on religious sentiment I don't think it would qualify for TED.
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  304. Her hair reminds me of Hillary Clinton. Yuck!
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  305. " I accidentally the Hirshhorn Museum... is it bad? :/ " Yes Liz, in fact it's fucking aweful.
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  306. You're an idiot. There's no force involved. They just provide the tools for family planning. If people don't wanna use it they don't have to. Women just rather not have 6 children if they had a choice. By increasing health and wealth they will produce less children, by choice.
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  307. If I ever get really famous I'll sell my excrement on Ebay.
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  308. Not liking his personality or his methods does not take away from his great contribution to modern society as a scientist.
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  309. Threats to democracy: censor, propaganda, mass surveillance, search results manipulation, non-transparent government, corporate finance of political campaigns, supragovernmental institutions, private central banks, etc.
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  310. k
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  311. 5:54 I find it a bit funny that he asserts "frictionless motion" while giving it a new push every other second.
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  312. @Nemesis000000 Tell me about his attitude towards atheism! I don't get any negative vibe from this talk.
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  313. Learn the difference between knowledge and suspictions.
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  314. This woman is gold!
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  315. I'm studying for a master in mechanical engineering. I did not expect us to use programming when I started, but we've had several courses involving coding. Of course, it's on a basic level. But I have not doubt it's a valuable skill that can be used to automate a lot of the boring repitative work eg. math, documentation, etc.
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  316. I would argue that it's the hierarchies, the power distance, and the authoritarianism that make up the problem. Note that this applies to all institutions whether they are religious, corporate, governmental, etc. By removing religions you've only removed one of the many vehicles in which corruption thrives. If religions could just find a way to decentralize and flatten their powerstructure I don't see why it couldn't coexist with peace.
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  317. Calculating emotions sounds really interesting.
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  318. I wonder if such treatment is accounted for in their evaluation of the environmental benefits. It requires energy and are in some cases poisonous.
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  319. Mark Blyth has a far more accurate diagnosis of this problem and it does not involve social media. The problem in brief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwK0jeJ8wxg The revolt against the creditor class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSS4GCA__As Global Trumpism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkm2Vfj42FY Why people vote against their "best" interests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsqGITb0W4A
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  320.  @AverageJoe483  Sounds like cherry picking.
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  321. You're confused. The Ukranians aren't fighting for independence. They're fighting for dependence, on EU economically and NATO militarily.
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  322. I assume you ment fossil fuel CO2 emissions. If atmospheric CO2 was zero, just about all life on earth would die. Anyhow, there are many answers to your question. In short the risen temperature cause other events that works as feedback loops. It can take some time before the feedback kicks in. The major one is said to be the increased amount of vapor (a strong greenhouse gas) in the atmosphere, which raise the temperature, which release more vapor, which raise the temperature even further, etc.
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  323. Wasn't a rebuttal. He told which passages he think are wrong, not why. Still an inspirational talk.
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  324. Exactly.
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  325. The message that real leadership isn't about command and control, but to build a climate of possibilities, can be generalize to many other areas.
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  326. Who is the crybaby really who can't listen to a woman's personal experiances of domestic violence without feeling accused? She never said men are always the abusers. In fact, Leslie specifically took the time to clearify that it is not so ( 2:25 ). "Everyone thinks that domestic violence happens to women, that it's a women's issue... not exactly. Over 85% of abusers are men,"
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  327. So instead of genuinely try to achieve flight, let's just pretend to try, in a spectacular manner?
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  328. @ClintSevilla No. He specifically stated that this elevated state of mind can be achived without religion.
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  329. No it's not.
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  330. It is the same fucking data that predicts your weather. On top of the direct measurements of temperature, you've got shrinking glaciers and entire ecosystems moving north.
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  331. Since you obviously like to think of yourself as a critical thinker, keep this in mind: Critical thinking is about critizising ones own conceptions, not those of others.
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  332. That's why the constitution of every democracy protects minority rights, some more, some less. But yeah, some level of tyranny will always be there. "Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill
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  333. @noor121212121212 Wow, this is news to me. Who told you all this exotic knowledge?
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  334. @DoYerBest Nice generalization and strawman. First of all, atheism does not require belief in modern cosmology. Secondly, modern cosmology explain the early development of the universe, not the origin. Likewise the theory of evolution explain the diversity of life, not the origin. And I'd say the most common position among atheists who belive in modern cosmology is that we don't know how life or the universe started.
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  335. 04:35 It's kind of counterintuitive that vaccines, health care, and reproductive services can somehow reduce the world population. This was picked up by the conspiracy theorist think tank, and 20 min later the message was clear: Bill Gates plans on killing a billion people using hazardous vaccines. *facepalm* Or perhaps high birth rates are associated with health problems, low life expectancy, low living standards, low social status for women and low educational levels? Nah. He's the devil! ;)
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  336. Assuming we live in a deterministic universe, we still cannot predict the future with certainty. What we can do is gather the information we can, as accurately we can, and do our best to interpret it, and try to estimate what the future will likely look like.
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  337. You again? Get off your soap box Hitler! The deal is off. You're living on borrowed time!
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  338. This is exactly what the Occypy Wallstreet movement needs in order to be understood. Hard undeniable facts.
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  339. @Eric Miret How you view yourself does not matter if you can't sustain yourself. Sustaining yourself in a market economy requires you being competitive.
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  340. @Eric Miret Show me peer reviewed research concluding that market economies maximizes human wellbeing.
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  341. @SpaceChronologyCom You miss the point. It's a reminder that in the golden age of their ancestors, they were all one. It injects the idea of toleranse and secularism into their identity. If there's anything that can resolve the seemingly endless religious conflicts down there, it's this object.
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  342. Religion has its' own stages from which it spreads its' ideas. Don't be a prick just because this is not one of them.
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  343. You're fucked in the head.
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  344. Learn the difference between suspiction and knowledge.
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  345. Wait, is she asking profit driven businesses to decrease the demand for their services?
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  346. It's not percentage, it's a correlation coefficient where 1 is full positive correlation -1 is full inverse correlation and 0 is no correlation. If you want to get a better idea of how strong 0.3-0.4 correlation is I suggest you do some research online, because I'm no expert on correlation.
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  347. So instead of trusting data that is gathered by accurate instruments and compared systematically side to side, I should trust your personal experiances that you compare based on intuition and memory? No thanks.
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  348. You gotto understand that the claims you make are quite extrordinary. Such claims are not thrown around carelessly without evidence. If you're going to claim that the technology to increase human cognitive function ten-fold has been around since 1992, you got to give me more than just assertions.
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  349. Your questions regarding terminology are most likely answered in the report: "Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact" by Gordon Hodson and Michael A. Busseri
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  350. To keep up with today's rapid development we are told that mastering anything particular is wasteful, because that skill is soon obsolete. Instead we are taught to counter the unknown problems of the future, leaving many of us unemployable by employers of today.
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  351. Her eyes look so sad.
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  352. It seems like TED are advertising more commercial products than new technology nowadays.
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  353. I got to warn you kids that being a researcher comes at a cost. You'll get little job security. Career prospects are pretty poor. It's highly competitive, so you'll probably have to sacrifice private life to get anywhere. You'll probably have to focus on very narrow topics where there's opportunity for publishing rather than where your curiosity really is, and you'll have to spend a considerable chunk of your time begging for funds. You will have an administration over you monitoring your performance in terms of dumb numbers like number of papers published and citations. All of this bullshit aside, it's pretty fun.
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  354. I hope you're referring to the comments and not the video.
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  355. I don't think I have. I'll look into it.
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  356. Epic last name.
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  357. If everyone settled for what was in front of them, your oppinion would only reach so far.
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  358. Her posture is fantastic!
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  359. As long as they're about "Let's discover the beauty of God's creation" I don't mind them.
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  360. @CognosSquare Are you talking about masterbation?
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  361. I'm frequently having second thaughts about my choices in life with respect to studies, career, social life, love, etc. Sure, in the context of a casual conversation I usually say I'm happy with my choices to maintain character or make good impression, but in reality I'm often ambivalent or unhappy with my choices, especially since they are indeed irreversible. Simulated happyness is a gift.
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  362. @AdamDLDixon Did you miss this part? "...but you don't need religion to 'get you through the staircase'. Lots of people find self-transcendence in nature, other overcome their selves at raves..." 03:17
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  363. If there are only 12 particles, what is the "higgs particle"? He talked about "higgs field" too so maybe it's not an actual particle?
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  364. Sure, everything is relative, but in the context of developed countries, USA is certainly among the worst with respect to social mobility.
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  365. Relevant talk. I'm in total frustration over the fact that information intake is limited and that I need to prioritize. There's so much I want to learn, but so little time to do so. If scientists were working on virtual extention of the human mind with respect to dataflow, processing and storage, I'd volunteer as a test subject.
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  366. You just triggered my bullshit alarm. What are you? A scientologist or a troll?
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  367. Her message reminds me of Mark Blyth.
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  368. @bboschboi It's funny that you imply that "secularists" are non-religious. F.y.i. most christians belive in the separation of church and state.
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  369. @Jaxomy Yes, but he pointed out some of the problems the strictly rational secular approach that the enlightenment era braught us. Don't get me wrong, our rational side is very useful. However, we shouldn't pretend we are purely rational. We should acknowledge that we are social, emotional and intuitive beings too.
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  370. Of course he didn't invent the DC. But his inventions were based on it, and he developed a power distribution system for it. He is seen as the father of industrial scale labs. He was a great inventor and he contributed a lot to the modern society.
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  371. What if I told you, that by increasing health and wealth, less people will die, not more. Only difference is that less babies are born, and this is the mothers choice, no one elses. Contraceptives does not kill, but inhibits the egg from being fertilized. Still a moron.
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  372. You didn't listen to what I said. It's a real time music production system, tailored for the purpose. If you try to put a similar system together by combining commercial products you will run into limitations regarding eg. capability, compatibility, reliability, convenience, etc. In fact, that's exactly what he did, and why he started developing the system in the first place. Stop being a fucking douche bag.
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  373. @bluefootedpig The illegal immigrants of course. .. Haha nah just kidding. Couldn't resist.
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  374. I like Minecraft, but I love Vintage Story. I keep discovering new things despite many hours. Vintage Story is so rich with content!
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  375. inb4 malestrom
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  376. 00:50 "I've spent more than 2% of my life living in a tent inside the arctic circle, so I get out of the house a fair bit." Only if you don't consider the tent your house, and why would you not?
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  377. If you think Tesla isn't as famous as Edison you're fucking delusional. Both are respected and acknowledged inventors and scientists, but one is still portrayed and discussed frequently in popular media, and it isn't Edison. If anything, it's the other way around.
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  378. You're looking at the world through a keyhole. Don't belive in people who say the door is locked; just open it and walk out. When you get to see the world in all its glory, you'll look back at the church you came from and go "mjeh".
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  379. It seems dangerous to give people the doctors they want rather than the one they need. Any snake-soil salesman can convince a portion of the population that they're the preferred option.
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  380. The "MORON" says that you should take a look at the image below: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/images/decadaltemp/2000-09.png That is the mean temperature anomaly 2000-2009 with the mean of 1951-1980 as reference point. Red is above, blue is below. This proves: 1. They DON'T leave out the low temperatures. 2. The tilt of the axis is accounted for. If the warming was caused by tilt, we would expect rise in one hemisphere and drop in the other, leaving the mean unaffected.
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  381. I would argue that a conversation is not really an argument.
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  382. It's lighter and cheaper.
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  383. Ironically, Gapminder's statistics visualization software Trendalizer was aquired by Google three months after this talk. And even more so, I haven't seen any ads ever since. :/
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  384. I was referring to John D. Rockefeller in specific, who was a ruthless capitalist, even more so than Gates. During his later days he donated large amounts of money to charity. That's why I braught him up. I'm not saying business is interested in charity, of course not. I'm saying some individuals are, especially people who have accumulated a lot of wealth. And oh, unlike most private charity funds, the Gates Foundation is trying to be transparent, publishing annual reports on gains and spending.
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  385. Her talk was not about presenting new innovations.
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  386. He's not talking to the consumers. He's talking to private enterprise. He's trying to make them realize they're about to miss the business opportunity of an entire industry by clinging to fossile fuels. He's not talking about what's out on the market, he's talking about the possibilities of modern technology. He gave a few examples of actual commercial electric vehicles just to alert them that it's going on as we speak. They're being overrun.
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  387. The innovation is to mix the bitumen with steel particles that allow for heating through the means of induction. The bitumen that binds the stones togeather is no different from that of ordinary asphalt, so if ordinary asphalt does not self-heal under the sun, neither does this.
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  388. I understood you were referring to financial value the first time.
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  389. But who's gonna sit in the megajails? They need their customers.
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  390. @AlexLococo Although I admit there are _fanatic_ atheists I can assure you that there's no such thing as "fundamental" ones. This fact should be clear if you just pick up a dictionary.
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  391. Are you saying Norway is tight on immigration? *facepalm* Why don't you go ask Anders Behring Breivik what he thinks?
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  392. I didn't hear any "smacking". Maybe you were more focused on his speach, than the actual content?
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  393. Seems necessary to substantiate the relationship between political/personal freedom of people in Ukraine and taking back versus giving up Russia-occupied territory.
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  394. Heather: "Hi, I'm heather brooke" Man: O.O Heather: "What... something wrong?" Man: *caugh* "No I was just um... a bit surpriced by your... voice." Heather: "How come?" Man: "Well you know... I just pictured it to be... a bit DEEPER"
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  395. Eugenics is about refining the genome through selective breeding, not reducing world population through random killings/sterilizations.
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  396. "If the cure is worse than the disease, and only a few win big $ without repercussions: something is wrong, right?" Correct, but it was not worse than the disease: Estimated potency of H1N1 (April – October 17, 2009): 0.00018% (5 500 out of 34 million) Chance of vaccine causing Guillain-Barre syndrome: 0.00000011% (11 out of 100 million) Chance of death from vaccine: 0.000007% (104 out of 15 million)
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  397. @DoYerBest If not the theory of relativity, how would you explain that magnetic, electric, and gravitational fields propagate with c in vacuum, no matter the velocity of the observer? Call it 'mainstream' if you want, but I hold that it is the best explaination available. It have made extrordinary prediction such as the existance of neutron stars, black holes, time dilation, gravitational lensing and waves, etc. Why should I mistrust a theory with such a record?
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  398. What is this I don't even...
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  399. Would have been nice if she could give an example where this kind of communication between a scientist and a layman is required. If the scientists are not part-time teachers, why would they spend time dumbing down their journals?
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  400.  @flickwtchr  Pure speculation. You don't know what the documents say, nor who supposedly have seen them. It is nevertheless minor in comparison to, for example, sacrificing hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian lives in order to transfer their farmland to Blackrock, or sabotaging infrastructure of a close ally sending them and Europe into an energy crisis, or fabricating amendments to international law referring to votes that never took place. I know it's a lot to unpack, but my point is you are being deliberately distracted from what's really important.
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  401. I have no idea what you just said, but if you keep throwing in ^_^ randomly no one will bother you.
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  402. @superlucci Eh what? I was talking about how people fall for your trolling, not how you fall for the video. Also it seem like you confused me with someone else, because I never said I agree with the video (I do agree though). Last response was my first. This one is my second.
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  403. That's a beautiful video. Thank you! :)
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  404. ...but why? Gifts, christmas tree, mistletoe, decoration, the food, costumes, candy, etc. nothing of it have much to do with the jesus story. It's rather traditions than rituals or worship.
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  405. @PattyGilMo "all matter is merely energy": E=mc^2
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  406. Word. A population full of WesOrions is NOT a sustainable future hehe.
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  407. As a university student, I find this highly relevant. I've got 1½ years left until graduation, and my education is already obsolete.
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  408. 07:54 That chick is STARSTRUCK
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  409. @noor121212121212 Including himself?
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  410. Oh you're so cynical. Consumption is good, not only for your government, but for people's businesses. And you can celebrate christmas without presents. Just meeting up with friends and/or family and have a good time, eating good food, or whatever.
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  411. @missdellion I think the main reason why atheists don't gather very much is because they don't necessarily have anything in common except for their non-belief in god.
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  412. Inspiration?
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  413. This can be very useful educational tool.
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  414. Some months ago a friend gave me an Arduino UNO board. First goal is a robot that balances on two wheels. Most people I tell this are confused and ask: "... but what will it do?" For lack of a better answer I answer: pass butter.
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  415. 9:00 looks like the Jojos are just an inch from his face. I can imagine the pain if he's 1 inch off.
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  416. Does combat experience reveal an existing wound in civil society, or is it combat experience which opens it?
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  417. That's future humanity's problem ;) No but seriously. Fresh water scarcity is an acute problem that needs to be resolved. This will make the cleansing of salt water more profitable and thus encourage of building more plants. If this shows to be destructive to the oceanic ecosystems large scale long term, thats our next problem to solve.
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  418. I already have, and I am perfectly fertile.
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  419. Great potential for hospitals.
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  420. "Consistency is going to be more important than common sense." Well isn't that an effect of money having too much influense over politics. If a politician changes his mind today, at least in america, people are going to assume he was bought. If you could just get money out of politics, consistency would weigh much less.
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  421. Fuck you.
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  422. ...and of course the top comments are going to be conspiracy bullshit. -_-
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  423. Wisdom.
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  424. Putin does not want old russia, he wants a future for Russia.
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  425. You should watch this: /watch?v=cZ7LzE3u7Bw Money does not trickle down, they trickle up. By helping the weakest in society get back up, they become stronger consumers and stronger tax payers and thus the investment pays off. Societies grow best togeather.
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  426. How is some supposed 9/11 conspiracy relevant to my degree in Mechanical Engineering?
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  427. ...except all his material has been peer-reviewed.
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  428. I would take this man much more seriously if he got rid of that hat.
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  429. Benefiting in what way?
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  430.  @DJWESG1  Yeah, I think you're right. My point is that John Biewen seems to suggest that the reason racism stays with us is the same as the reason it was first invented, which I don't agree with. I think it has evolved into something else, and like you say, has become intertwined with religion, identity, language, culture, etc. Not so much about profit anymore I think.
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  431.  @dollcrazy300  While I agree that there is systematic exploitation of prisoners as labor, that this has caused problematic incentives to keep prison population high, and that black men are overrepresented in prisons, I don't buy that this is the primary reason racism does not fade away.
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  432.  @dollcrazy300  Race/identity politics are certainly used as a distraction from generall issues of social class and income/wealth inequality.
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  433. The problem arise when this kind of online profile become the norm, and employers start demanding it. Also, let's say you reset your profile at 25. In the eyes of the employer, this will look highly suspicious. Either you didn't have any jobs before 25, or you had a bad reputation you wanted to hide. Only way to get an employment will be through people you know personally, who can overlook your bad reputation.
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  434. 08:43 They took our jobs! - Hardworking Cows Global Union
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  435. Ehm, that machine did so much more than just creating loops and layers.
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  436. When I dreamt about the future, never did I picture vast forests full of pigs.
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  437.  @Kenny-tl7ir  In this context, subjugation of the masses by the ruling elites enabled by technology: surveillance, propaganda, censor, manipulation, behavioral conditioning, policing of speech and thought, dependency on and conditional access to basic infrastructure and services, etc.
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  438. What about California?
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  439. One can wonder if it's braindamage from his 'experiments'.
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  440.  @osiranrebel1591  What is the effect of alcohol on politics?
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  441. Anti Al-Quida is not anti-islamic.
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  442. I feel like technology has degraded our memory, because we've grown so used to information being available at our finger tips, that we don't bother to memorize. This is problematic, because memories are more than information storage; we process, compare, synthesize, and experiment with them. We build new ideas, experience, and wisdom.
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  443. His point is that religion provides functions many of us demand. Instead of trying to ignore that fact, we should identify them and provide secular alternatives. I think he's making a great point here. As an atheist it's easy to get stuck with the quest of proving oneself independant of religion and associated activities, neglecting all the value it actually provides.
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  444. I'm just sitting here with my head leaning to the side thinking "wtf?". This TED talk is way beyond me.
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  445. According to John Mearsheimer, no one believed Putin had deep-rooted aspirations to conquer Ukraine before 2014. This is a fairly new narrative.
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  446. I'm pretty sure it was the other way around: their sales went down first, then they looked for alternative business models, and went for more sponsored content and ads.
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  447. I hate the loud intro and outro of TED talks, especially the outro. Keep it down will you? You wake up my neighbors.
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  448. @JesusGaveMeNewSoul What do you mean by "One in spirit"? Why do you call them Father and Son? Do gods reproduce like mankind? If so, where's the mother? Is Jesus younger than God? Why do I have to ask for forgiveness if he already died for my sins? Why did he have to die in order to forgive me? Couldn't he just forgive me? What have I done to Him that I need forgiveness for?
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  449. ​ @Bjorn2055  Let's be real though, Norway's high prosperity is rather closely tied to their oil resources and the associated fund.
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  450. IMF has no real stake in the world economy but rather thrives in moments of crisis. This seems like rather perverse incentives.
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  451. "20 times less" ...
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  452. Christopher Ellis Well, that's not really the case. Over millennia, various people have blindly prescribed various remedies with varying validity and varying result. Now we finally have means to tell which of them work and which of them don't.
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  453. u jelly?
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  454. TED is deluded. The democracy of US is in bad shape for sure, but Trump isn't the problem. Robert Epstein's research shows that Google, Facebook, YouTube and Bing all have strong democrat bias in search results and search suggestions. The strongest republican candidate is being legally prosecuted based on nonsense. The strongest independent candidate is rejected secret service protection despite being descendant of two victims of political assassination and having already faced significant threats. He also face significant obstacles getting his name on state ballots, despite pulling double digits. All the Democrats has to offer is to abuse their power to demonize, smear, silence and financially hurt their opponents. No positive vision for the future, just politics of division and fear campaigns while they service their donors and elite friends.
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  455. Looper, layers, sampler, equalizer, 15 instances of a multi-effect real time audio manipulation tool, and software to make all of this work together in a realiable and efficient way and provide full overview and control of everything going on, complete with a touch screen interface tailored for the purpose, even with unique gestures for swift control.
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  456. "Is it true that another type of diplomacy would have stopped the war? I don't know, but it doesn't seem like it." It's simple: Reject Ukrain NATO membership. But NATO expansionist ambitions seems to have higher priority than the Ukrainian and European peace and stability.
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  457. I'm not sure Mr. Gates is very motivated by $ anymore, he has given away $28 billion to charity through his Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, which goal is to solve the global issues that governments wont. He has signed an agreement, along with Zyckerberg and Warren Buffet, to donate at least half of his wealth to charity. He's just a successful dude who want to do good at the later days of his life, just like Rockerfeller was. He want to be remembered as more than just a capitalist.
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  458. Hasn't it always been that way?
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  459. Here's an old radical idea: Be yourself and expect others to treat you as an individual.
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  460. I recently listen to a talk about a rather opposite trend: Investment in a region's institutional quality can give a better return than investing in its infrastructure, because the return on investment in infrastructure diminishes with decreasing quality of governance. I think his talk relates to this paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.169.8569&rep=rep1&type=pdf (Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics)
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  461. Yeah I know. Still funny.
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  462. I wonder how much money honest musicians have lost to greedy labels.
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  463. He's good, but he also have a kinda easy subject. It's harder to make an interesting talk about geology, history, or quantum mechanics.
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  464.  @ananthim7358  Did you just made that up? Or, do you need to talk?
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  465. It would take a conscious adjustment of the algorithm by google.
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  466. @awhitesoul2012 Why are you opposed to race-mixing? :/ Seem fucking stupid.
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  467.  @DegreesOfThree  You made me curious, so I read the Safire Project Report. Many nice photographs of plasma and some basic descriptions about the experiment. But I can't see how it relates to your claim that electricity somehow helps explaining the movement of stellar objects. Also, the report is just a brief summary. Is there some more in-depth publications available somewhere?
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  468. "Peer reviewed" means just that: experts in his own field have approved of his sources and reasoning.
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  469. Really interesting talk.
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  470. ...and by "in place" you mean? As of today, no quantum computer have been used for other than experimentation. They are certainly not commercially available.
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  471. Can you elaborate or perhaps refer me to some article/lecture on the connection between income inequality and the monetary policy enacted by central banks? I'm open to new perspectives. For you, I highly recommend the following lecture: /watch?v=NQGCoiakycQ This one's also great, but not as closely related: /watch?v=0MJHyMwtTZU Both are around 20 minutes long, but if you are interested in global economics and politics, time will fly by. They will really help you understand my perspective.
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  472. @BryceTonner Oh and btw, she has done a TED talks herself. It's called "Embracing otherness, embracing myself" Check it out!
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  473. 05:08 Lol, looks like the typical YouTube comment section.
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  474. @1marcelo It's psychology and group dynamics.
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  475. I'm not sure "lame" is the term for lack of gag-reflex. GIGGEDY!
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  476. Why so short? :(
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  477. The quality on TED's website totally sux.
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  478. @PattyGilMo "condensed to a slow vibration": Wave–particle duality
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  479. @SempeVeritas Wouldn't you agree that the answer is not so simple when we take into account that the 'group instinct' can also drive the individual to sacrifice himself in favour of the group (without the promise of an afterlife)? Yes, the instinct evolved to favour the individual, but as it turns out it sometimes overcome the instinct of self-preservation and reproduction. So, can we still call it purely selfish? I'm not so sure.
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  480. A large chunk of the house cost is the land value.
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  481. I find it rather laughable that you try to disprove global warming, and blame high temperatures on earthquakes in the same comment. Do you agree that temperatures are rising or not?
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  482. Studies has also shown correlation between racism and low IQ.
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  483. @richardloveswhites Hahahaha! :D
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  484. ​ @ActuallyRocatex  I don't understand how you can find purpose in anything other than $$$$$
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  485. @noor121212121212 I'm not sure I want to see everything beutiful, because that would make the word lose its meaning. I've pondered and thaught a lot about the universe, life, death, existance etc. but never have my mind come across what you are describing, and to be honest I find it rather unlikely. If there is something I've learned through my pondering, it is to dig down to the root of things. What is logic worth if based on the wrong/false presuppositions?
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  486. There's no pleasing conspiracy theorists. One day the globalists are running the world. Next day it's the guy declaring globalization over.
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  487. Well they did analyze brain activity.
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  488. Ambitious... but haven't we seen this many times before?
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  489. I don't like the idea of teaching kids to work hard for its own sake. What kids need is real motivation. It's easy to give up if you don't see the point.
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  490. If you didn't give a shit it wouldn't stick.
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  491. "From each according to his ability..." Hmm, where have I heard this before.
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  492. Simple solution to a complex problem. Genious!
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  493. Anjali would fit in well among the faceless men.
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  494. I find it ironic that you like to remind people that history is written by winners, while deminishing Thomas Edison, the loser in the "war of currents" as less of a scientist. Edison and Tesla were both great scientists and contributed greatly to modern society.
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  495. @TheDarkSagan Well it's kinda already there. Secularism and religious tolerans is a good start towards Atheism.
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  496. @JesusGaveMeNewSoul What's the difference between Jesus and God and the holy spirit?
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  497. @AlexLococo Yeah, as I explained in my comment. Atheists can also be fanatics.
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  498. Yeah I know. Still funny.
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  499. ​ @daddyleon  Makes me wonder about the next 4...
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  500. You just got me thinking... what if you gave money in a circle, so big that the initial giver don't know that he receives his own money? Perpetuum happiness :D
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  501. Shut up and buy a solar panel.
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  502. @DoYerBest Yes, and the argument fails in that it relies on two weak assumptions. All it does is reflecting the ignorance of the author. As the space-time fabric of the theory of relativity breaks down as the universe is extrapolated towards a singularity, the terms "cause", "effect", "existance" and "beginning" become meaningless. In other words: what is "cause" without the dimension of time? What is existance without the spatial dimensions?
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  503. Although made several groudbreaking inventions like the phonograph and the stock ticker, he primarily refinined existing inventions. He didn't invent the lighbulb. He invented the first commercially sustainable lightbulb: long life, low power consumption, and cheap to manufacture. Yes, he hired people to hurry up the process, and that's why he's now seen as the father of the modern industrial research lab. He contributed greatly to modern society.
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  504. Conclusion: Don't trust the testimony of a teenager! ;)
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  505. This was a pretty pumped up talk! Nice!
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  506. I don't like the sound of my own voice because it reminds me of me.
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  507. Yes, and every time climate has changed rapidly, it has affected human civilization, causing floods, draughts, cold snaps, starvation, disease, migration, etc. The difference this time is that we are at large responsible for the climate change and have the technological means to control it.
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  508.  @AM-fh7ek  Given that human activity has caused global annual average temperature to rise, yes, clearly we have the technology to change global climate.
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  509.  @AM-fh7ek  Technology such as combustion.
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  510.  @AM-fh7ek  That's not what this video is about. It's about reducing CO2 output and possibly binding atmospheric carbon into the ground.
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  511. What a colorful talk! This guy is a professional.
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  512. No, I don't know Bill Gates have developed a new weapon. Enlighten me! Guilt management or not, he does charity, a lot of charity.
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  513. Sure, but Russia has thousands of nukes. Do you want to give it a try?
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  514. 5:51 So when the government first introduced the congestion charges people were against it, but after a while they started to support it... ...I find this quite ironic considering the "Stockholm Syndrome" haha.
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  515. This video only made me more stressed out about my 20's than I already was.
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  516. Apparently you're part of it.
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  517. @DoneWithDogma Ice hockey, tennis, badminton, cricket, baseball, pool, golf, croquet, etc... Well appearently they still do.
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  518. Eyes usually tear up while cutting onions.
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  519. @BryceTonner If it's not, she sure has a look-alike.
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  520. ...and keeping them healthy, yes.
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  521. So your conclusion is that poor countries are poor because they're lazy, and there's nothing we can do about it. So let's just ignore the poor and continue as usual. After all it's their own fault. Do you even know what social mobility means?
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  522. 3:00 I'm curious about the statistical significance here of the data here, since he refers to the deficit as "quite significant". The diagram should include standard error of the mean or a confidence interval.
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  523. Good point, but I would argue sheer traffic volume is not the only factor. Traffic Jams can be a matter of bad city planning or infrastructure.
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  524. It's your fault you didn't know what you were buying. If you had patience you could've waited a few months for the hype to settle, then read independent reviews, ask friends about their impressions, etc. before you made a decision. You're what I'd call a bad consumer.
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  525. Nice cherry pick.
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  526. ​ LOCAL COPE  Economy and well-being of Sweden are rather fine I think.
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  527. ​ LOCAL COPE  Right.
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  528. @MostJewsAreKhazars Yeah, you are definately the victim.
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  529. If you consider time a dimension, an object that changes shape over time is 4D. However, using this definition, many of the objects we normally consider 3D are in fact 4D.
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  530. Long way of saying we need more generalists to harness the power of specialists.
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  531. I wish he had focused more on economical, structural and practical benefits. Sure, it's good for the environment, but to what good if it's not affordable or compromises safety?
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  532.  @Not_Qwake  This is not about me.
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  533. They were both good scientists. Edison spent his time developing the DC while tesla developed the AC. As it turned out AC is superior in many aspects and eventually became the standard.
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  534. @SpaceChronologyCom ...but in a culture where non-belief is a greater taboo than rape, what is more likely: That they suddenly go full atheists or that an ancient object changes their perception of the conflict?
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  535. @DoneWithDogma I was trying to make a joke. I'm sry I didn't get through to you.
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  536. Not quite accurate. "Studies have tended to indicate small to moderate correlations (averaging around 0.3 to 0.4) between brain volume and IQ." /wiki/Brain_size#Intelligence But of course, brain size is only one of many factors making up human IQ.
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  537. It's called H1N1, not "N1H1". The "spanish flu", an ancestor of the H1N1 virus, killed between 50 and 130 million people during the 1918-1920 pandemic. Whatever side effects you refer to, I'm sure they are mild in comparison. If there was a conspiracy to lower the world population, they'd be much better off creating a placebo vaccine and let the virus ravage.
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  538. Keep in mind that evolution is a driscrete process. A creature's genome remain the same throughout its' life time, regardless of what it eats. It's only the probability of reproduction and raising offspring that changes. Although meat/fish might enhance the positive effects of having an advanced brain, it's generally considered that it was a drastic environmental change that was the main factor that drove the genetic drift towards higher intelligence.
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  539. Carefully pick data and statistics that maintain a positive attitude! Pretense on offence. The American way.
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  540. It is also an impossibility to have a free thinking society if unpopular ideas are dealth with like cancer.
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  541. @noor121212121212 Living an eternity, only spending 6 day creating. He must have had an increadibly boring life. No wonder he decided to add natural disasters, diseases, cancer, miscarriage, parasites, a dying sun, comets, supernovas, colliding gallaxies, black holes, etc. for his excitement.
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  542. @JesusGaveMeNewSoul Wow, this is getting complicated. So when I ask for the Father, what I get instead is his Son's Holy Spirit, which in turn enables me to get to know the Father personally? I still don't understand the difference between the two and their relation to eachother. If they have both always existed, how can one be the Father of the other? I'll read your PM asap.
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  543. I've seen this talk before. Like a year ago. I don't know where.
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  544. Studies are often contradicting eachother as a result of how, where and when the data is gathered? That her source says 85% and yours says 65% does not mean she is wrong or is lying.
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  545.  @reem3266  Alright, so lead by example and hope they follow.
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  546. Great comedy, but his motivation for searching prime numbers was rather far fetched.
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  547. 6:39 The woman in the lower middle of the screen. That face freaks me out!
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  548. Ideally: yes. But at least taking a step towards it.
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  549. @superlucci Hahaha you're trolling right. It's fun to see people fall for it.
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  550. You should watch a talk by Richard Wilkinson called "How economic inequality harms societies" It's true that income inequality is a very important factor that is often neglected, but the macroinequality is also a problem.
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  551. @racpembertondual Then I think you should watch Tyler Cowen's talk called "Be suspicious of stories". Chances are you didn't find this talk very interesting because he wasn't telling a story, he was telling the truth. Anyhow I find this very interesting.
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  552. No. Education will not necessarily be a problem because they believe in Allah. Iran handles education just fine.
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  553. This video makes me a bit down. It makes my dream of humanity working togeather as one seem not so bright anymore. It's like creating a world-wide monopoly. Without the pressure of competition, the groups overall performance become irrelevant to the individual, the 'slackers' will benefit from being selfish, and the group will dissolve.
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  554. He talks about reducing the GROWTH of population, not reduce the current population. Moron.
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  555. I can't see why so many Atheists find this provoking. I find it interesting.
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  556. Minimalism could imply the artist is economic, never using more resources than absolutely necessary. There are many things in nature that were important to our ancestors that are asymmetric. Remember when he talked about landscapes and natural beauty? Deviant designs could imply eg. ingenuity or creativity.
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  557. Good luck with your information bubble!
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  558. ...but what about the war movies? Hollywood will not be the same if US stop tossing bombs around the world.
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  559. Yeah sure, DNA in individual cells can be damaged (mutated) during your life time (eg. cancer), but let's keep this in context. Unless the cell is a spermatogonium it won't transfer to the offspring, and unless this mutation is not biased in towards a more advanced brain, it does not cause genetic drift (apart from natural selection). While the prior is unlikely but possible, the latter is against everything I know about evolution. Mutations are not biased to favour certain traits.
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  560. Great talk! Was not aware of how prevalent this is.
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  561. The crystals were simply thrown into the air by the underlying membrane, and the resulting mess had little to do with sound.
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  562.  @andyd568  Do you think this is an inherent trait of human nature or a result of the society we have built? Could it be easier to love and be loved if our society was to a higher degree crafted by people like David Brooks?
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