Comments by "N Marbletoe" (@nmarbletoe8210) on "TED" channel.

  1. that's the craziest fact in the presentation
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  2. because he wanted just a few categories to group the data. you could look at 200 different religions and color each one differently, but then it'd look like a big mess.
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  3. spriinkles1000 an excessive value placed on any variable that is impermanent is bound to cause insecurity... 
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  4. that is a political viewpoint, you shouldn't be expressing it on social media see what i did there?
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  5. many people have chicken phobias from childhood experience chickens will kill mice in a heartbeat the movie Bug's Life had it right i like chickens
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  6. Profit sharing is a good way to motivate! I might add that's what owning stock is all about. You put your money into a company and get a share of the profit. What works for investors also works for workers; makes sense.
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  7.  @DT-52  "Unless you can give a universal definition of "quality of life"..." I don't think we ever need to create "universal" definitions of anything, partly because it's impossible. Instead, think of something you can measure about quality of life (life span, happiness survey, etc.) and use it to test various hypotheses about how the world works. When you measure women's education, it correlates with a whole lot of different measures of quality. Not every one, not all the time, but it's a major recurring finding in the research.
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  8. Notice it's an Upright pentagram, so that's good magic. Upside down is bad juju. Just saying, from my epic knowledge of metal.
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  9. My doctor's wife also
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  10.  @antikokalis  Yes about poverty -- huge progress and it may be less than ever! But you don't have to be a fan commie to not know that. Everyone does not know that. Fucking news doesn't report on good news because that sells less shampoo, i guess.
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  11.  @JP-sm4cs  Yes! I'm sure pre-hunting rituals were to help focus, in addition to whatever other functions they have. . Part of that is "team chemistry." Rituals done together. One two three "Win!" . How many deer have lived because a guy was thinking about the pancakes at home or the mosquito on his nose...
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  12. in bball you can see the players more, like take a look at Giannis, the Greak Freak!
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  13. Snobby Gamer hah, i must agree
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  14. that was a nice touch!  Mickey Lo could have used AD as an arm model for God, lol
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  15. media. the same tech that makes us safer makes us more aware of violence. we are instinctually interested in violence, to avoid it mostly, but the wider the news pool the more bad news there is. there is no proportion.
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  16. a bottle of anything and a glazed donut, to go
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  17.  @happyface3933  that's right!
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  18. it is refreshing, and i think absolutely necessary, to hear the good along with the bad. crime is down by 50% since the 1990s in the US. Eagles, buffalo, elk, beaver, wild turkey are all thriving, after nearly going extinct. We also need to keep complaining, as that seems to be key to making things better.
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  19.  @DesoloSubHumus  I agree he did not go into specific religiouns or beliefs and their effect. That's a very different study.   As you basically say he proved that the religion of a country does not prevent it from going through the demographic transition to lower birth rates. That's worth while in it's own right. If there is no exception to the transition, and we want to reduce birth rates, apparently we can just make countries prosperous. It's an important and non-intuitive (perhaps) finding.
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  20. +tubedude709 yes, unless it had been expanding slower and slower; then it could asymptotically approach a finite size over infinite time.
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  21. @Google Reviews It makes no sense that Goliath was a cripple. Every detail he uses in that section seems wrong. The attendant? They carried weapons for the champion. etc The analysis of the sling's power is good, but probably exaggerated. No way a sling = a .45.
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  22. well stated my friend. He's basically eliminated a data outlier BECAUSE it was an outlier... as part of a search for outliers! Wow.
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  23. yes yes i think so
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  24.  Deimos Cain  I saw the first glowing mice at a museum, after they retired from research they got to live in the Mars exhibit where i worked.
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  25. idk man these stats are world wide, and they are just the kind of good news that the news doesn't like to broadcast. needs to be discussed.
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  26. yes
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  27. Workers should get a share, that's a great business model. But companies also can raise money from investors, that's quite reasonable. The only problem about that is the one you point out -- short term vs long term thinking. Now if investors REALLY want to make big money, they might want to follow Buffet's strategy: invest in well run companies whose business you understand, and hold for the long term.   That's his 'secret,' which he shares with everyone. The one type of investing that might not make any sense at all is that nanosecond trading business. It's also unfairly run. Not all 'investing' is legit but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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  28.  @cheblack677  That's a good idea. I really think vast majority of staff want to do a really good job.   The culture of the companies matters a lot. Management everywhere needs to read W.E. Deming's work on quality control because the way it's done, it often backfires and makes people unhappy/ less productive. Investors should think about the Buffet model, because it's long term good for companies. If workers own the company that's even more... organic.
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  29.  @RussCR-xw4co  Agree, we need to re-define the goals a bit. Sustainability is in fact better than growth.
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  30. 12:30 money shot
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  31. I'm not sure I have ever seen a photo that was exactly like what I saw with eyes. But I still agree with your point I think
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  32. A master key but not "the" master key perhaps, idk
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  33. cave men are not the problem. no cave ever warmed my planet! maybe oil men...
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  34. then you might as well pick the strawberry
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  35. That's the 88 billion dollar question.
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  36. Snobby Gamer Opethfullcovers  Looks can be an indication of body condition and genetic quality... at least in birds!  i think the modern looks cult takes it far beyond such practical things, to the realm of the downright harmful, such as high heels and caked on petroleum distillate that's so toxic it causes birth defects three generations later.   Also, looks (as in, the subjective perception of attractiveness) are part of the human bonding psychology and physiology... the more you like someone, the better they look.   Here again the modern cult of looks is disconnected with that natural behavior, as we don't even meet the icons of beauty... it's all abstracted.  Personally i think Jessica Alba and Jessica Biel are so gorgeous partly because of their vibe.  But who knows, right?  Maybe they get together on saturdays to insult puppies. Lots of manipulation going on.  For example, when was the last time we had a really ugly president?  
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  37.  @davidkelly4210  yes, the teeth will be hard. lol. but birds do get an egg tooth... i wonder if that is a real tooth
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  38. A possible mistake in logic at 7:40: there doesn't have to be tens of 1000s of comets, just thousand in the same plane, which could happen (?) if they were thrown out of the star's oort cloud by some passing disturbance...? But she is being hard on her own hypothesis, so that's actually laudable.
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  39.  @nemanjaukic4261  Burger Rex -- It's not impossible!
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  40. I don't think beauty is immutable.  you can put it on with a smile and take it off with a scowl.  
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  41. The hypothesis she talks about most is comets, since they wouldn't heat up like big dust clouds. It's unlikely because that takes a lotta comet all in our line of sight, but she says it seems the least bad hypothesis so far. I believe in aliens but idk why they'd build a Dyson Sphere all chunky like instead of with a nice orderly scaffolding. The star's dimming pattern is very chaotic, more like a space battle than a sphere, or else a sphere that fell apart. Because of the space battle.
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  42. Martin Miller perhaps to repudiate any material conception...
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  43. +The Sprawl Your description of the Boltzmann brain reminds me of Douglas Adams, when the whale and the petunia are created from the infinite improbability drive and fall onto a planet... 'Curiously, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias, as it fell, was, "Oh no, not again!" Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.'
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  44. definitely not pushing on objects, because then the expansion would vary with density instead of being totally smooth. so i conclude, probably pushing on spacetime, or better, growing spacetime or inserting pixels. gotta be.
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  45. +Callum Bell yes that sounds right.
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  46. +Callum Bell If the universe is expanding, there has to be new space created, right? How else...
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  47. +Callum Bell I think you mean dark energy. In that case I agree. Dark energy is making the universe expand, and this creates more space 'inside' the existing space.
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  48.  @tamar7065  yeah i think Herzog was just scared, and legitimately. but stupid? that's what they want us to think.
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  49. nooooooo! that's awesome or a theosaurus rex
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  50. it even can be like software for society
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