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There is similar premise in James Rickards 2014 book The Death of Money. He describes trade dynamics and international organizations, including the Bank for International Settlemen…

Anne Applebaum's book Gulag describes similar psychology and social dynamics. It's an epic work of scholorship that examines the surrounding society as well as the camps and the pr…

Being potentially wiped out by a healthcare incident is not simply a matter of the looming bill. Your recommendation (i.e. to carry on by ignoring the bill) assumes the illness cau…

Also include the simple motivation of greed. A lot of war and genocide is simply about profiteering. Some perpetrators do so knowingly. Other miscreants feel need to invent some ex…

Ben Ferencz says much the same. [1a] - http://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-the-last-nuremberg-prosecut... [1b] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14437511 [2] - https://en.wikiped…

The Silicon Graphics crew did like their case mods. Adding to the list: a demo team had a deskside O2K with a top air-intake and side exhaust pipes like a dragster engine.

Near Y2K, as development slowed, several of the hands-on QA teams were found to be astonishingly good at Quake. Later, as labs high and low were decommissioned, a couple of sysadmi…

Also around 1993, Onyx with RE II was used by Nameco and a company called Magic Edge to build actuated flight sim pods [1]. Coincidentally also in 1993, NASA published a guide [2] …

Propublica [1][2] has done some investigation into the amount of waste, beginning with a 2012 report by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. The unnecessary costs a…

This group (near Stanford with other locations) has some effective methods to help clients reduce pain or discomfort and improve physical ability. The Balance Center - http://www.b…

Yes. Well put and necessarily said, 62991. Hopefully, one has the peace-time luxury of a leisurly acclimation toward the deeper end of the pool; too many in the world sadly don't. …

Training is your friend. Learn to be on both sides of the fist and stick and gun - what is and is not possible. For some illustration of outcomes, see youtube for "28 foot rule" or…

To feed everyone's inquiry/discussion of diet, nutrition, and western disease (though not fasting per se): two particular researchers/authors had much mindshare and influence in Ba…