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Re: Lists of must see TED-talks

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Post by protomyth »

mhb wrote: post #16
gmac wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spices are a hopeless example of the paradox of choice, since they're all genuinely different things. The kinds of choices I hate are the ones that have been deliberately and often artificially cooked up between things that are in essence the same -- or that I'd benefit from really being the same. Two examples: (1) Washing powder. My local supermarket has a whole aisle filled with essentially identical products in di…

Why anyone would buy travel insurance is a mystery to me, but maybe you'd like http://www.insuremytrip.com/ which has a pretty nice comparison feature.

Cameras are generally one of the main reasons.

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Post by petercooper »

mhb wrote: post #16
gmac wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spices are a hopeless example of the paradox of choice, since they're all genuinely different things. The kinds of choices I hate are the ones that have been deliberately and often artificially cooked up between things that are in essence the same -- or that I'd benefit from really being the same. Two examples: (1) Washing powder. My local supermarket has a whole aisle filled with essentially identical products in di…

Why anyone would buy travel insurance is a mystery to me, but maybe you'd like http://www.insuremytrip.com/ which has a pretty nice comparison feature.

Why anyone would buy travel insurance is a mystery to me

Medical expenses, repatriation, accommodation in case of particular delays, emergency cash in case of theft.. I can't see why you wouldn't have it for any trip overseas given how unpredictable medical costs can be (unless you have a great existing policy that would cover all of these).

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Post by DrStalker »

mhb wrote: post #16
gmac wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spices are a hopeless example of the paradox of choice, since they're all genuinely different things. The kinds of choices I hate are the ones that have been deliberately and often artificially cooked up between things that are in essence the same -- or that I'd benefit from really being the same. Two examples: (1) Washing powder. My local supermarket has a whole aisle filled with essentially identical products in di…

Why anyone would buy travel insurance is a mystery to me, but maybe you'd like http://www.insuremytrip.com/ which has a pretty nice comparison feature.

If I'm hit by a car in Australia I'm pretty well covered.

If I'm hit by a car in the US I could be looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees if I don't have travel insurance.

Re: Lists of must see TED-talks

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Post by D3lt4 »

Gogmagog wrote: post #20
pepsi_can wrote: post #14

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I feel the same way. I'm disappointed that social status and elitism permeates throughout a forum that is supposed to be about advancing human knowledge and the human condition.

You must have missed the last 10,000 years of human development, because the elite have always been at the forefront of human development. It is part of what makes them elite. Humankind does not advance because of the efforts of the average person, it simply continues. Having said that... Why Julia Sweeney is always at TED is still a mystery to me. When one of her videos come up, I can't find the skip button fast eno…

Not necessarily, as a counter argument consider some of the giants such as Michael Faraday (physics and chemistry) and Bernhard Riemann (Mathematician), who were born into poverty and later in life had many conflicts with the people that would be considered elitist. (Especially when the elitist believe that they were better and that people such as the son of a black smith should stay away (a crude summary of some conflicts in Faraday's life). Riemann died of TB, a common infliction of poor people (not elitists).
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