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winston  ·  4209 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Small Business Owner Explains the Hard Facts of Obamacare to Employees

A legitimate question, by the person that posted the link. How is that a troll?

winston  ·  4246 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Love it or leave it.. and possibly lose it!

Did you take part in the photographs in the link? Assuming you work for the BLM, what lands do you preside over?

winston  ·  4257 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 25 Least Visited Countries in the World

Just tried to post this. There are many on the list that I would like to visit.

winston  ·  4272 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: THE RESTAURANT AT THE START OF THE UNIVERSE (6/7): The bed and breakfast, 2115AD

When is the next chapter to be released?

winston  ·  4350 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Snow Fall: A story of surviving an Avalanche.

Can't decide if I found the design helpful or distracting but it was certainly an interesting way to present a narrative.

winston  ·  4373 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski stickers and AskHubski: holidays

Thanks. Guess I need to find me a secularist color.

winston  ·  4375 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: What was the greatest scientific discovery of 2012?

Higgs

winston  ·  4381 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: More cowbell

I've seen this before but it was worth seeing again.

winston  ·  4382 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Burning Man Zeitgeist

While that is a nice video, I still prefer the John Lithgow reading.

Did the guy at Mystery Brewing mention why there was such explosive growth of Craft Brew recently?

winston  ·  4391 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: David Byrne Plays a Building

A musician could likely play this percussively pretty quickly.

winston  ·  4400 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Romney's Tax Plan is finally out!!

Clever

winston  ·  4404 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Consequences of Machine Intelligence

Just read an article in Forbes titled *End* of the Engineer? which starts off

    The great companies of tomorrow will be built around something else: a competency of customer understanding.
Seems like a bandaid, not a solution. But at least there is the recognition of a problem.
winston  ·  4409 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What happened when MPs took a maths exam

It would weed out an alarming number of humans regardless of occupation. If our politicians are to be a reflection of the electorate, why shouldn't they be idiots?

winston  ·  4415 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Human-Powered Helicopter: Straight Up Difficult

From a percentage of population standpoint, it may not be much of a variant. I can't think of any people that would fit the Renaissance Man title though.

winston  ·  4422 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Human-Powered Helicopter: Straight Up Difficult

da Vinci was a visionary. Who is the da-Vinci of our times?

I didn't mean to paint the Dutch in a negative light. I've only ever had good interactions with your countrymen.

    the Dutch are very proud of their language skills
there is nothing wrong with this, more people should take pride in such things.

Perhaps what you are experiencing is that English speakers are less likely to criticize than Dutch. Could it be that simple?

winston  ·  4462 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who owns you after you die? - Boston.com

I see this as similar to property rights. You've spent a career building something and now you can leave it to your family. Why not?

This was just a topic of discussion on Talk of the Nation on Tuesday.

winston  ·  4462 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Votomate - a quiz that finds your ideal US president for you

Obama: 16

Stein: 9

Romney -9

Johnson -5

    All political questions are not equal no matter how much you pivot. When people die or lose their physical freedom to feed certain economic sectors or ideologies, it becomes a zero sum game for me.
Why we allow our politicians to dictate what is and what is not the current "talking point" is maddening. We decide, not them.

Simply saying "what's done is done" regarding those that called for torturing enemy combatants, without any prosecution is despicable. The law is the end itself, it's not something anyone, not even a president can manipulate. It is not malleable.

winston  ·  4475 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Microsoft's new logo

I hope they didn't pay too much for it.

winston  ·  4480 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: Why do Democrats vote earlier than Republicans?

Are you certain they do? Is the difference very disproportionate? I can't find anything credible on this.

winston  ·  4480 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski where can I find my old posts?

No problem, I don't think it was dumb.

winston  ·  4490 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: The little things

A while back someone mentioned Hubski chat

winston  ·  4490 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Patterns in nature -- unintentional wikipoetry

I was introduced to the term Explosive Decompression

winston  ·  4510 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Book club
I really enjoyed the read. Look forward to hearing everyones thoughts
winston  ·  4520 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Blogs Do You Read?
These are fantastic, thank you. I hope you don't mind but I'm taking the rest of the night to explore...
winston  ·  4520 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Brian Surgery is Not What I Thought it Would Be | The Everywhereist
I once came out of a major surgery and her description, minus the gauze stapled to her head, is right on the money.
    The reality is that you sort of come to in bed somewhere, and you don’t even realize that you are coming to, or how long you’ve been out. And then you’re wheeled to another room, and another room, and it’s all in a sort of fog, and in my case, there is gauze stapled to your head.
My gauze were on my chest.