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Started by Jacob, September 24, 2012, 05:27:47 PM

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Admiral Yi

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September 27, 2025, 02:47:36 AM
One of the casual pieces of wisdom I picked up during my time at the Kennedy School was, if you look at a normal distribution, the two 2.5% tails are what lawyers care about, and the rest of the distribution is what economists care about.

Iormlund

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September 27, 2025, 04:57:51 AM
Engineers are not lawless, rogue individuals.

Much of what we do is create and follow guidelines and regulations. Ours just happen to be based on empirical results.

Savonarola

#3167
September 27, 2025, 09:24:22 AM
Quote from: Iormlund on September 27, 2025, 04:57:51 AMEngineers are not lawless, rogue individuals.

Wait what?  I can't believe my guidance counselor lied to me.   :mad:


 ;)

A society in which engineers were able to win a sizable number of elections would be a very different one than the present United States.  I don't think that would be possible in most democracies. 
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

grumbler

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September 27, 2025, 04:45:11 PM
Quote from: Jacob on September 27, 2025, 01:20:29 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on September 26, 2025, 10:26:26 PMI think that Plato was correct in assessing the Universe did not have legs.

That argument doesn't have a leg to stand on.

It certainly does not kick ass.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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