martindelemotte

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Comment · 7 years ago

There is a plan like this for Paris. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Paris_(project)

Comment · 8 years ago

I wouldn't trust a MBTI personality score because the test is too susceptible to social desirability bias. But on the other hand, assuming that you "are" an INTJ and knowing that your manager "is" an ESFJ, you should be careful to consider social harmony [1] on top of efficiency that you naturally value [2] when taking a decision at work.

Now, indeed nobody is a pure ESFJ nor a pure INTJ. People tend to get hung up a little bit too much on the letters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_cognitive_functions#Ex... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_cognitive_functions#Ex...

Comment · 8 years ago

The test has low psychometric value but the underlying model is interesting [1]. I see it more as a checklist on what to consider about a person. Mainly: what is important to him or her?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_cognitive_functions

Comment · 8 years ago

On the other hand, according to Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico [1]:

[The Germani] do not pay much attention to agriculture, and a large portion of their food consists in milk, cheese, and flesh.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples#Collision_wit...

Comment · 9 years ago

How do the "honest DIAN officers" that you talk about report their exhorted income?

Comment · 9 years ago

My theory is that as a lot of people don't declare their full income in developing countries (and are quite tax-adverse due to a perception of high corruption), a way to redistribute is to tax "luxury" goods like vehicles or other visible stuff like the strata.

Comment · 9 years ago

Partially mythical, there were no bananas and if I remember well there were only two monkeys. [1]

[1] https://www.scribd.com/doc/73492989/Stephenson-1966-Cultural...

Comment · 9 years ago

They sometimes do try to espouse a critical viewpoint of free trade, for example [1].

[1] https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21695855-americ...

Comment · 9 years ago

In regard to [1] your hypothesis is probably correct. There exists technology that dims the lights automatically when the volume level of an area is too loud, in order to make people lower their voices.

Comment · 9 years ago

No paleogeneticist here but from what I know from : Andean people benefit from a genetic adaptation to high altitude and don't need coca leaves (Himalayan people also benefit from a different genetic adaptation). It does make work more enjoyable though.

Also, coca was reserved to higher classes in the past so laborers probably didn't have access to it. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca#History

Comment · 9 years ago

Then why would the g factor also apply to animals as stated on the Wikipedia page? You don't see that many doing mathematics.

Comment · 9 years ago

It would be more like "Basketball is about being in very good physical shape", which makes more sense.

IQ (or more precisely the g factor) correlates not only with math but also with language skills and music[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)