From the Huffington Post Why Workplace Jargon Is A Big Problem http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/work-words_n_5159868.html?utm_hp_ref=business&ir=Business When we replace a specific task with a vague expression, we grant the task more magnitude than it deserves. If we don't describe an activity plainly, it seems less like an easily achievable goal and more like a cloudy state of existence that fills unknowable amounts of time. A fog of fast and empty language has seeped into the workplace. I say it's time we air it out, making room for simple, concrete words, and, therefore, more deliberate actions. By striking the following 26 words from your speech, I think you'll find that you're not quite as overwhelmed as you thought you were. Count the number that LLNLs mangers use. touch base circle back bandwidth - impactful - utilize - table the discussion deep dive - engagement - viral value-add - one-sheet deliverable - work product - incentivise - take it to the ...
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It was also pointed out, on a hopeful note, that most good physicists believe in the many worlds theory, and some of these worlds would dodge the problem, and that many Americans believe in a so-called "rapture" prior to anything bad happening.
Furthermore, of course, Americans have a deep dislike for various authoritarian forms of governance hence the statement "better dead than red". This indicates a possible utility of a so-called doomsday device in case of a communist takeover.
At the same time, of course, global governance of an intrusive nature may be necessary in the future to prevent the development of dangerous technologies such as this.
No, they don't.
Also is the 7.04 AM a bot? Is it possible that a bunch of postings on blogs, Reddit, and Facebook are not not from real people. For about a year or so, I keep seeing posts like 7.04 AM that seem to be off. Weird.
https://purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036
It does mention some of the hypothetical ideas previously discussed on this blog, for example, an overgrowth of cyanobacteria taking CO2 out of the atmosphere so that there is a global ice age, other species in the oceans could die out, and similar to the blight in interstellar ordinary plants would not be able to grow. See section 8.5, which claims the full extent of this is uncertain but can't be ruled out.