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• A comment on Talk: Robert Gordon: The death of innovation, the end of growth

  Apr 25 2013: IS THAT SO BAD?
  If my capital grows
  0.1% every year
  (inflation deducted)
  
  ... I'll be JUST FINE :-)
  
  Contentment is a great gift,
  don't be greedy my friends.
  
  Have a good life
  and INNOVATE!! :)

• A comment on Talk: Matt Mills: Image recognition that triggers augmented reality

  Jul 21 2012: "Great invention, but who would ever want to use one?"
  
  At the moment I do not see it efficient or helpful. I think that people willl have to find some good uses for it yet.

• A reply on Conversation: Showing experiments on live animals to young kids, regardless of what kind of animal, can be considered part of an educational program?

  Apr 28 2012: I feel compelled to briefly reply to your points since you structured your reply so neatly.
  
  a) You think killing animals for scientific purposes is better than maiming them. I don't.
  b) This says nothing.
  c) I would. The animal being a cockroach is fundamental to my evaluation of levels of suffering. If it were a human, I would find it imbalanced, if it were a fish I would be doubtful, if it is an insect - very low suffering level. (why? e.g. insects do not have memory)
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  A reply on Conversation: Showing experiments on live animals to young kids, regardless of what kind of animal, can be considered part of an educational program?

  Mar 13 2012: I believe the suffering of the cockroach was balanced by the benefit of the lecture. If you think no benefits can outweigh suffering, than you should never remove any parasites from your body.

• A reply on Talk: Jenna McCarthy: What you don't know about marriage

  Feb 15 2012: The more you watch TED the more you come across videos that you do not like. Do not mistake this rule for a pattern. PS: I didnt like this one either.
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  A comment on Talk: Tyler Cowen: Be suspicious of stories

  Jan 9 2012: Story = a pattern in reality.
  
  Somme patterns happen more than we think, some happen less. But we should NEVER stop looking for them! That is how we LEARN. (btw: 1+1=2 is a story)
  
  The world is indeed more complex that any pattern imaginable. We have to imagine the world somehow though.
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  A comment on Talk: John Bohannon: Dance vs. powerpoint, a modest proposal

  Nov 30 2011: This was beautifully performed nonsense. I mean, the smooth moves just "softened up" the audience, it was just another tool of persuasion with no benefit whatsoever. The speaker made some ridiculous statement from which I derive he did not actually mean it as a lecture but as a work of art. And art it was.
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  A reply on Talk: Guy-Philippe Goldstein: How cyberattacks threaten real-world peace

  Oct 20 2011: Yes. Btw: humans are also systems using communication, they are never secure either.

• A comment on Talk: Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive

  Sep 12 2011: The explanation of a container: "It is like getting in a car. This is my car and I am going to drive around and show you my car. And you have a similar thing in cellular biology."
  
  I did not know cells were showing off.
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  A reply on Talk: Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better

  Aug 1 2011: There is a downside of selective hearing though. If you are too selective you end up hearing only what you wanted to hear, regardless of what the speaker actually said :)