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Now coming up with the precise direction the shadow is pointing is trickier but usually people need little precision, maybe the 8 most cardinal directions on the compass.
The more common stereotype is a negative correlation, nerdy smart people getting lost, unable to dress themselves, etc. I say 'stereotype' because that word very strongly correlates with BS.
Still, I expect a negative correlation to intellectual credentials: Those take a lot of work doing things that usually don't involve navigation. Anthropologists I expect to be pretty good at it, and archaelogists and architectural historians are probably awesome. MDs, mathematicians - sorry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/books/review/slanguage-bo...
Here's a paper whose methodology addresses some of your question:
Jean-Baptiste Michel et al. Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books. Science 331, 176-182 (2011). DOI:10.1126/science.1199644
More immediately, probably it's blocked because it's on some blocklist. It's on the blocklist for the same reason: Why not? Consider these scenarios:
1. You're the IT manager. It's not blocked and something on UD causes a problem - content, even malware. You may think it's valid or not, but regardless HR, legal, managers, some VP, multiple employees, IT are all dealing with it. The VP asks you: I am extremely busy doing high-return work for the company and so are all these other people, and now I and all of these people are wasting time on this useless nonsense. Why didn't you block it? Isn't this your job? - What do you respond?
2. It's blocked, you work there and want to lookup something on UD, and you ask IT to unblock it. IT manager forwards the request to your manager, noting that IT staff are very busy integrating the new acquisition, but would be happy to do whatever your people need for important projects. Your manager asks you why you contacted IT. What is your response?
3. It's blocked, you want to lookup something on UD, and you complain to your manager that it's blocked. Your manager says: If you can't find something profitable to do, you're fired. If you can't figure out to use your phone, you're fired. Do you go over your manager's head?
4. It's blocked, you work in IT and go through the blocklist - probably tens of thousands of items long - and unblock some things like UD. Your manager says (the same as #3). What do you think?
5. It's blocked and you bring up at a meeting that you think it should be unblocked. Nobody speaks. Why are they silent?
You are there to achieve the organization's goals. UD has nothing at all to do with that or anything else of enough importance or value to even distract a co-worker for a half-second, causing them to refocus twice.
What is that based on? Your personal perception is not evidence of wider ambiguity either way (and neither is mine).
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> “Booms have tended to be either heavy and metallic or made of lightweight composite with a bulky design – neither of which work well for today’s small spacecraft.” / Keats Wilkie, ACS3 principal investigator, NASA
I'd expect that the lack of weight and also the limited force the solar wind applies to the sail would result in minimal structural strength requirements for the boom. Am I missing something?
Quite a few things have been done since then, including the JWST, all the other space telescopes, helicopters on Mars, visits to every planet in our solar system system, ...
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If you are looking for an oncologist or abortions or whatever else, that's PHI. We know well that the industry has profiles on Americans and probably can identify you.
From what I've read, much contemporary art is purchased with that in mind. Some collectors have warehouses filled with artwork that nobody sees. It's like collecting baseball cards.
Does everyone orient their bins correctly and precisely enough for the truck's pickup device? Is the pickup device so flexible that it doesn't matter?
I don't know you but there might be another way. I've interacted with many, many people who appeared unhoused (I usually don't ask people about their homes); I've never had a problem or a hint of violence. I've never been in a brawl or been close to being in one. Violence is easy to avoid IME.
> You can't de-escalate someone who is determined to harm you. ... There are bad people everywhere.
I've never encountered someone determined to harm me, afaik, and if that's how we define bad people, they are very rare. Humans are social creatures - just stand on a sidewalk downtown in a busy city - look at all the people getting along peacefully, being polite, helping each other. Logically, if you think of humans a bears - lone, anti-social creatures - then the danger makes sense, but very few people live on their own, away from other humans, like bears. We are social creatures, evolved since our proto-chimpanzee days to live harmoniously in groups, to only function even on a fundamental cognitive level when we are with other humans (solitary confinement drives people insane and is considered torture).
> You are universally safer by knowing how to fight and never using it than not knowing how to fight at all.
I'm universally safer knowing how to fly a plane, because what if a pilot is incapacitated? However, I don't need to plan for that.
I am neither film nor stage director nor actor, but here is Lawrence Olivier, highly accomplished and respected in both mediums, on the differences:
"Now the sense of continuity in the film is provided by the director, who says that was too quiet, or that was too loud, or that was too much, or that was too slow.
Now an actor on the stage is supposed to conduct it much more for himself. The director in a stage play, he can do two things, I think, principally ...: He can give the play a point of view, which he can sell to the actors. His principle task is to make quite sure that the author is served to his best advantage, and the actors are served to their best advantage. And at the same time, he can describe, without setting, because this will vary according to performance, according to audience, but he can desribe what he thinks is the right tempo for each scene, or the comparative tempos between two scenes, three scenes, four scenes, five scenes, etc.
Whereas the director of the film is the absolute magician, who is in charge and knows the answer to every question right from the beginning of the film to the last. In directing a film, people say, 'would it be alright if she wore a red hat?' Well, simply means that you have to split your mind to every single shot that could possibly affect that situation, right to the beginning of the film, right to the end of the film, before you say, 'I don't care' or 'yes' or 'no'. It's a very precise arrangement, altogether, in a film."
From a 1973 interview: https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/laurence-olivier-and...
Lots of groups try to use these historical claims - some going back thousands of years - to assert ownership of various lands. On that basis, there is no end to it; nobody owns or has sovereignty over any land.
I will also observe that the most prosperous and peaceful have fewer borders: Europe is reducing theirs; the US-Canada border is porous (yes, the EU's and US's southern borders obviously complicate this theory). Russia could have had such borders with Europe; instead they chose power and death over prosperity and peace.
I wonder at directors: It's hard enough to find artists with the insight, vision, expressiveness, and mastery of their craft to create great art.
But before film, artists worked mostly alone. I suppose architects and composers have had to be mindful of the performance of a bunch of humans, but didn't necessarily have to manage that process. Stage directors obviously have similar jobs, but necessarily at a much smaller scale, with fewer technical demands, and by my limited understanding, stage directors lean toward overseeing and facilitating the art, which is more a product of the playwright and actors.
But film directors - as artists they must be all those things an artist is; and also they must master more domains than most artists - film, audio, script, story, costumes, sets, lighting, etc.; and on top of that they must be top-notch managers: hire and manage hundreds or thousands of highly talented people (just look at the credits), and then coordinate them all to finish on time and also manage a budget in the 10s or 100s of millions, and then also sell their vision to funders.
Where are these 'directors' found? Can they really do all that or is it handled otherwise? How are they developed? It's hard to imagine there would be more than a couple of them.
Well if you don't have many resources, you need to persuade them somehow. Many people would pay to work with an all-time genius in their field. Wouldn't you?
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There's no evidence or reason to think it's necessary. Power corrupts. Why look for rationalizations for assholes?
It is exactly in that direction; just look at the outcomes. You take the long-term standard, where white (and Asian) males get advantages, and normalize it - norms are unremarkable, the null hypothesis. Changing the norm then looks like discrimination.
That (common approach) takes what is rationally a question of risk and turns it into a reactive question of survival. The reality is that there are many risks in life and I can't mitigate them all. I need to identify the greatest risks and mitigate those, and also I want to live my life - not prepare fearfully for danger.
So far, I've never needed martial arts, off the top of my head I don't know people who could have used it more than a few times - probably not enough, even if they knew what would happen, to spend the time learning it. It's like people who want guns for personal safety - 'what happens if you need one?' turns the question into survival; the reality is that I don't know anyone who ever would have benefitted from having a gun in private life; I don't think the risk is there (also, even in truly dangerous situations guns are rarely useful - a wild west shootout isn't a good solution).
Other people have different lives and experiences. Maybe they have more risk of situations where they need martial arts. Personally, I'd try to change my life so that I wasn't exposed to those situations but I really don't know about their lives. I guess if I was going to be incarcerated a maximum security prison, I'd want to learn something.
In places where there is a lack of healthcare and therapy, increasing it seems very likely to make a significant impact. If they are against increasing it, then don't complain about the lack of healthcare.