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Food production increasing more slowly than human population

vendredi 21 juin 2013 à 14:00

Food production is increasing more slowly than the human population.

We need more effort in reducing birth rates.

US house prices

vendredi 21 juin 2013 à 14:00

US house prices are increasing, but it's big real-estate businesses that are buying; Americans who want a place to live can't afford them.

Data storage services subject to snooping

vendredi 21 juin 2013 à 14:00

Professionals must not store information about their clients in servers that might yield that data to Big Brother.

The lesson is, store your data on your own computers, not in some service.

The article uses the term "cloud", but that term clouds the issues. I think we should avoid it.

Republicans help defeat farm bill

vendredi 21 juin 2013 à 14:00

Republicans helped defeat the farm bill. They realized their constituents wouldn't stand for cutting food stamps as the Republican leaders wanted to do.

Recognizing negative characteristics in people

vendredi 21 juin 2013 à 14:00

I saw an article which makes a false assumption that calls for criticism: it equates recognizing some negative characteristic in a person with despising or mocking it.

Friendship does not call for denying facts about a person, not even the fact that you find something about your friend annoying. Denial isn't required. You can even criticize them constructively. However, being a good friend means not sneering at the annoying characteristics that you find in your friends.