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by 0xfeba 10y ago
The states that have legislated airsoft and BB guns as "firearms" or other weapons, tend to not joke around if they find out people own them and they are "unregistered".
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
> Put another way, imagine there's a computer with a random number generator spitting out letters (1-52 (a-z,A-Z, ignoring punct) in perfect randomness. How long would it take the computer to create 'War and Peace'? As oth
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
> I'd reserve 'evolved' to describe something more dramatic. Well, yes, but they did describe something more dramatic, changing beak sizes. More akin to your father's side having large noses, and your mother's si
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
Interesting, I've never heard this definition before. Seems to combine two common creationist claims against evolution: 1) No new information can be created 2) Sure, microevolution, but we've never seen macroevolution Where did yo
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
Ah HN, never change.
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
Evolution is the change of a population's phenotypes (and really, extended phenotypes), over time. This is exactly that. What you seem to want is a special kind of speciation, which the article did not claim. And besides, the whole ide
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
What's the difference between so-called micro and macro evolution?
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
> No evolution of a new feature, just a shift in the distribution of existing genes under changing selection pressure. Which is exactly evolution. Why the high standards?
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
But is copying a copyrighted movie "stealing" in that it deprives the owner (who still has the movie) of profits of that movie? Yes, potentially some people will go out to see the movie if they cannot pirate it. But not all. And i
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
Hey! My appendectomy was around $50k. I didn't have insurance, and it ended up being cheaper since I just ignored all the medical bills.
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
Funny, pretty much every interview I've been through (20+) kicked off with simple OOP principle questions.
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
> "We should view genes, not organisms, as the fundamental unit of propagation. They optimize for their own survival, not necessarily the organisms." --- this is an insight. Richard Dawkins wrote a book on just that. "The
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
Funny, I have the same lockups with Chrome. Middle-clicking a new link (to open in a new tab) freezes the entire browser (all tabs) until the new tab is done loading. I believe it's a extension problem (uBlock Origin, EFF Privacy Badge
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
Duplicated memory and just overhead from running separate processes (Chrome), as opposed to shared memory and less overhead from a single process (IE? Old FF). As for security, no, unless there's some unknown vulnerability now (or that
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
Oh man, if I had known that at my last job I could have had great fun with some of coworkers via my commits.
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
Exactly. I think a few agenda driven actors got a hold of the idea, and pushed forward their own version of what a trigger warning is for. I've heard a couple anectdotes about some student needing some ultra-sensitive care, but these a
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
> But the assumption that somewhere there are things "like us" seems to be both arrogant and very teleological Well, "like us", inasmuch as an entity that is self-regulating, and capable of response to external stimul
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
But, again, no one is claiming this is real science. It's just a fun thought experiment.
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
That's not really what anthropocentric means. Anthropocentric is that the human species, not just life, is special. What you are talking about is "anthroexclusive", or something like that. See my response to whom you agree wi
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
No one is claiming that a random event (?) occurs the exact same way. They just use statistics, based on some known factors and yes, a lot of guesses. We know how stars form, how galaxies form, how solar systems form. We know the general co
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
Not quite. No one's publishing papers to that effect. What casual science fans and some popular scientists do posit is that the universe is so big, our solar system so average (as far as we know), so it's highly likely that life e
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
I've been seeing more and more 'compensated' reviews on Amazon, or even worse, lots of suspiciously short 5 star reviews. Some product groups are worse than others but it only seems to be getting worse.
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
The ones in your local elections work. It's shame that no one shows up to even try, though. Except old people.
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
That's because they are letting people work remote who shouldn't be working remote, either through ignorance or some attempt at "equality".
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
I think you're relying too much on the photo-op images rather than the points of the story text itself. An employer offering in-house childcare has benefits, this does not necessarily mean your kid will be sitting on your desk and you
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
Let me be more clear: The entire application is written in SPs. They have a 3 tiered arch, but the FE and MT see 5% usage and the DB sees 95% usage. And they constantly have timeouts, table locking issues, errors, CPU usage problems, etc. I
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
Personal Anecdote: Was employed, but searching for a new job. Interviewed a few places that required coding on whiteboards (ugh). Then interviewed at a place where they asked me only a few technical questions, but mainly about what I did at
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
I can't stand not getting 8+ hours of sleep. So I usually do, save for when I get a new game, go out to see a movie (rarely), or some other special event. I don't understand people who constantly deprive themselves of sleep, willi
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
Depends on your definition of natural. The religious claim of 'special creation', esp. w.r.t. humans has it easy here: > existing in nature and not made or caused by people : coming from nature This definition really stems from
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by 0xfeba 10y ago
I recently read an article describing how NK was way more willing to get on board climate change proposals than, say, curbing their Nuclear ambitions. This is because they're peninsula is particularly sensitive to ocean and climate cha

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