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The really interesting studies will be longitudinal IMO. It's almost certainly not going to be another tobacco, but it strikes me as impossible that smoking marijuana is harmless. Should also be interesting to see what marijuana cult
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> why the experience has to be so patronisingly humiliating. It's intended to be stressful because that gets people to crack. My advice is to not take it personally unless they really push the line. The stress is part of their pro
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Experimental Roomba built up a static charge and fried something important.
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> "You're a Christian? Didn't know anyone who believed in that stuff would be in engineering..." Religion is a funny one in Silicon Valley because it's outright religious discrimination of Judeo-Christian traditi
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AI also means we may finally get to ask the last question[1]. Reading that first sentence, it looks like we may actually be ahead of schedule. --- http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
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It certainly seems like the circumstances under which the UN Convention on Refugees was written no longer reflect the realities of the world. Increasingly, refugees are fleeing natural disasters and near-collapse of governments instead of
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The really interesting part is the need to appoint two independent directors. Currently, Tesla's leadership could best be described as a monarchy, with King Elon appointing family and favoured friends. That will have to change now an
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Because when the rated party also rates the rater, ratings are essentially useless. The question you ask yourself is: is this person so absolutely awful as a passenger/driver that I'm willing to risk being kicked off the platform
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Head's up on the publication's goal: > Medical Hypotheses is a forum for ideas in medicine and related biomedical sciences. It will publish interesting and important theoretical papers that foster the diversity and debate upon
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> To 99% of people, these features are useful and helpful, with the downsides being mostly philosophical or theoretical. There is something there that makes it comparable to the early nature conservation movements. Fast forward a couple
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Commenting specifically on the black names example: I am skeptical because they replicated the results of a study on humans based on the Implicit Association Test. I would be generous in calling that the Myers-Briggs of this generation, bu
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> Seems like a lot of people want to travel, and would love to spend part of their 20s doing so. I think a lot of people in their 20s want vacation travel, but business travel loses its lustre quite rapidly. The extremely odd subset of
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> Is not having a straw really the struggle people make it out to be? Counterpoint: are straws really the problem? Last I checked they were a fraction of a percent of total plastic, whereas things like fishing nets made up slightly unde
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The short of it is that the ACLU consider affirmative action a form of just racism. This form of racism corrects for past transgressions, helps achieve diversity targets, and "keeps the doors open" for minorities, so they conside
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I think a lot of it stems from the dorm-ification of workplaces. Because the ROI is so good, employers want you to think of work as more of an institution that is heavily tied to your identity rather than just a place of business. You&#x2