DFHippie

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by DFHippie 8y ago
"If there's nothing inherently bad about energy consumption" is assuming a lot. In theory we could produce all the energy we need with wind, tides, solar, hydro, fusion, zero-point energy, or whatever. Then there would be no
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by DFHippie 8y ago
I think you're mixing disparate phenomena to make a political point. There are places where feminism had a strong impact on culture. There are fractured families. There are families with fewer children (whether this is a good or a bad
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by DFHippie 9y ago
It isn't sufficient to know that the student is cheating. You have to be able to prove it. Students, particularly the amoral, entitled students who are inclined to cheat, will cause an enormous amount of trouble for the professor/
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by DFHippie 9y ago
I was a beekeeper in North America. I've given up. Buying new nucs for your hives is expensive.
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by DFHippie 9y ago
Progressives don't love regulation, but they also don't have a superstitious dread of it. Progressives want to use the right tool for the job. In some cases, that is regulation. In particular, when the consequences of a decision c
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by DFHippie 9y ago
I wouldn't say that I ever came to the view that his anti-functionalist views were right. In other fields of science, biology, for example, it's taken as given that one can and should reason from function to form and vice versa. I
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by DFHippie 9y ago
Within linguistics there's plenty of politics associated with Chomsky but it's mostly politics within the field, it has nothing to do with politics writ large. He is cited more than any other linguist I expect. I haven't paid
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by DFHippie 9y ago
Apparently there were a lot of lesser injuries before this fatality.
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by DFHippie 9y ago
I rubber-necked and looked that up. In the case you're referring to the husband convinced his wife to shoot a book while he held it in front of his chest, believing it would stop the bullet. He set up two cameras to film it. So yes, th
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by DFHippie 9y ago
I found this bit particularly chilling in the context of high school shooters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_P90#Ammunition
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by DFHippie 9y ago
"Better to ask forgiveness after than ask permission before."
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by DFHippie 9y ago
You can perform brilliant data wizardry without deceiving people. Micro-targeting has been around since the 60s. There is a huge gulf between finding people receptive to an ad whose content you publicly endorse and creating astroturf site
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by DFHippie 9y ago
A police officer in Nashville shouted at my wife for riding her bike in the road in accordance with Nashville law. Basically, he didn't know the law he was enforcing.
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by DFHippie 9y ago
Funny how you you complain about evidence-based debates proceed to mischaracterize the U.S. based on your impressions. Americans are not all of the same opinion. They do not all use the same arguments which have the same faults. In this the
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by DFHippie 9y ago
It could be he knows who Mono is and he knows "Mono" just refers to Mono, but there are a lot of other things in the world that he wants to talk about and he knows the grownups will be able to piece thing together. I do that often
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by DFHippie 9y ago
It could be that your friend's son has an overly generous sense of what Mono is. It could be that he knows precisely which individual entity is Mono but misunderstands what "Mono" denotes/refers to. It could be somewhere
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by DFHippie 9y ago
There are also no Native Americans. I suspect it is a sample size issue.
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by DFHippie 9y ago
If you read the Washington Post article it goes into considerably more detail. It is based on certain assumptions about what modes of travel are available at different locations on the globe, so in much of Greenland or on Ellesmere Island i
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by DFHippie 9y ago
I believe the direct cognate of this in Latin is "esto".
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by DFHippie 9y ago
In Welsh you use "do" to assent to things asserted about the past. "Wyt ti wedi bwyta?" [Have you eaten?] "Do." [Yes.] The negative is "naddo". If you ask a question with something other than the verb
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by DFHippie 9y ago
Yes, the old Contract On America is finally bearing fruit.
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by DFHippie 9y ago
Or, alternatively, the thumbs put on the scale by any other government for any energy source. Maybe the Trump admin tacking a 30% tariff on non-US solar benefits non-US solar in other markets -- there's less demand for the current supp
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by DFHippie 9y ago
> Society has always been manipulated. True. And people have always murdered each other. But when millions of people are murdering each other we call it war. My body is fighting some millions of germs right now. If you add an order of ma
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by DFHippie 9y ago
The question isn't whether Facebook is relevant to you. It's whether it's relevant to 300 million other people. If a problem as 300 million causes, you still have a problem if you cut that down to 299,999,999.
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by DFHippie 9y ago
In the video he says something to the effect that he learned this from a lecture by a medievalist. It's not his own personal theory.
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by DFHippie 9y ago
That seems unlikely. Pumpkins were as rare as potatoes, chocolate, and chili peppers in the Roman Empire.
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by DFHippie 9y ago
Almost all research has ulterior motives in this sense, particularly government-funded research. You want to guide policy so you collect information on the impact of that policy, existing or proposed. The alternative is to make policy in th
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by DFHippie 10y ago
The claim is that membership in high IQ societies, not high IQ itself, correlates with narcissism.