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9y ago
And then you will be able to base future decisions on fact instead of fear...of course this only works so far. There are obviously some things you really SHOULD be afraid of.
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While this is true, they were still able to build pretty significant things without such accuracy. Sure, if you keep rounding you can lose essence but rounding pi to 3 doesn't lose enough of the essence for practical usefulness. 3 work
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The UN and it's declaration have had nothing to do with the peace we have seen since 1945 - it has been becasue of Pax Americana...and with that on the way out we will see another major war in short order.
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"there is NO country today which is as badly off as EVERY country was 200 years ago" - I can name a few middle east countries that are worse off...and some African countries as well. I think something else that needs to be conside
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Well pi does equal 3 if you round it down.
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How easy or how likely is a meltdown attack likely to be successful against a moderately protected PC or say a VMware Cluster...these kinds of things seem hard to pin down...and if all one can do is READ - exactly what is to gain here? It
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Hacker News is successful because it is still yet relatively small. It will not scale.
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And additionally...for the purpose used, it is "random enough".
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Have a real good look at the Catholics and you will quickly see the Catholics are just as pagan as pagans. There isn't a nickles worth of difference.
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I am not so sure this will fix the problem. The Catholic Church had access to children, people that would take advantage of it sought the positions where they could exploit such power. Places where governments run schools have the same pr
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Communism has been tried already and has resulted in failed states and miserable people....the most recent example is Valenzuela...why is this so hard to see?
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Nicotine has several health and mental benefits and is not at all addictive if taken apart from cigarettes. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-nicotine-all-b...
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I suppose one can learn how to think by doing math, or they can just learn how to follow rules...and perhaps some may want to think about match specifically. However, I think most people would be encouraged to learn math if they are shown t
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Or...one, or all of these: 1.Learn a Second Language 2. https://projecteuler.net/archives 3. http://rosalind.info/problems/list-view/ If you are going to exercise your brain, you might as well get
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I studied engineering and went to an engineering school (EE, ME, CE, etc). I have had contact with many engineers on a daily basis, although I do not do this work anymore myself, and I have found that engineers can talk very well - actuall
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How do you justify the cat's life then, or any life? What level of intelligence has to be met? Who defines that? Why is intelligence the defining attribute?
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Only the abandonment of reason could have caused anybody to expect a different outcome.
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The middle class is decreasing mainly because of divorce and thus the creation of single parent homes; additionally middle class families leave the middle class because BOTH parents work and thus moving them into the upper class - when if o
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Like a V8...this product is for hipsters.
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It does becasue they did; well in a lobby sort of way so it is legal.
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Is this, "Hitler governed by executive decree, a method that has suddenly come into vogue again." referring to the Executive Orders issued by President Trump and Obama as of late? Well if so, it certainly is not even close to the
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10y ago
As I read it it refers to the biomedical field a lot...and the foundation of the article actually was built on Fisher's full explanation of statistical significance and backs it up with physicist Robert Matthew's insights...even s
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You are spot on with this; after learning a second language (Arabic) in my 20's and a third (Hebrew) in my 40's though I do find it "easier" in the sense that I know how to learn a hard language a little better than at t
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I think this is a large part of it. I don't care so much as 5 cents about what somebody at child protective services thinks...but where I live people drive so fast it is a bit ridiculous..but also my neighborhood has roaming packs of
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So...what examples are there of blacks being gunned down and slaughtered? I think you do not know what the words you are using actually mean or you are doing it on purpose - which when you line your comments up with the facts; is very disin
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George Patton was confident with out a doubt; but he was humble enough to not be outwitted by his enemies...pretty much that is all the humility you need in his role.
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Instead of Games that may or may not map to some useful thing and some cognitive improvement...why not just learn more math and or a 2nd language? The time invested here will at the very least provide you with some useful skill or a better
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Manufacturing is a strategic asset. When/If war ever comes upon us again we will need such assets to preserve ourselves. We must not let hubris cause us to think we are above the ruin as other great peoples have suffered.
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The article focus, and my focus, is a about how or if there is actual evolution occurring within DNA. It is separate and apart from the organism in question. My point is that almost everybody these days mixes up evolution and natural select
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Your assertion has never been observed with any certainty that could withstand normal scientific inquiry; not even this experiment gives such certainty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_ex...
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