JR1427

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Thank for your comments. I'll try to respond to some of them, just for interest, but bear in mind I'm not trying to convince you of anything, so please just take them as intended - a hopefully friendly and stimulating exchange of
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> But why? Not asking to be difficult; I'm trying to understand why we should listen to either. Because our thoughts and feelings are really all we have to go on, when it comes to understanding the world around us. I don't mean
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As a side note, I also spent a period mentally tallying up the (sometimes famous) people on both sides of the God debate. When I discovered that someone I admire/respect believed in God, I'd add a mental mark on one column, and wh
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Ha, I've not seen a blimp in a long time! I think I'd probably think both those things :P I wouldn't say that I _only_ base my view of reality on my feelings, but I don't discount them just because they might be hard to
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I believe in God for a number of reasons. Firstly, it just seems much more plausible that someone created the universe. If we walked in to the middle of nowhere and saw a beautiful statue, most of us would say "wow, I wonder who made i
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I wonder if much is know about the origins of wooden Chukudu scooters of Congo [1]? The wikipedia article states that they date back to only the 1970s, but there does not appear to be any technology reason why they couldn't long pre-da
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You need a pretty good road surface for early bicycles, so that might be a factor for why they didn't emerge sooner in the countryside.
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I wonder if large-scale cloud seeding could have the effect of taking rain from places that would otherwise get it?
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I was thinking the same. R studio is certainly not new, either.
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If people often give advice about how to do a certain thing, pretty soon you are going to think that the thing is important.
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Amazing! Their citations are going to go through the roof!
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A large living meatball wont be able to stay alive. It would need a circulatory system, to get oxygen in to it, and waste products out. As others have pointed out, it would also be very prone to infection, without a protective outer later (
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I also find it interesting that people don't seem to think too hard about where lab grown meat is heading. You could imagine that the culture mechanisms will get more and more sophisticated, building up some of the systems seen in anim
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> Can't have it both ways. You seem to be assuming that all women have the same opinions.
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Did it bother anyone else that in the photo of the Wassily chair in the article, only one of the little feet is in the correct orientation? Without commenting on the overall design, the fact that this can apparently happen smacks of bad des
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It looks like the set of a 2000's kids TV programme.
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I think it depends on whether someone has actually explicitly asked you for advice or not. If they have, then you should be careful to consider their position regarding this decision. But if they haven't actually asked, then probably b
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When I was a PhD student and post-doc, I used to also arrive by 7am, and get most of my work done before anyone else arrived at 11am. I had all the equipment to myself, and enjoyed being able to settle in to the work day without having to i
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The thing I find most annoying is that no single streaming platform has all the things I want to watch (which admittedly is not a lot, mostly old films that are considered "classics"). So streaming is exactly the same as cable and
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I just looked back at some photos to confirm that I cradled our daughter right-sided. I'm right-handed, but do some other things left-handed too, like holding the knife in my left hand while eating. This has always seems much more logi
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I just worry that if I stay for years, and then for some reason do have to leave, it'll be harder to find a new job with my first as a dev having been at the same company for many years.
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With these kinds of tests, which have seemingly absurd questions with obvious desirable and undesirable answers, I have always wondered whether what is being analysed is not the face value answer, but something more nuanced. For example, pe
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I like your term "honourable retraction". But if people and retraction watch don't differentiate between these and dishonourable ones, then it doesn't really help.
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Even figures with images are typically assembled in Illustrator. You past in the image of your cells or western blot or whatever, and then add all the labels etc.
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With multiple people working on a paper, some junior, some senior, tight deadlines, and last minute changes, honest mistakes are certainly possible. Paper figures are usually hand assembled using Adobe Illustrator or similar, which can be e
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Keeping track of retractions is good, but I'm on the fence as to whether the community should be making it a shameful act (like committing a crime), or a positive one (like apologising, and admitting mistakes). We want scientists to ha
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I'm still at my first company after switching career in to development. It's nice here, and the people including management are great. But I feel I should probably move on for the sake of my career progression, but I'm scared
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I agree that the solving famine argument doesn't make sense. Famine is a problem of economics, politics, and distribution. We have the technology today to end famine, just not the political will.
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I always find it interesting how some cultures or languages seem to treat "socialism" and "communism" as synonyms. Do you see them as the same thing? Or you think that even though the game references "socialism&quot
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I wonder why this innocuous light-hearted comment in appreciation of someone else's joke is getting downvoted? I don't think I'll ever understand why people downvote on HN...

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