PepeGomez

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by PepeGomez 11y ago
I don't see how it could possibly be true, even RO "wastes" only several times the amount of water produced. Where does all the water go?
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
They could tell you to change it to 1234.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
I think there is no way you would recall the password when you need it.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
I did. If the premise of the research is invalid, the research itself must be invalid. There is no such a cost of sexual reproduction. We need to separate sexual reproduction from having separate sexes. Hermaphrodite reproduction isn't
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
How more short term would you want it to be? The trait doesn't have to be advantageous every single generation in order to spread. It's two generation with or without selective breeding. The first generation will have individuals
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
But that's not the argument they're making, the argument they're making is that the amount of passed genetic information is halved, because they fail to take into account that every offspring has two parents in sexual reprodu
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
No matter how big experts they are, they can't disagree with math. Asexual species pass on all their genetic material to half the number of offspring. In a stable population, one offspring on average survives in asexual reproduction, t
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Exactly. You described it much better than I did.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Imagine three populations of desert plants. One survives by growing longer roots and storing more water. Another has roots that can extract water from dryer soil. The third is adapted by breathing during the night and losing less water. It&
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
But long term here means maybe a few dozen generations. It's not long enough to allow asexual species outcompete others. Evolutions isn't THAT slow.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Exactly, in a stable population, one offspring of each individual survives on average in an asexual species. Two with half of your genes each survive in a sexual species. It doesn't need a long timescale, asexual species get out-evolve
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
The costs aren't heavy, the math in the article is wrong. Yes, each of your offspring will have half of your genes, but twice as many offspring counts as yours.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Oh that, yes, but that's exactly what sex allows to happen. Imagine there are three populations of desert flowers, each with its own adaptations to drought. One population has mutations a and b, other has c and the last one has d and e
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Indeed. Asexual reproduction is basically like being 100% inbred.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
No, that is not correct. A hermaphrodite species will all things being the same have twice as many offspring as an asexual species, in your example 1000 from its eggs, 1000 from its sperm. In a strictly male/female species, a successfu
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Dyson is the best vaccuum cleaner I've ever had.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
It's premise, that the costs of sex obviously outweigh the benefits, is false. Sex is an extremely advantageous ability. There is no discussion to be had, because the assumed problem doesn't in fact exist. What does punctuated equ
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
That is blatantly false. Sex speeds up evolution exponentially with population size. With sex, each beneficial mutation can spread across the species even after arising only once. With asexual reproduction, beneficial mutations are confined
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
It doesn't appear to be as monotonous as the tiny spectrogram suggests, it's a sequence of subtly different tones: http://imgur.com/Z7S9Chq
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
>But elephant in the room is that if you can produce a MW of usable energy out of this thing then why not run it 24/7 and generate your quarter million a year in revenue I guess the fundamental problem could be that while it does pr
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
>30 people for 3 days, unblinded [1], and this is considered of significance? Why not, if the effect is big enoug?
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Sampling isn't legal anymore.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Why does every move have to occupy the same number of bits? That looks inefficient to me. Why not make the movement of pawns occupy fewer and the queen more bits?
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
4. Require that papers report all possible correlations in order to make p-hacking impossible, to allow "stacking" the results of multiple studies and to make negative results more interesting. 5. Don't limit review to peer r
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
I think it's because the bullet can't withstand the current/pressures and melts/vaporizes. Edit: also note that these are high speed camera recordings.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Real world problems are often NP-hard, not NP-complete.
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
There isn't much evidence for torture being used except as a form of punishment. Even the famous medieval torture was intended as a part of the punishment and to deter crime, rather than finding valuable information. Torture was only u
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
You greatly underestimate how much the brain shuts down in stress situations. People may not hear being talked to, recognize familiar people or notice severe wounds. It's the reason behind such rules such as no cleanup during training
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Is fermentation invlved in this?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_stew
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by PepeGomez 11y ago
Is there any reason to expect such narrowband signals, or are they the only kind of signals they could hope to detect?

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