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If we consider baseball or football prowess instead of soccer: The Dominican Republic is vastly over-represented in the population of pro baseball players. I think you could easily find countries in Latin America to use as a control (same i
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> There are a ton of professional athletes How many can you name? Or, since that would be anecdotal: what surveys have been done of professional athletes' diets? And if there are any, is the percentage of vegetarians higher than a c
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If not, he should feed the whole body of statutes & case law into the bot, and then let it be its own lawyer.
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I do know a few people who've had COVID. I don't know a single one, not even a FOAF, who's had MP. Does anyone?
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If you want a preview of what free trains would look like, just go to the public library some afternoon.
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No judgment about whether Google was right or not. Same for Lemoine. As a career move for him, this only makes sense if he wants a brief, meteoric career in media or public advocacy. He can get articles published in The New Yorker and go on
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The fool learns from experience. The wise person learns from other people's experience.
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The problem of inflation has been solved before. It is a monetary phenomenon, period. It was solved by Paul Volcker turning the screws, mercilessly, until it went away. I can understand the desire to treat it as brand-new, never been seen b
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Ancient Yiddish humor: Old man, dying, calls out to God, "Why couldn't I at least win the lottery?" And God says, "Why couldn't you at least buy a ticket?" People complain because there isn't a formula for
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So now instead of analyzing and understanding the culture war, you're taking a side in it.
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Excellent. You can't help wondering if religious impulses are always there, and as "regular" religions die out, a secular one steps right up to take its place.
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Profound Existential Sorrow(tedgioia.substack.com)
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wow, these hackers sure are clever & patient: they're hanging around outside your house, just waiting for you to have a guest, so they can use your limited-BW guest network where you can log everything they do. OK, go ahead and set
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I've done techie things just because they were fun & cool, so this isn't a criticism. However, having a phone number not your own (or indeed, any number of less than 7 digits) that you can memorize and tell your guests works j
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I've read it three times and it didn't take any forcing. Whereas other long Russian classic novels: not so much. I don't know if this is a "tip" or not, but what I found easy about AK was the descriptions of people&
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AK is not difficult to read, IMHO. I say that as someone not particularly persistent about "difficult" books: I couldn't get through either War and Peace or The Brothers Karamazov, or many other "classics". Whereas
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> police very deliberately kill members of racial minorities This is an inflammatory statement which demands some evidence. "Very deliberately" implies a knowledge of police state of mind. Do you have such knowledge? AFAIK, stu
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> There's also the fact that a CC is accredited One wonders if the accreditation agencies are neutral, or if they're going to say "well, you're not a real school, so we're not going to accredit you."
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I got interested in bioinformatics in the early 2000's. The sequencing of the human genome, and of course that of many other organisms, was a huge enabler of "systems thinking" as applied to biology. It isn't really fair
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> she was much less likely to become the kind of terrifying matriarch so familiar to readers of PG Wodehouse My favorite line.
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> In 2019, McKinsey cut ties with opioid manufacturers So up until then, they were fine with it. In fact, abetting it. Now they're apologizing. If ever there were an argument for the corporate death penalty, this is it.
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tl;dr which ironically is a good summary of all the bullshit on the Web. Ages ago, I got tired of having these discussions with a certain class of programmer: me : it really sucks that X does Y by default. certain class : yeah, it does, b
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Eventually (100+ years) he'll be the answer to a trivia question. I think a lot of people like modesty in a famous person. It's so different from the posers who want to be famous and go slapping their names on everything. I woul
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#whataboutism I knew a guy who did wingsuiting. An insanely dangerous "sport" where you whip along at 140 miles an hour, a few feet from the side of a mountain. I said the usual "why would you jump out of a perfectly good air
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I prefer not to mess with my brain, thanks. It's generally hard to repair those. Exercise also improves your mood and mental health.
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All you people talking about how it's "educational": I'm doubling down here. Dumbing down history to the level of modern day action figures because "the kids can relate to it" is missing the point of "read
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Call me a killjoy, but the Battle of Verdun was one of the worst and bloodiest battles of a horrific war that arguably ruined Europe. Is there Lego Auschwitz, too? Bad taste, whoever did this. Bad taste.
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Is that a satire on Corp Speak, or what?
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> It was not announced what Prologis, the new owner, plans to do with the property after the rides have shuttered. Office buildings. Google buildings. Condos. Shopping. Yawn.
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Once it becomes a battlefield in the Culture Wars, you may as well stop trying to use logic. Only your own side is going to listen. To people on the anti-gun-control side, NO such law is acceptable, because it's just the thin edge of t

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