alendit

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by alendit 1mo ago
B&W is awesome. But Populous has been the first game to wow me and will forever have a place in my heart.
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by alendit 2mo ago
You are suffering from the survivorship bias in its purest form. I really hope nobody follows your advice.
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by alendit 8y ago
"we show that the observed Flynn effect, its turning point, and subsequent decline can all be fully recovered from within-family variation. The analysis controls for all factors shared by siblings and finds no evidence for prominent ca
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by alendit 8y ago
As far as I understand it, it's saying that IF the upbringing is the problem, then on the level of the society, not on the level of individual families. I.e. there doesn't seem to be any evidence that some families bring up their
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by alendit 8y ago
The basic fact is that the world is by virtually any objective measure of human well-being in the best place since the start of the recorded history. And still there are people (even in this thread) who see the sky falling and the world end
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The Impact of Adiposity on Incidence of Cardiovascular Disease(academic.oup.com)
1 points by alendit 9y ago|0 comments
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by alendit 9y ago
The growth of the blockchains will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law' - which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants-becomes app
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by alendit 10y ago
This is slippery slope fallacy. The argument against mandatory donations is exactly that - it's makes donations mandatory, while opt-out gives you choice and just changes the default. If you seriously fear for your life as a registered
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by alendit 10y ago
Did you read the article? Patients were pushed to the top of the list, no donor was given subpar treatment, that would be murder.
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by alendit 10y ago
On the other hand, it can be equally traumatizing for the victim's family to see the perpetrator get off with a slap on the wrist. We don't have to go into the extremes either way. Also, the desire for punishment is is not about s
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by alendit 10y ago
You analogy isn't really on point. It's more of a difference between a controlled reaction (targeted gene splicing) and randomly smashing pieces of enriched uranium and watching what happens (non-site-specific mutagenesis).
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by alendit 11y ago
> Limiting free speech This accusation is very vague and it could mean anything. It's surely more limited than, say, in Sweden. It way less limited than in Saudi Arabia. > banning political opposition Russian parliament consists
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by alendit 11y ago
> In any case, it seems to be that the threat to democracy will come from these paid trolls that seek to influence the minds of the western citizens. We need some kind of Ministry which would spread the Truth to the masses to counteract
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by alendit 11y ago
> Right now the Kremlin is likely undergoing an intense debate on how to spin the downing of the recent Russian flight as something other than a reaction to the Russian air war in Syria. They can always claim that ISIS hates Russia'
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by alendit 11y ago
"Hand over the jew gold you jew, i know you have two bags, one real one fake, give me both."