amvalo

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by amvalo 7y ago
I'm not sure but I think it's permanent. If you don't mind getting balder than you currently are, great.
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by amvalo 7y ago
I can tell you it'll make your hair fall out. And maybe make you 20% less anxious/more focused, but honestly it's hard to say... actually, in retrospect I never experienced acute anxiety when I was experimenting with it. Cert
33.
by amvalo 7y ago
Odd. All the recent grads I know are skirting 7 because they hate their jobs, and so far it hasn't backfired.
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by amvalo 7y ago
> I volunteer a tremendous amount in education, where I’m the only male I generally even see in my field, and I constantly have to listen to my coworkers gleefully talk about how excited they are at how few young boys show up to our even
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by amvalo 7y ago
There was recently a study that found the same decline in dogs, which suggests an environmental cause.
36.
by amvalo 7y ago
Ok then, tell me the last time you saw someone flirt with a stranger.
37.
by amvalo 7y ago
Actually the rules are even simpler than that: 1. don't.
38.
by amvalo 7y ago
Pooling is a nice cost saving innovation.
39.
by amvalo 7y ago
The sheer length of the post, for one.
40.
by amvalo 7y ago
Except this person DOES sound pretty snooty and self absorbed
41.
by amvalo 8y ago
Isn’t that sort of like saying most humans die because their heart stops beating?
42.
by amvalo 8y ago
The die-off started in the 70s when climate change was < 0.5C. OTOH, the story of globalization introducing pests/pathogens to naive populations is an extremely common one, and there's no reason to doubt it here.
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by amvalo 8y ago
Corn was actually a generic term.
44.
by amvalo 8y ago
What region of the US is this?
45.
by amvalo 8y ago
It's true! Rule of thumb (which may surprise people) is that cars, boats and planes are all about the same for grams CO2 / passenger mile. So if you commute 10 miles to work every day, they are similar.
46.
by amvalo 8y ago
This is essentially the mechanism the article describes... I think the most plausible explanation is that it's dazzle camo, the question is what species does it dazzle?
47.
by amvalo 8y ago
So put in your wife’s purse and say you spent the day with your wife (maybe spousal privelege would be useful there)
48.
by amvalo 8y ago
The unicorn story struck me as being structurally very similar to the standard wire stories about new species discoveries. That's probably why it's the best of the bunch.
49.
by amvalo 8y ago
Honestly, it seems like you didn't read the OP very closely as there are several points where she seems to agree with you.
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by amvalo 8y ago
> Everything in mathematics is divorced from reality. Unbounded integers are divorced from reality. (Once you move beyond naive realism, bounded integers are divorced from reality, but that's a deeper philosophical debate.) The only
51.
by amvalo 8y ago
This blogger is not very credible... have a sample of some of his other posts http://greyenlightenment.com/2017/12/
52.
by amvalo 8y ago
A very small fraction is sequestered as topsoil.
53.
by amvalo 8y ago
Ted was right.
54.
by amvalo 8y ago
The top 1% control 40% of the US's wealth, while the next 9% after that control... 36%. But most of that 9% still have to work at something resembling a real job. So I see nothing wrong with focusing on the top 1%.
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by amvalo 8y ago
Motl
56.
by amvalo 8y ago
Not clear to me what that quote is saying. Doesn't that just encompass any possible excuse?
57.
by amvalo 8y ago
I think WPD is genuinely important. There are edgelords, sure. Watching and thinking seriously about what I saw there changed my perspective on life.
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by amvalo 8y ago
> The climate skeptics don't say tree trunks will get wider, they say there will be more plant biomass. Speculating that plant biomass might help mitigate global warming doesn't really deserve the label "climate skeptic.&q
59.
by amvalo 8y ago
What do you mean? They're mostly a retailer aren't they?
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by amvalo 8y ago
Re-labeling and re-arranging actions in a sequence seems like a pretty shallow example of "abstraction."

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