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by araneae 16y ago
I have no clue. That's not my area of expertise. I bet if you're interested there's quite a bit of research on it, though. What are you getting at?
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by araneae 16y ago
Anyone else catch him reading HN right before 6:30? :)
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This is also a ringing endorsement to buy things from Amazon over eBay or independent sellers.
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Wiki for tools to scrape website data(scraperwiki.com)
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by araneae 16y ago
I think it's because we believe that once we pay for something, it's our right to do whatever we want with it... and that includes giving it to friends. The problem with the Internet is that it makes it possible to bypass original sales in
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by araneae 16y ago
People who fork out money for genetic tests like these aren't windows users. I'm a linux user. I also have undergraduate and graduate degrees in biology, and my SO who also got the test done (and with whom I'm planning to have kids with)
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by araneae 16y ago
Not if you're planning to have kids and want to see if you have any recessive mutations to look out for, like CF or Tay-Sacs. They also trace your mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome so you can see where your maternal and paternal lines orig
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by araneae 16y ago
Yeah, for me this would be one of the more important features, since I've on more than one occasion had to access FB to get a phone number.
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by araneae 16y ago
Migration of neurons occurs primarily in utero and very early childhood, and as you might notice, during this time very few memories are formed. That's because memories are built on those very synaptic connection you would need to rewire.
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by araneae 16y ago
I would say much the opposite. Given the fact that schizophrenics seem to have different brain morphology, it seems that whatever causes it has organizational , not activational effects. That is to say, the brain is permanently damaged d
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by araneae 16y ago
The absence of evidence is not equivalent to evidence.
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by araneae 16y ago
Death is an evolved trait, but it has to do with life history trade-offs, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_history_theory In some cases life history trade-offs differ between the sexes leading to longevity differences. In general,
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by araneae 16y ago
Wow, apparently Hacker News is filled with people who believe in stupid shit created by Indian mystics! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantra If you believe this, perhaps you'll also believe I have psychic link with my cat... I swear, I kno
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by araneae 16y ago
Even worse- it won't work if you don't believe it won't. It's a clear placebo effect type of situation. I'm one of those weird people that thinks medications- even ones given to me by a doctor- won't work. As a consequence, even biologica
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by araneae 16y ago
Whether you think it's a deserved prejudice or not, doesn't mean it doesn't exist or it isn't problematic. Sure, the vast majority of young people can't program. The vast majority of women can't either. Age AND sex are perfectly useful he
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by araneae 16y ago
Well you probably know a different set of people I do. I know quite a few that quit. Of the ones that are current, one is my cousin, but she confessed to me that after last Thanksgiving she bought herself an entire turkey and ate the whol
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by araneae 16y ago
Yes, I know the difference. I was merely saying that her symptoms sound identical to my friend's, that's all. Just like some people seem to be successful as vegans, others may be unsuccessful at being vegetarians.
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by araneae 16y ago
I guess it all depends on whether you'd prefer to be miserable and slowly starve to death starting in your 20s or be happy and energetic before dying at cancer at 60.
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by araneae 16y ago
That was kind of eye-opening. Not because it shows how bullshit veganism is; I knew that already. But because it reminds me of this friend I have, who is always complaining that she feels tired and weak. She goes to the doctor at least mon
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by araneae 16y ago
The worse culprit of this I have seen is DSW. They have color coded stickers that correspond to 30-70% off each item. So if you want to figure out how much it actually costs you have to do the calculation in your head. What makes this so o
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by araneae 16y ago
You're right, you're definitely not a sheeple. After all, almost no one ever hates on McDonald's on HN.
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by araneae 16y ago
What techniques do you use to discipline them?
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by araneae 16y ago
That's not news. Like I pointed out, supply AND demand are important. If you are 50 year-old cracked out prostitute with missing teeth, you're not in high demand. They lower the average income quite a bit. And yeah, illegality and danger
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by araneae 16y ago
Well, if that were the case, people wouldn't need to get paid at all! Salaries track two things: Supply: If something is unpleasant, dangerous, or illegal there will be fewer people who will do it. Construction workers, drug dealers and pr
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by araneae 16y ago
This reminds me of the case in a University of Michigan museum where a Native American woman and her son got those little dioramas of native people removed. Apparently after seeing them, her son asked how he could be Native American if Nat
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by araneae 16y ago
Even better would be if Google started supplying links to the IP address directly. Most of the populace uses Google to browse the internet anyway. Remember the chaos that resulted from when that news article reached the first result for a
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by araneae 16y ago
I did tweet to @newscientist that I was unfollowing them due to them putting all their tweeted articles behind a sign-in page. But it seems like it would be a rare thing.
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I know that there is data that students from China are more likely to cheat in classes. There's are no strict codes of conduct in universities and professors look the other way. I wouldn't be surprised if journals worked in much the sam
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by araneae 16y ago
Right, so if a Jew was getting walked to gas chamber, they shouldn't get mad at the Nazi that was doing it because they were just following orders? OBVIOUSLY it isn't as bad, but you have every right to get mad at someone for doing somethin
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by araneae 16y ago
i PREDICT DAT RATSPEAK wILL BEcoME tHe nEXT LOlSPEK

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