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by araneae 17y ago
We cannot know the motivation of aliens. However, we can know that they evolved. The process of evolution means that whatever their version of "genes" are were those that were most successful at replication. Organisms composed of genes tha
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by araneae 17y ago
How are you going to get that much spit from a baby? :P
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by araneae 17y ago
I guess it depends on what kind of person you are. I'm pretty comfortable with applying probability to my daily life, so it wouldn't bother me at all.
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by araneae 17y ago
I'd actually be happy if people started randomly cloning me. Increased reproductive success and I didn't even have to do anything!
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by araneae 17y ago
True, but not every cell in your body has the same DNA either. Mutations happen with every cell replication.
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by araneae 17y ago
Science classes require more work because the average GPA is lower. To get the same GPA in a science class as a humanities class, you have to do better than more people than you would otherwise, which means more work. And yes, I agree that
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by araneae 17y ago
Well, I was interested in how they got their data from my undergrad, Cornell, so I went looking... Cornell publishes median grades, and they "estimated" the mean GPA from the medians. As far as I know, there's no statistically valid way
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by araneae 17y ago
The reading I did as a child was well beyond what other children my age were reading, but it never required "effort," because it was pleasurable. It's a mistake to think that activities which require no effort are useless.
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by araneae 17y ago
That would be a good point if I were 8 years old. However, my vocabulary is unlikely to increase anymore.
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by araneae 17y ago
I think his offhand implication that reading books is superior to TV is wrong. Most fiction has exactly the same purpose and function on TV, which is to entertain. Yes, reading some books makes you "cultured" but so does TV; just to a diff
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by araneae 17y ago
I believe that statement refers to the commandments. At least in Spanish, the commandment about adultery is translated to mean "no sex outside of marriage." That is interpreted by many South Americans at least to mean no pre-marital sex.
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by araneae 17y ago
Right. For instance, models have shown that IV drug users are an extremely important group because they connect the heterosexual and gay pools of susceptible.
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by araneae 17y ago
It's not just close, it's the same. Gay men do have the types of sexual relationships that are more likely to lead to STD transmission than their heterosexual counterparts in the U.S. I actually often wonder why heterosexual men get conde
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by araneae 17y ago
This article says absolutely nothing about suicidal tendencies. His entire argument is that the iPhone is well-established. But plenty of people who seem to have it going for them are suicidal; just look at celebrities.
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by araneae 17y ago
I am a very fast reader. Every time I say this, someone accuses me of not thoroughly understanding what I read. But I've excelled at pretty much every reading comprehension test I've ever taken, so it's getting kind of old.
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by araneae 17y ago
I'm interested in this (the .pdf, anyway) simply to make sure I didn't miss anything really good ^-^.
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by araneae 17y ago
Well maybe he will when the first issue comes out. But it's not out yet, so what should he do, not ask for an e-mail? :)
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by araneae 17y ago
Not to nitpick, but they found that paying money for grades didn't work at all, probably because kids didn't actually know how to get better grades. When they paid money for reading books or good attendance, it worked well because kids knew
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by araneae 17y ago
The thing is, schools already use a reward system. What do you think a grade is ? An A is like a gold star. Yes, obviously if a kid is doing something for pleasure, you should continue to let them do it for pleasure. But if they aren't
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Should Kids Be Bribed to Do Well in School?(time.com)
17 points by araneae 17y ago|29 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
Maybe it's a silly example, but I have found there have been various hardware integration problems with my x61 various ubuntu installs. Every new release broke something . The first release I installed allowed me to put my compy to slee
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by araneae 17y ago
Then how can you be sure your "originals" work? It seems like you could just swap them daily, I guess.
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TIOBE index history for language Objective-C(tiobe.com)
1 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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Battle of the Babies: How fundementalism is on the rise(newhumanist.org.uk)
7 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
For me, it was much worse than a normal essay, because it was too slow. I dislike having to wait between chunks of text like that. It was cute and gimmicky at the beginning, but I quickly lost patience. The website is certainly cool for p
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How to resist price anchoring(hackerhousewife.wordpress.com)
1 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
Haha, I use data all the time. Usually when I'm doing data analysis.
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by araneae 17y ago
It's clear that the author felt "let down" by the video. But I don't think he can make a case that wikileaks misrepresented the video. Rather, I think he had unrealistic expectations. He got his expectations up because a) Reuters had been
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Apple's iPad: The End Of The Internet As We Know It?(npr.org)
1 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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Ages of Doctor Who actors on their debuts(reprog.wordpress.com)
1 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments

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