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by araneae 15y ago
I went through this "ror vs. django" thing a few months ago, and ended up picking up Django. I got the Django book and liked it and I had no problems with my actual project itself in terms of having enough "community." However, now I'm in t
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by araneae 15y ago
This very fact means that the two of you are operating on the wrong definition of "instinct." "Instinct" simply means anything that is inborn. There's nothing in the animal manual that says that instincts can't contradict each other in an a
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by araneae 15y ago
I'm not sure what's confusing you. In my example I was using an example given above (80% of females reproducing, 40% of males reproducing, thus, twice as many females reproducing as males.) I only talked about the division of offspring amon
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by araneae 15y ago
I agree with the general premise that the social situations are only very loosely analogous, but your argument against it is quite poor. >So that means every other man, or one in three, is an alpha male? I have my doubts. No, that is no
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by araneae 15y ago
Nice tool! Usually when I see a site I like I view source to see what it's made in, but it's not always that obvious.
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by araneae 15y ago
During sleep both hemispheres show large scale inactivity. There's no different in activity between the two hemispheres. All of our brain needs sleep. Just because only one half of our brain is responsible for speech doesn't mean we don't u
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by araneae 15y ago
That's rather trite, especially considering it follows that standard wise-mystic pattern of "two statements which contradict each other." Someone wrote a comic about it but unfortunately I can't find it.
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by araneae 15y ago
I think it's safe to assume the existence of neurons.
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by araneae 15y ago
Only programmers that enjoy philosophy. Personally I feel the whole field is obsolete with the invention of neuroethology and similar.
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by araneae 15y ago
My mother believes in God but she reacted quite negatively to it. To her it seemed as if her cousin was telling her that God was punishing her.
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by araneae 15y ago
I'd add "Everything happens for a reason" to the "nevers" list. My mother has leukemia, and her cousin said that to her.
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by araneae 15y ago
I've also been using linux for only about three years. I have had some minor hardware compatibility issues- namely the "sleep" problem- which went away with subsequent updates. I just can't see ever moving back to Windows because I couldn't
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by araneae 15y ago
Sure. It's great. So why waste it taking cold showers? This article is so completely pointless it makes my head spin.
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by araneae 15y ago
Here's the problem: Your friend was smart, but most people who come into the doctor with self-diagnoses are whack jobs. Doctors don't know who to take seriously so they take no one seriously, unless you approach them the right way.
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by araneae 15y ago
>He mentioned that the brain interprets social isolation as a sign of low status. That might be the case, except most of my social interactions are failed social interactions, which make me even more depressed.
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by araneae 15y ago
The irony is that it's not clear that the Etsy person that was "ripped off" didn't rip off the designs herself: http://www.regretsy.com/2011/05/27/urban-outrage/
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by araneae 15y ago
But I think food is definitely something that can be siphoned off of Groupon.
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by araneae 15y ago
To me it evoked lesbianism..
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Could Lead Abatement Reduce Social Problems?(scienceblogs.com)
1 points by araneae 15y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 15y ago
It is no way a straw man argument. A straw man argument is when you invent or restate the other person original argument. In the interview he specifically stated that he supported laws that protected people from being fired based on race bu
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by araneae 15y ago
And the version using philosophy appeared on Reddit before the comic as well: http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/hgwbe/on_wikiped...
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by araneae 15y ago
I'm pretty sure a reasonable person would consider it antipathy towards homosexuality.
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by araneae 15y ago
I would take issue with your view that Card isn't homophobic. From "The Hypocrites of Homosexuality" by Orson Scott Card: "Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who h
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How high school fosters suicide(nypost.com)
2 points by araneae 15y ago|1 comments
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by araneae 15y ago
The reasons given in the article for smallpox being able to be eradicated the first time was because a) It has no animal reservoirs b) The latent period of infection is very short c) There's an effective vaccine None of those things would b
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by araneae 15y ago
Yes, but those things exist in the wild, not just in the laboratory.
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by araneae 15y ago
Agreed. I actually met a guy a week ago that's working on monkey pox- the next big pox threat. He told me that it's a growing problem and more people are getting infected by it in Africa- larger than what would be explained by the fact that
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by araneae 15y ago
Clearly you can't make it equal because some of the people in that group have already died before 65. Of those remaining, almost some have certainly already experience negative health effects that have lowered their life expectancy. One thi
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by araneae 15y ago
FYI there's evidence that early daycare leads to behavioral problems later on. One hypothesis is that it's because kids model their behavior off of other kids... instead of adults, which are the model of what we want kids to become.
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by araneae 15y ago
...yes... cough I agree that it's not an easy problem to solve, but I'm also not sure that you want to solve it (i.e. minimize attrition). You don't want to cripple your project by collecting the maximum number of n00bs possible. For me i

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