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by asciimo 11y ago
I tried to casually walk down the Pre aisle at SFO a couple weeks ago and the TSA agent correctly assessed my ineligibility. I think it gets encoded into your boarding pass.
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I had a civil and humane US airport experience a couple years ago and I asked about it. The TSA agent said it was because of the K9s sniffing around.
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That was exactly my position. Then I got really uncomfortable during a pat-down at SFO and decided that I'd rather suffer humiliation at the hands of a machine.
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This article opens with, "[New science] is also showing us that advocates of trendy paleo and vegan diets are missing the big picture of how our omnivorous digestive system works." But it concludes with, "Pick a modest-sized
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by asciimo 11y ago
Why not create a new user named Legacy Anonymous and reassign all anonymous comments to it?
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If I could spend a couple hours comfortably browsing real books and then take some of them home on my Kindle, I would be very happy.
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I just started poking around the Internet for more on this topic. I found this study ( http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v17/n6/full/nn.3719.html ) which indirectly led me to this blog post ( http:
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by asciimo 11y ago
Namecoin ( http://namecoin.org ) gives you 520 bytes out-of-the-box. It was designed to store arbitrary data on a blockchain. Being merge-mined with Bitcoin, it enjoys the highest security against a 51% attack of any altcoin.
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This might be the first time a HN comment made my jaw drop. Thank you for finding this supportive material!
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Are "high levels of planning and general cognition" really the benchmark for deserving "moral weight?" If so, where does this leave humans with impaired cognitive abilities? Or human children?
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Myself. It's interesting that so many people take it for granted that resurrecting extinct animals is a "good thing." Why is it a good thing? The referenced article doesn't ask this question. Ben Novak (the Passenger Pig
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I was just going to post this! http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QCW5ehtSL._SS500_.jp...
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Aquaponics proponents rarely mention that you have to feed the fish. The fish are essentially filters that reduce other matter (mostly other fish) into nitrates. An efficient system would remove these inefficient filters and add nitrates di
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I always thought, "how high can you count using your fingers" would be a fun interview question.
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>If this proves to be true in humans as well... Wake me up when they publish that paper.
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The artwork and character design is excellent. The concepts are strong. I would have backed it. I'm rewarded nonetheless with a strong warning to balance passion with pragmatism.
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You may not be able to directly help those currently enslaved by this system. But you can stop consuming the products that it produces, and encourage your friends and family to stop consuming these products.
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I'm glad you brought up ethics, as it was absent from the article. If you believe that God put other species on this planet as a resource for humans, there's no limit to the creative possibilities. Otherwise it's hard to arg
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The Freelancers Union now offers health insurance ( https://www.freelancersunion.org/benefits/ ). NY was their pilot state.
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> Other animals do not exhibit the anxiety about expecting or experiencing pain that humans do. How do you know this? I see more evidence against this statement than I see for it.
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... and then they were killed. The more we learn about other animals, the more tragic this process becomes. In this case, the benefit is a vague possibility for "some insight into what happens in the human mind during sleep." Not
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I will always empathize with the bull more than I do the bullfighter. Heartbreaking.
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There a reference at the foot of the article to the author's TEDx talk on the "matter." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9_jWyHycIY
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Why so at cow's milk? "They also hope to engineer cheese based on the milk of the narwhal, the most outlandish mammal they could imagine."
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Cheese from the same proteins as milk, but from genetically modified yeast(wired.com)
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This article fascinated me and I was prepared to dig in for the 90s and postnineleven era, but it ended abruptly. I can forgive that because its point was to reveal the origin of "skyjacking," and it succeeded. I also would like t
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They're innovators.
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It has to be. It's such a provocative product that they wouldn't risk releasing it so close to April 1. Or would they? :)
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“But what about human reasoning is truly a human-unique feature and what aspects are shared with our nonhuman relatives?" Doesn't it make sense that much of human cognition is shared by other animals? We share common ancestors and
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This is what the PDF looks like in Chrome 41.0.2272.101 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 14.04.2: http://imgur.com/T1ln9Cl Looks fine when I download it and read in Document Viewer.

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