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by avazhi 5y ago
Good for you.
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by avazhi 5y ago
Apologies for what is basically off-topic hijacking, but I've been a reader of the Economist since ~2005, when I was a uni student the first time. I've got pretty diverse political views, but neither Dems nor Republicans would cla
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by avazhi 5y ago
I don't think anybody's claimed that it reverses ageing, and if they have I think they would have clarified that they did mean 'slows' the ageing process. And there's no doubt that caloric restriction and IF both sl
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by avazhi 5y ago
I wasn't intending to suggest that America or anybody else should take action or 'police' anything, but I do find the 'all bark, no bite mentality' currently being paraded about by the world's leadership to be,
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by avazhi 5y ago
America will do nothing except 'strongly condemn' what's happening, just like the rest of the world. The simple fact is that there is no real upside to risking actual war with Russia - that the Russians will dominate the Ukra
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by avazhi 5y ago
Not at all a fan of Amazon, its anti-competitive business models, or Jeff Bezos, but this Twitter thread is a bit ridiculous. Unlike other goods, Audiobooks can be distributed in literally dozens of ways, in hundreds of formats, on quite li
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by avazhi 5y ago
People do weird things during a genuine crisis. I think I’m this case it was just about ensuring that everything that needed to be preserved for a complete investigation would be preserved without the possibility that data was omitted or de
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by avazhi 5y ago
Can you get Descartes’ autograph for me? Thx
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Not sure who, besides the Japanese at the time, have really criticised the outcome. Even now the Japanese seem to at least understand why it had to happen. It was the difference between Nazi fascism winning global hegemony or not. I don’t t
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by avazhi 5y ago
The links you provided relate to China’s PR releases about female Chinese scientists and researchers. Whether they’re true or not (that is, China’s actual intentions and thoughts about gender equality), I submit that the Chinese are highly
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by avazhi 5y ago
This was linked elsewhere in the thread and is a response to your assertion about China’s knowledge and shame about its racial outlook. https://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/selection/2013-anonymous... As far a
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by avazhi 5y ago
I wasn’t attempting to criticise China’s treatment of minority groups. Perhaps ironically, while I find their particular methods of propaganda and pearl clutching to be painfully obnoxious, I respect their treatment of the Uighurs and I can
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by avazhi 5y ago
The Webb was in development for more than a decade. Given that the article is discussing high school and first year college students, there’s going to be a latency period. I’d guess by the mid-2030s the effects will start to properly manife
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by avazhi 5y ago
This article misses the point. It is partly America’s obsession with STEM diversity (and the resulting lack of purely meritocratic advancement) that has created this current crisis. The Chinese certainly don’t delude themselves into thinkin