babyslothzoo

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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Does anyone take Wikipedia seriously at this point? Calling Wikipedia 'neutral' is comical, it's full of opinion, ideology, bias, misinformation, disinformation, astroturfing, and other nonsense noise and utter garbage.
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Are tips required to stop using a service? Call and text people you actually want to keep in touch with. Pretty easy.
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Lots of cussing in your comments, you must be passionate about this topic for a particular reason. Passion is good, but the word choice degrades the discourse and implies emotion over reason. Anyway, perhaps a better approach is to label su
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Are they anymore so than other cars driven where they salt the roads? I have not heard that.
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Isn't this well known? Toyotas have legendary reliability
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
I wondered the same thing, I would expect performance to be not great
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Personally I think the Github page is more informative than the very brief article https://github.com/WoA-project/WoA-Installer/blob/master/Doc...
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
> There isn't a clean metric for most qualified or most elite, and there really can't be For an academic institution or an athletic endeavor, I completely disagree. Performance in these environments is measurable. Elite perform
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Why? Is this not supposed to be an elite university for elite students?
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Speaking of unusably slow, loading that website in Chrome on a Mac pegs CPU at about 110%
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
The value in elite universities is the network
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Would it be a problem to remove all identity categories (name/legacy/gender/ethnicity/origin/etc) of applicants and simply admit the most qualified students?
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Agreed if you expand that to social media in general.
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
> I really don't understand Apple's obsessions with thinness. Do they really think that a few millimetres off the depth of a laptop is worth sacrificing reliability like this? Ironically there are quite a few PC laptops that ar
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Are any online reviews even vaguely reliable? What's the percentage that are either from insiders or marketers or spammers?
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
> Gut flora is the new frontier of neurology. It’s worth studying the phenomenon. Certainly agree on that in a very broad sense, far exceeding this topic. But in terms of obesity, any change to the microbiome is in response to the intake
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Source study minus the regurgitation: https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/consumer-c... And a better summary, if you'd prefer an article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
> The question is, how does one generally control this? How does one generally control becoming addicted to any addictive substance? Generally, moderation or abstinence, particularly for those susceptible to addiction. Food addiction is
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
We can have a very interesting discussion on leptin resistance, insulin, etc, as these are relevant to myriad conditions, but surely you agree that is a different discussion from thermodynamics, which is where this all begins. Gaining and l
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
I am perplexed as to why advocating for basic science is considered tantamount to trolling
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Thermodynamics are false? Show me the evidence!
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Your rhetorical question is intentionally obtuse, you'll never have a productive conversation on any topic by creating your own strawman and falsehoods to argue with. As for addiction, addiction to smoking, food, drugs, alcohol, etc it
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Why hasn't Apple bought DuckDuckGo? I also think the name DuckDuckGo is too long and too cumbersome, they should consider rebranding to something simpler. Branding matters.
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
True. And I think there's a strong argument to be made that humans will destroy themselves before getting there.
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
It's likely that all matters of unsustainable behavior will eventually be looked upon that way by a more enlightened future. Unless we continue to dumb ourselves down with misinformation, willful ignorance, and the banishment of uncomf
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Oh yes of course, it's a "disease" that happened to put a chocolate bar into my mouth last night. You are so confident in your knowledge on this topic that you deflect and post an irrelevant link. Brilliant dialog and engagem
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Sure, now replace "food" with "drug" or "alcohol" and it's the same argument, and much of the same pathology for that matter
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
What disease is it that causes someone to routinely consume far more calories than required for their body to operate? Excess food consumption is not a disease. Now you can certainly argue, and quite effectively, that excess food consumptio
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Why?
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by babyslothzoo 8y ago
Unsurprising, given that sexual orientation and race are not the result of choices. There is no decision to be made, no change in input will change the output. Dietary habits are entirely active choices, it's an active decision making

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