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Your network is down for me!
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by barking 8y ago
The only consolation is that you'd likely pick it up a lot more quickly now if you return to it.
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AFAIK twin studies where babies were adopted suggest that schizophrenia is likely to be genetic in causation to a large degree. That doesn't rule out the common environment of the womb of course.
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The genetically 'unhealthy' will flock for insurance which will increase premia and discourage the genetically 'healthy' from doing so. You cannot run a commercially viable life insurance in a situation where there isn&#
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by barking 8y ago
Jeff Attwood wrote a good blog post on this: https://blog.codinghorror.com/rubber-duck-problem-solving/
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Visual Basic 4. Classic VB was and still is, the easiest way to develop windows applications. I'd know that there would be a seamless upgrade to vb6 and that all the noughties warnings of obsolescence were groundless and that any appli
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by barking 8y ago
I should do that all right. I snore and I've been told that I basically stop breathing at times which is as unpleasant as the snoring for the person listening!
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I'd be interested in people's views on the influence of sleep on aging. I've never been a great sleeper, possibly have sleep apnoea as well. 5 or 6 broken hours a night is normal for me and I feel that I am aging more quickly
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>Why is including values of our time bad, while honouring some 2018ya lord good? I didn't say that was bad, I just figured if you wanted to say 15k years ago you could say 15k years ago instead of making up another acronym, ago isn&
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I can see some value in it, BC dates are confusing but it's also just another year chosen as 0 based on a particular historical occurrence. The video makes a big deal of supposed inclusivity benefits of this change which is wearying
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>YBP is used commonly in articles talking about this period. OK, I'd never it before (had to google it).
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Why would anyone write ybp instead of ago? Edit: OK, you'd need to say years ago but still, is this another part of the dropping the AD and BC tendency?
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They are going to buy openbook.com with the money they raise from kickstarter. Seems like a complete waste of money to me. Who types in a url any more?
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One of the most entertaining forums I read is for a perennially under-performing football club. It's real no holds barred stuff, as much about themselves as anything else, for wasting their money season after season and never learning
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Was listening to Barry Humphries (dame edna everidge etc) the other week on some radio programme. One of his lines was that he'd been lucky to have been born with the gift of being able to laugh at other people's misfortunes.
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I never minded jokes against me or mine too much so long as they contained actual humour. The offensive thing about Dunham for me is that he's just not funny.
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by barking 8y ago
Maybe not the same thing but the settings app is promoted as a faster way of doing everything compared to the control panel but I find it the opposite. The only thing is it's harder to open the control panel than it used to be
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by barking 8y ago
OTOH any company trying to desperately restore its reputation might be inclined to act on the merest whiff of an allegation of this sort.
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by barking 8y ago
Everything was better in the good old days, harrumph!
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Elvis inmpersonators everywhere, beware!
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>I'd only wish we could download the pages as epub, instead of only in PDF. I find calibre great for converting formats
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After yesterdays thread on the anki system I'm tempted to get into that and this bit of trivia is just the sort of thing I'd love to remember.
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Shoving an ethical system on people is kinda what the rule of law is all about. There are even limits put on the age up to which it is lawful to kill a baby you know.
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It will all be decided only at the last moment as is the custom for this sort of thing! (I hope)
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https://lovindublin.com/dublin/abortion-posters-maternity-ho...
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They're hidden away and disposed of in secret. It got so bad in the recent referendum campaign in Ireland that even to show an ultrasound image of a normal in-utero fetus was regarded as hurtful and offensive.
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Euthanasia for dependent adults is legal now?
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Two classes of human beings, slaves and fetuses, each deprived of human rights, for valid reasons in the eyes of the supporters of the respective practice.
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>"It's humbling to read about his life and the many major figures in the abolitionist movement. Those men and women really deserve respect for how visionary and open minded they were in a world of close mindedness." In 150
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And the way things are going it's looking like Britain will be brexiting in name only.

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