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by calibas 4y ago
It's not even a Cochrane review, the newly-created, anonymous account appears to have been lying.
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by calibas 4y ago
In response to an article about how Monsanto has undue influence on scientific studies, you posted a review paid for by Monsanto... > This work was supported by Monsanto Company, the original producer and marketer of glyphosate formulati
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by calibas 4y ago
> Is bird song language? What are they saying? Depends on what you mean by language. If you mean "a structured system of communication", then it absolutely is. The only modern scientific rejection of birds songs as language is
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by calibas 4y ago
The caution about attributing "human concepts" to other animals, like emotions, empathy, language and self-awareness, comes from the religious idea that humans are "above" all the other creatures. If God created humans a
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by calibas 4y ago
How is that healthy? And what is the point? I understand the "no original research" policy, there needs to be verifiable sources. What I don't get is the tendency to discourage experts from writing about the subjects they kno
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by calibas 4y ago
I've seen that happen a few times, an expert in a field will greatly improve an article, only to have their additions removed or butchered by someone who's far less educated on the subject. The resulting edit war is "won&quot
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by calibas 4y ago
> I probably would have been a "keep" on that AfD Probably keep, so it sounds like you thinks it's a borderline case. > I'm just saying it's not the borderline case you make it out to be. Wait, what? I stopped
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by calibas 4y ago
ABA is one of the top banks in Cambodia according to a quick Google search. Comparing it to "tiny banks all over Chicagoland" is unfair. One of a countries top banks should be covered by Wikipedia. And I have participated in AfDs
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by calibas 4y ago
Here's some examples: https://deletionpedia.org/en/ABA_Bank Appears to be a legitimate bank in Cambodia ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV-9E1_1bXE ). Deleted from the English Wikipedia for lack
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by calibas 5y ago
< 1GB
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by calibas 5y ago
One of the SymPy maintainers said they responded within 2 hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31091731
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by calibas 5y ago
If I remember correctly, churches would give these to kids for free. It was part of an effort to combat the "satanic influence" of normal video games.
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by calibas 5y ago
HN constantly mentions DDG is really just Bing in disguise and they're essentially the same. However, that can't be entirely true because they produce different results for the same search term. https://duckduckgo.com&#
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by calibas 5y ago
Seems like "robbing Peter to pay Paul".
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by calibas 5y ago
Was anybody actually making the claim that increased cancer rates were due to heat? I always thought the idea was that electromagnetic fields by themselves can be genotoxic. It doesn't seem like the causality is something very mysterio
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by calibas 5y ago
Neat! I see it's done using three.js for 3d graphics and tween.js for animation. https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/ https://github.com/tweenjs/tween.js/
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by calibas 5y ago
Ever-increasing specificity is how CSS works, to call that "emulating !important" is misleading. I'm suggesting using CSS as intended, the cascading part of cascading style sheets, instead of relying on a troublesome override
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by calibas 5y ago
I'm amazed that "An X walks into a bar..." jokes have been around for over 4,000 years.
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by calibas 5y ago
Misuse literally means "the wrong or improper use of something", so your statement also suggests the user is wrong...
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by calibas 5y ago
This, if you understand the CSS rules for specificity, you almost never need to use !important.
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by calibas 5y ago
It's not Epstein that got away with it, it's all his clients, many of whom were far more wealthy and powerful than he was.
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by calibas 5y ago
Which creates a world where powerful people can get away with crimes and the victims are ignored even after they come forward. That means actual criminal conspiracies with powerful men pulling the strings. Also, if you think there was &quot
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by calibas 5y ago
The media's willful ignorance the Epstein case implies otherwise. This was a vast criminal conspiracy involving sex, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Prince Andrew, Bill Gates and Harvard University, the kind of juicy gossip that the averag
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by calibas 5y ago
> Who has the time or money to pay 5 people to just go around harassing and stalking people for political gain only? Political gain often means more wealth and power for those involved, and I think we all know the great lengths people wi
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by calibas 5y ago
This doesn't seem entirely fair. My right to refuse medical treatment now depends on my housing status? I live in California and I recently tried to help a friend get mental health treatment. We were refused because they were already a
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by calibas 5y ago
Note, the power output was about 1/3 the power needed to sustain the reaction. > JET’s latest experiment sustained a Q of 0.33 for 5 seconds, says Rimini. JET is a scaled-down version of ITER, at one-tenth of the volume — a bathtub
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by calibas 5y ago
> Nonsmokers who avoided sun exposure had a life expectancy similar to smokers in the highest sun exposure group, indicating that avoidance of sun exposure is a risk factor for death of a similar magnitude as smoking. And yes, while corr
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by calibas 5y ago
There's also the contradictory belief that there's something "holy" about poverty and something "evil" about material wealth. Taking contradictory positions means you cover all bases, and can argue either point
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by calibas 5y ago
In my opinion, the campaigns against "misinformation" are largely attempts by big corporations and politicians to deplatform their competition. Gotta make sure people only see trusted news sources that say the right things.
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by calibas 5y ago
For those curious about the technical details of how he did it: > Here’s how the Multi-State Lottery Association’s random-number generators were supposed to work: The computer takes a reading from a Geiger counter that measures radiation

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