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by civilian 7y ago
You're conflating ownership of people with ownership of a tool & voluntary employment. That's a pretty bad-faith argument to make.
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by civilian 7y ago
From that article: > If you want an even more stark illustration of gravity’s effect on time, take the Sun - the team calculates that the Sun’s core is around 40,000 years younger than its surface. Wow!
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by civilian 7y ago
I disagree, but I think I mainly put the agency on film producers / investors, and not on viewers. Super hero movies tend to be either sequels or in a series, and producers have recognized that these are low-risk, pretty decent guarant
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by civilian 7y ago
Because it's a protected right to discuss working conditions with your coworkers, and you might not have their personal email. Nevertheless I agree-- I expect there would be better outcomes for these dissenters if they did the legwork
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by civilian 7y ago
what does DL stand for?
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by civilian 7y ago
It's a bit much to say individual doctors are the enemy. (I have friends & family who are doctors!) But their organizations are. The AMA severely restricts the number of doctors trained each year. There are more qualified candidate
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by civilian 7y ago
It'd be cool to be able to use this as a method decorator too!
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by civilian 7y ago
Agreed, but to clarify-- django's runserver is a simple restart process upon file change. Webservers don't have heavy startup costs, so that's fine. Being able to modify code during a run, where it has a heavy startup cost, i
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by civilian 7y ago
I definitely stress-ate during puberty b/c of how shitty middle & high school were. I still have a 25.5 BMI which is just into the overweight category. (And I know BMI is not a perfect diagnostic tool, but let's just say I sti
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by civilian 7y ago
I was going to scream "correlation" but the idea of epigenetic markers being left on sperm cells during male puberty is compelling.
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by civilian 7y ago
I love being pedantic, scroll down this list ya dingbat! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
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by civilian 7y ago
You should read "The Vital Question" by Nick Lane. He puts forward a theory for what the first life might look like, based on the shared common genes between bacteria and archea. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that y
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by civilian 7y ago
No one has included a link to the study yet! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/22/transgender-brai... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180524112351.h...
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by civilian 7y ago
Yeah. And isn't GoodReads linking to Amazon what makes GoodReads Goodreads? I was expecting Stack not to include any links like that. I guess I just don't know what "anti-goodreads" means.
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by civilian 7y ago
Solar sails are good for inter-planetary travel, but they aren't going to move the needle for launching off of a planet with 2g gravity! You need something that is compact and would give you a big impulse. As a KSP engineer would say,
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by civilian 7y ago
If "gaming" the system means less recidivism, that sounds good to me. Prison ships to Australia were originally paid per passenger that boarded in Britain. The death rates were horrible, in the double-digit percentages. When the t
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by civilian 7y ago
I have an even better retroactive name justification! Naphtha is used as fuel, but it's also used as a solvent in chemical extraction and purification procedures. I honestly thought that was the reasoning when I saw the name & the
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by civilian 7y ago
"letting a rocket coast with it's engines off" you should play some Kerbal Space Program to get an intuition for delta-Vs and the cost of getting to the Mun.
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by civilian 7y ago
Based on the data here, the grandparent is wrong. Maybe they were historically correct, but today the three middle quintiles of economic class is over-represented https://www.cfr.org/article/demographics-us-military (L
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by civilian 7y ago
Terminal patient chat app? (Actually sounds like a good way to connect people with others going through something they're going through.)
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by civilian 7y ago
Evolution is an iterative process and _every iteration_ has to be able to live and reproduce. It's limited by what it can do. Like, just look at laryngeal nerve. It's pretty dumb that the nerve has to go around the collarbone. But
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by civilian 7y ago
Maybe it would've been more constructive to link to the sci-hub copy of the paper, rather than complaining?
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by civilian 7y ago
False dichotomy :) Just because something is different from the stupid option, doesn't make it a good option.
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by civilian 7y ago
Twitter users with blue check marks. The way the commenter used it probably is meant to imply "the corporate media journalists"
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by civilian 7y ago
> Chris Hughes, a Facebook Founder, Is Working With the Government to Break It Up I was really hoping "it" meant "the government".
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by civilian 7y ago
IDK, If he's voicing his support for licensing, or not doing anything about licenses, then yeah it's hypocrisy. But there are a _lot_ of regulations to take down, and this simply might not be high on his priority list. Should his
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by civilian 7y ago
It's not. In many states it's a 6-month program. A "don't spread disease" course could be done in 8 hours. It's about making it harder for people to compete with the existing hair dressers. It's about forc
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by civilian 7y ago
After 2 years of developing at a scrappy design&dev shop, I got a new job that was a big step up at a hip SAAS company. I was in my mid-20s and I still hadn't worked through a lot of my anxiety issues, and I started getting code re
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by civilian 7y ago
lol, I was expecting to receive advice I wouldn't like for reviewing code.
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by civilian 7y ago
Can anyone explain how I should be reading that graph? I'm surprised that the gravity anomaly is coming from a large region of space. And it's a curve. Is that expected? Why is it happening? A black hole merge is coming from a sin

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