con-templative

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by con-templative 11y ago
Who proposed the precautionary principle and whether they've acted in accordance with it is irrelevant when the considering the matter of whether it should apply to GMO food.
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by con-templative 12y ago
Reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRMok0gslpA
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by con-templative 12y ago
> Windows 8 has great UI. This usability expert disagrees, and explains his position in detail: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/windows-8-disappointing-usab...
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by con-templative 12y ago
The US did poorly in 2014 Press Freedom Index, falling 13 places to 46th in the world: http://rsf.org/index2014/data/index2014_en.pdf
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by con-templative 12y ago
The BMJ have run a campaign to make more clinical trial data about Tamiflu public, along with questioning its effectiveness given the large sum of public money spent on it. It seems to me that their reporting is the main reason this story h
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An Open Letter to Everyone Tricked into Fearing Artificial Intelligence(popsci.com)
4 points by con-templative 12y ago|0 comments
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by con-templative 12y ago
> Still, I think the fact that the fastest man in the world at the time had tried multiple times to beat it and could not definitely puts a damper on anyone else trying to break a record. It didn't put a damper on Bannister. In fact
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by con-templative 12y ago
"In 1954, Roger Bannister set a world record, running one mile in 3:59.4. The 4 minute mile had become a white whale, with medical experts arguing that the human body wasn’t capable of completing it. Prior to Bannister, the previous on
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by con-templative 12y ago
Amen. I imagine they'll have a post on the Telegraph article in a week or so.
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by con-templative 12y ago
> Really it's just not worth even reading whatever the popular press has to say about a particular strand of research, especially when lines like "regenerate the entire immune system" are thrown around. To look at it from
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by con-templative 12y ago
My artist friend didn't seem too worried by it. I have no idea if this is common in the industry, but he was saying that much of the artwork is already outsourced to cheaper foreign artists.
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by con-templative 12y ago
I cannot speak to this study in particular, but it is worth noting that a recent meta-study found that the science supporting meditation isn't as strong as people tend to believe: http://www.tricycle.com/blog/medit
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by con-templative 12y ago
I think if we attempt to look past her poor explanation, she appears to be experiencing something that she has no obvious rational concept to communicate, and so when asked to relate the experience in rational concepts she does know, she ha
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by con-templative 12y ago
> Teicholz begins her examination by pointing out that the Inuit, the Masai, and the Samburu people of Uganda all originally ate diets that were 60-80% fat and yet were not obese and did not have hypertension or heart disease. > The h
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Are some diets “mass murder”?(bmj.com)
4 points by con-templative 12y ago|1 comments
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by con-templative 12y ago
Not necessarily. It has been found that radically changing your running technique quickly alters where the majority of the load on your skeleton occurs, which may lead to injury: http://sportsscientists.com/2007/10&#x2F
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by con-templative 12y ago
> Appeal to authority (as a fallacy) refers to advancing the opinion of a prominent figure for something on which they themselves are not an authority. This is incorrect. An appeal to authority is when an argument is claimed to be true b
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by con-templative 12y ago
> According to a Gallup International survey of more than 50,000 people in 57 countries, the number of individuals claiming to be religious fell from 77% to 68% between 2005 and 2011, while those who self-identified as atheist rose by 3%
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by con-templative 12y ago
> "Yes, and in his email he seems to believe that his dick pics app is "revolutionizing personal communication". Ok guy." I don't know whether I believe it, but the argument for Snapchat is that it encourages use