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by crazynick4 8y ago
CNN constantly uses loaded words in their reporting, along with more subtle things like condescending smiles when a person is talking who does not hold a left-wing opinion. The news is almost all factual but is meant to swing a person'
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by crazynick4 8y ago
Fair point, a poor choice of words on my part there.
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That and assassinations.
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Technology and science are only neutral in theory. The potential abuses of this type of technology when it is weaponized (it really is a question of when and not if) I think far outweighs the potential benefits. Unfortunately, and I hate to
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by crazynick4 8y ago
A random fact - "Zaum" is not really a word you'll see used today but it has an adjective version that is used often - "zaumnyi". It is somewhat close to 'beyond reason' but basically means pretentious or
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by crazynick4 8y ago
"things inimical to US interests" is a very euphemistic way of describing systematic executions of civilians and other ISIS warcrimes. > ..you're paying a very selective kind of attention. I think focusing on countries lik
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by crazynick4 8y ago
The knowledge that we had an ally who was funding ISIS and we were doing effectively nothing about it. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hillary-clinton-wikilea...
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by crazynick4 8y ago
Thanks for the post, that's all really great information (I just have a stats background, not a physicist/chemist). My immediate concern based on what you said, and not to go off on a tangent here, would actually be for the bees.
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by crazynick4 8y ago
Not that I'm aware of. A general difficulty with interpreting case studies also is the number of unmeasured confounding factors. And when studying humans, what are we checking - is it simply increased rates of cancer? Or if it is behav
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This is the one I was thinking of: https://web.archive.org/web/20120218185250/http://agbi.uni-l...
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Although observable physical effects on humans have not been proven, behavioral effects on insects have been documented. These are interesting pilot studies because insect behavior is relatively simple and deviations more easily measured wh
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by crazynick4 8y ago
This is not as easy as it sounds. If it was, everyone would do it. A finance job on wall street does not guarantee you will become a millionaire in a few years. I worked for a few years in the finance department of a Wall St company and mad
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by crazynick4 8y ago
It's only possible to effectively "put yourself in another person's shoes" if you have previously experienced their situation. If you are just imagining what their experience would be like rather than referring to actual
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by crazynick4 8y ago
> You seem to be forgetting that during this time period the world population grew from 2.5B to 7.5B. Older people were also staying alive longer - the death rate no longer offset the birth rate to the same extent as before.
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by crazynick4 8y ago
I don't think the graph regarding extreme poverty accounts for inflation. I don't know what an international dollar is, assuming its close, but 1.90 USD in 1850 is equivalent to about $55 today (according to Google), or 20,000 USD