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It takes a while for the future to catch up to some people.
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Sometime around 2007, a friend told me that their sister had been in a car accident. I asked why, and they said she was texting. It blew me away that someone would be texting and driving, that idea was not in my conceptual space before I he
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I don't want any more Disney live-action remakes, but I'd like to see more variety in art styles, like the latest animated Spiderman and Ninja Turtles movies, which I understand are made with the assistance of generative models.
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selling unids 400 How much did unids sell for? I've thought about a t-shirt that says "selling unids" just to see how many people get it ---- Unids are Unidentified Herbs, an item since removed from RS. Processing Unids was a
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Well, the organizations that employ and empower them would be a good place to start.
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For the past several thousand years, people have generally been able to get away with being an asshole (both criminal and less than criminal) as long as they are very productive in some other way. Very recently, some people have stopped get
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Other numbers are more meaningful than "died of cancer" - Total time with cancer - including time without symptoms - Total time affected by cancer as a disease - time with symptoms - Total lifespan lost - how young did a person di
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To be clear, since some people don't know: https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html
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This is something I don't understand about sunburn - If I'm exposed to 15 minutes straight of sunlight, I will burn, but in 2-5 minute chunks spread out over several hours, I can tolerate much more. Is there an equation for this?
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Industrial apps are often served from a private network with no access to the internet - I understand if you don't want to target that sector, but it is a real use case.
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And the people most likely to join the discussion were the most enthusiastic. It's hard to talk sense when people are excited. See also crypto.
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As an alternative, there is no one single cause of the obesity epidemic. People are made of confounding factors, and the world is very complicated. The world does not owe you simple explanations. Two books have helped me understand the obes
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"Pet Sounds" by the Beach Boys had a very similar effect for me. Some of those songs hit different after different life experiences. I feel like a lot of people have album(s) like this, I'd love it if you shared.
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According to medical professionals I trust, Long Covid is likely to be multiple diseases with multiple causes, and any individual can have some of each. Autoimmune reactions may be the longest covid; cell/organ damage is another; it is
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I own the book and highly recommend it for any curious adults, but especially for kids interested in electronics related fields. I really wish I had this book when I was growing up.
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There's probably a better way to say this, but here goes: Anything you learn before you start working on something is familiarization. Familiarization is important, but it is not working knowledge or understanding.
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> Why is this treated as a specifically Russian tendency? Because everyone in that part of Russia understand and feels that honor-based reaction. The Southern US also has a history and reputation of honor-based communities. The differenc
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> The way this particular segment of Russian society reacted to the crash and the murder was an ugly reflection of a national tendency to blame whoever happens to be present at the moment of a tragedy, while those responsible for creatin
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A retired Marine aviator told me "Sometimes there's big rocks in the clouds"
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As far as I know, the existence of black holes is accepted by basically every astrophysicist. There are several smoking guns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole#Observational_evide...
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I think this is also an interesting approach, I like it.
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Related: What is the unit of work for software development? It's not tasks or lines of code or bugs closed - that's the outcome of the work, or the work product. What is a unit of work? I invite you to come up with your own answer
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The night is dark and full of terrors. When I see things go wrong in the world, injustice, lies, exploitation, I feel the need to fix it. The problem is, I can't fix the world. What if I gave my power and support to someone with great
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Did someone close to you growing up do science? Many people do not have someone like that. Many people were raised in an area without well-funded education. My family was very scientifically minded, and it has also taken me many years to re
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Some thoughts: Science as it is taught, is about the conclusions that scientists have come to over the centuries, it's about how they made their observations and how smart they were. It is taught as an orthodoxy, a settled thing that y
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"Truth is the First Casualty of War" - Quote Investigator ---- It's interesting to me that many of the same people who do not trust the vaccine, also do not want the FDA to complete their review process of medications. Those
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https://humbletoolsmith.com/2017/07/08/learning-from-the-ata...
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> in vitro test Means nothing for human treatment. It means something to the people working on the drug.
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Debate has many benefits. Participating in debate competition does all the things you say. I would say that the biggest benefit is learning how to form a narrative. As an observer, debate has not so many benefits in the real world. On the c

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