dapyx

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   by dapyx 15y ago

   Not all species that we know of require oxygen to live.
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   by dapyx 15y ago

   Loitering can be easily avoided by taxing the time on public roads, possibly taxing more for the time the cars are empty and stay on public roads.
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   by dapyx 15y ago

   "black immigrants from Africa average the highest educational attainment of any population group" -- this is because of selection bias: only the brightest Africans get the chance to immigrate to the US.
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   by dapyx 15y ago

   They did something like that for a day on Italian Wikipedia when they discussed in the Italian Parliament a law which, in the case when someone is offended (even if the facts are true!), if a website doesn't respond in 48 hours to the reque
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   by dapyx 15y ago

   The population growth rate is decreasing (the average number of children per woman is down from 5 in the 1950s to 2.5 today) and in much of the industrialized world, it's already going down. The population is still increasing, but much of i