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by dbbolton 12y ago
> 'challenges the deeply entrenched idea that evolution progresses steadily forward' My inner devil's advocate wants to say that the writer meant that that idea is deeply entrenched in the general public's view of e
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With the added bonus of your already-configured Vim + plugins.
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To medical professionals, it does have a narrower definition, although it may seem vague. Here is the current ICD-10 description for childhood autism (F84.0): A type of pervasive developmental disorder that is defined by: (a) the presence o
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>difficult to have enough data to point to a conclusion so unambiguously as to be obvious You are right, but that also cuts both ways, which is why we rely on consensus. And the consensus of the international scientific community (not ju
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The kola nut is actually no longer a dominant flavor in modern colas: >Despite the name, the primary modern flavoring ingredients in a cola drink are sugar, citrus oils (from oranges, limes, or lemon fruit peel), cinnamon, vanilla, and a
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Let me reiterate my point about eating and exercising in moderation. I said when you are not deprived of calories, meaning that if you still maintain adequate food intake throughout the day, there is no deleterious effect from the sweeten
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>artificial sweeteners stimulate appetite and promote weight gain Just like all studies seeking to link artificial sweeteners to weight gain, it's a correlational argument that is not specific to artificial sweeteners. The "neu
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High consumption of sugar alcohols causes GI upset in a lot of people, which is why you usually only see them used in small quantities (gum, mints, or non-edibles like toothpaste and mouthwash). Russel-Stover makes sugar-free chocolates, pe
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I wasn't arguing against this particular instance because it was just reinforcing an analogy, rather than actually prescribing an obsolete definition (which is sadly frequent).
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>“passion” is a translation of the Greek word πάσχειν paschein, which means ‘to suffer’ A word's etymology has no bearing over its current usage. It just tells you where it came from. Assuming that the original Greek meaning is some
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Pi in the Simpsons(experimentalmath.info)
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Looks like the site went down. Here's a cached link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4wvG8zC...
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From the Ars op-ed, it sounded like his best chance would have been to file a legal declaration of interest in the Iceland server and proceed to challenge its discovery- a course of action that the judge hinted at but that his attorney refu
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by dbbolton 12y ago
In zsh, =(cmd) will create a temporary file, <(cmd) will create a named pipe, and $(cmd) creates a subshell. There are also fancy options that use MULTIOS. For example: paste <(cut -f1 file1) <(cut -f3 file2) | tee >(proce
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OMZ is a nice tool for new zsh users to get a sense of the shell's capabilities, but it also comes with a lot of excess that doesn't really seem fit for regular use. The idea of a plugin system is great for desktop environments, b
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by dbbolton 12y ago
I agree that the node dep is somewhat of a turnoff, but besides that, I'm not quite sure who the target userbase for this project is. I think Git users largely fall into two camps: hobbyists that use Git primarily because of Github and
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A fool and his money are soon parted. I doubt technology will ever make that proverb obsolete.
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My microwave has a feature that when you press the "Start" button without entering a time, it just runs for 30 seconds on high. One time I hit the start button and it started running based on the value of the clock (e.g. it was 4:
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My opinion is that a language is much more than just the "communication" of information, but I am a linguist so I'm somewhat biased. Here is a decent argument against the idea of DNA being a language: https://www.y
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I can't tell if you are agreeing with me or arguing against me because you didn't get the point of/read all of my comment. In case it's the latter: >However, assuming either are related to your present hydration is du
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I was being sarcastic.
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>Urine frequency or color has nothing to do with hydration or kidney function. That is not strictly true. They should have said "don't base your water intake on urine/urination". Decreased urine volume and abnormally
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by dbbolton 12y ago
Let's just hope we've perfected hydrogen fusion by that time. Then we'll have as much energy and helium as we want!
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>Another option is to pick a collection of human genes that seem like they may be relevant, Hey, that would be cheating!
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And agriculture was a huge boon to our cooking!
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My bet is that, if we did disappear and another species "caught up" so to speak, the descendants of modern chimps would take the crown, with the right evolutionary pressures, in 5 million years at the earliest. That's about h
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The very fact that there are so many more consonant phonemes than vowel phonemes in English reflects their importance.
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I don't think you appreciate the different arguments being made here, and I'm not sure if you read the article past the title. >If the output isn't coherent or fails to articulate such that the listener doesn't unders
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No. It is describing adaptive aspects of some linguistic phenomena. chasing is suggesting that when a person starts to mumble, which they seemed to define as speaking incoherently due to a variety of psychosocial circumstances- completely d
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Sorry to break it to you, but psychosocial behaviors aren't always governed by rationality. Edit: also, "to speak incoherently" and "to fail to articulate" are both acceptable definitions of the word "mumble&qu

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