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by dejb 16y ago
> A better approach would be to limit the media exposure to the dry facts and give proportional attention to the deaths of people that die in less spectacular but equally tragic ways. Unfortunately this would require very heavy handed c
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by dejb 16y ago
> Why do gay parents need to prove their parenting abilities when no one else does? Straight parents are the origin of the our species. Everyone of your biological ancestors forms a direct and unbroken line of 'Straight parents'. It is
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by dejb 16y ago
- The post I was replying wasn't about that part as far as I could tell. - The exact same reasoning has been applied to why we commit altruistic acts by richard dawkins (sorry no reference). The general idea is that certain behaviours are s
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by dejb 16y ago
Encouraging the propagation your genes not rational? In evolutionary terms that is the the goal.
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by dejb 16y ago
"Product quality" that doesn't relate to functionality is fashion in my view. Think about it.
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by dejb 16y ago
You do realise your story essentially supports the notion that your purchase was based on fashion and signalling right? I mean "Maybe they had really good features but I didn't care" actually typifies my view of an Apple fan.
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by dejb 16y ago
> down to the last pixel-perfect detail Placing this level of importance on aesthetics indicates that signalling IS an important factor. Most people who don't care about (or don't even understand) signalling generally wouldn't even noti
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by dejb 16y ago
That's the way it looks from outside. Apple users inevitably resort to unmeasurable and often 'fashion-like' qualities when describing what is so great about their products. People who care a lot about beautiful fonts are also more likely t
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by dejb 16y ago
I would argue that the problems with Catholic Priests is largely down to the requirement for them to be celibate. Firstly it represents an important selection bias - most people would not want to promise to be celibate for the rest of their
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by dejb 16y ago
I have no doubt that many gay couples do quite well at raising children. I would however put those cases were one of the biological parents was present in a different category to what we are talking about (which I suspect is your case). &#6
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by dejb 16y ago
> I have never encountered a rational argument for homophobia. From parents and close relatives it is easy to see a evolutionary reason. However from unrelated males (more common) it would seem that they would have every reason to encou
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by dejb 16y ago
It is an arrangement that is extremely uncommon through most of human history/evolution so it seems reasonable to believe that humans may not be well adapted to brought up by gay couples. You could argue that the lack of genetic relationshi
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by dejb 16y ago
Of course the next step would be to create clones or use their genes in breeding programs. Hard to see exactly where the monetisation would come from. Probably evil as guess.
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by dejb 16y ago
Yes you can download it and then you can use a tool like Promethease to link provide a report on how your SNPs match up with various research on SNPedia. It's a bit rough but it certainly has lots more info than the reports from 23andme.
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by dejb 16y ago
Cause then popularity would just be about how good the title was, not the actual contents of the article.
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by dejb 16y ago
> There's a very good reason why social network CPMs are consistently the lowest in the entire industry. That's the whole point of the article in my view - Facebook is looking for ways to increase that CPM. If they can do that then they
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by dejb 16y ago
> ... is like doing placebo-controlled, double-blind studies to figure out which is the best girlfriend. Actually maybe you are onto something there.
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by dejb 16y ago
Actually I think it would be fascinating to view the voting records of everybody. Maybe in a log file and then numerous people could analyse the data. I'm sure some interesting patterns would emerge. Nice to go over it in 5 or 10 years time
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by dejb 16y ago
I'd go further than this an say that Microsoft actually became ubiquitous by facilitating an open and compatible hardware ecosystem. One that prevented a monopoly from occurring in the computer hardware market. Without an MSDOS, IBM and pro
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by dejb 16y ago
Was aware of the concept if not the name. Sometimes the best analogue is also a cliché.
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by dejb 16y ago
Why does it have to take a specific concrete example like this to make you sit up and take notice? This is the sort of slow and lazy thinking allows despots of all kinds to take control. I can imagine in nazi Germany 'holding your nose ligh
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by dejb 17y ago
> Say hello to the new boss, same as the old boss Who do you mean by this? Microsoft doesn't make sense in this context.
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by dejb 17y ago
Since the article is about monetisation I'd say GDP would be the best importance metric to use. I believe the US is around 25% of world GDP.
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by dejb 17y ago
I wish I was running a site big enough for these scaling issues with MySql to be a problem. I'm sure an SSD drive or a battery backed RAM drive would sustain some pretty serious growth for all but the really mega sites like digg. This makes
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by dejb 17y ago
Sorry dude I accidentally downvoted your you due to being foggy while waking up.
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by dejb 17y ago
> Primarily, it doesn't require a desktop - useful if you're sitting at a piano. Yes I had worked that part out. My question wasn't intended as criticism. The context it appeared in lead me to believe there was something else new about
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by dejb 17y ago
It looks like a nice app but does it actually do anything that is different from the multitude of desktop apps in this genre?
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by dejb 17y ago
Edit : it should be noted that this is from 2003. I'm sure newer research has been done. (Re-Edit. Not much by the looks of it) One question this raises is why isn't there a know correlation between high red meat diets and higher brain perf
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by dejb 17y ago
History shows that walled-garden approaches are severely limited in their scope. They don't scale. If you read the article it says > As of now, they’re selling around 90K iPhones per day compared to around 60K Android handsets. It’s a h
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by dejb 17y ago
> One particularly interesting subproblem is how to introduce iPads into big companies. This will probably have to be done by stealth initially, as happened with microcomputers. They'll have to be introduced as something individuals use

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