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by delazeur 10y ago
You're right that monocultures are a dangerous way of producing food, but I almost never see that criticism made in forums for non-technical audiences. The popular discourse is absolutely focused on GMOs-as-carcinogen. Also, I've
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The scientific establishment of Einstein's day was famously hostile to relativity, and Einstein himself was famously hostile to quantum mechanics. Today we can ignore history's detractors, but that doesn't mean people at the
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That makes sense, and explains some other memories I have about transferring trains. I did not realize they were separate systems.
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It's been a few years since I've used it, and that was only a couple of times between going between a couple of stations, but that's not how I remember it. Some stations had ticket scanners at the entrance to the platform bu
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> Very carefully. No sarcasm intended. Same as one's personal finances, for example. That is a very interesting comparison. I wonder how long it will take before people start taking their digital footprint as seriously as they take
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Tesla strikes me as too much of a cult of personality, at least from an investor's perspective. Amazon is another business that reinvests all its profits and then some, but Bezos could walk away without destroying the investment brand
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> USA would admit that it had lost When Nixon announced this to the nation, his newspeak term for it was "peace with honor in Vietnam." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXTiz8F6S5E
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That's probably not true. I have run into very few faculty who want to have robots working for them, and I know quite a few faculty who are suspicious of perfect transcripts from potential grad students because it often means they avo
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To be fair, the science that the average person pays attention to generally falls within the biomedical and social sciences (e.g. studies about nutrition or how your job is making you depressed). Those are also the areas of science that ha
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My hypothesis would be something resembling a Poisson distribution. Most low pay, non-office jobs have little to no opportunity for social media, middle income office workers have lots of opportunity, and as you go up the pay/responsi
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The study only measured home use. We can't use it to draw conclusions about how people in different income brackets use their time at work.
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Still, you're comfortable justifying your views on immigration based on a statistic for a single city that you found on Wikipedia?
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You keep citing that statistic, but that's just one city. The very same section of the wiki article you linked to points out that immigrants have a lower incarceration rate overall. Cherry-picking much?
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Paris Hilton has also outperformed Trump's returns [1]. Granted, this story has mostly been reported by second- and third-tier outlets, but would anyone take Hilton seriously as a presidential candidate based on her business record? [
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Whichever rich and/or powerful people you don't like, as far as I can tell.
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Oh cool, I'm a big fan of Akhil Amar.
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> the courts have a right to strike down and nullify laws Notably, this power does not appear in the Constitution. See Marbury v. Madison [1]. (Not that it makes a practical difference, but it is interesting to see how our conception
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> Many posters in here indicate oddness that a military force could represent secularism. I am curious why that is. My hypothesis is that the average English speaking tech worker is both more secular than their nation's population
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Yes, technical people often use shorthand terms that ascribe agency to random or inanimate processes, and I think laypeople take that agency literally more often than we realize.
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My positive spin on clickbait titles is that they help me try to train away my FOMO bias.
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> Personally as a kid I was often "sent" to these competitions but never bothered to prepare for them at all. I stupidly assumed it was a pure IQ play. I think this is the biggest disconnect between perception and reality of in
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This is my least favorite thing. I realize that often when you pay for software you don't truly own it in the legal sense, but I still want to feel like it's mine and ads don't let me do that. For this reason, even though
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As a former "successful" mathlete (never did IMO or Putnam, but consistently made the top five in state competitions), I agree that competitions won't help you develop mathematical maturity, but it is interesting how how they
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I had a similar experience: that kind of reinforcement encouraged me to try to do the least work possible to get the same results as others in order to prove how gifted I was, instead of working hard to go above and beyond. It was a rude a
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> marijuana is legal just because of the lobbying powers of Big Marijuana I am not making that claim about criminalization, and I would not make that claim about legalization. However: yes, if and when legalization happens I will likely
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It's not a smoky room conspiracy. A quick google search turned up many articles about private prison companies funding lobbying[1], and I expect you will find similar results if you search for police union donations. [1] https:/
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I don't know if this was legally enforceable, but I have heard that the existence of Bell Labs was essentially a quid pro quo with the federal government in exchange for being granted a regulated monopoly on phone service. More genera
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I studied chemical engineering: all of our PhD grads chose industry over academia, and most of our young professors had come out of physics, chemistry, and biology departments. It was an interesting culture mix, partly created by the fact
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I am a little suspicious of those wine studies given that master sommeliers can identify vineyard and vintage in blind tastings with reasonable accuracy. Different wines taste fundamentally different. Saying people can't distinguish
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Number 4 is the only one of those that could provide a basis for objectively claiming complex music is more sophisticated than simple music. The others are subjective.

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