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Any recommendations for something with a big battery about halfway between this and the average size phone? Ideally, good camera, recent Android, low bloatware, but normal (not tablet) width an height?
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> does tend to cluster in families. Yes but not necessarily at the sibling level, which is what you'd expect if this was a problem caused by bad mothers. Also, you would predict that siblings should be highly correlated regardless o
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2285075 https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3... https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/ghost-schizophr...
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This theory is total bunk. It is widely considered to be discredited and a great example of fanciful psychological theory with no scientific backing. I mean, if this theory was true, you would expect to find schizophrenic families--after al
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> My approach to avoid this is always to try and find a recent and well written Masters or Ph.D thesis in the area. How do you find this?
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> Meritocracy is judging by the results. Say you need brain surgery. Are you telling me you will choose based on some criteria other than results? I will pick a 9 headed purple alien if it will do the best job. And I won't care that
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Maybe? My primary care doctor is female, so whatever bias using a gendered pronoun might show, at the end of the day, I picked who I thought was best. On merit.
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Anytime. Good luck! If you need advice, feel free to ping me. My three tips are: 1-Make sure you get a good Z calibration before the first layer (run the calibration a few times). 2-Wipe with Isopropyl alcohol between prints, and 3-If you e
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The decline of JavaScript. Web Assembly will soon have DOM access. It will be game-on for other languages in the browser. Let's be honest, is JavaScript the winner because it is amazing, or the winner because it was the only choice i
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The clear winner in my opinion is the Prusa I3 MK3. In 3D printing forums both dedicated, and not, it gets pretty stellar reviews. It is as open source as you can get, and Joseph Prusa is one of the innovators in the field. I would buy an a
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I would argue that we have no choice and have to master our own genome. Consider that we have entirely removed many of the selective forces that ensured we had a healthy gene pool. Take, as a simple example, the selective pressure on an
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So, first off, fair point for calling out that I said "guy." I tried to edit it once I saw my mistake, but the post was locked. I'm curious, though, why you would not want someone who was genetically smart? Why would you want
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I'm not sure that "fairness" is exactly the right ideal if our goal is the most health and wealth for the most people? I want my doctor to be really great--to be in that job because he is the best at it. I don't want som
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> Meritocracy is a lie used by the privileged. I don't understand this point of view. It sounds like, by calling it a lie, your real complaint is the ways attempts at meritocracy have fallen short of being an actual meritocracy. T
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I imagine that is some sort of intentional sandboxing? I didn't know about that and find myself surprised. In principal I'm not sure why it wouldn't be able to provide direct DOM access. I'd love to hear more background
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I think you are massively anthropomorphizing. Every day I run programs that happily die alone on their own. Painlessly. All of the "pain" we feel is an artifact of our evolution, same with having a will to live. The only reason we
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I don't think anything other than a for-profit company can ever get the funds needed to aggressively expand, which is what is needed to get to a scale where change can be affected. A nonprofit would depend on goodwill, not self inter
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If you add in solar and batteries with continual improvement, the improvement is just fine. > We must drastically reduce the low-occupancy car miles driven and reverse the car growth trend in developing countries. Any solution that ignor
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I don't work at Tesla. Here is why I would: I'm on team humanity. In spite all our failings, I want humanity to succeed and reach for the stars. Success means having a livable planet. For idealists like me who are also realists ,
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This article doesn't mention it, but even lab rats with controlled diets are heavier. If you add pets, wild animals, and lab rats, to humans you end up with a compelling line of evidence for a common factor. It fascinates me that so ma
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When the reason for rejection is "obscenity" and they are letting exhibits play porn in the exhibit hall, I'd be pissed too.
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I've always wondered, if the error rate for a test like this is high but random, could you just run it 3 times? Does it vary randomly?
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> we'll move it to jruby! Hahahah Oh man, that's great. BTW, we had people who did this. Our performance is 2x better with half the servers after we undid this "optimization" at our org. I suggest benchmarking first.
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Predicting stock prices with deep learning is the "Killing Baby Hitler" of Time Travel. Even though they know it won't work out, everyone tries it their first time.
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I didn't realize--I only have cub scouts.
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The current plan is that they separate dens by gender.
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The move to allow both boys and girls in the (Boy) scouts looks really smart, long-term. For parents with both boys and girls, the choice is now to join two organizations and deal with two sets of meetings, fundraisers, schedules, and activ
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> Part of me wishes it was true. Me too, on one level, but we should be careful what we wish for. If it was an alien solar sail, there's not much in earthly history of two cultures at different levels of advancement meeting that le
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We hear about companies who "missed their numbers" daily . What we don't hear is news of the CEO being given jail time.
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I think we're in agreement about everything including its malevolence. Destroying otherwise healthy companies does nothing beneficial for the country's competitiveness, so if it could be done carefully, I'd support laws reign

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