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by fifnir 7y ago
Fair enough. But this happens in every biologically relevant discussion.. Every time results are reported on mice, someone will criticize that it wasn't done on humans, as if biologists are complete ignoramuses and not intimately famil
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by fifnir 7y ago
> ranking content that users with similar upvote behaviour higher That's how you make echochambers
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by fifnir 7y ago
The vast majority of content is absolute shit though, so speaking strictly for me, I'm willing to try
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by fifnir 7y ago
This is awesome! Can we get our hands on the data? I would be lovely to see where I fall in the distribution of scores.. Also it would also be nice to include things like age, sex etc to normalize the data?
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by fifnir 7y ago
That's all I needed for an answer, I inadvertently annoyed a lot of people it seems!
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by fifnir 7y ago
why not GIMP and Inkscape?
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by fifnir 7y ago
You know that "organic" is pretty much a bullshit marketing term right? > large government subsidies of corn and soy That's not exactly what leftists fight for when they fight for government money. Gut those, gut th
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by fifnir 7y ago
When the free market is in charge the results aren't much better, why not have another go at the government approach and learn from our mistakes?
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by fifnir 7y ago
> I would guess that those who have learned the language have a more logical, grammar based structure and write more deliberately. We have our own native languages with their own idiosyncrasies and we don't make mistakes like "
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by fifnir 7y ago
> would be nice to incentivize accountability If only we could "incentivize accountability" the way we do it for poor people...
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by fifnir 7y ago
> Maybe we just need to come up with a better solution. A solution to what? There's not problem besides "how do i make more money out of this"
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by fifnir 7y ago
Give me 90% of your $100, it'll increase your 10 dollar's buying power
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by fifnir 7y ago
> So, longer incarceration reduces crime. Killing them would also reduce crime ( https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cells.png ) but I don't think that this is enough of a metric to judge something as good for society
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by fifnir 7y ago
In final accounting, in the words of the authors: These results suggest that for individuals on the current policy margin between prison and probation, imprisonment is an ineffective long-term intervention for violence prevention, as it has
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by fifnir 7y ago
A great loophole to subvert bureaucracy and return the power to the whims of individuals....
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by fifnir 7y ago
They use the same genetic code as us, what's your definition of life? Having access to Netflix ?
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by fifnir 7y ago
So i looked it up and from what i see Mygalomorphae (which is tarantulas, trap-door spiders and others) are an infraorder of spiders. I don't know why I remember the difference to be more distinct. In any case, the way i mentioned it i
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by fifnir 7y ago
Good question, i think all spiders also do this (tarantulas are not technically spiders themselves), but scorpions do it differently. Scorpions lay a small.... it looks like a mucus dildo, they call it a spermatophore.... on the groun
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by fifnir 7y ago
Lots of little details.. Do you know how tarantulas mate? When a male has his ultimate (final) molt and reaches sexual maturity he is a completely different spider. During this ultimate molting process he obtained his sexual organs, which a
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by fifnir 7y ago
I used to keep tarantulas as pets and went on to study biology
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by fifnir 7y ago
> Just when you thought spiders couldn't get any more terrifying. Why do we have to go for the same tropes again and again ? You're writing a science-dissemination article, is it really necessary to portray spiders as &#x
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by fifnir 7y ago
And maybe I'll win the lottery and escape poverty, but playing it is irresponsible while I'm poor
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by fifnir 7y ago
So by far the best way for the businessman to reduce their footprint is to not have more private-jet-flying-children
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by fifnir 7y ago
>prepare your children If you're stressed about the environment you shouldn't be having children
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by fifnir 7y ago
So overall you feel we don't need to take any measures to reduce our impact on the system?
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by fifnir 7y ago
>That knowledge is probably our biggest advantage as a species And if you take this knowledge out of a person, they are little more than a wild animal.
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by fifnir 7y ago
> Survival is definitely valuable, by simply allowing you to produce value longer. ...can you please take a step back, read this again, and think about what it is that you're saying?
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by fifnir 7y ago
> I'm not comfortable with selling opium becoming a legal business model. How about synthetic opium? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Timeline._Overdose_deaths...
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by fifnir 7y ago
"Doesn't apply to me, thus it doesn't apply to anyone"
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by fifnir 7y ago
wow that pricing is aggressive.. How much data can I have in the system with the free version?

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