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by fifnir 7y ago
> I would of > I may of https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/could-have-should-ha...
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by fifnir 7y ago
> how would the major organised religions cope with the revelation (pun intended) that there was life that originated off of Earth/outside of the garden of eden? Like they've dealt with every other scientific advancement that k
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by fifnir 7y ago
> There isn't a natural right to consume content produced by companies who seem hell bent on making it difficult to access that content. There's also no natural right for them to prohibit me from consuming, or to gouge me, or t
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by fifnir 7y ago
You are never morally stealing a digital copy because you do not deprive the original owner of the item.
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by fifnir 7y ago
Of course you don't understand, cause you completely slaughtered his argument.
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by fifnir 7y ago
'Any man who must say, "I am the King", three or four times in a single blog post, is no true king.'
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by fifnir 7y ago
Even if it gets recycled, it's not free. Raw materials need to be collected, processed, and transfered. The bottle-quality plastic has to be created and transfeed to the bottle making factory. The bottles transfered again potentia
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by fifnir 7y ago
The original comment of the guy was "when they die off" (based on the observation that 'they' are typically older people). How is this "authoritarian" ? Everyone took what they THINK he's saying and are ru
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by fifnir 7y ago
So what's another plastic bottle in the dump right? Someone will figure it out, as long as you don't need to deal with the hassle
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by fifnir 7y ago
> I don't know why You know exactly why it bugs you and you're absolutely right. I think what's confusing is how can other people NOT see these huge problems
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by fifnir 7y ago
I slipped and wrote "higher eukaryotes" in relation to yeast and this is my post-doc's comments: "that broke my heart :( other eukaryotes? multicellular eukaryotes? animals? Whatever you like, but please, no "higher
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by fifnir 7y ago
I thought i was doing this by only getting black socks. Now I have a drawer full of very subtly different black socks
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by fifnir 7y ago
Firstly, I would phrase the value as "People should not be restricted in the roles they can fulfill in society" (I don't think anyone serious(ly) argues that everyone should do exactly the same). And no I don't think tha
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by fifnir 7y ago
Maybe I should have said efficiency instead of productivity ?
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by fifnir 7y ago
> you genes will die along with you I get it, this is why I haven't already had a vasectomy, but your genes are nothing special, just a sample of the alleles in the population. I'm much more concerned about producing ideas that
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by fifnir 7y ago
> Any constructive discussion is welcome. I want to attack the premise that a shrinking population is inherently a problem. The only clearly stated problem that I've seen is how social security will likely crumble since the fewer yo
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by fifnir 7y ago
Will it work with multiprocessing?
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by fifnir 7y ago
I just want to have a pizza delivered to my balcony one day
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by fifnir 7y ago
But on the biggest issue of american politics of the last 50 years, he has found himself (chosen?) on the wrong side of history <edit> If you hear trump talk for two minutes and you don't immediately realize the danger and
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by fifnir 7y ago
What's the best that we can eat? --> What we're evolved to eat What did hominids eat up to 10.000 years ago? --> Everything except carbs as we know them today There's your connection of science to low-carb Carbs in t
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by fifnir 8y ago
> fairly, openly, democratically, with respect. Why would the US change its modus operandi ? :P
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by fifnir 8y ago
Interesting, I did some more digging and found this for anyone interested in a nice paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5121266/
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by fifnir 8y ago
It's so self evident that I don't know where to begin... Language has rules (They were taught to us in school). They might change over time but they still exist. I'm sure that many "could of"s have been made officia
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by fifnir 8y ago
> an arms race between the placenta and the womb, and rather than a safe place to protect the fetus, the womb is more of a safe place to isolate the fetus and manage its access to the mother's resources while keeping the mother safe
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by fifnir 8y ago
You know what rubs MY nose? When people misuse language and then treat any correction as something snobby. Typical argument from someone who just wrote "could of", or mixed you're with your: "Oh but language i
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by fifnir 8y ago
> It seems like a business where you make everyone mad no matter what you do. Maybe you can spent some of your gazillion dollars to hire humans instead of relying on automated half-measures
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by fifnir 8y ago
Well semantics are important, especially in fields that someone is intimate with, and I'm currently finishing a phd in cis-regulation and epigenetics. When we stress mice and notice a difference in their offspring through epigenetics,
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by fifnir 8y ago
Maybe one day we can prove there's a teacup orbiting Saturn too !
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by fifnir 8y ago
Epigenetic research isn't going against evolution, it's refining some details. We are discovering some nonmendelian dynamics of inheritance, but being epigenetic they are only about how the organism can differentially use its gene
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by fifnir 8y ago
Because instead of vaguely describing what I did I can show you exactly what I did. Instead of saying "we normalized the counts", I can show you EXACTLY what that was that I did. If I can't see your code I don't trust yo

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