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>I think the dangerous thing is that people who have never smoked are using vapes more and more I have yet to see any indication that vaping is dangerous, beyond changes in the brain from addiction. There are typically a handful of non-t
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An understanding of the inevitability of abuse of unchecked power.
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>It has never been considered outlandish except by oil company PR teams. You're describing catastrophic terraforming on the scale of about 100 years. That's a huge claim with enormous ramifications and given the current expense
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That's not how science works. Some scientists theorized that CO2 emissions could have consequences for climate. There was a lot of theoretical and technological development that needed to happen before such an outlandish (at the time a
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I think you're drastically underestimating the ratio of benefit to cost for cars in cities. That's a pretty ridiculous thing to say.
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That's simply not relevant, nor true.* Modeling climate change is much more complex than the simple heuristic pattern matching of the human mind. You're talking about a huge, complex, and fundamentally chaotic system; the latter p
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You train the neural net to encode landmarks which are unique to individual faces. Such a net, when trained, can extract the unique facial features from a single image and embed them in a vector to be compared to features extracted from oth
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That's pretty misleading. The image is looking at cumulative fatalities over a period, and those planes are all different sizes. The question here is likelihood of fatal accident, which is not addressed by your source.
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You're comparing a car that is almost 50 years newer. The emissions era really only served to strangle power output and destroy any classical romance in the American car market. Efficiency gains didn't really show up in American m
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I have yet to read or hear any reason that vaping nicotine is harmful, beyond addiction potential. Which imo is nowhere near as harmful as tobacco. I don't understand the hysteria.
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>. Consumers are not qualified to decide what prescription drugs they need and can easily be tricked. >It's not many steps removed from selling radium water. Except you've glossed over the critical extra step: you still need
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Alternative take: some mental illnesses, anxiety disorders in particular, are exacerbated by knowledge of them and their immediate effects. Anxiety is much easier to deal with when you're not anxious about the fact that you are or will
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The cost is the risk of someone using your data against you in the future, against your will. For example, even seemingly benign page visits, like apolitical YouTube videos and shopping data can probably be combined with location history to
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They accommodate your technical interests/desires and make sure that you have what you need to be productive. A good manager fights red tape for you and facilitates personal growth.
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There are plenty of intelligent people who are ignorant of cryptography. Including many with power in the judicial system.
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>People should be talking about forcing English speakers to work in their non native language, not just about the woes of a single common language for science. There are thousands of languages in use worldwide. If English weren't th
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>“I don’t think any of us are going to be signing up for voluntary brain surgery anytime soon,” Sanchez says. “Only when these technologies become less invasive, or noninvasive, will they become widespread.” Are you kidding? 15-37% impro
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>It doesn't imply that the standards for passing the class were lowered That's literally what it implies. The curve was relaxed. It became easier to meet the standard of a minimum pass grade for a given level of performance. &g
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>That shift could change economics itself, by attracting a new breed of students who are intrigued by the field’s new empiricism, not put off by its mathiness and high theory. It could make economics departments more diverse, and more op
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No, because of the time value of money. Money now is worth more than money later. Having all of your toys today vs saving for a couple years to buy a home. [1] has a somewhat explanation but the same conclusion. 1. https://www.in
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>We might go extinct but if we don't, it might be pleasant to vacation in the arctic? Is this the sort of scientific claim you have in mind? This is the sort of hysteria that results from one sided science, and makes it less likely
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> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_who_disag... Depends on how you define legitimate. Also, given today's research "climate", I imagine publishing a dissenting opinion is tantamount t
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>That will be news to the billion plus inhabitants who haven't realised they're dead yet from lack of clean water, sixth sense style People in places like Flint aren't dead either.
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>It's also rather irrationally to believe one of the largest industries is consistently wrong by not following your preferred format of notarised feature comparison spreadsheets. This isn't about my preferences. This is about t
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Paywalled, so I don't know how the rest of the article reads, but >By informing consumers about the relative merits of various products, ads improve the quality of purchasing decisions and, conceivably, leave both firms and shoppers
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>Tracking is bad, because even if you don’t have anything to hide now, you may find that your past activities make you a target under a future political system. I've been screaming about this for years, but everyone thinks I'm
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Strongly disagree. As our abilities to store, process, and generate information about our reality advance, stagnant epochs will surely become shorter and sparser as we approach what ultimately represents the so called singularity. Innovatio
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I think poorly disguised advocacy journalism has become the defacto journalism in the U.S., especially at outlets like the guardian. And for whatever reason, [advocacy] journalists lean heavily left.
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>Ok but how do you know which perspective/interpretation of things is the 'correct' one? Which one has predictive power?
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From an evolutionary perspective, it simply does not make sense for standards of beauty to be bound so tightly to culture. Humans must have some degree of innate selection characteristics, defined at a minimum by heterosexuality which selec

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