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by goodside 16y ago
The Discovery Channel didn't receive those images anonymously. If you sent them pictures of nude prepubescents and said they were were the wives of the King of Swazilands, they might not just take your word for it.
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by goodside 16y ago
You can argue all you want that the laws are not just. I agree fully. But that isn't the issue here. The issue is whether it's reasonable to expect the Foundation to expose themselves to (possibly unjust) prosecution by displaying images th
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by goodside 16y ago
The biggest criticism of this purge seems to be that the definition of pornography might have been slightly too restrictive. Some good images were lost that might not have been legally required to be removed. So what? The Wikimedia Foundati
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by goodside 16y ago
[Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor. I don't work in any relevant field, and have no formal medical education.] Keep in mind that autism tends to improve over time without any intervention. This is why it is mostly considered as a pediatric diagn
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by goodside 16y ago
For an overvaluation this high, I can only presume their stock was mistakenly priced with an algorithm meant for their paintings.
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by goodside 16y ago
The (relatively) gradual rebound in price suggests the trades actually happened. It's not a removable discontinuity, so to speak. And, frankly, if you were coding an automated trading system, it wouldn't be that unreasonable to write a "s
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by goodside 16y ago
The quote is misleading. The 2-5% figure refers to what percentage of the genes of modern non-Africans were inherited from Neanderthals, not merely common to both groups through a common ancestor. Most of these genes are inconsequential, as
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Six companies, including owners of Sam Adams, traded today at $0.00 per share(blogs.wsj.com)
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by goodside 16y ago
Without worrying about whether adaptive behavior like the article describes is a good idea (I don't think it is), I want to take issue with this opening paragraph: "Are you the visual type of person that thrive in an environment of photos a
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by goodside 16y ago
Which model? Did Vaio later revert back something more conventional? As of 2007 Apple was using the same layout they have now and Vaio was using a fairly mundane PC laptop configuration. Side-by-side: http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/1
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by goodside 16y ago
I think you're confusing two very different points in the history of the Universe. The CMBR was emitted after the decoupling of matter and radiation, as you mentioned, but this event was over 300,000 years after the Big Bang. And you are co
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by goodside 16y ago
The stuff outside the OU cannot be seen in principle . Its size is fully independent of our current level of technology, and no advancement of technology will let you see beyond it. (Seeing beyond it would mean you can send signals faster
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by goodside 16y ago
The WMAP space probe allowed better measurements of the CMBR, from which the relative composition of matter at the time of the CMBR's emission could be determined (using methods I don't fully understand). Once it was known that the Universe
554.
by goodside 16y ago
I get the intention behind the analogy, but I know from experience that nobody ever comes away from it understanding what they're meant to. I don't think I've ever mentioned to a friend without them pointing out that balloons do have cent
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by goodside 16y ago
If it were inertial expansion, in the sense of movement in the usual sense through space, yes it would. That's obviously a big problem, and confused a lot of people in the early parts of the 20th century. Metric expansion fixes this absurdi
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by goodside 16y ago
You're right: the "Observable Universe" is defined only relative to a point of observation. For any spot in the Universe, there's a 93-billion-light-year-wide sphere centered about that point that constitutes the OU for that point. What exa
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by goodside 16y ago
Suppose you could make a galaxy out of stars that have no mass. They're just big, bright balloons arranged in the pattern of a galaxy. If you looked at the balloon galaxy from far away, you'd expect that the part of the galaxy that's far fr
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by goodside 16y ago
Yes. That's what makes metric expansion of spacetime elegant: it doesn't require you to suppose there's anything special about our location in the Universe. If the recession of galaxies were intertial, the only explanation would be that the
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by goodside 16y ago
No. We're sure. We can observe that the universe was hotter and denser in the past because light takes time to get here, so when you look far enough into space you see older things. Also, there are tons of incidental facts about the doppler
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by goodside 16y ago
I'm not convinced this explanation-by-analogy style is really all that helpful, particularly with regards to "the big bang is an expanding balloon". What makes it such a confusing analogy is that most people were already picturing something
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by goodside 16y ago
Just to be pedantic, non-volatile storage is what survives a reboot on a computer. For the brain to have "not even rebooted" you'd have to come out of the seizure with your short-term working memory intact. I'm not an expert, but I strongly
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by goodside 16y ago
Counterexamples include SIDS, stroke, epilepsy, psychosis, and suicidal depression.
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by goodside 16y ago
Avoiding possible confusion as to what this statement refers to is plenty reason for removal. In itself, that they took it down shouldn't imply Apple repudiates the statement, is ashamed of it, or wants to cover it up.
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by goodside 16y ago
They commit less crime, or at least less violent crime. The evidence is unambiguous. They have fewer behavioral problems in school, they measure lower on biological correlates of aggression (serum testosterone/DHT and cortical norepinephrin
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by goodside 16y ago
If someone asks if Blacks are more likely to die of heart attack, they don't care that there are more whites in the country and therefore they have more heart attacks.
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by goodside 16y ago
Separating offense from conviction reliably is impossible, so we'll never know for sure. One thing you can do though is measure more quantifiable predictors of criminality, such as IQ, and compare estimates based on attractiveness to actual
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by goodside 16y ago
Isn't offering a similar service prerequisite for anti-competitive doushbaggery? Otherwise it's just traditional douchebaggery. The non-evil thing to do would be to convert Lala web albums into iTunes Cloud albums or whatever they eventuall
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by goodside 16y ago
(Edit: Never mind. This is just for unspent credit. Resume being pissed.) For everyone pissed about being forced to have iTunes credit: You can also have a check instead. Log in and read the fine print. You just have to fill out your mailin
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by goodside 16y ago
Because positing the existence of an n+1 dimension complicates the theoretical model without adding to its predictive power. Curvature and expansion can be defined perfectly well using intrinsic measures within n dimensions, without positin
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by goodside 16y ago
"Insofar as we can all agree when a measurement happened, physicists operating under Copenhagen are going to be just as effective as those who understand MWI." Agreed. If you're only worrying about the mundane medium-sized world we live in

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