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by gort 17y ago
They're not exactly the same. Genesis 1 places the creation of animals before humans, whereas the natural reading of Genesis 2 has the reverse: "And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air;
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threatens survival of the race Rather, anything that threatens their own inclusive fitness. Apart from that you may be in the right area. In the environment in which we evolved, a successful male can theoretically have more children by ha
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If you're relying on straight pieces you're doing it wrong! Back when I was starting with Tetris I would always try to avoid "holes", i.e. empty spaces that are covered on top. And this leads to the requirement for the straight pieces. I be
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by gort 17y ago
Very few religious people will say "If you proved that, my faith would be shaken." And this is true regardless of what "that" is.
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He does use the word "independently", presumably to take this into account.
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Bostrom is untroubled by the idea that humans will evolve to be unrecognisable; but he hopes we will indeed have those descendants.
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After watching this all, I think the take-home-message was that, for fairly complex biochemical reasons, fructose (which is also a component of sucrose) is a particularly bad sugar. For one thing, it doesn't cause satiety very well, and for
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It doesn't make any claims (aside from claims about the behaviour of the Google search field, which are easily verified). It asks a question. But don't feel bad - whether your submission gets voted up is half luck: either a couple of people
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http://searchengineland.com/islam-is-blocked-by-google-sugge... A [Google] spokesperson tells us: "This is a bug and we’re working to fix it as quickly as we can."
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I think the counterexample to this theory is "Christianity is" which returns 7 negative suggestions, 1 ambiguous, 1 positive, and 1 t-shirt. Another argument is that typing in "Islam i[letter]" where [letter] is some common consonant usuall
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by gort 17y ago
Hmm - you could be right, but as the article takes pains to note, all of the obvious analogous searches do return suggestions, which I think is evidence against your idea. Still, it's been pointed out that queries like "Muhammad is" still "
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To be fair, religious affiliation seems unusually tightly bound to some people's sense of who they are. What's unclear to me is why certain religions have this worse than others, e.g. compare Muslim reaction to the Muhammad cartoons with Ch
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Eh? My point was that you wouldn't necessarily expect them to have thought of it. They certainly won't have thought of this bizarre misspelling.
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Which is grammatically questionable.
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It doesn't exactly offend me; I just find it interesting and potentially troubling. It's part of a trend of going out of the way to avoid offending Muslims specifically. I fear that things like Ireland's new blasphemy law, which came into
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Interesting. One also can't get "whites are", "Hindus are", etc. But one can get "Christianity is", "Buddhism is", etc.
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They could at least be somewhat equal about it In theory, I'm not sure that I find the addition of a whole bunch of exceptions to be better than the current situation. In practice, these recommendations are all a bit useless.
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Everyone knows exactly why Sure, but did you know that they were doing it at all? I didn't until today.
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Note: to replicate the stated behaviour, you might need to type in the space, e.g. "Judaism is " rather than "Judaism is".
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Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"(scienceblogs.com)
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"Capitalism won when it learnt how to sell anti-capitalism." I think I read that somewhere...
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Actually the paper, or at least the abstract, argues for the need for such an encyclopedia: "Our results strongly support the need for systematic 'phylogenomic' efforts to compile a phylogeny-driven 'Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Arc
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That web address requires www: http://www.isis.rl.ac.uk/
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a similar series of faked results first reported on earlier this week Wait, is this a separate scandal? What's with all this bogus crystallography?
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Story mentions "The Strategy of Conflict" by Schelling, which is indeed worth a look.
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In order for it to happen at all the appendix needs to become so troublesome that everybody dies before they can reproduce. Not at all; it just needs to reduce the average number of children the average person has. Any mutation that makes
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In my defense: "Melanin helps protect the skin against effects of the sun such as skin cancers and premature aging. In African American skin, melanin provides a sun protection factor (SPF) approximately equivalent to 13.4, compared to 3.4 i
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I said specifically skin cancer. Naturally there's a balance between getting vitamin D and avoiding harmful UV. So the best skin tone to have differs in different environments (hence the gradual cline in skin tones over the world).
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Removing the appendix would presumably take multiple mutations that would have other, possibly harmful effects as well. So it can't really happen overnight.
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It was in scare quotes to indicate that it doesn't really have a clear scientific meaning.

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