identity-haver

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by identity-haver 8y ago
Just a thought experiment: so it's after 9/11. Nobody will show a video of the planes flying into the towers. The only place you can watch the video is ISISchan.org, and there are news articles about how many countries banning ISI
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by identity-haver 8y ago
This is fair, and not inconsistent with other public speeches I've found, which mention the failures of "Pan-Islamism" and spurn the idea of a caliphate. So I think I was off base about Ataturk. He was also a hardcore nationa
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by identity-haver 8y ago
Here's a large study indicating that states with the highest abstinence education level had 25% higher teen pregnancies than states with the lowest level [1], after not controlling for Hispanic teen population, the teen population demo
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by identity-haver 8y ago
It matters because there is a large overlap between the people who need to pay more attention to science and religious people (by both his and my estimate). So needlessly dragging a religious figure completely works against what he's t
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by identity-haver 8y ago
It's not at all clear that the books contain "geometry" per se in the painting. I can't find a source either way but if you've ever seen alchemical or astrological figures they could be mistaken for math. The people
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by identity-haver 8y ago
I don't understand why Nature has decided to dilute its brand by posting these poorly researched, non-peer reviewed blogs.
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by identity-haver 8y ago
You definitely can't audit chemistry & engineering labs, architecture studio, geology field camp, etc. It seems that the more you can get the education by auditing, the more "signaling" the education is.
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by identity-haver 8y ago
The parent comment seems to believe that the FDA would have some jurisdiction over the content. It's not up to me what people read and write, or what Amazon puts on their website. Amazon has the right to choose what they sell, just as
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by identity-haver 8y ago
Taken by themselves these words seem to be talking about curing physical disease, but the words that follow, "and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him", speak expressly of a spiritual effect on the receiver. Also relevant
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by identity-haver 8y ago
You can't claim that Mentos cure or treat cancer and market them. You could sell Mentos as a "dietary supplement" and even say that it "supports system health" if you have any data about it, no matter how bad. If yo
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by identity-haver 8y ago
That's a really interesting mix of partner companies: blockchain, healthcare, banking, IT consultants, payments, Microsoft, telecoms, enterprise identity providers. Basically everyone except Google and Facebook, who are competing for w