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by indubitable 9y ago
The study this article is based off seems to rely on a logical contradiction. The entire study is founded on the age of the specimen. That age was determined to a literally unbelievable level of precision ( +/- 31.025 days for a 50,000
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I think there's another very simple, yet often overlooked, reason that wages aren't growing: information. How do you decide how much to pay an employee? It's easy. You go online and see what the median wage in your area for t
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Studies [1] on this question show exactly the opposite. The view of the majority of the population shows no meaningful impact on the policies that our government actually chooses to adopt. The interests of "economic elites" (to us
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I think people tend to gloss over the fact that China has a population of more than 1.4 billion people in a land area that's slightly smaller than the US, multiple territories in outright revolt, ongoing territorial conflict, some citi
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The issue with this is that ultimately no individual is ever really personally responsible for a societal level action. To take a contemporary example, it's very possible that within the not so distant future the first amendment may be
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It's interesting to consider that Saudi Arabia could justify their actions in the exact same way. Keep in mind that they still sentence individuals to death for everything from sorcery, to adultery, to apostasy. Their views on "th
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There is a very simple reason to demand privacy. We generally speak of organizations, companies, and governments that are seeking the penetrate the veil of individual privacy. And I think that leads people to forget that these entities are
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Why wouldn't this be classified? It is incredibly bizarre that we're reading what is ostensibly the report of a new poorly understand device (perhaps a weapon) used extremely recently against US interests from an unknown source. W
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There is, of course, an alternative explanation. Our society has changed, dramatically, in the past 30 years. We've gone from a completely disconnected society with connections spanning arm's reach to a globally connected society
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This study seems to have failed to compensate for the most basic of confounding variables. For instance their control group was specifically chosen not to be a control, in the nominal sense, but other groups that were likely to be banned or
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Imagine a refined form of lobotomization were possible such that the individual who underwent the treatment would be reduced to an infantile level of IQ. They would retain sufficient intelligence to maintain basic hygiene and preservation,