joeyo

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by joeyo 10y ago
Re: homosexually, there are several possibilites. A plausible explanation is that it's linked with genes that confer fitness to siblings. As with most traits, however, it's likely to have both heritable as well as environmental an
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by joeyo 10y ago
Even then you haven't proven your point: might not GDP per capita go up if the population goes down?
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by joeyo 10y ago
Assuming you mean GDP per-capita ... maybe? I suspect that GDP is highly correlated with productivity, anyway. Which way does the causality go? Why should the US not have many fewer people and why couldn't that be better? There's
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by joeyo 10y ago
Regarding 1), more people means more demand for stuff only insofar as those people have money to buy stuff. In any event, you have the causal chain backwards:, increases in productivity allow for the support of a larger population; a larger
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by joeyo 10y ago
What's your read on increasing the retirement age, then?
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by joeyo 10y ago
. If Gordon is right, sagging productivity figures simply reflect . the fact that scientific progress doesn’t have as much impact on . the economy as it once did. Rather than waiting for productivity . growth and wages to rebo
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by joeyo 10y ago
> Before Townsend and Clinton, the prevailing philosophy > around welfare was that single mothers needed it so they > could afford to stay out of the workforce and raise > their children. I wonder if it might not
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by joeyo 10y ago
> (not having a master's degree being one of many factors against me) I'm not sure that I understand this. In your field is having a PhD (but without a masters) considered a negative?
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by joeyo 10y ago
Better makeup: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/fashion/foundation-makeup-...
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by joeyo 10y ago
Some of it comes down to agencies needing to protect themselves from congressional witch-hunts. Consider a congressman or political party that has ideological objections to an agency even existing and wishes to neuter or eliminate it. A s
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by joeyo 10y ago
Absolutely, yes. There is a very deep link between compression and "understanding". I think we have every reason to believe that networks that can understand/"explain away" the content/statistics of a scene oug
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by joeyo 10y ago
Conkeror (n.b. not Konkeror) is quite good too.
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by joeyo 10y ago
We have some data on this from split-brain patients. These are people whose corpus callosum---a bundle of fibers linking their left and right cerebral hemispheres---is cut. Such people start to act as if they are two individuals. Each hemis
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by joeyo 10y ago
Doesn't that cut both ways though? If there are serial correlations in the data then modeling and accounting for the variance explained by those correlations should help with future predictions, no?
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by joeyo 10y ago
It was released by Bungie/Microsoft for Mac at about the same time as they released the desktop PC version.
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by joeyo 10y ago
You could absolutely borrow on margin to play the stock, although you would probably need to have more than the typical home mortgage 20% to get the loan.
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by joeyo 10y ago
The regulation doesn't make it expensive; the regulation ensures that it is pure .
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by joeyo 10y ago
A difference is that humans can report their subjective experiences directly (i.e. "I feel anxious") whereas animals cannot. It's not dispositive, of course, (would a p-zombie report that they feel anxious?) but it makes a bi
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by joeyo 10y ago
Strictly speaking birds don't even have a cerebral cortex. That is, cortex evolved in mammals after the split with the last common ancestor of mammals and birds. So in that sense, birds would be at the very back of the ordering, along
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by joeyo 11y ago
As you note, aphasia is a symptom. As such it can have multiple causes. Some varieties of aphasia are caused by a degenerative disease, not injury, for example Primary Progressive Aphasia [1]. Stroke is a very common cause of aphasia, of co
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by joeyo 11y ago
Read that link more carefully (particularly Table 1). The predicted increase is attributed to migration not procreation.
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by joeyo 11y ago
The math-cannot-be-illegal argument gets more difficult when you consider that the digital representations of files are just really long numbers: Copyright infringement is making a copy of a (really secret) number. Possession of child porno
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by joeyo 11y ago
The lowest bidder! In all seriousness, radiation shielding (necessary thickness of metal, etc) is quite well understood. It's probably not even an especially hazardous cargo compared to what most tankers haul.
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by joeyo 11y ago
Many drugs undergo first-pass metabolism by the liver and their metabolites are much less active or much more non-specific. I don't know if that is the case for ketamine, but I suspect that it must be.
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by joeyo 11y ago
Install it in a VM?
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by joeyo 11y ago
BigFix? It would be bad enough if you were, say, provided a laptop to use for work, but I'm guessing they want you to install that on your personal machines too, no? Unconscionable.
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by joeyo 11y ago
That's overly dismissive. The sampled individuals had several crucial genes: the C282Y hemochromatosis mutation, a Y chromosome haplotype which is common among modern Irish, and a gene for lactase persistence, all of which strongly sug
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by joeyo 11y ago
I wasn't aware that there were "universals" in synesthesia. Might not the blues of the ocean have looked better when paired with strings to another synesthete or to the (presumably indifferent) mostly non-synesthetic audien
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by joeyo 11y ago
> Translation: sitting is still bad for you, but standing > isn't any better, which puts a pin in the standing desk fad. Unfortunately the study [1] did not quantify standing at all! They only measured (self-reported) t
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by joeyo 11y ago
Oh man, 20 figures and 38 pages. This one is going to take a while to get through!

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