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by lawpoop 11y ago
Actually our eyes evolved to see underwater. There just happened not to be that much different between clear air and clear water.
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by lawpoop 11y ago
This study doesn't even make sense. How does crying generate heat? It takes an awful lot of physical movement to generate any measurable about of heat. There's no way they generated enough sonic energy to make a measurable change
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by lawpoop 11y ago
How do we know that studies purporting to show emotions and sentience in human beings aren't just anthropomorphic bias?
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by lawpoop 11y ago
Actually when writing this comment, I was thinking about the LISP paradigm: RNA is both code and data.
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by lawpoop 11y ago
There's also a hypothesis, to which I am partial, that RNA was the original self-replicating molecule[1], from which all life evolved, and that DNA was a later development. DNA gets transcripted into RNA before it codes proteins, so an
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by lawpoop 11y ago
If they are projecting sonar images at each other, this would be much easier for us to determine than if they are using serial, syntactical language, right? They may not be projecting shapes of actual objects, but if they are projecting sha
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by lawpoop 11y ago
If they are projecting sonar images at each other, this would be much easier for us to determine than if they are using serial, syntactical language, right? They may not be projecting shapes of actual objects, but if they are projecting sha
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by lawpoop 11y ago
what is it called, "multiply by three"?
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by lawpoop 11y ago
Probably nil if they're connecting to your rogue device.
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by lawpoop 11y ago
Jesus Christ why don't you people just start mowing the guy's lawn for Christ's sake
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by lawpoop 11y ago
Simple covers for laptop cameras are sold. I wonder, could similar simple and cheap product be made to baffle a microphone? I'm thinking, without much knowledge or sound or microelectronics, a white-noise generator that would be situat
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by lawpoop 11y ago
As far as the depression, it's usually a last resort treatment for people who literally can't get out of bed. But, you do make a point.
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by lawpoop 11y ago
I don't know for certain, but this is basically very low voltage shock therapy, and we know that has effects on the brain, and is efficacious in treating depression.
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by lawpoop 11y ago
Is it legal for the doctor to operate on you while drunk? What if s/he used alcohol in the previous 24 hours?
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by lawpoop 11y ago
What about when an ajax POST adds an item to a shopping cart? There is no unique identifier in the line item count, and thus no way to determine "account already exists". Worst case scenario, user gets extra item(s) in their cart,
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by lawpoop 11y ago
Wouldn't they have to do a bit more, to induce pain, swelling, soreness and such, for the patient to think surgery on their knee had actually been performed?
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by lawpoop 11y ago
In a study, patients aren't lied to exactly; they're told their either going to receive a real treatment or a phony one, but they won't know which.
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by lawpoop 11y ago
With the rest of the industrialized world being more socialized and having less childhood poverty, I think one could make the case that we are indirectly inadequately funding our education system in terms of child nutrition, parental involv
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by lawpoop 11y ago
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FLASHPATH-ADAPTER-FLOPPY-DISK-ADAPTE...
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by lawpoop 11y ago
I guess that's ironic, but with people coming up used to all the ornate syntax, one of the common balks is "all those parenthesis, it all looks the same" and "there is no syntax, how do you read this." It's lik
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by lawpoop 11y ago
How would we decide what specific projects are actually worked on?
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by lawpoop 11y ago
> it protects the data by immediately wiping internal storage of all key material. Yeah, so how, exactly, do they wipe their data? Is it a firmware process? What if they are unpowered as they are tampered? Or is the media attached in su
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by lawpoop 11y ago
Where do you park your van, and how often do you shower? Also, do you worry about your van being broken in to while you're not there?
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by lawpoop 11y ago
"Passive Income"? :S
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by lawpoop 11y ago
I put several of my dotfiles as gists on github's gist site, in addition to storing my home directory in a repo.
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by lawpoop 11y ago
I agree. Do you have an idea for a more intuitive name? I feel I don't understand the phenomenon well enough to come up with one myself : /
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by lawpoop 11y ago
One feature I've looked for is "completely" nested mind-maps. What I mean is that when I click on a node, I want the outer mind map to completely disappear as I zoom into the clicked node as an entirely new, nested mind-map.
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by lawpoop 11y ago
Yeah not like we haven't seen "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" or anything a billion times.
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by lawpoop 11y ago
There is the Funerals Consumer Alliance. https://www.funerals.org/ I think the chapters are all locally run. I went to a local meeting when my mom had terminal cancer. They had a list of local funeral homes with guaranteed
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by lawpoop 11y ago
I was thinking that having positive fantasies about the future could be an escape mechanism from present unpleasant feelings.

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