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by lawpoop 10y ago
Am I the only one seeing the fallacious reasoning in these statements? In each case, it's the researcher that asks the question. They use a computer to calculate an answer, but the next question doesn't jump out of the computer --
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by lawpoop 10y ago
It's illogical, but surely you can see that it's a rhetorical device in the service of his message. New knowledge comes from asking novel questions. I haven't yet seen a computer pose an interest question, something no one ha
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by lawpoop 10y ago
At the point when we have a Mars base, I think people will find it acceptable. Of course, people will die on a base on Mars, from all sorts of causes. But for now, it's exploration, and the radiation exposure is almost a guarantee of c
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I totally agree, but from a perspective, that doesn't really sound like a win.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
If an astronaut dies a drawn-out, agonizing, painful death due to space cancer, without surgery or medication, it would be a PR disaster for NASA. Look how many people die to due terrorism vs. traffic accidents. Yet people take traffic acci
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by lawpoop 10y ago
There's more evidence of tooth decay leading to heart disease and other chronic illness than there is linking flouride to cancer.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Yeah, but people just hear "flouride" and think "OMG That's what they're putting in the water!" Just like they hear about mercury in vaccines and assume they cause nerve damage. The masses understand at the sou
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Looking at you, anti-vaxxers
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I'm not in any way advocating for toxins in the water supply, but do you worry that news like this will embolden anti-flouride people?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Isn't this just really the general puzzle of how neurotransmitters work in the first place? We know their effects, in the broadest strokes (e.g. dopamine == reward), but we don't know precisely how they create those effects.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
So if that's three photo receptors per facet, already each eye is rivaling the neuron count of the brain.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
That's individual lenses, right? But it says that each lens has its own photoreceptor(s). So that is a multiple of 7000.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
We already have them; they're called mobile homes.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I guess that's true for mammalian eyes, but what about insect eyes? If the bumble brain only hold 200k neurons, how many do their eyes have on board?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Reports of users. If users report suicidal thoughts during tests and in "the field", then the drug is said to be connected to suicides when users of it end up offing themselves. The official term is "increased risk of suicide
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I'm convinced that if it were suddenly discovered today, nicotine would be hailed as a miracle drug. It has several properties. It's both a stimulant and a relaxant. It helps you focus without burning out your neurons and inducing
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by lawpoop 10y ago
let's create a crowd-sourced effort to migrate archived geocities sites to neocities.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Or at least recyclable
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I buy coffee beans in bulk, fair trade organic. I keep it in the freezer, but even just a few weeks after opening, the flavor of the beans aren't like the zest of the original unsealing of the vacuum sealed bag. I would like something
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I meant re-institute the ecclesia, not slavery. Sorry for not being clear.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Those trees are also selected to have a pleasing shape while they are young, not drop anything untoward like too many flowers, spiky balls, rotting fruits, pits, etc., grow relatively quickly, etc. In other words the trees are as sterile an
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Well, since that time, we've moved away from slavery to labor saving machines. Since we're at a point where many people are under-employed, and we expect many more to become so, we can probably re-institute something like this. Af
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Yes. You and I are part of the global 1%. http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/050615... "According to the Global Rich List, a website that brings awareness to worldwide income disparities, a
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Humanity's? Don't you mean the global 1%?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I use the yubikey, and I wish it had a blinking LED while it was in the slot, to let me know that it was still there, and should not be. The first week I had it, I left it inserted in the computer a number of times. Now I keep it on my keys
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Since the War Powers Act, it's basically been the president who makes war. Congressional declarations are a formality. Many of the events that we think of as wars are "military actions"-- Korean "War", Vietnam &quot
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I'd be interested to hear what you find out. I have a buddy who basically lost his police force job because of a mis-read EKG, which caused him to be taken off of his ADHD meds, which doctors wouldn't re-prescribe to him, because
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by lawpoop 10y ago
In the abstract, I agree -- there are many situations where low res is better than none. But given the amount of interpretation and reading (it truly is an art, not a science) that goes into reading an EKG and more importantly, a tumor x-ra
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I think one of the problems of "but this is just a small engineering project" is precision, reliability, quality-- whatever you want to call it. There is interpretation that goes into reading an EKG, an xray, lab results. If there
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Is the color red? If so, this; otherwise, that. It's a little tricky, because in the above, the `if` keyword appears after the question mark. Is the color red? Yes-- this: no-- that. Trying to make a parsimonious English sentence while

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