lurquer

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by lurquer 6y ago
As articulated by most extant religions, that which is God is eternal. Consequently, questions such as “oh yeah? Well then where did God come from?” are not persuasive. ‘God’ and ‘everything else’ are two entirely different categories.
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by lurquer 6y ago
Geology is killing evolutionary biology. The time-frame established by Geology for the age of the earth is fairly firm. Yet, our knowledge of the complexity of life keeps increasing. While we keep uncovering additional scales of complexity
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by lurquer 6y ago
Life forms spontaneously? Where’s your evidence? Is it not your position that all life on the planet has a common ancestor? Or, do you believe there has been more than one ‘spontaneous’ emergence of life on earth?
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by lurquer 6y ago
Aaaand... that’s why nobody should heed my predictions...
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by lurquer 6y ago
My prediction: The ship isn’t going anywhere. It will need to be disassembled.
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by lurquer 6y ago
The Constitution fails to describe how States are to conduct their elections for federal officers. A group of states, for instance, could do something silly like hold an ‘election’ via mail-in ballots with no verification of citizenship, re
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by lurquer 6y ago
Of the tweets I bother to read, I’ve found that the more interesting the tweet, the more likely it is to be poorly formatted. /meta
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by lurquer 6y ago
Dozens? A single person could do it... if they had the time and money. It’s easy — for the typical HN poster — to make a drone. But, it’s tedious and expensive to make several dozen of them. A raspberry PI with a GPS module, a few bulky bru
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by lurquer 6y ago
Can’t read without subscription. But, I was wondering... Is this one of those click-bait article titles that should read: “In January [, similarly to the last 120 months,] there were more real-estate agents than homes for sale in the U.S.”
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by lurquer 6y ago
Ah, yes... they’re available, they say. Reminds me of this scene from Hitchhikers: —————- “But Mr. Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.” “Oh yes, well, as soon as I heard I went straight
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by lurquer 6y ago
Having lived through the peak of the US Mall years, I blame the downfall on... Nintendo. The mall was a social center for teens. A lot of money got pumped into the malls from that age group. Teen boys would go for the arcade. Teen girls wou
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by lurquer 6y ago
Excellent point, and one that many fail to grasp. Indeed, I’ve always suspected your observation may be the best definition of ‘life’ we currently have; namely, living systems are composed of parts that are more complex than the whole. It’s
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by lurquer 6y ago
I’m not entirely convinced with their underlying assumption about big vs small animals... It should be tested. The authors of the study should try to catch a bear. And then try to catch a mouse. See if there is a correlation to their IQs.
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by lurquer 6y ago
Read the underlying study. What a stretch. There were proteins and peptides on the parchment from honey, eggs, cereals, sheep, as well as humans and mice. The human ‘cervical fluid’ proteins, from what I can tell, aren’t unique to the cervi
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by lurquer 6y ago
You’re not arguing against a competing view of history. You are arguing against an ideology. Save your breath. This is their view of history: Ancient Rome was enlightened. Then Christianity destroyed all the worlds great accomplishments. Th
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by lurquer 6y ago
> In time we’ll look back at current iterations of the standard model and our understanding of the physics of the small and wonder... I’m not sure about that. Everything we have to analogize to and obtain an intuition about relates to th
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by lurquer 6y ago
Careful... referring to banned authors is dangerous. /s
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by lurquer 6y ago
Odd definition. It leaves out demand. Money is “the most marketable commodity.” Money is simply that for which a person would trade nearly anything else.
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by lurquer 6y ago
I’m not familiar with the reasons folks discount the absorption hypothesis. If there were more sapiens than Neanderthals, one would expect the Neanderthals to interbreed and fade away. Relative ‘superiority’ and mutations and the like don’t
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by lurquer 6y ago
Putting aside parenting choices, the two types of images (sex and violence) are not equivalent. Sexual images produce a physiological response... you get horny. Violent images don’t really do much, maybe revulsion. But, other than that, not
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by lurquer 6y ago
The United States, depending on year, is #1 or #2 worldwide when it comes to single parent homes. https://www.educationnext.org/international-look-single-pare... In any case, nobody ever linked ‘adultery laws’ with school.
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by lurquer 6y ago
You don't need to 'force the father to help' if the law deters illgitmate children in the first place. In my line of work, I know of men who have upwards of a dozen children from just as many women. There is nothing in the la
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by lurquer 6y ago
Abolish divorce, criminalize adultery, castrate men who knock up women out of wedlock... Something less drastic? How about this.. Look at this thread. You’ll read all kinds of excuses for and blame of the mother. Yet nobody mentioned the fa
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by lurquer 6y ago
Of course. It is very difficult to get a good number across all sectors. Despite my post, I’m not all that convinced we are in a deflationary period. The bell-weather asset for me would be Gold, and its price since I’ve been alive wouldn’t
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by lurquer 6y ago
Don’t mean to butt in, but personally, the fact that I’m typing this on a piece of $300 hardware (phone) that would have cost millions in the 80’s, hundreds of thousands in the 90’s, and definitely over a thousand in the 00’s is a good ind
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by lurquer 6y ago
There doesn’t appear to be any comparison of ages between immigrants and natives. The age rage is “between 18 and 64”. That’s a big range. Too big. How do I know — from the stats given — if the disparity is simply a matter of age? If the na
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by lurquer 6y ago
For many reasons - limited production run, secrecy, and age — the need in this case for reverse engineering isn’t all that surprising. Nevertheless, these things may become more common if we are at the apex of our civilization. I could imag
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by lurquer 6y ago
You may be mixing apples and oranges... The degree of ‘compassion’ one has toward an animal is not directly correlated to one’s opinions as to its intelligence. My uncle raised pigs. A frequent topic of conversation was how smart they are.
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by lurquer 6y ago
I have firsthand knowledge of the sayings in regard to mules, horses, and foxes. They are very accurate. Never thought snakes were that ‘wise’ though. Don’t know about owls.
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by lurquer 6y ago
> I think folks in modern times are less & less prone to thinking animals are ‘dumb’. But 1 or 2 generations ago this was not the case. I think humans for a long time have regarded animal intelligence in an inferior light. Great post

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