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811.
by lurquer 9y ago
I wonder if there have been any explicitly Athiest regimes? That is, governments based on an ideology that explicitly denies the existence of God and devalues all religions? If only we had historical examples of such regimes, perhaps we cou
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by lurquer 9y ago
Prime factoring of license plate numbers before the car exits or otherwise gets out of view. Good way to exercise brain... and get in a wreck. (You'll grow to hate those occasional plates from states with 5 digit numbers.)
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by lurquer 9y ago
Practice making children.
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by lurquer 9y ago
What church is against vaccinations? Even the RCC, with its concerns about some vaccines being derived originally from aborted fetuses, encourages vaccinations. For that matter who was the Chaplain at the Center for Disease Control of whom
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by lurquer 9y ago
In light of the weather, would one expect a sizesble number of truly homeless people? Regardless of gov't policy, Finland isn't the place where one can sleep outdoors on the sidewalk or on a park bench. Such a person will either f
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by lurquer 9y ago
So true. I wish more people had progressive and liberal views towards the matter. Like in the Bay Area... probably the most progressive (and wealthiest) place in the U.S. It's population is comparable to Finland's. And, like Finla
817.
by lurquer 9y ago
Lawyers in America do not choose jurors. They exclude jurors. Big difference. Each side -- depending on the state and level of court -- gets a certain number of premptory challenges; that is, they can exclude N jurors without giving a reaso
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by lurquer 9y ago
The point of this is to compel Facebook to send notifications to millions of users stating that their personal information was wrongfully used by Trump, et al. It's a campaign tactic by the Democrats: use the gov't (FTC) to force
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by lurquer 9y ago
I love those videos. Maybe I'm jaded, but I never assumed they were autonomous... hell, it's hard enough to get a game AI character to open a 'door.' The mechanical aspect, on the other hand -- the balancing and movement
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by lurquer 9y ago
How much time have you spent amongst the lower 15%? Ever lived in a trailer park? Every lived in the projects? I doubt it. It's not a knock on you. But, it's very easy to live one's life without encountering those with sub-85
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by lurquer 9y ago
Approximately 15% of the population have an IQ less than 85. Education isn't the solution for this group. For most in this group, picking strawberries is challenging and rewarding. (For the lower 1/3 of this group, picking strawbe
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by lurquer 9y ago
Sympathy towards animals is admirable. But, there is a certain naïveté that surrounds this issue with those unfamiliar with livestock. You mention pigs. We raised pigs. Not cages... just typical barnyard animals with acres to wander around.
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by lurquer 9y ago
'Adorable' and 'little' have nothing to do with the ethics of it all. In any case, it's amusing to read urbanites' views on chickens. I'd encourage them to spend some time around chickens. We have the insu
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by lurquer 9y ago
This makes me think of dangling pointers and memory leaks.
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by lurquer 9y ago
In the early 90's Ghandi got hold of one of these devices and caused havoc. Luckily, he was stopped by Bob Woodward with some help from Elwood Blues and, of course, President Roslin. I'd like to see Qbert crack that.
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by lurquer 9y ago
Ray, Ali, Color Purple, Glory, Django, Cotton Club, Boyz in the Hood, Friday, Malcolm X, Bad Boys, Barbershop, and of course, New Jack City. Each of these movies did great and reached a wide demographic. As did Black Panther. The only diffe
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by lurquer 9y ago
When discussing populations of 300+ million, generalizations are to be expected.
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by lurquer 9y ago
I was in Mexico not too long ago at a friend's hacienda. Our conversation turned towards the frequency of multi-generational housing arrangements in Mexico versus the U.S. His explanation? Trees. The U.S. has always had an abundance of
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by lurquer 9y ago
Before contrasting religion with science, one should first disentangle 'history' from 'science.' That is, much of the 'conflict' between science and religion stems from differing opinions about past events. Tha
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by lurquer 9y ago
I was thinking that any solid -- such as a planet -- can be replaced by a point at its center with equal mass, and its neighbors -- such as a moon -- wouldn't notice. But that's not entirely true.... For instance, replace the eart
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by lurquer 9y ago
Indeed. The logs of sea captains sailing across the Arctic ice during the past 1,500 are endless. The entire 1492 hoopla was kind of overrated in light of the fact that endless amounts of ships were zipping across the Arctic Ocean to North
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by lurquer 9y ago
The article speaks of assumptions obtained from tree rings, ice cores, and permafrost. It's very straightforward to analyze the trees in the forests that stretch across the North Pole to determine such things. And, as most trees in the
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by lurquer 9y ago
The intuition that prompted my post was wrong. A fluid encompassing a solid with nonuniform density will not form a sphere, but will be 'warped'. Duh. Disregard my post. Cheers.
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by lurquer 9y ago
I would expect there is an enormous set of random topologies that could be trained to balance a pole. Indeed, part of the elegant 'magic' of neural nets is that the topology is fairly irrelevant... the number of layers, the number
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by lurquer 9y ago
Any contiguous fluid surrounding a solid body will form a sphere around the system's center of gravity. Currents, tides, and temperature may cause some deformities, but the variations on the force of gravity due to the the solid earth&
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by lurquer 9y ago
You wrote: This is also mathematically true: given a coin with only the most minimal bias, cumulative results of coin tosses will eventually drift far away from 50% This is what troubles me. I understand your point. But, if it takes a trill
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by lurquer 9y ago
Agreed. But, we're missing the point quibbling about search histories and emails... That's nothing compared to what's coming. The data already exists to track your every move. It's just a matter of consolidating and orga
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by lurquer 9y ago
You wrote: IMO, a more thorough argument is to point out that the only way species-wide, complex morphological features like eyebrows can possibly exist is if they serve an important purpose, even if that purpose has a miniscule impact on t
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by lurquer 9y ago
Thank you for the response. At the risk of digressing from the topic at hand -- steel bones -- I'd reply to your points as follows: You wrote: But that eyebrows exist at all is probably tied to some survival/reproductive benefit.
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by lurquer 9y ago
Incorporating steel into bones (and, presumably shells) would result in lifeforms that would be very difficult to kill. It may be the case that an ecosystem cannot establish itself if the members' defense mechanisms are too strong. It

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