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by maratd 11y ago
Genetic engineering doesn't necessarily result in a population reduction.
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> ... to what was in fact a reasonable question. There was no question. It was a statement. > Yours is a needlessly inflammatory response ... I'm sorry, but what word would you use to describe the theory that selective pressures
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> CCD has probably "pruned" the bee population in a good way A reduction in the population is never a good thing. Is this some sort of neo-eugenics viewpoint? Pruning the population will not create some sort of super-bee. That&
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> but it doesn't explain where they come from. Sure it does. They come from the Internet, it explicitly stated that. Joking aside, from my understanding, the issue with bees is a combination of multiple factors, such as pesticides,
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> anyone questioning whether the dangers of cloud-enabling So let me get this straight ... They were able to plug in a laptop into the car and gain control. In fact, physical access is necessary. Tesla used the cloud connected features
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> Humans are intelligent creatures and villagers killed are a result of encroaching the animals rightful land. What are you going on about? A lion will hunt where there is food for it. Even if there's a single village in all of Zimb
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by maratd 11y ago
> NYCHA has a huge capital shortfall -- to the tune of $18B. > entire buildings are going to be uninhabitable if repairs aren't made. This isn't the problem. It's the solution. Those buildings will become uninhabitable
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> When you combine the darker side of human nature and anthropomorphized robots People have been defacing and destroying property since forever, regardless of what it looks like. > when does it cross over from being classified as dest
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Just as aside, I've dealt with quite a few utilities and United Water is by far the best among them. They are an excellent company.
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> it is an poor governance problem No, it's a poor pricing problem. The price of water should be directly related to the cost of delivery and supply. Unfortunately, virtually everywhere, you are merely charged for the cost of delive
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by maratd 11y ago
To be fair, they reset all defaults. For images, video, everything. Google Chrome pops up a bar that takes you directly to the settings. It's literally two clicks to change it back. Microsoft should have preserved the defaults, but I t
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Yes, precisely. As an example, much of human communication is non-verbal and automatic. You're picking up on various queues, body language, there's a flow to it and all of it is subconscious. If the machinery that does all of that
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by maratd 11y ago
> Yeah, but then there's still the issue of secrets How would Docker help with this? Genuinely curious. I store them in bash scripts outside the repo that populate the relevant data into environment variables and execute the code. T
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by maratd 11y ago
> At its best, Docker gives you dev/production parity I get that when I use the same OS and built-in package manager? I would virtualize the environment using something like VirtualBox for my dev and EC2/DigitalOcean/etc o
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> There is no guarantee that the content of a particular URL will remain the same over time I don't need or want a guarantee. I expect content to change over time. That's fine. What I also expect is that the content provider un
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Oh that's cute, so when Jews are killed it's terrorism, but when they're not, it's trivial? Europe used to have a population of Jews numbering in the millions. You killed most of them off and chased the rest out. But oh,
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by maratd 11y ago
Terrorism, eh? Ok. Well, here's a comprehensive list of "terrorism" against Jews in Europe from the beginning of civilization until today, with a special focus on recent events: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by maratd 11y ago
> You might want to repeat the exercise in one of the black quarters of New York, with a white guy walking alone through them for 10 hours Been there, done that. Nobody yelled anything at me or spat at me. > That's really a Krist
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AltyhmrIFgo
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by maratd 11y ago
> I think you mean anti-Israeli. No, I think I mean anti-Jew. I don't think they care where the Jew comes from. > One can be opposed to the actions and policies of a state without referencing its inhabitants or their religious no
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> The unfaltering support given to Israel seems strange There's nothing strange about it. Yes, it is militarily aggressive and has to be considering the neighborhood. The support given is purely selfish as Israel is the only nation
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by maratd 11y ago
Do you even know what the word imperialism means? If you're European, it would be quite appalling if you didn't.
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> I have been thinking about this a lot, and it could work if being locked into AWS is considered an acceptable risk. This is a huge risk. If they shut you out, for whatever reason, you're done. You can't port your code to some
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by maratd 11y ago
> we seem to impose ethnocentrism on everything, no matter how remote Because A5236 is so much better. We either give random designations or non-random ones. Random ones are hard to remember. Non-random ones will obviously be named in a
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by maratd 11y ago
There are far simpler things you can do to affect the global climate. See the "Risks and criticisms" for some reasons on why we may not want to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_engineering
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by maratd 11y ago
Take a look at CasperJS. That will eliminate the Python side of things. You can probably build your report within CasperJS too, but I would just export the relevant data to a database and standardize your RoR codebase to the point where add
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Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds (2010)(vanityfair.com)
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Infants need closer to 16. Children need about 11. Adults range from 7 to 10. Averages are useful for some things, but are unbelievably misleading with others.
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Aside from the TV usage, going to sleep at 11 PM for an 8 year old is not healthy. This 8 hour sleep bullshit is nonsense, children require substantially more sleep.
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No, that is NOT what I mean. What I mean is that he: 1. Established his own medical practice in Paterson, New Jersey. 2. Was appointed City Physician. 3. Founded the outpatient clinic at Paterson General Hospital. 4. Became Health Inspector

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