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Genetic analysis of social-class mobility in five longitudinal studies(pnas.org)
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by monort 8y ago
Pumping station in Buenos Aires is pretty too - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Company_Palace
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by monort 8y ago
It's not tomorrow, some people already screen for dwarfism or deafness to give them to their child. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/health/05essa.html
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by monort 8y ago
Actually, it looks like opioids are not associated with vehicle accidents https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14650448
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by monort 8y ago
I don't think the threat level changed greatly, the most likely scenario is a mistake launch and crazy officer. Do you know Russia has a system of automatic retaliation attack? As for the war threat - both sides had their hotheads duri
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by monort 8y ago
Even under general anesthesia some patients feel the pain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anesthesia_awareness#Backgroun...
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Do Orgasms Give Women Feedback about Mate Choice?(journals.sagepub.com)
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by monort 8y ago
Russia and US have 1600 deployed warheads each, ready to fly any minute. I don't understand why most people don't consider this as threat. We are living with a gun to our heads.
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Why did everything take so long?(meteuphoric.com)
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Why does the speed of light slow down in water?(quora.com)
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Were Rousseau’s Children Victims of His Moral Theory?(irfankhawajaphilosopher.com)
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Lights, camera, CRISPR: Biologists use gene editing to store movies in DNA(nature.com)
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Churchill wanted to bomb German villages in revenge for the Lidice massacre(radio.cz)
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by monort 8y ago
Maybe it depends on the city, but often it's a municipal government granted monopoly. E.g. in San Francisco it's Recology. https://www.aoausa.com/magazine/?p=4982 I bet, each city, that enforces waste sorting
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by monort 8y ago
I can get the car picked-up for repair if I want to. Where can I subscribe for a service "picking up unsorted garbage"? The problem is that garbage collectors are granted monopoly and use it to extract free labor from customers.
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The Discovery of Energy Conservation: Mayer and Joule(galileo.phys.virginia.edu)
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by monort 8y ago
Speed of light affects latency, not throughput. TCP works bad with large delays, that's why it's recommended to use several TCP connections to saturate the link.
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by monort 8y ago
How would you answer the same question from a vegetarian? We eat meat for "fun" too, though we would be able to survive on plants. The answer is that most people don't care about animal suffering.
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by monort 8y ago
Mutual nuclear disarmament is the obvious answer (lookup the START treaty), unfortunately it's a slow process and hopefully there will be another president by the renewal time, as Trump doesn't like the treaty. Regarding the acces
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by monort 8y ago
This logic makes any birth unethical too. You are just confining your children to a prison of very large generation ship Earth, with the aim to "procreate in order to produce more prisoners like themselves".
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by monort 8y ago
Do you realize that some people feel stress when someone comes unannounced? Opt-in interaction like in your startup is so much better!
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Where did this ‘Wrong’ idea of quantum theory implying consciousness come from?(transactionalinterpretation.org)
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Single-world interpretations of quantum theory cannot be self-consistent(arxiv.org)
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Sine-wave speech(scholarpedia.org)
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Relationship between IQ and creativity: New support for the threshold hypothesis(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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The $3500 Shirt – A History Lesson in Economics (2013)(sleuthsayers.org)
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by monort 8y ago
Race to the bottom is what makes a progress. Would you prefer to work a month to be able to afford a shirt, like it was just a few centuries before? Or do you prefer when "race to the bottom" made the cost of the same shirt into a
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Sponsor an Immigrant Yourself(politico.com)
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by monort 8y ago
Inflation adjusted rent of 60k a year is 1.5-2 million of capital, depending on the risk you are willing to take.
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Protectionism(en.wikipedia.org)
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