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by neaden 8y ago
That's not how failure rates for birth control are calculated. The percentage is for a pregnancy occurring during a year with that method.
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by neaden 8y ago
Hah no, I honestly have no idea why I wrote that accidently. Maybe as someone mentioned I was thinking of TMBGs or something.
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by neaden 8y ago
John Lenon and Paul McCartney split credit for all the songs they wrote during the Beatles, even if the song was primarily or totally written by just one of them. People like to speculate about who wrote what, and after the Beatles broke up
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by neaden 8y ago
I would hope so, I mean, it would be pretty horrifying if it was easier.
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by neaden 8y ago
The author of the piece generally doesn't get to write the headline, which can lead to conflicts like this at times.
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by neaden 8y ago
Very interesting. It is amazing how far the Polynesians were able to travel.
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by neaden 8y ago
Yeah sorry, I was assuming he will die sometime in the next 50-87 years being discussed and his money will be donated to charity. So Hypothetically if he became immortal or decided to give all the money to his children. Since historically t
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by neaden 8y ago
To be fair that would get you WB's present wealth. If Warren Buffet was still alive and investing just like you did, you would never catch up. This is one of the reasons social stratification can increase over time.
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by neaden 8y ago
Maybe someday, but not by 2020 surely? They are still going to be using hybrids then I assume.
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by neaden 8y ago
I'm surprised by this, 35 cents is less than the IRS deduction for mileage at about 55 cents a mile which is supposed to represent depreciation and direct expenses, how would they get so much lower?
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by neaden 8y ago
The Imperial Radch Series starting with Ancillary Justice does this a bit. The main human civilization in the setting, the Radch, don't care about gender or have a word for it. Given the widespread availability of cloning and other met
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by neaden 8y ago
I think it is important to remember that what happened in Flint was bad. But we also know that telling self fulfilling prophecies and stigmatization are a thing. Too much media hype about the damage done can have a real detrimental impact o
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The Children of Flint Were Not ‘Poisoned’(nytimes.com)
38 points by neaden 8y ago|55 comments
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by neaden 8y ago
They said for the purpose of colonization, but that is not actually required for the Fermi Paradox. As to why, that's impossible to say without speculating about alien psychologies. Just to know you aren't alone, because it's
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by neaden 8y ago
I would think so, for an advanced enough civilization certainly you could expect to see something like Bracewell probes getting sent out to go say hi without spending too many resources.
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by neaden 8y ago
You need to understand it certainly, in the same way you need to understand the rules of Football to really enjoy watching a game. but I haven't played SC or SC2 in years and I still enjoy watching the streams, in the same way that I&#
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by neaden 8y ago
Let's hope Zukerburg isn't a fan of Marlowe then.
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by neaden 8y ago
It's the whole mad science angle that we have in our culture I think. But that ignores that ethics are tied to things like oversight, methodology, and being objective which are all important for research.
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by neaden 8y ago
The amount of scientific innovation in Nazi Germany is incredibly overhyped. In reality outside of rockets they made very few major advances. And even in Rocketry there were major scientific breakthroughs, just improved engineering. The med
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by neaden 8y ago
Social Security numbers are unique. They don't work as a great identifier because they can be mistyped, can be hard to verify, and people don't want to give them out too much.
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by neaden 8y ago
Cabs get you right to the address you want to go though. This will still have the last mile problem.
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by neaden 8y ago
It seems like the relatively simple solution here would be to nationalize these firms, or at least their auditing aspect. A public company could handle that and remain more independent and less susceptible to greed than the big four. Have a
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by neaden 8y ago
Mark Kleiman is a Professor of Public Policy at NYU/Marron.
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A Primer on Fentanyl(s)(samefacts.com)
2 points by neaden 8y ago|1 comments
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by neaden 8y ago
Shameful. A good reminder too how much bullshit get's passed off as science in police investigations and forensics in general. Add to it homophobia and police eager to mark a case closed and this is what you get.
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by neaden 8y ago
His critiques, while vulgar seem pretty fair and I hope he finds a new position somewhere.
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by neaden 8y ago
If by likely you mean according to a discredited theory proposed by one person and based on some really bad historical understanding.
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The Birth of a New American Aristocracy(theatlantic.com)
8 points by neaden 8y ago|0 comments
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by neaden 8y ago
Title makes it sound like he didn't like the person, article says he loathed the media he produced, a pretty big difference.
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Trump orders U-turn over sanctions against Chinese telecom group(ft.com)
1 points by neaden 8y ago|0 comments

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