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'"In this study, the researchers predicted how well people would do on a cognitive test by analyzing fMRI scans of 126 subjects in the Human Connectome Project, a five-year initiative to map how areas of the human brain communicat
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by panglott 11y ago
This claim is generally made less about Standard American or General American and more about regional Appalachian dialects. Even this is a myth. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002699.h...
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Loves getting the yellow pages: it's the best way to get cheap paper for firing the charcoal grill.
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Honesty and cruelty are in no wise the same.
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Nope. Gerrymandering makes districts more or less homogenous in a way that benefits one party. To tilt a balanced state Republican, you concentrate Democratic votes into a few districts where Republicans will never be competitive, then crea
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by panglott 11y ago
This was more true in the era of overt white supremacy, when majority-white electorates would refuse to vote for black candidates, and thus black candidates could only win elections in strongly majority-black districts. This has changed fro
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You'd get a good sample, but a poor representative. If a group of people is attempting to choose a person to advocate their interests, they'll choose the person best at advocacy, who is likely atypical in a variety of ways. Becaus
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The ethical case for democracy rests not on whether democracy leads to optimal policies and outcomes (which is ridiculous), but on the degree to which it includes individuals in the politics of the state exercise of power over them. The sta
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> proportionality of representation is pretty closely linked to public satisfaction with government, and public participation with government. Is the causal relationship really that proportional representation drives political representa
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Very small children are mostly loud meat slugs and easy to care for while you're playing games. Then there's a phase where they're very active but not potty-trained or good at talking. The next phase, when they are a little o
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by panglott 11y ago
America isn't America without the occasional interlude of kitschy Americana.
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"Literary fiction" is frequently simply a means of elevating the prestige of certain writing, by indicating that it is by/for literary elites. In this case, the authors contrasted "literary fiction" with nonfiction,
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In the Euro-American settlement of the plains, sod construction was pretty common. They would cut the sod and stack it like bricks to make a house. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sod_house
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by panglott 11y ago
If there wasn't a free search engine, wouldn't you pay to use one?
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Yea, the analysis that Kickstarter is driving it is pretty poor, but if you think about why board games are booming, it's a dozens of small things multiplying. GenCon has been growing attendance every year recently, BoardGameGeek has b
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by panglott 11y ago
Mostly I just pity the fools who delude themselves with this kind of repulsive nonsense.
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To what extent are African countries coherent nation-states in the sense of Europe, America, or Japan? Many are organized along former colonial borders and are very diverse, multiethnic, and multinational. This means that political legitim
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by panglott 11y ago
I went back to visit my mother once and discovered that for convenience she had started regularly running her cast iron skillets in the dishwasher. It certainly damaged the seasoning IMO, but not as much as you might expect. Not that I woul
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by panglott 11y ago
Tomato sauces weaken the non-stick seasoning on my main cast-iron skillet, but frying bacon in it once a week repairs any damage. My best-seasoned skillet is the one I only use for cornbread, fried eggs, and grilled cheese, since I only coo
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by panglott 11y ago
Thanks, that's much worse than I recalled.
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What's fucked up? Sweden's justice system seems to be far superior to the US's—both in taking very seriously charges of sexual assault that would probably be ignored in the US, and in taking very seriously the rights of the a
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by panglott 11y ago
> The only real issue is the human labor needed to do the data entry Well there's your problem right there.
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Is classical music distribution a problem that streaming can easily solve? In pop music, you have people singing in different national languages in perhaps hundreds of commercially viable genres. Classical music certainly has genres (opera,
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It would be hard to get this to consumers, but plenty of other search engines have a non-advertising business model. ProQuest and EBSCO get their money from libraries and institutions, for example.
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It needs a Kinect.
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The Korean script is fantastic, yes, one of the few designed to effectively promote popular literacy. But you're only going to learn to read Korean in 15 minutes if you already speak Korean ;) Otherwise, you'll have to learn to sp
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It's not the moon itself, it's the molten core of Earth that generates the magentosphere that protects our atmosphere. A larger planet is likelier to have a molten core.
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> "Colonize" isn't the right word. ...Perhaps it makes sense to put a very small number of people on the moon for purely scientific or commercial reasons A small number of people residing there for scientific and commercia
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Unless humans really squander their inheritance of the Earth and its biosphere, the extinction of anatomically modern humans will occur long, long before Earth becomes uninhabitable.
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Yea, sustainability is largely a collective action problem, and it's quite difficult for 7 billion humans in hundreds of interacting societies, governments, and economies. Moreover, "sustainable" has a somewhat different mean

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