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Seems to be a bunch of words for filler wrapped around one significant paragraph: "The changes to the gas in the outer region of galaxies [by modified gravity modeling] causes higher densities of gas to form there, which in turn increa
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I've read this as the explanation multiple times, but I think there's an even more obvious explanation: people that go into debt, never miss repayments, and never pay it off are more likely to continue paying their debt off on tim
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Antarctica is a really interesting topic in its own right. One major reason there is minimal development there is because development is literally illegal. The Antarctic treaty system [1] prohibits any sort of non-scientific research, speci
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Computers are an even better example. Their early usages were incredibly primitive, limited, and astronomically expensive. You had governments dropping very large amounts of money on what were glorified calculators. If you would have even s
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I think your statement sounds perfectly reasonable, but it actually holds a pretty interesting corollary! If he is wrong that "most" medical treatments and prescriptions are worthless then that would necessarily mean that "mo
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I think the article (and presumably the book) bring up a lot of great points about systemic issues with medicine, but I also think there is another much more macro level argument. The Ancient Greeks were, in terms of medicine, almost comple
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Imagine you strip the references from the CNN article referencing Bolsonaro winning and you otherwise did not know this. And you now read this article. Would you expect him to win? Would you have any idea how he could possibly win, let alon
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The question is not whether one has biases or not, but whether or not they're held captive to them. When you read a headline from let's say CNN with what sort of accuracy can you predict exactly what sort of slant the article will
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I expect the same is also true of whatever freedom may exist for NYTimes writers. The site has taken a sharp and extremely homogeneous ideological slant in recent years on a wide array of different topics. This is ostensibly indicative of e
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There are also things like tardigrades [1] which are pretty much the epoch of survival evolution. And this is all just stuff on our little planet. It's hard to say anything about life on a large scale, since we are basing everything we
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Another, somewhat depressing, way of looking at it is that we all could have learned half a dozen languages in the time we spend browsing and posting to no real end on forums and various other media such as this. And e.g. learning Russian w
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Have you considered a couple of issues here? The first is that while companies may simply be in the business of harvesting massive amounts of information for advertising today, once they have that data they can use it to whatever end they
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Your interpretation of his comment quite succinctly sums up the problems with society today. Being tolerant of something is not the same as treating it identically to other views. Imagine my neighbor is completely and absolutely convinced t
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Instant runoff only really resolves the spoiler effect. I think it's extremely unlikely we'd see a third party come even close, including with instant runoff, to taking power. I'd look at the problem numerically. Imagine a st
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Often when I read papers on neuroscience, I find it difficult to dismiss an analogy. It feels much like we're trying to analyze how different models of computers work by giving them all some input and then trying to discern meaning fro
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COBOL is a big example of this. It's still ubiquitous in many industries where reliability is near the top of priorities. And I imagine in 50 years we'll still very likely still have many critical systems operating on COBOL. I won
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The most intriguing about stories such as this is that our own ignorance on topics such as e.g. dark matter will, at some point in the future, be something a fresh grad will look back on with bemusement - how could we not possibly have mana
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Evolutionary imperative would be a very simple explanation. The Sentinelese [1] are probably the best example here. They are a group of people that "we" have tried to make contact with numerous times, including with the offering o
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The article hit on this exact point with a rather interesting quote: "I should note that disenchantment should not be confused with secularisation. The sociological evidence suggests that de-Christianisation, while usually equated with
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Really!? At the exhibits I've been to the rocks have always been kept in sealed containers. Odd question, did you happen to get to.. smell the rock? The reason I ask is that the Apollo astronauts reported that the moon dust had an arom
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America was founded on white supremacist ideals? Catholics, Irish, Italians...? The vast majority of "white" groups had absolutely no power within society. Even for groups such as the British the vast majority were also rather les
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Statues are inanimate. What glorification happens is by people. When you see a statue of something or someone you find distasteful, do you find yourself glorifying whatever it represents or does the statue instead simply serve as a reminder
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It's so easy to forget that authoritarianism is often not brought on against a people, but through their very support. The book burnings of the past were not the product of an unpopular government forcibly purging 'inconveniences&
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A couple of big differences I can think of there. The first is the quality of your peers. I imagine like most people on this site, I excelled at school with literally 0 effort. In my opinion burnout is largely driven by excessive exertion f
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There's a very good reason to consider negative outcomes of the past in discussions such as this. Let's pretend companies like Google and Facebook are totally on the up and up; pretend the company that aims to facilitate a user tr
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Out of curiosity do you ever login to your Google account on the web? I also had the exact same experience where they have started increasingly sending alarming, and fake, security notices about suspicious devices logging in. Those device a
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Take the ideological (and incorrect) definition of not-for-profit vs for-profit companies. The for-profit company is supposed to be willing to utilize any sort of money-making opportunity to improve their bottom line which is supposed to be
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Being non-profit does not somehow protect companies or their customers from making bad decisions. For instance Mozilla lately has been trying to take a position on privacy. They do this at the same time that they direct their users to Googl
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When file sharing first came along it was pretty clear that the status quo of dropping $20 on a CD for some music was not going to last. Regardless the music industry refused to accept this and fought tooth and nail to try to keep CDs as th
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Like everything on Brave it's all up to the user. First the user has to opt-in to this ad program. By default Brave simply blocks everything. If they opt-in then they will be able to see a number of ads per hour that they specify. Of t

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