rsheridan6

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by rsheridan6 13y ago
They did have a control group playing the Sims, a much easier game.
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
The beginning of Starcraft can be stale too. You're probably going to follow one of the standard builds at first.
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
This was my favorite game at the time (I was 6-7 years old). I had no idea that it had anything to do with the cold war until today - I thought the missiles were coming from aliens or something.
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
That's a bit overwrought. A country is not "dying" because its population has declined for two decades. You can't extrapolate that trend all the way to the x axis.
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
If Google wants to kill off internal competitors to Google+, I suppose blogspot is next on the chopping block.
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
There may be people imprisoned for victimless crimes, but you would have to be very naive to think the US wasn't a genuinely more dangerous place with more victimfull crime than other developed countries. Most US kids have been educate
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
This is sort of off-topic, but it would be nice if there was a convenient way to know if a pundit is a complete buffoon - like a score based on how many correct or incorrect predictions he's made. Points off for saying Iraq would be a
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
There are four options - live with a smaller economy, make more babies, bring in immigrants, or increase productivity to the point where a smaller number of workers will be able to do the work that currently requires a larger workforce. The
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
There was also a massive increase in crime rates around that time, which eventually led to a massive increase in incarceration rates as people voted for politicians who promised to get tough on crime (which, in practice, means putting lots
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by rsheridan6 13y ago
On the other hand, lower reimbursements and higher tuition have also made medicine less attractive since that time period.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I doubt that will be much of a problem. There are a lot of vets out there with huge student loans and dire employment prospects. You could probably find one to write whatever you wanted.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I'm in the process of buying a house. My monthly payment will be ~$300 less than what I'm paying for rent now for a similar house, and I could probably break even (taking into account maintenance) if I had to pay a property management compa
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
There's no reason to believe that current prognostications about the future will be any more accurate than past ones, and many reasons to believe that they aren't. The demographic transition can be viewed as a failure of our adaptations, ma
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I don't see what atherosclerosis in mummies from post-neolithic cultures has to do with the paleo diet.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
(4) is very plausible even if the study fails to find genetic variants associated with intelligence. Assuming intelligence is heritable at all, you don't need to understand the underlying genetic architecture to breed for it any more than n
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
If aliens decided to use our resources, they would probably do something like build a Dyson Sphere around the sun, which would mean there would be nothing left for us. It wouldn't matter how big they were, because they would use the resourc
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I would not deny the possible that, for reasons I don't understand, any species advanced enough to be capable of interstellar travel behaves like a cross between Bono and Peter Singer. But I would not stake the survival of my species on it.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Any alien lifeform that can reproduce would be subject to Darwinian natural selection. It would tend to grow exponentially, if the resources were available, and if you do the math, the universe ain't big enough for more than one exponential
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
They might not be out to destroy or punish us. They might take no more interest in us than we took in thousands of species that have been destroyed to make way for farms and shopping malls. Maybe our planet would make a good Vogon parking l
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Sixty years is not a long time, and there's no reason to believe that this trend will continue forever.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I don't. If aliens exist and are able to travel to our vicinity, we're probably screwed as a species.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
The fact that two groups are both European settlers does not mean they're basically the same people. Would you say that the Barbadian slaveowners who founded Charleston, South Carolina, and heavily influenced the culture of the South, are b
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I don't buy it. Lots of people have gotten addicted to cigarettes because they were curious, or they thought it looked cool, or because they enjoyed the minor and totally not worth it buzz the first few cigarettes give you, not because of "
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
It really shouldn't matter too much. FDA approved indications matter for getting insurance to pay for a drug. Insurance generally doesn't pay for erectile dysfunction drugs or weight loss drugs. The only indication for Viagra (or Revatio, r
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I doubt very much that McDonald's has altruistic motives for not deploying these machines.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Now we have proof of concept of automated burger flippers, fry cooks, and, elsewhere, ordering from a kiosk instead of a person (I've seen this in the wild). What does that leave, someone to clean up and to stock the machines?
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
They might be overestimating the capabilities of the 65+ crowd. A lot of them aren't capable of working. I used to work in a call center where I talked to AARP members, and a lot of them aren't even capable of leaving the house. I know this
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Texas has really crappy Medicaid coverage, but is anyone here really going to base their decision on which state to live in based on that?
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
6-7% would be pretty high for a mortgage these days. I was quoted a little over 3% a month ago, and my credit is not the greatest. For student loans, I agree with you, and I'm putting all my extra money into them while saving the bare minim
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I just had to interview people for a (non-tech) job who didn't even want it, and who we had no intention of hiring, because of our company's rules about how many people you have to interview before hiring. At least the hiring process descri

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