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by s_baby 11y ago
When I think of those three in the middle ages I think of Lithuanians being captured and castrated by Jews then sold into slavery to Muslims. So awesome.
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by s_baby 11y ago
>Therein lies the problem: addiction does not readily yield to teaching not to abuse the drug. In the US there has been an intensive 50 year campaign to educate people not to use tobacco, yet nicotine dependence remains a top public heal
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by s_baby 11y ago
Do you find it intellectually curious that Eastern European and Balkan women are still being trafficked by the thousands into the Middle East using many of the same traditions and rationalizations?
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by s_baby 11y ago
>Taking millions of Africans and even one million Europeans as slaves doesn't quite mesh with the popular perception of Arabs as poor, helpless victims of Western imperialism. Even in the bbc article you posted they're being ap
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by s_baby 11y ago
Routinely spiking your insulin levels through excessive carb intake is what leads to insulin resistance. >you're looking at covariates in a disease state Insulin resistance as a discrete state is useful for experimental purposes but
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by s_baby 11y ago
That's pretty extreme...
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by s_baby 11y ago
Insulin resistance is caused by leading a lifestyle where you are constantly spiking your insulin levels through diet, lifestyle, genetics, etc... Like any hormone or steroid your body develops a tolerance and you need to increase the dosa
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by s_baby 11y ago
>Who told you that? Insulin does not produce inflammation. These are just from the first page of google. The covariance between insulin, inflammation, and heart disease is well established at this point. http://www.sciencedir
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by s_baby 11y ago
Could also be excessive carb consumption. Spikes in insulin lead to artery inflammation and the conversion of saturated fat into cholesterol.
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by s_baby 11y ago
This has been going on for a thousand years in the region. The Ottoman empire was constantly capturing slaves from the Balkans and East Europe. It was a cornerstone of their civilization. Slavery was abolished in the 19th century but the
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by s_baby 11y ago
>If we choose higher-level layers, which identify more sophisticated features in images, complex features or even whole objects tend to emerge. Again, we just start with an existing image and give it to our neural net. We ask the network
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by s_baby 11y ago
How are the miners going to get users to switch over to their frontend? How are miners going to get companies like bitpay and coinbase to switch to their fork? It's up to the users to decide the value of the coins in each fork.
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by s_baby 11y ago
I've never read that particular Gould book but I have to agree his ideas on biology are pretty mind blowing and more relevant than ever.
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by s_baby 11y ago
>I don't think there's a need to put a tin foil hat and demand that all personally identifiable information collection be ceased. We instead just have to make sure this info is getting used properly (within the designated scope
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by s_baby 11y ago
I agree. That's just his take on the data.
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by s_baby 11y ago
>This is actually rather disturbing on multiple levels. Is there any actual basis for this science, or is the guy a crackpot? The article kinda seems vague on it, which makes me think the guy straddles that fine line between insanity and
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by s_baby 11y ago
>If consciousness is a psychological development induced by specific linguistic features, then what are those features? Are people capable of consciousness if they can only speak an insufficiently advanced language? Developmental psychol
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by s_baby 11y ago
>Mount data, logs, configuration, eventual extensions in the data container? Many programs have their state represented as files that are stable across versions. If you have a cluster of the same image with different states it's mo
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by s_baby 11y ago
That's why you keep everything with state in a separate volume container. Attach volume to built image and that's it.
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by s_baby 11y ago
RAID SSD has the same latency as a single SSD. This setup will help where the bottleneck is I/O throughput.
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by s_baby 11y ago
Give yourself an insulin injection and see how much your body composition fluctuates. That's just one factor of many.
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by s_baby 11y ago
If you've already decided you're going to be charitable you can be much more generous because of the deduction. With that said Georgia Aquarium keeps killing their beluga whales.
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by s_baby 11y ago
>Actually, that was my biggest problem with the entire article. For me it was the opposite. It was one of the only redeeming qualities of the article. >It's a false dichotomy to assume that consciousness and intelligence aren&#x
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by s_baby 11y ago
This isn't really a counter argument. The article is pretty weak but it does differentiate between consciousness and intelligence. Everything you describe is intelligence.
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by s_baby 11y ago
>Turing (and Ex Machina) argue that this is the only possible test, largely because arguments about consciousness dissolve into circular meaninglessness. Daniel Dennett dispenses with this best in his essay Quining Qualia: http:/&#
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by s_baby 11y ago
>Adria Richards' questionable actions do not make her any less a victim. Yes they do. People are responsible for their actions. You're discussiong this as if it's some abstract ethical hypothetical. In the real world if
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by s_baby 11y ago
Exercise 15 hours a week? That must be a very liberal definition for "exercise". This place sounds so pretentious and douchey that I'm not sure it's not satire.
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by s_baby 11y ago
I've owned many rodents throughout my childhood. Rats were by far the most interested in socially engaging and bonding with me. It was almost like having a dog.
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by s_baby 11y ago
>I don't understand this. In most stories, arn't protagonists primarily male? Arn't they typically courageous, or intelligent, or unyielding, or strong, or determined? That is a common motif. Is it easy being expected to
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by s_baby 11y ago
A formal standard that has undefined behavior and is apparently difficult to implement a compiler for. It seems C++ is popular for mission critical software despite its standards.

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