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by s_baby 12y ago
I like the idea but it seems like a great way to make yourself liable to discrimination laws.
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by s_baby 12y ago
The idea of a multiverse is a derivative idea from Western religion/philosophy. It's a modern variation of the principle of plenitude. "The principle of plenitude asserts that the universe contains all possible forms of exi
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by s_baby 12y ago
It's popular in emerging markets. Maybe it won't be worthless in 10 years. I still don't get the price. WhatsApp doesn't have the market cornered. There are 2-3 competitors and most locals I've met use all of th
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by s_baby 12y ago
Historically it's the other way around. >Yet the mere mention of the EES often evokes an emotional, even hostile, reaction among evolutionary biologists. Too often, vital discussions descend into acrimony, with accusations of muddle
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by s_baby 12y ago
America shrugs because suicide is a problem effecting men. Men outnumber women in suicide between 3:1 and 10:1[1]. If the tables were turned you better believe you would hear about it. The NFL would wear pink ribbons to raise awareness.
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by s_baby 12y ago
Tramadol is a low-grade narcotic, not an AG drug. Unless I'm missing something.
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by s_baby 12y ago
How are the farmers obtaining such large quantities of Tramadol?
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by s_baby 12y ago
It's a bad analogy because mushrooms are qualitatively different from Mushrooms. This isn't a case of switching one addiction with another.
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by s_baby 12y ago
LUA and Javascript bindings are in the works.
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by s_baby 12y ago
You don't experience the universe directly. You experience it through cognitive constructs and all the limitations that entails.
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by s_baby 12y ago
Yet not a single minority in the "crew" or "advisors" section.
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by s_baby 12y ago
So what happens to the raised $500k? People were donating money to protect the podcast community with Adam's case being the proxy battle. Adam settling wasn't in their best interest.
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by s_baby 12y ago
Nasa and military don't know what they're doing? C++ is the go to language in mission critical systems.
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by s_baby 12y ago
They're not terrible just poor bang per buck.
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by s_baby 12y ago
I believe there are plans for offering a Vagrant api to Docker and vice-versa.
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by s_baby 12y ago
>Looking at dreams and out-of-body experiences is interesting to help answer your question. Two points on this: OOBE are a different class of experiences. It's a completely different state characterized by theta wave activity where
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by s_baby 12y ago
>But if Newberg and his colleagues are correct, such experiences are not proof of being touched by a supreme being, but mere blips in brain chemistry. Is there any human experience, real or not, that can't be described as "mere
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by s_baby 12y ago
My problem with Paleo people is the dogmatic language they use. They draw some very convincing conclusions but then turn their speculation into rigid rules. It's hard to have a conversation about the diet without throwing the baby ou
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by s_baby 12y ago
Build state-machines or cpu using logic gates in logisim. It sounds complex but there are only a handful of primitives you have to understand. Learning that FPGA conditionals are equivalent to multiplexers is much easier to learn when you
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by s_baby 12y ago
>It's interesting, but the problem I have with the presentation is that the modern manifestation of this idea has nothing to do with Buddhism. While we can maybe say that Buddhism came up with some similar-looking stuff, there'
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by s_baby 12y ago
>Do AI researchers have any arguments opposing this that don't amount to "the AI we have created up until now is not very good"? OP is probably referring to the Hard Problem of Consciousness[1]. I think it's a real ba
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by s_baby 12y ago
Meat has horrible calories/$ value. People end up eating more calories when they're eating carbs though.
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by s_baby 12y ago
How am I supposed to research a problem if every other search result is a closed SO thread? I'm being hyperbolic but SO closed content hitting the top searches is also waste of everyone's time.
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by s_baby 12y ago
>This says that the reason we die is because there is an absence of selective pressure for the individual in a species to live longer Or there is a selective pressure making sure organisms don't have indefinite lifespans. You need
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by s_baby 13y ago
Is Java not over-saturated? I thought that was one of the selling points to the suit.
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by s_baby 13y ago
That the most likely scenario is there are predispositions for many traits we consider social. That evolution favors biological variation but also that humans are unique in their ability to adapt to their environment. That anyone trying t
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by s_baby 13y ago
I hear what you're saying. Let me show you how it looks from my perspective. Imagine if the History department had an aggregation of white supremacists. They were allowed to have their own department, their own academic journals, and
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by s_baby 13y ago
>Personally I am not really sure if there even is something like a predisposition for sexual preference. A) Queerness and sexual preference aren't equivalent ideas. B) Saying something is a predisposition is saying it's a produ
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by s_baby 13y ago
>My mother raised me as a "feminist" and part of being a "feminist" was not discriminating against anyone because of their gender. That's an idealization that's not congruent with the historical culture and
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by s_baby 13y ago
>It's disappointing to see so many people here read the title of the article and immediately start the see,-social-differences-are-the-result-of-vast-differences-between-the-binary-sexes wheel rolling again. But it's alright to

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