sageikosa

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by sageikosa 10y ago
In those cases it's usually better to check out fecundity rather than life expectancy deltas. Has live birth rate declined or infant mortality increased?
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Maybe get a court order?
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Barely at times. The attrition rate (not staying within the community) for the Amish can be quite high, and the only way to "share" generation over generation is to subdivide property.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
800 million years ago is my reference point
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Extended Phenotype territory.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
I think it's more like: I am so right I don't need to know anything else.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Similar idea... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Larson
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by sageikosa 10y ago
If news were just information, anymore its a call to attention and likely action.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Obviously the ones that run a news program at 6:30 pm with a heavy introductory drumbeat and lots of fanfare playing while a camera zooms in to a concerned-looking anchor person.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
There are toxic compounds in your water...and your food...and that sunlight? Toxic UV.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Some materials are reported in mass, some in volume. I used to do groundwater plume maps for superfund sites, and the data units varied by compound.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
The study found that PFASs were detectable at the minimum reporting levels required by the EPA in 194 out of 4,864 water supplies in 33 states across the United States. So, about 4% of water supplies had something at the minimum reporting l
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by sageikosa 10y ago
like Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain?
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by sageikosa 10y ago
any valid contract can only be signed by willing parties. if one party doesn't like the conditions, they don't have to enter into it.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
tl;dr; those prone to schizophrenia may increase psychosis risk if they are consumers of marijuana.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
At least there are very few reports to the contrary.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
And they show up a lot on job postings...so there is perceived marketability to following any of the one true faiths of perfect software development.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
If we build the coconut airports, the planes and cargo will come.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
You'll just need to have permission before you can get pregnant; cost problem solved (except for the expanding bureaucracy to manage the rules and operations of maternity).
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Just trying to point out that human action without profit requires something else to account for the costs; otherwise there is no way to judge comparatively how limited resources should be applied. So if there isn't going to be profit
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Agreed. Evolution doesn't even have a purpose, let alone a higher one. Also, fusion doesn't have a purpose, nor does gravity.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Natural selection and mutation. The most revolutionary thing wasn't that there was change, but that the changes were effectively "random" change. Randomness and species interrelatedness is what drove (still drives) teleolog
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Plutocracy? You have to have a decent amount of free time and resources initially to value spending time working on Wikipedia articles enough to gain working knowledge and social connections in the system to advance enough to advance broad
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Extended phenotypes?
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by sageikosa 10y ago
So without profit, the operating metric will be what exactly?
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by sageikosa 10y ago
I didn't find it confusing.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Mine too!
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Might be at a gaming convention. He has seemed to express enjoyment of variously complicated strategy board games.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Timpani. She played a flute also, but not over the summer. Every time I mention this people kind of look at me funny when I offer my co-trigger explanation as "some kind of bug", but I was reading Dawkins at the time and had come
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by sageikosa 10y ago
If it shuttles things to and from space, doesn't that make it a space shuttle? I guess it depends on where you want to draw the lines between launch vehicle and shuttle. The origin of the term shuttle is from weaving with back and for

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