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by schoper 14y ago
This can be a lesson in learning not to trust your instincts then: http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500368_162-1464262.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_effects_of_pornography http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=106880
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by schoper 14y ago
The woman was right. Depictions of sex have huge individual and cultural repercussions. Depictions of violence have little to no effect on all but the most borderline of individuals. Porn can really make your life worse. Violence on TV ain'
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by schoper 14y ago
Correlation. Causation. Not the same. People who floss twice a day tend to have all sorts of good habits. In fact, they tend to be the sort of people who just plain "take care of themselves."
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by schoper 14y ago
EDIT: Eridius is correct below. Instacart is just mislabeling their product pricing. The 3 lbs. ribeye shows up as $30 per lb., but is actually $30. I'll bet they are doing the opposite as well (buying 0.5 lbs. of anything will look like an
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by schoper 14y ago
Instacart's per-item prices tend to be far higher. I might use them if they raised the delivery fee and removed the item price gouging.
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Harvard is a hedge fund with a university attached(cnbc.com)
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ISME Journal. 1. Two independent facts from the experiment: A pathogen that causes obesity (in mice) seems to be active in some obese humans. 2. Severely restricted diet seems to powerfully reduce the population of this organism. I doubt th
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by schoper 14y ago
And between April 1889 and October 1925, there wasn't a single warmer-than-average month. ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/anomalies/monthly.land_ocean.90S.90N.df_1901-2000mean.dat An interesting anomaly is the warming between the 1860s and
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by schoper 14y ago
Unfortunately, socioeconomic status doesn't work. Poor white kids, for example, have this bad habit of out-scoring black children from the highest income brackets on the SATs. This is the same reason that AA-preferences in college admission
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If they considered it in the 60s, my inclination is to think there was something to it. It sounds like an idea of Teller's (not a dope). In fact, a quick Google search just confirmed this to me. The first approximation energy considerations
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by schoper 14y ago
The reason that a user has to enter his password for a free app is to train him to enter his password for a paid app. If Apple didn't do this, their users would forget their passwords and stop buying apps.