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by sevenless 10y ago
This problem is directly connected to the true nature of the "wage gap". Women make less than men, not because they're paid less for the same work, but as a result of restricted career choices shaped by having and raising chi
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People who don't have an identity... I hate those people.
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If the problem is simply the seawater, you could use a large plastic liner to create a pool of fresh water floating in the sea, and land in that.
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I've actually managed to get a crowd of Brits chanting U-S-A before. We're so saturated with American culture that we do this naturally. We know all about the constitution. We care more about American politics than our own. We fee
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> Randomness has no place in the mind of a conspiracy theorist. I agree, and I see chronic conspiracy theorizing as a pathology. One should beware the Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory of Everything (antisemitism, capitalism, imperialism,
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by sevenless 10y ago
Maybe they should open all the source code to the public and offer large rewards for finding bugs. Those planes cost, what, a third of a billion each? Even a million dollars per substantial bug might be a bargain.
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I'd argue the natural scale for thinking about the number of combinations is the log scale - in other words, the entropy. Entropy, like the number of atoms, is an additive property of a system. From this point of view this article is i
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by sevenless 10y ago
Get rid of patents. The purpose of patents and copyright is to promote innovation and reward creators, and there are plenty of alternative possibilities for doing that. If patents and copyright laws are stifling innovation, for example in d
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I bet you'd like Missile Gap by Charles Stross
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Let's say that magic is real, OK? Magic actually works. Science hasn't noticed it yet because psychologists don't get network effects and don't have the data sets. But let's say this is the case. That means words ha
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by sevenless 10y ago
The important part, in my view, is "arrested". We have a police force that feels empowered to arrest people for what they say on Twitter and Facebook. And this wasn't the only occasion. The effect of this kind of thing on wha
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by sevenless 10y ago
https://xkcd.com/505/
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Is that the Copenhagen Interpretation of spying?
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by sevenless 10y ago
This is an entertaining read: Ultimate Limits to Computation http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9908043
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I've heard China's less restrictive in some ways. You can't call for the overthrow of the government in China or read about Tienanmen Square, but in Britain mildly positive remarks about designated terrorist groups or dispara
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by sevenless 10y ago
It might simply be that being from a hunting culture implies less squeamishness about killing and having the means readily to hand. It's obvious to suspect gun ownership as a factor. Doctors have a very high suicide rate, and some of t
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by sevenless 10y ago
The section talking about contagion was interesting. What follows is pure speculation on my part and a bit of a ramble. I believe many mental illnesses, depression, suicidal behavior and anorexia among them, can be characterized as contagio
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by sevenless 11y ago
That is a troubling quote. Having compartmentalized identities is part of the human condition, and social websites can't ignore that. It raises questions about Zuckerberg's own mental state, if he believes it.
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We may be coming back to the "old internet" mentality where we don't write anything we wouldn't want on a poster stuck up in a public place. I'm still astonished by those who use their full names and face pictures o
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I agree. I thought this article did a better job of discussing these weird net subcultures from an outsider perspective, and capturing the ironic/serious tone of all the atrocious crap they say: https://newrepublic.com/
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What was this article really about? Was it more than "I'd like 3000 words on 4chan and toxic masculinity by Friday, please"? There are some baffling omissions. The MRA movement/MGTOW? Gamergate? It just reads as though t
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by sevenless 11y ago
I have to tell you this is only mostly correct, and there are a few really impressive exceptions. Certain nuclear decay modes, such as electron capture, do depend on the chemical environment of the nucleus. Beryllium-7 decays purely by el
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by sevenless 11y ago
Here it is in reverse! http://i.imgur.com/kpXtp9g.gifv
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The family of four he brutally murdered might have had an opinion on that, too.
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Engines (or wheels) need independent moving parts, high temperatures, which is hardly compatible with what's allowed by anatomy and biochemistry. But there's nothing obviously stopping animals from evolving any particular pattern
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If "digital" camouflage with patterns of squares works so well, why don't animals use it?
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Looking at that supplementary Excel spreadsheet, only 42 of those essential genes are annotated as "hypothetical protein/unknown function/unclear functional category". For example, locus MMSYN1_0421 has unknown function,
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Does this imply we could possibly manipulate space-time or gravity by creating artificial entanglements (like in a quantum computer)?
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We already know through fracking that injecting fluid into subduction zones can trigger quakes. I wonder about injecting a very strongly non-Newtonian fluid (a super-high tensile version of oobleck, maybe with nanotubes) into subduction zon