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by sevenless 10y ago
> Also, the Romans died out because they fell into decadence No historian on earth believes this. That's a myth from Gibbon.
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by sevenless 10y ago
Today I learned that planes carry nitroglycerin.
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by sevenless 10y ago
The ISS itself, is the same kind of boondoggle as the Shuttle. Imagine a US space program that put unmanned probes front and center. We could've had video feeds crawling over every moon of Jupiter and Saturn, and inside the Martian cav
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by sevenless 10y ago
But the only way to justify such a statement would be to point to... current trends. As the OP did.
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by sevenless 10y ago
It is not dismissive to put death rates into perspective. It is noteworthy that homicide is the number one cause of death for US Black males, 15-34 years old, as per 2013 CDC data. The death rate from homicide for age 20-24 is about 86.6
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by sevenless 10y ago
There's no point in responding seriously to this inflammatory post. Sex-selective childbirth (which is legal in the US) and genocide are a false equivalence.
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by sevenless 10y ago
> Thus a society of full of women is no solution to fixing the wiles of humanity as their female denizens are still capable of violence. As ever the perfect is the enemy of the good. A male-free society would be expected to have a much
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by sevenless 10y ago
> This strange advice of yours depends on the fervent belief--a sexist one, I might add--that women are incapable of the wiles of humanity. Are facts sexist? Men tend to be much more violent than women. Nearly all rapes and homicides are
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by sevenless 10y ago
What I'm saying is that > If you depend on current trends for you thinking, you'll never predict the future. is itself an observation about current trends in the efficacy of predicting the future, and therefore, if it's tr
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by sevenless 10y ago
Sorry to be a smartass, but isn't this post self-refuting?
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I don't generally like evolutionary "just so stories", but men are the more expendable sex, when you get down to it. Historically, only half of men ever passed their genes on, whereas nearly all women did. It makes sense that
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by sevenless 10y ago
The possibility of a copycat effect does not seem to deter the media from frenzied, hyperbolic reporting on mass shootings or terrorism.
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by sevenless 10y ago
Do you have any demeaning nicknames for those who work in female dominated professions too?
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by sevenless 10y ago
It is true that most Americans are very unlikely to be murdered. This homicide rate varies widely over age, sex and race, and (as per CDC) homicide is not a leading cause of death for most demographics. Young black males are, unfortunately,
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by sevenless 10y ago
11K deaths from homicide isn't "almost non existent". Now it is true the burden is concentrated in young males, especially black males. This is not to say a death from homicide is intrinsically more important than from suicid
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by sevenless 10y ago
For protons, the muon-derived radius is 4% smaller than for the electron-derived radius. But for deuterium, the discrepancy is only 0.8%. Is there some obvious scaling argument why adding a neutron should reduce the anomalous effect by a fa
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You Should Definitely Take More Drugs(acceler8or.com)
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by sevenless 10y ago
Shkreli was almost admirably honest. Let the wealthy accumulate enough and they'll buy the government. Capitalism without a very tight leash, democracy: choose one.
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by sevenless 10y ago
Mostly network effects/inertia. And it didn't help that Google seemed to be quite pushy about getting people to sign up.
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by sevenless 10y ago
Going by center of mass means that for a sufficiently large tumor, you'd be talking about a patient-ectomy.
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by sevenless 10y ago
Reading all those different, excruciatingly difficult surgical steps it sounds like it would be just about easier to give him a robot body, Futurama-Nixon style.
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by sevenless 10y ago
Any idea why it would be slower? I liked the idea of avoiding half the multiplications.
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by sevenless 10y ago
Risky for what? Alien invasion? If interstellar travel were that easy or worthwhile they'd be here already, especially what with terrestrial radio broadcasts.
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by sevenless 10y ago
I always thought optical SETI makes more sense. With relatively inexpensive lasers we can send an extremely bright message, vastly outshining our sun, to every star within a few thousand light years. Surely that's how you'd say &#
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by sevenless 10y ago
I'd like to see support for optimized multiplication on symmetric matrices. I don't think BLAS can take advantage of that, certainly scipy/numpy doesn't.
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by sevenless 10y ago
I adore outlandish conspiracy theories and this is an excellent one. Now, are the astronomers and government secretly working with the Nibiru aliens themselves to cover up the impending cataclysm? Could the sinister New World Order really
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by sevenless 10y ago
Economic growth: it's the altar we're sacrificing the world on.
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by sevenless 10y ago
Courtship isn't quite the word I'd use for Grindr.
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by sevenless 10y ago
But now everyone has his own facts, that they can back up with authoritative sources like Breitbart or @GlobalWarmingLie.
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by sevenless 10y ago
We do not speak of the Before-time here.

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