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by splawn 11y ago
The word "Creation" only means "the universe" in the context of Creationism... so ,assuming you are correct about its meaning, the word "Creationism" isn't actually necessary to show that the sentence was
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by splawn 11y ago
I am not disagreeing with you here, but what you are saying doesn't discount that income inequality could still lead desperate people into Islamic (or more generally religious, or even more generally, ideological) extremism. Blind fait
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by splawn 11y ago
If Texans are so reliably and predictably racist that someone can plan such an outlandish far fetched hoax and still have it succeed, then perhaps the fact that they are racist is still the main story.
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by splawn 11y ago
I will give you that, but you also must admit that there is also a chance that since you didn't notice any bad effects it is OK and your fear isn't really justified.
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by splawn 11y ago
Most artificial flavorings used in food are suspended in PG.... Im willing to bet you unknowingly ingest the stuff multiple times a week.
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by splawn 11y ago
I vaped for over a year starting last summer. Over that year I was able to gradually decrease the amount of nicotine in my juice. A few months back I switched to nicotine free juice (Which oddly enough, is exactly the same thing as a fog ma
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by splawn 11y ago
tradeoffs... That was the point I was trying to make. You can either have safety or convenience/reliability. It seems to me that this offers another option.... do you trust a dongle or do you trust your ability to get into your gun saf
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by splawn 11y ago
But a safe introduces needless complexity into the system, reduces reliability, and just makes the firearm more expensive.
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by splawn 11y ago
It fits the same way a shell does.
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by splawn 11y ago
This is just a wild guess.... because they have a web browser and not vi or emacs.
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by splawn 11y ago
Christianity's mission statement was never being the means of explaining natural phenomena. There were points in time where you would have been labeled a heretic for believing that and maybe even tortured and executed if you were dee
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by splawn 11y ago
I like how loaded the term "loaded" is in this statement. /s
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by splawn 11y ago
Really I think its main weakness is that it is a meta-study.. which always tend to have issues like you mention. I find it compelling enough though.
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by splawn 11y ago
No offense taken, and I can tell you are not just parroting political blogs which is refreshing. I do see your point, but as I will explain later, for a meta-study I think they did the best that they possibly could have. It says that only .
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by splawn 11y ago
The ISI search generated 12 465 papers. Eliminating papers that were not peer-reviewed (186), not climate-related (288) or without an abstract (47) reduced the analysis to 11 944 papers written by 29 083 authors and published in 1980 journ
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by splawn 11y ago
Here is the oft-mentioned study's abstract and a link to the full study. Abstract We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, examining 11 94
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by splawn 11y ago
Are you claiming there isn't scientific consensus on climate change? Edit: and by "climate change" I mean the notion of "humans are causing the planet to warm up with CO2"
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by splawn 11y ago
Would you also say that gravity, evolution, and germ theory believers also point to just trends that support their position? Of course the thing these all have in common with climate change is scientific consensus..they just lack all the po
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by splawn 11y ago
I see your point especially with google almost having a monopoly in web search, however I think its only fair that a site shows the same thing to humans as it does to web crawler bots, otherwise it opens up a huge can of worms and breaks se
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by splawn 11y ago
Imo, no. I try not to buy into any concept if there is no way for anyone to ever understand it. Honestly, would doing so even be considered intellectual?
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by splawn 11y ago
As cheesy as it sounds... I think its simply the people that hang out here. (Of course the software helps maintain the culture too im sure)
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by splawn 11y ago
I have been hem-hawing for years on what my next programming language to invest time into learning should be and I found this comment extremely informative. After verifying that what you said about their design goals for Go wasn't a st
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by splawn 11y ago
> Suppose that GNU/Linux had only one distribution, and it was so popular that it was on 99% of the world's desktops. There wouldn't be any anti-trust hoopla regarding that distribution having a preferred web browser, no m
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by splawn 11y ago
This isn't meant to be hostile snark FUD. Hopefully you know the answer or have a link that addresses my question. As far as your first point... I am asking because I know someone that sometimes has trouble keeping food down and their
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by splawn 11y ago
He is hip to sql injection. https://xkcd.com/327/
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by splawn 11y ago
Personally I dismiss any "medicine" that only has anecdotal "evidence" until there is an actual successful clinical trial.. and even then just consuming the raw honey is probably not the way to go since you can't kn
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by splawn 11y ago
This looks like a lot of fun. Here are some entertaining videos from shut up and sitdown that seem to capture what its all about. http://www.shutupandsitdown.com/videos/v/susd-play-megagame-... http://w
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by splawn 11y ago
Anytime you have your "trust switch" permanently set to "on" or "off" for any given source of info then I would classify you, using your term, as a "sheepwalker". Just do your best to always employ
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by splawn 11y ago
I think the current boardgame boom is a reflection that gamers in general have increased in number. Mix in the fact that many of them were born out of the 90's console videogame era, have families and need a multiplayer experience that
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by splawn 11y ago
I am familiar with what Monsanto does and have pretty much agreed with GP. I am also familiar with the anti-science youtube documentary watching, "do-your-own-research" conspiracy junky crowd accusing strangers of being shills on

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