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by throwaway2245 6y ago
I don't find this super convincing. If you want to convince yourself that choking is a thing, then this is a stat you might look at. But, this stat is just as likely to be more influenced by how close your opponent's skill was on
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
> the system of government that the people of Britain have chosen As a "person of Britain", I have certainly never had any say in the system of government.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
If we model tennis points as random (let's say, accounting only for service), would we not expect people to occasionally lose when they had a match point? We'd expect this to happen more often when playing an opponent of comparabl
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
Road directionality is variable over time. I'm not sure at what rate it changes but I bet it's a lot more than 1.1% per year.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
No - evolution doesn't place a value (or worth) on reproduction at all.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
Bigots can accuse you of being genetically defective just as well as they can accuse you of sinful behaviour. Pandering to what bigots need is not productive or helpful.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
I view this question - and the deliberation over it - as coming from present-day society's latent homophobia. Doesn't the question apply to straight people, and anyone else, who don't reproduce?
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
Is it bad that I'd guess you would be excluded from a jury if you admitted this upfront?
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
For sure, I have experienced the same thing - and yet, the Italian diet is revered globally and considered to contribute to longevity. Something about their approach appears to be working. It strikes me that creating pseudo-science rules mi
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
As best I can immediately tell, the cost to incorporate in Nicaragua is $0 and ~30 days application period, with no residency requirement, and 0 tax on global income/profits. A (low) bar to residency which leads to being eligible to ap
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
People often said that a tall person cannot be the fastest man in the world - until he was.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
> there ARE countries I'm not sure where this fits into your argument anyway, but I could not identify what country you might mean? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization#Summary_by_coun...
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
> Anyone who is saying one bell pepper type is okay... This assumes that Sasha's only concern with food consumption is nutrition alone, where other aspects of discipline and adherence are likely to also be important. Asking for red,
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
> I could put in all the hours of practice and guided training into boxing as Mike Tyson and I wouldn’t get nearly the same results. I think this fails to recognise the talents that Mike Tyson has leveraged: the soft skills and gumption
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
I would call this a jazz club (in the UK; even if it doesn't play jazz specifically).
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
> In some sense, that is the point of having different countries. If large corporations can decide to pick their country of incorporation freely and according to what most benefits them, but people can't (in general) pick their coun
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
It seems to me that changing the environment to manipulate human behaviour ultimately creates stress (in a very literal sense), which is likely to undermine the goal.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
> it's 0.4% of the used market. This sounded unlikely to me, so I checked a local site and got 4.9% >20 years old in the used market. A lot of people drive their old cars beyond the point that they are not worth re-selling, so I&
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
I'm concerned if you're buying any product that's just labelled "meat" without further clarification. That doesn't sound good for you.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
> the benefits aren’t particularly great while the risks are large. Marriage brings specific legal and financial benefits, depending on the country (married couples tax allowances, spousal rights to pensions and inheritance etc, spousal
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
The gender gap in the USA/Western Europe appears to be a lot bigger than it is in the rest of the world. A ratio of 3.4 in the US (77% male) as opposed to 1.7 globally (63% male).
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
If you understand logic, at the level which you claim, then you should know that "logically consistent" has no correspondence with "correct". An "intelligent, logically consistent argument", as you say, can be
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
(I should clarify that I don't mean the author's opinion is important to falsifiability) > The author described such a circumstance, but then explained that he did not have access to the necessary lab testing to actually do so.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
My point was to back up the grandparent. This is equally science as going into the woods, picking some berries and roots, grinding them and put them up your nose, doing an antibody test, and writing your conclusions up in a blog post. There
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
I don't agree that is technically falsified. I know you used "pretty strongly" as sarcasm, but falsifiability is absolute - and this is not. (On your later point about my claim that this is not scientific, we are back to the
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
The hypothesis "my homebrew works at scale" is falsifiable. As you say, that really isn't under test, nor is it a hypothesis the author cares about. The hypothesis "my homebrew has worked on me" is what the blog ask
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
Does "go into the woods and gather herbs" follow the scientific method if I write my observations neatly in a blog post? The author says they will accept that their homebrew worked if they get a positive antibody test (yet, plenty
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
The Bloomberg link posted above states he had a positive antibody test before administering the home brew.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
If the "machine learning feature" is acting as if it's a simple word-based filter, it's a simple word-based filter.
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by throwaway2245 6y ago
Counter-argument: It's important, of note, news, that the word 'Asian' is blocked (why else are you bothering to comment here?). Whether or not it's blocked for a semi-automated reason, this is indeed what discrimination

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