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by topmonk 9y ago
As far as what I heard is that in cultures where a woman can choose watch she wants to do, most will not choose tech. Whereas, in countries where women are expected to do what society wants them to do, they are forced into tech because that
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I had a thought that the left tries to divvy up what value already exists, and the right tries to create an environment where new value can be created. In order for the left to justify their agenda, they try to make it seem that it's p
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by topmonk 9y ago
> - Ketamine seems to have a much larger effect size (-~0.99 [1] vs -~0.35 for typical antidepressants [2]) [If anyone spots an error, please let me know] I've heard that 35% figure bandied about for awhile now. Does this take into
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by topmonk 9y ago
> Also...yes, you can transfer files over IMs. Yes, having good encryption protects everyone. Duh, where is the news? Maybe that's part of why the article feels extremely sensationalist to me. According to the article, you can uploa
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by topmonk 9y ago
That's a flawed analogy. Eating tomatoes from your own garden would be akin to listening to music that you yourself composed and recorded. If you enjoy content and declare "It isn't worth the price, and I wouldn't have b
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If those songs weren't there for free, would you be just staring at a wall doing nothing? You may not be stealing directly from the people whose works you are entertaining yourself with, but you are stealing from the people whose works
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This doesn't report the length of time one might experience these symptoms. A couple of days with the flu vs 2 months of electric shock sensations is a big difference, and could influence whether someone would want to start using these
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> But when you go back to a country that uses only toilet paper you either have to go out of your way (and pay a lot of money to renovate your bathroom) to find the kind of modern automated toilet seat that does add the features you&#x27
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So does cash
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I disagree that is the reason we haven't understood the brain. If we could replicate the underlying process, we could attempt to simulate a brain and maybe successfully so, even if we don't understand why it works. The main proble
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I agree that music can help you work, but I also think at the same time, it can negatively affect your motivation to work. I also do listen to the same subliminal audio recordings over and over again, and it fades into the background afte
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I had the same problem you do. I used somewhat of an out of the box solution, which is to listen to subliminal audio. I do this while working, so it costs me no time at all. You can find some free ones on youtube. It changed me from someone
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by topmonk 9y ago
Agreed. We should destroy an many animals in nature as possible to prevent them from reproducing and causing more suffering. All animals should only be allowed to be raised in captivity and killed as humanely as possible. And from there it
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The null hypothesis would be to accept the state of things as they are. If there are very few women in computer science, you wouldn't assume it was due to some conspiracy or "systematic discrimination" without any proof. You
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FYI, the origin of HODL: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0
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Because the latter requires more technical knowledge that he probably didn't have. He'd have to reverse engineer the machine code.
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The point is that they didn't even know what electricity was. If they saw a spark they wouldn't think, "Oh, high voltage", but rather "Must be supernatural, or a holy light"
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> It's a socialist program. > It's effective. I never said there shouldn't be any social services. I don't think 100% socialism is the answer, though. > It's cheaper. You are comparing San Francisco to ot
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Because more people would apply. Giving away money doesn't just attract people within your city's borders only.
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> The government simply gives the homeless person a house, no questions asked, no strings attached. You want a house, you get one. Your references don't support this. [0] > The idea of Housing First is that housing comes first, s
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by topmonk 9y ago
Giving anyone who shows up and claims they are homeless $30K is the cheapest and most effective way to solve the problem? It sounds like the most effective way to rob SF of its treasury.
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The article itself points out that SF is already spending $305 million a year on homelessness. The number of homeless people is only officially 6500. It's probably closer to 12,000 but how much more do you want to spend? That's $4
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> Imagine if Mexico had the manufacturing capability of China, plus a growing middle class, fueled by no-education-necessary manufacturing jobs. More excessive pollution? We don't need another China.
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I would imagine the guilty party (who would leave) in this case would be the USA as a whole, itself... If you owe somebody $20, that's your problem. If you owe them $1 million, that's theirs.
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> Aka if you get 50$ off your taxes this year but your share of the national debt increases by 5,000$ then you are far worse off. Why? Do you suppose in the future, we'll all pay off the debt equally?
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I would think it would be. The strange thing is the markets didn't react at all. They actually went up on January 4th.
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We didn't have to give up cars for the ozone layer, though. In fact, no one had to give up anything, because they invented new types of aerosol propellents. We are never going to fix this.
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Yes, there is evidence: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/17/no-voter-fr... There is also the MSM's tendency not to investigate, due to political correctness, the government's tende
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> My point was that your video seemed out of place since the actual issue is that cops in the U.S. are held to a different standard for murder. That video was part of a specific response refuting the idea that if the cops just used drone
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Protection from the government was justifiable before, but now that governments have gained so much power, guns in the hands of the citizenry aren't going to stop them. So what's the point of still letting citizens keep them?

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