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by tropdrop 7y ago
But the very nature of your dissent increased the chances of you getting that A - this is a little similar to why we have Publication bias in scientific papers. What more interesting things would you have to say on this paper by concurring
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Here are some examples that make me give the idea a little credence - To this day, despite over 1000 years of Christianity, Russian people continue to uphold some superstitions (and, in the case of 'Maslenitsa'[1], holidays) that
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99 Percent Invisible has a great episode[1] discussing exactly this kind of facility in New Mexico and the consternation it caused for a committee of some of the greatest minds of the 20th century that was tasked with attempting to write th
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The phenomenon going on here reminds me a little of what happens in BDSM communities. While I personally don't understand the appeal of that kind of sexual escapade, I also understand the logic of it - In normal, daily life, people mus
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I'm going to quote the facts you provided earlier: When Google closed DoubleClick, he was " Product Management Director for Ad Serving, reporting to Susan Wojcicki, VP of Product Management." She made no claims about what po
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One could argue that Bill Clinton's response to whether he had "sexual relations with that woman" is also a "framing issue." (How do you define relations? If you define sexual relations a certain way, Clinton's
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Claim is pretty straightforward. Mohan blames viewers and takes no accountability for any extremism on YouTube, repeatedly failing to acknowledge the role of autoplay. This paragraph summarizes it nicely: "Even the reporter interviewin
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It's just one of those tools that is very foreign to new users, but once you know how to use it, you can't remember not knowing how to use it because it's so easy... this is like a lot of programming, actually.
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Most of OP's post isn't just the basic Git commands - it's super-user features that might help a novice who can do the basic add/commit/push/pull chain but doesn't even know you can revert in Git history,
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Check out Zadie Smith's fascinating treatment of Justin Bieber as love object in Feel Free [1], where she argues Bieber and Buber are, after all, English versions of the same German name, so in her mind, the pop star and Jewish philoso
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Ah, yes, so if you are a victim of a violent crime (let's say, someone mugged you at gunpoint, but did not bruise you - just held you at gunpoint until you surrendered your wallet), it seems perfectly reasonable for the police to hold
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Thank you for sharing - not being familiar with calibration cards, I only paid attention to the features of faces (which seem well-rendered on the print), though the white dresses seemed to unnaturally lack shadow. I did not notice how the
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This is a gross oversimplification, especially washing in a family (> 1 person). 1. Sorting - when you buy clothing, do you take handling instructions into account? Accounting for handling is very hard! Good luck shopping online, hunting
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I hope you read the article I linked to - this is all info you would find there. I really don't agree this is "better." Given these two horrible choices, I would rather be afforded freedom to roam (even with heavy things), ge
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by tropdrop 7y ago
Well, you know one now! I have a copper IUD and I cannot recommend it enough. My body reacts poorly to hormones, so the pill wasn't an option, but a condom-only based approach to birth control wasn't going to work in a monogamous,
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This needs to come to some far villages in Nepal. In many villages, women are banished to small, cold huts at the outskirts of villages to remain - alone, shut in, and forbidden to go outside - until the end of the period. https:/&#x2
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I've heard women with an IUD might have problems wearing them, which is tragic given that IUDs are the safest, most reliable, most effective birth control method (yet another essential life-tax to being female...) Do you know any women
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For context: many places around the US will separate food, drugs, and medical appliances (considered essential for life) from all other goods, taxing the former at 2% and the latter at something like 8-10% - Chicago, for example [1]. This 2
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It is quite possible to be extremely knowledgeable about a field and dole out nuggets of wisdom in such a way as to inspire others to take more interest and share their ideas with you. It is also possible to demoralize and silence newcomers
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You're not really arguing with me here - my point is that 'za' had a multitude of meanings prior to the split of West and East Slavic.
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Sure. However, for this simple illustration of how sound bites evolve in meaning over time, I think it makes more sense to look at the semantics of the phoneme "za" rather than the prefix's technical grammatical meaning (thou
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Since all these languages were fathered by Slavic, I would think of it less in terms of a group of people "borrowing a word" from another and then "changing its meaning," and more like branches of a tree, the root a stab
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I had doubts listening to this episode - for something as intractable as the artistic/architectural zeitgeist of modernism, could we really attribute as much cause-and-effect to Froebel's invention of kindergarten as Roman Mars se
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> "We discarded college faculty in the same way that we discarded bookkeepers: by finally letting women do it after decades of declaring that impossible, and then immediately reducing the status of the work once it became evident th
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It's mind boggling that they just "forgot" about COPPA. Out of curiosity I browse the Snapchat scrolling feed from time to time, and since a few months ago I have been inundated with TikTok ads. 90% of them seem to be target
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Given that this trend is global, doesn't increased access to safe abortion make more sense than claims about lead specifically in the United States? In the US, the sharp reduction in crime happened 18-24 years after the legalization o
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What about Steven Levitt's proposal that legalized abortion is the cause of suddenly vanishing juvenile crime, 20 years after Roe v. Wade? "Data indicates that crime in the United States started to decline in 1992. Donohue and Lev
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The study is not disproving the efficacy of analgesic drugs of most organisms - only suggesting that not all pain mechanisms are well understood, which is a reasonable suggestion. Further, given our (US) current opioid epidemic and death co
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Some takeaways that underscore the fact that it took the NIH until 2016 to require animal research to feature both male and female animals - "Women greatly outnumber men among migraine sufferers, and women made up about 85 percent of t
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Please refrain from bringing down the discourse to a "reddit style" battle of controversial sound bites. Something in the scope of a well-elucidated argument/claim (complete with interesting insights and/or evidence) abo

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