tstactplsignore

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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
Dear lord, they have an image problem... I quickly checked the site and all of the content they show on the front page (is this like an automated sampling of recent posts?) is atrociously sexist and frankly really low bar content intellige
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
Companies like Facebook and Apple are already killing what I'd call "free-range hacking" with the gadget-ification of computing- we don't need to speculate about hypothetical future government plans, it's here now,
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
>We have spent billions putting robots on mars and we have literally nothing to show for it. This kind of anti-intellectualism is really inexcusable. We've gained an enormous amount of knowledge from the rover expeditions to Mars ov
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
>Later, his idea of then taking shotgun sequencing and applying it to whatever DNA you could find floating in the Sargasso Sea or any random teaspoon of dirt literally opened a whole new world of evolutionary biology. This field is calle
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
Really? Can you show me a legitimate scientific project that the Obama administration shut down?
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
This is just one part pseudoscience, one part nonsequitor. There's zero accepted nutritional scientific evidence that plant protein cannot completely adequately replace meat sources. Yes, of course someone who literally just eats soy b
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
This just really doesn't make sense for a lot of research. Most science isn't this kind of "Does chemical X do Y?"- these kind of clinical trials and safety reviews are not really what most scientists are engaged in. The
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
Guess I and most of the people in my department are "those people"! Isn't your comment self-defeating? You have legitimate concerns about corporate abuse of IP law and a specific crop product- not with the scientific field
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
So you can learn something about scientific findings. Their texts are quite thorough, and the data is there- it bewilders me why you're complaining about a figure for every 1000 words of text (normal ratio for a scientific paper). I do
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
Upvoted because you're right. But honestly, I wasn't trying to engage with that poster: I was trying to engage with readers, by fighting this kind of nonsense simply by calling it out as such. I wish I could respond with a substan
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
This is mindboggling anti-intellectualism. There is absolutely zero substance to your claim. Scientific work is more rigorous and quantitative than ever, especially in climate science, and the fact that you are too lazy to learn the first t
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
Dear lord... it's revealing how little effort you will put into any research or understanding of these results. You come off as proud of your ignorance, and it's not the article's responsibility to cater to your obtuse and id
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
Also refuted by a team from Harvard medical school: http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/07/05/159707
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
I did my undergrad in biophysics and this is basically a simplified version of the currently accepted view. We now also know that some proteins fold in units, and can have multiple stable fold stopping points along the folding paths, and a
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
It's a cute story, but Bayer has disputed the results of this study, still disagrees that their pesticides impact bee populations, and shows no signs of phasing out sales as far as I know.
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
>To the average person, myself included, both "sides" have a profit motive in fudging the numbers. Yeah, this is almost entirely wrong. I'm sure there is slightly more public funding available in the Earth sciences because
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
>Whether it's for the better or worse simply doesn't matter Yikes- I have only a little sympathy for the taxi industry, but it is very scary that you do not believe we should be concerned with whether market forces improve soci
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
Is it possible to flag comments? Yours provides absolutely nothing of value to the conversation.
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
Going to respond to your comment too just in case you don't check replies to the parent: This is wrong. There is no peanut oil in modern vaccines. Even if there were, peanut oil is usually safe because it contains no peanut allergens.
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
If you care about what's true and what's not true, please downvote this. There is no peanut oil in modern vaccines. Even if there were, there are almost always no peanut allergens in peanut oil. This is completely wrong and danger
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
A lot of statistical analysis and R packages were pioneered for/by ecologists. In ecology we get some of the more complex and interesting data, and questions to be asked of that data. For example, the popular R package vegan was made f
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
It is difficult to imagine. A large part of it would have to be evidence of a elaborate conspiracy, and if I began to ever uncover such a thing I'd probably start by questioning my sanity. Imagine how difficult it would be for someone
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
Can you imagine anything that I could say or explain that might convince you otherwise?
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
>The planet; as-in this rocky, water-world orbiting Sol, will exist for BILLIONS of years. This is not a productive comment. Everyone knows that "the planet" in an environmental context refers to the living things on Earth. It&
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
No, a majority are distinctly private- CMC, Middlebury, and Dartmouth. The UC schools are the only public schools with high profile deplatforming debates recently. Let's be real, a very large portion of the conservatives in this deba
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
That's very interesting- Thanks for the response.
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by tstactplsignore 9y ago
Strong disagree. North Korea is a disastrous country run by a truly evil government. However, it does not perform the role you suggest. We merely look on it from the outside in, with all of our small and little prejudices, and selectively p
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
This is an extremely disingenuous article. Not even the worst case models of the Kessler syndrome predict any real impact on beyond-Earth space flight- rather, they are concerned with higher probabilities of impact over months to years
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China’s Social-Media Smoke Screen(harvardmagazine.com)
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
I've worked on this exact problem before. There are two kinds of possible errors: 1. On site errors- small errors that occur at the spot you intended to edit. Occur maybe 30% of the time- usually will not break anything, but worth thin

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