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Hospitals Reporting More Colorado Babies Being Born THC-Positive(denver.cbslocal.com)
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by alfapla 10y ago
At the risk of sounding snarky or disrespectful, I can't fail to notice how often people suffering from depression become all passionate and fiery when discussing the cause of (their) depression.
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by alfapla 11y ago
The job most likely to suffer massive layoffs in the future because of progress in AI is the job of the software developer.
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by alfapla 11y ago
In Belgium people will look at you funny if you ask for salt on your popcorn
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by alfapla 11y ago
I wouldn't call Richard Dawkings close minded. Here's a man who abandoned a successful career in biology because he found contemplating God more rewarding.
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by alfapla 11y ago
Well, you begin by following some basic training course. I suppose a school building is just as accessible as a gym building.
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by alfapla 11y ago
Don't want to be the negative guy, but sometimes I wonder why people would spend their physical energy on gym equipment while you may just as well learn a construction skill that leaves a tangible result and has some use in the real wo
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by alfapla 11y ago
Ignore any blog post that begins with "Why", "Please" or "Dear"
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by alfapla 11y ago
Why not link to the original article instead? ;) http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k56527v/f234.image Starting about halfway the page from "DEMONSTRATION TOUCHANT LE mouvement de la lumiere"
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by alfapla 11y ago
Cassini and Richter had measured the parallax of Mars (and therefore the distance to Mars) a couple of years earlier. Using Kepler's law they could then deduce the distances to the other planets.
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by alfapla 11y ago
The Chinese room argument is actually needlessly convoluted. Just imagine a piece of paper on which three words are printed: "I AM SAD". Now is there anyone who believes that this piece of paper is actually feeling sad just becaus
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by alfapla 11y ago
For Christ sake, this is a guy who writes a very useful text editor and hands it out for free. He's not the UN ambassador of global political reconciliation, as you seem to believe.
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by alfapla 11y ago
Your considerations may be true but there is simply no denying that there is some serious hypocrisy going on at the core of our value system. We fume when muslim terrorists bomb Paris, but we claim the right to bomb pretty much any muslim c
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by alfapla 11y ago
Actually, both Israel and Palestines are a bit befuddled that their eternal little conflict has lost a good deal of importance to the rest of the world in view of the bigger events in the Mideast. Which probably is a good thing, since both
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by alfapla 11y ago
> It's not intentional but I doubt ISIS sympathisers see the distinction. I don't see the distinction either. If you drop a bomb and kill some people that you didn't intend to kill, you're still 100% responsible for t
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by alfapla 11y ago
If you procrastinate a lot, it usually means that you really want to do something different with your life. Go find out what it is, rather than submitting yourself to all sorts of masochist self-discipline schemes.
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by alfapla 11y ago
If there's positive buzz about molten salt reactors, the most likely source of that buzz is people who want to get rich selling molten salt reactors.
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by alfapla 11y ago
If mobsters were that competent, they wouldn't be mobsters in the first place.
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by alfapla 11y ago
Plaster walls like a pro. I tried to learn it but I haven't got the knack.
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by alfapla 11y ago
This canard keeps popping up with such regularity that one start to wonder what kind of interest group is spinning this. The space around Chernobyl is still a dead zone. The only reason why animal life doesn't die out there is the perm
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by alfapla 11y ago
> I think the fact that Obama won in 2012 supports my argument that most people see him as basically competent. Not bad. A reasonable moderate who did a moderately reasonable job. My basic understanding of Obama's reelection in 2012
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by alfapla 11y ago
Humanity is suffering from a collective ADD epidemic under the spell of computers and internet and children are getting the worst of it. Computers are the last thing that kids under 12 need in a classroom. Teach them something that involves
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by alfapla 11y ago
One of the reasons why poverty is so difficult to solve is that, in a way, poverty is a biological niche. Even if you could manage to lift everyone out of poverty, that niche will still be there, waiting to be filled again.
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by alfapla 11y ago
It's little more than a year ago that Brendan Eich was ousted from Mozilla by an ugly orchestrated cabal. When I read Mitchell Baker's vapid blog post [1] on the decision, filled with polite backstabbing and politically correct bu
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by alfapla 11y ago
Your brain is probably the most subtle instrument in the universe and you're plain stupid if you're going to blast it with synthetic drugs the long term effects of which are still unclear. And for what? Most of you people are alre
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by alfapla 11y ago
If the Greek don't like the deal they're free to leave the union.
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by alfapla 11y ago
I hope the people will look back to the way the tobacco industry has killed thousands by ruthlessly effective marketing, intentionally making their product more addictive, spreading misinformation and lobbying against laws that were in the
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by alfapla 11y ago
"There's already a lot of bad things, so let's have one more bad thing"