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by azeotropic 7y ago
This actually sounds like an honest (mis?)diagnosis. Confusing migraine and temporal lobe epilepsy is not a particularly egregious mistake, and the two conditions often occur together. A number of anti-seizure medications are prescribed to
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Wasn’t one of the early findings of the investigation that Reif had signed a thank you note to Epstein for his donations, and had sat in the meeting where the institute decided faculty could take Epstein’s money as long as he donated anonym
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by azeotropic 7y ago
I always assumed that this disconnect was because most domestic u.s. air travel is business related, so that in general, the traveler is not the customer.
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by azeotropic 7y ago
There was a lot of strange stuff going on with the FBI in the Tsarnaev case. Agents from the Boston FBI office traveled to Florida and shot Ibragim Todashev and then couldn’t get their story straight about whether he attacked FBI agents wit
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Ah, where’s the latest orbital data?
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by azeotropic 7y ago
This seems like an unlikely coincidence — if I’m reading this other link right, it had been flying over Syria. https://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=39025 Edit: obviously I read it wrong. Still a strange coincidenc
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Yeah, aren’t most games single-threaded? I doubt this affects gaming performance very much.
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Alternative (and to my mind more likely) hypothesis: poor brain health causes bad decision making and unstable income.
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Yeah, the whole problem is that traditional publishing is designed around creating the best experience for publishers, not for authors or audiences. The reference formatting thing is just one of the ways they make it obnoxious for authors (
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Except Ito wasn’t the only faculty member taking money from Epstein, and the Media lab wasn’t the only department. The thank-you letter to Epstein that Reif signed was for money Epstein gave to support Seth Lloyd — a professor in mechanical
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Speaking of universities that can afford it, did the other university in Cambridge ever complete it’s investigation into Epstein funds?
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Does “deceive the integrity” have some specific legal meaning wherever you’re from? I can’t find any hits for the phrase in DDG. What are you trying to argue? I was not vindicating Ito of anything except the narrow charge (made in Ronan Far
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by azeotropic 7y ago
So it looks like Ito wasn’t trying to deceive the administration about the source of Epstein’s donations by marking them as anonymous (as the New Yorker article implied), but rather he was marking them as anonymous because the administratio
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Russian Submariners Died Preventing Planetary Catastrophe(translate.googleusercontent.com)
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by azeotropic 7y ago
I'm not sure why having neurons enters into the equation at all when deciding whether something is conscious. This is a hard question and the Feinberg-Mallatt definition of consciousness seems circular. An artificial or alien life fo
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by azeotropic 7y ago
I'll just leave this here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Everyone who wrote and authorized this press release ought to be fired. The paper offers no evidence of relevance to epigenetic inheritance, and has nothing to do with nature vs. nurture. All that's going on here is that people in the
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Sounds like it's only part of the reason, if I'm correctly parsing "... and the stimulation of gastric motility" as a second mechanism of action.
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by azeotropic 7y ago
He may be a crackpot, and this book is not a well-written summary of the literature, but the idea of magnesium levels influencing depression is not a crackpot idea. Magnesium is a cofactor for the enzymes that convert tryptophan into seroto
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Animals need cholesterol for their cell membranes; particularly for neurons. It's a precursor for Vitamin D, testosterone, and estrogen and is needed in the blood to help transport fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K). It doesn't see
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Sad to see the Soviet complaints about the allies not opening a second front in Europe until 1944 uncritically reported. The allies invaded Italy in 1943.
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by azeotropic 7y ago
In the US, the cable tv market is subject to the exact same local monopolies as the isp market; in fact, they are often the same company.
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by azeotropic 7y ago
This is a strange way compare NASA's budget size over time. It mostly reflects the out of control growth of entitlement spending, which was only 20% of the budget in the 1960s and is half of the budget now ( https://www.usgov
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by azeotropic 7y ago
No. Even if it were pure platinum that required no refinement it would still be more expensive to return it to earth than to mine and refine earth platinum.
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by azeotropic 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dolezal
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by azeotropic 7y ago
I'll admit to being wildly inconsistent on this, since I do care about what I perceive as the suffering of some of my favorite individual plants and animals, but not enough about the suffering of plants or animals in general to stop ea
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by azeotropic 7y ago
A question isn't an argument. I'm genuinely curious about how people have decided what suffers and what does not.
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by azeotropic 7y ago
>there's little suggesting plants are capable of experiencing suffering (or experiencing anything at all). So walk me through this, I'm curious how you know whether or not plants have experiences? How would you know whether any
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by azeotropic 7y ago
Would you consider these more or less processed than butter, yoghurt, cheese, peanut butter, pickles, or chocolate? Why?
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by azeotropic 7y ago
How do you know plants don't suffer as they die? That seems like a pretty bold assertion. Sure they don't really have muscles, so they don't thrash around like animals, and they don't make noise or cry out when they are

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