piombisallow

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by piombisallow 2mo ago
I mean yeah, maybe, but this is how everything works
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by piombisallow 2mo ago
So? What should be the correct rate of accepted claims? Or should companies simply accept all insurance claims?
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by piombisallow 3mo ago
The Cheese and the Worms was lovely. It also dissuades you of any notion of the idyllic past, the sheer weight and organization of the totalitarian church was impressive.
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by piombisallow 7mo ago
That's also what most grad students are doing. Even in the unlikely case they completely stop improving, it's still a massive deal.
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by piombisallow 1y ago
First heart transplant lived for 18 days post-op, it has to start somewhere.
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by piombisallow 1y ago
A lot of British bio/med researchers in the US too
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by piombisallow 1y ago
This is a very utilitarian view of learning. Mass education isn't meant just to teach you marketable skills, it's quite explicitly designed to create a shared understanding of the world, a nation. Plus in "medieval" time
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by piombisallow 1y ago
IF implemented in a sane manner, I don't see how this is worse than a lottery based system.
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by piombisallow 1y ago
"Same in the West" lmao, when were scientists executed in the West? The 1500s?
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by piombisallow 1y ago
Yes it is: "Group selection, which was once widely rejected as a significant evolutionary force, is now accepted by all who seriously study the subject." ( https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3110649/
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by piombisallow 1y ago
Menopause is also an obvious planned partial shutdown (vs males who can reproduce when they're 80) and we're no closer to "curing" it, turning it off.
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by piombisallow 1y ago
Yes, it's widely accepted that you have variable proportions of individual vs group level selection depending on circumstances.
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by piombisallow 1y ago
Height is controlled by genes too and you don't get people shorter than 0.5 m or taller than 3 m
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by piombisallow 1y ago
It's very likely that aging is driven by some kind of scheduled gene program. It makes perfect sense to phase out individuals from a group-level selection point of view.
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by piombisallow 1y ago
Nicotine by itself doesn't cause cancer.
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by piombisallow 1y ago
Computers are just "doing math" too and the government uses them
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by piombisallow 1y ago
I never understood what the microtubule woo is supposed to answer that isn't answerable by neural network dynamics.
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by piombisallow 1y ago
It would have been bright and shiny when new back then too
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by piombisallow 1y ago
That's a lot of words, including a sentence that in which the author almost compares himself with Galileo. The proof is in the pudding no? What did you predict with it?
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by piombisallow 1y ago
One more way to scam desperate parents doing IVF out of their money.
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by piombisallow 1y ago
"public interest" is a much more ambiguous thing than the written law
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by piombisallow 1y ago
Regardless of the details of this specific case, the courts are not democratic and do not decide based on the interest of the parties or how many they are, they decide based on the law.
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by piombisallow 1y ago
Riveting bleeding edge research in the humanities - we now use one term instead of another for the same thing.
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by piombisallow 1y ago
Most of the things you listed aren't aging related
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by piombisallow 1y ago
Radiation effects are vastly overrated.
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by piombisallow 1y ago
Just upload an already published paper to test it
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by piombisallow 1y ago
We must design better note taking software in order to continue improving our note taking software
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by piombisallow 1y ago
Why would they not think it's from the same word? Foresight, hindsight obviously come from 'sight'.
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by piombisallow 1y ago
This is why I hate seeing all the medical people in their scrubs in the supermarket and coffeeshops around campus.
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by piombisallow 1y ago
Just one more ministry bro, I beg you, just one more ministry and we solve European growth, a couple more bureaucrats, c'mon

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