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cb18

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    Comment #13780556

    What medium-sized quadcopter has an hour long flight time? Is this something you follow very closely? Do you know of any write-ups on the economics and other feasibilities of drone…

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    Comment #13780483

    I don't know why people conflate these things. Policies intended to limit exposure to backwards, barbaric culture and ideas, and to low skill individuals is not shutting the US off…

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    There are no genetic markers that taken together say "this person is black" or "this person is white". Actually, there very much are. I think what you're trying to say is that not …

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    Comment #13367227

    Biological populations certainly do exist, it's just that they don't correlate well with prevailing concepts of "race". The average western African is more similar to the average E…

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    Comment #13367206

    While this article isn't entirely, reality denying non-sense, in fact mostly the opposite. The researchers do themselves and their readers huge a huge disservice with notions like,…

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    Comment #13307402

    The idea that we will soon control everything seems akin to other inaccurate prognostications. The combinatoric explosion of interactions between new "control technologies" alone w…

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    Comment #13297102

    Skin color is a relatively minor component of race, race describes the clustering of a whole host of traits and characteristics in a group of individuals. Yellow-skinned Africans w…

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    I'd probably edit my children to be darker. Having spent a few days on the beach in Thailand, the genetic inferiority of my own fair skin is quite visible and painful. Is this like…

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    ( Hey guys, if you disagree, then argue and reason scientifically, don't censor and "flag" ) 1. IQ / g factor ------------------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometr…

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    Comment #13297033

    No, what you're saying is that "hey look at me! I'm joining in and parroting the modern destructive and discursive forces and saying that nature in her infinite wisdom made my skin…

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    I suspect he's saying that his daily payment on his house is roughly on par, or less than the daily rate of a high priced hostel. You could have figured that out yourself without t…

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    Comment #12997503

    What is the relevance of the image at the top here of a sub-Saharan African to an article about an ancient European philosophy. An ancient European philosophy we know of today than…

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    Comment #12888400

    > US is killing everyone How?

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    Comment #12868945

    There is no evidence that doggedly pursuing multikulti fantasies is in any way broadly beneficial, in fact there is much evidence to the contrary. So who is the empathetic one?

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    unfortunately, that would cause a LOT of pain for good everyday people Consider that it is the crooked system that has led you to believe that. See this, newly released, https://ww…

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    Comment #12720858

    Because the WSJ wants Google to index their articles, but Google will penalize sites that show different content to a regular user vs a crawler. Or something like that.

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    Comment #12705479

    Thanks for providing that. Thomson grants for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life Thomson says, abortion does not violate the fetus's legitimate rights, but mer…

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    Comment #12704090

    But if you're solving/addressing a problem efficiently, you should work out a solution where the event space can be mapped such that events classed 'typical' should far outnumber e…

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    Comment #12703862

    No not really. Going back millennia, there has always been an elite within a society. The difference that is recent to emerge is that there is a growing disconnect between the inte…

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    Comment #12703713

    So you're basically saying that all babies in the womb should be regarded as having an illness. The illness being whether or not the mother chooses to terminate the pregnancy in an…

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    No one can force you to be an organ donor. Even if donating your organs would save someone's life, you have autonomy over your body and you are allowed to decline to be an organ do…

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    And another example of how wrong you are about rising tensions in the US, how many times in recent years have we seen some huge clusterf*ck about a supposed murder in cold blood th…