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gort

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    Comment #17905890

    Then adjust parent's argument to be about how tweets from Team Red and Team Blue are treated.

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    Comment #17107466

    Somewhat hastily compiled, here are (I think) all direct quotes from the article: https://pastebin.com/raw/5rhv1KjE I don't understand your complaint.

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    Comment #17020848

    Sure, but this is only possible if the original (shared) gene was really quite close to being able to transport oxygen.

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    Comment #17020667

    > Um. If this gene was the result of a mutation, isn't it possible, at least in theory, that mutation happened more than once? At two different times? At two different branches on …

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    Comment #16927015

    Magazines have traditionally had this thing where the new issue is dated as next month; maybe it's related to that. https://ask.metafilter.com/127200/How-do-magazine-publicatio...

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    Comment #16839480

    While I like this idea a lot, I doubt you'd get them to agree to it. They probably think (rightly or wrongly) they'd lose too many people if the extent of their data collection was…

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    Comment #16615259

    > people of color I know are worried about being in the wrong town after dark Is it really more dangerous to be black and in the wrong place than to be white and in the wrong place…

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    Comment #16570551

    "I can only write this comment because I live in a universe that allows life." Sure; but my point is, it's really quite unlikely that the one and only unplanned universe would have…

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    Comment #16570427

    "But our universe isn’t well suited for life, our planet is." I suggest that most possible universes would have zero regions containing life.

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    Comment #16570402

    Given how well-suited our universe seems to be for life, I feel like we should admit that one of 2 things is true... (1) There is a God who decides how things are. (2) Many univers…

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    Comment #16546975

    Wow. I briefly played with searching for these, but was skeptical if there was such a thing. This is one of the greatest discoveries in Life ever. (Though perhaps of little "practi…

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    Comment #16474986

    Actually - do we know if this is new? I found this from 2012, for example: https://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2012/07/05/google-... Edit: The Telegraph picked this up just n…

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    Comment #16474488

    I notice this has been pushed down the rankings on the frontpage (it was near the top a few minutes ago). Surely this sort of incompetent implementation of a politically-motivated …

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    Comment #16474221

    And "rifle", I think. You can't even do searches like "shogun" (famous novel) or "begun".

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    Comment #16367168

    Because of the site/system/admins, or the people who use it?

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    Comment #16268550

    Various people have tried to incorporate AG-like techniques into their Go programs. One you might wish to play with is Leela Zero, which is low to mid dan (amateur) now. To get thi…

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    Comment #16035588

    Since we're mostly debating the police action here, there's a short video available now of the fatal moment: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192244734.html The victim…

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    Comment #15428747

    Article from 2013, the crash was in 1962.

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    Comment #15358380

    Looks to me like it's trying to generate some sort of Buddhabrot, or possibly the anti-Buddhabrot from this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhabrot Actually now that I look …

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    Comment #15353385

    If the universe isn't infinite, isn't the idea that things sort of "wrap around"?

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    Comment #15187318

    > Why is 'being ruled by white Europeans' the draw to migrants over, say, the relative wealth of the west in the aggregate? It isn't of course. But suppose there's a country, Fooba…

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    Comment #15177226

    On your 2nd point: fair enough. I apologise for the implication.

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    Comment #15176298

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_... (Incidentally, since apparently I need to say this, I'll note that Reddit and Twitter users "gort" are not me.)