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>Runoffs are something people understand, IRV is conceptually similar and makes intuitive sense to people, it's very easy to explain to people, 'if nobody gets a majority, eliminat…

>I would stay away from acid if I had known schizophrenic antecedents in my family. But that's like with anything: be aware of risk factors, act accordingly. Don't eat too much sug…

>‘Thus,’ write the researchers, ‘the main effects of the intervention were wholly positive, and no costs of extraverted behaviour were detected for the average participant.’ The ad…

Does this remind anyone of season one of Fortitude on Prime?

>How much of your anxiety boils down to just not feeling confident about the appropriate actions to take or words to say in social situations? You're enabling your own prescription…

I've been there myself wrt marijuana addictions as a response to stressors, but if it wasn't herb it was alcohol would likely be the next best thing in the cases in the article. Le…

>Personally, I view this as a distinct upgrade. Instead of being coerced into lots of interaction with people I may have nothing in common with except vague geographical proximity,…

>As far back as the Ancient Greeks Socrates wrote extensively on exploiting emotions to achieve success in argument I'm guessing you meant Plato, Socrates was likely illiterate.

Except it's prohibitively expense to compete in that space hence the regulation.

That's a pretty lay way of gauging responses, a neurotic will respond to allegations as if they were actually guilty, regardless of verity

Those aren't mutually exclusive

>Let’s just give them a UBI check and pretend everything is fine. That has nothing to do with anything being discussed here.

Was crossing my fingers that there'd be support for relative line numbers but alas...

I like this because most social media functionality save for some exceptions (Snapchat, Telegram, etc) can be implemented over email

So thank you, Bitwig Studio https://www.bitwig.com/

> How does your comment fit with children being drugged and forced into prostitution? That's already illegal. You've just made discovering it harder. > And then adults being drugge…

>While I'm in favor of decriminalizing adults engaging in adult behavior, I don't believe anyone goes into selling sex with a healthy attitude towards sex. They're typically victim…

As a software engineer whose original line of work was continental European philosophy, its striking to read things like this because it shows how little we've progressed in philos…

I'm likely the developer that's in your target audience: a self-taught Junior in a feature factory with no mentorship and 'agile' cycles that have you always on the next thing afte…

All AAA games have either micro-transactions, additional purchasable content, or both

GP doesn't ask a question, he literally says I don't get it. The article is about post millennial teenagers' employ of technology and the effects therefrom, she/he doesn't even mak…

Because we come from the middle of Africa

If that were true, male lions (and bears, and others) wouldn't kill off the offspring of their mate that aren't there own, instead, electing to simply mate and move on to the next …

Pleasure and pain equally enable a self-satisfaction one might term 'happiness', like the pleasure of consistently demeaning oneself when one finds oneself frustrated by life becau…

>In addition, blacks need to rein in their offensive and exclusionary 'hip-hop' culture in the NBA as it is making whites uncomfortable and reluctant to join or remain in the leagu…