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I've assumed that. I appreciate the advice. I got a little heated in the Berkeley Study article this week. I guess I get to a point when some things are plain as day to me, such as…

Could it be that the birds that successfully avoided the collisions were the most fit to survive? Just a theory.

The paywall prevents me from finding out the economist's theory, but I can put forth my own. The two movies Sully and Deepwater Horizon, which both came out in 2016, are near mirro…

"Other areas of cortex can support 'declarative' memory formation. For example you can learn things like the definition of a new word (lang), features of a novel object (vis), wher…

This is similar to the question "When did you stop beating your wife?" You baselessly claim the action is true, and frame the question as if any answer must first acknowledge your …

I posit that this is largely due to your frame of reference. I will assume from your presence on hacker news that you already have learned programming. You are already familiar wit…

I think this is akin to the lament of the buggy whip industry from a century ago. Automobile manufacturers destroyed the market for buggy whips, yet the very same customers that pr…

Are you familiar with Node Red? It is an IBM project that is a self hosted website you can run on a raspberry pi, or a traditional PC or server. The tool allows you to graphically …

I can appreciate that they are different tools, but to accept your challenge, I submit three.js, along with the multiple websites that have boatloads of single feature demos. In th…

It's interesting to think about how apex predators are the keystone that propagates order in their ecosystem. For as long as humans have been aware of wolves, we have sought to era…

I've come to call this the abuse of polymorphic language. Polymorphic, meaning many shapes, is predominantly an object oriented software term, but it is obviously applicable to lan…

So your saying, like all science that arrives at an answer that controls for time, fourier analysis is our best heuristic. Much of your verbage describes the general concepts at pl…

Please stop jumping to the conclusion that I am off topic. My thesis that ties this story together, and showering in PE class, is that some people see boats, guns, and sailors movi…

At the risk of blowing your mind, my analogy was referring to the fact that people usually shower AFTER they get dirty. Blue collar workers shower after work, because their work is…

I just laid out the derivative of your behavior, and then you said "thats ridiculous, we quickly adapted over a short amount of time". So, if I hear you correctly, what your saying…

Allow me to contextualize all of your controversial deflection: You specifically selected parts of the body that finish maturing earlier than my statement, because it was the most …

Here's a secret: we all did. But ask yourself this. Think back in time to those dreadful experiences and remember the people who didn't _appear_ to dread the experience. Those peop…

The irony of defining a regional term in the context of other regional terms.

All people are particular about their routines. Some to greater degrees than others. Are you familiar with the phrase: "There are two types of jobs, those you shower before, and so…

Does it make your nebulous conspiracy theory more believable or less believable when you consider that the age of 18 is generally when people's bodies have reached full maturity? P…

Let me guess, you believe governments should be run like companies, right? Perhaps, ask yourself why you come down on the side of moneyed interests in every point you make. When I …

What was so traumatizing about the showers available to you in high school? Because I certainly remember first period gym, and I just took a shower afterwards. Then I was right as …

But those are controversial ideas that are not part of the reverence around Dr King. The conventional wisdom about Dr King is that he inspired an entire movement to universally tak…

I don't argue that they've been particularly successful, I simply said relatively successful. I mean relative to other recent movements that have never gone anywhere at all. The ve…

The true power in microtargeting lies in the iteration speed achievable by computers. As with any effective weapon, if you can wield yours faster than your opponent, you will emerg…