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Cannabis also seems to have some relation to Testicular cancer; e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5812006/

How do you find the optimal split?

I think your main point is wrong. It might be that some of the technological advancements are still (73 years after it was written) unrealistic, but they are not what makes the world 'bad': They are just tools to bring the ideas about caste and class to their extremes, and make them clearer that way.

I would agree though that not all aspects of the 'dystopian world' are bad, and it's very interesting to read his utopian book Island, that definitely embraces drug and hedonism, but in a different way.

I don't think I ever encountered that argument, and when I see people arguing against it, it always seems to be a straw man.

The argument I've encountered goes more like this: Because there has been historical oppression, we can't easily distinguish the influence of that from biology and should remove the oppression before we come up with biological theories that justify the oppression. That seems reasonable to me.

I don't think anyone is denying physical differences between people with XX and XY chromosomes. I also think it's common knowledge by now that sex influences the development of diseases (which is what the paper is about).

What the debate is usually about is inequalities in social power relations and whether these can be attributed to what you call 'social conditioning' or biology. This paper doesn't contribute anything to that question.

You seem to suggest that people are completely determined by their biological setup, and that there are no influences from society. I don't think that's right.

Hades is not hell, and actually not such a bad place. It's where all people go when they die, and only a small part is for torturing bad people.

I think the point is not doing what you believe to be wrong.

And to have ethics as a group, there needs to be some discussion on what's right and wrong. That might help you to (further) develop your own ethics, and also give you same backup from your peers if you decide to not do something.

No, not for all nouns. But if the noun refers to a person, there are usually two different nouns for each gender and the male form is often used to include females. There are modern attempts to fix this by introducing a new noun (ending) that includes both male and female (or more) genders.

Yes, but the article suggests that there might be demand for something that does not exist at the moment.

Or the UK.

I think they already started going there, at least in the UK. All my latest orders were delivered by 'Amazon Logistics'.

Really? Only the professors deserve their own line?

Although the kickstarter campaign is over, they still accept pledges towards their stretch goals:

http://satellitereign.com/pledge/

Am I the only one who thinks that the repeated attacks on drugs and drug usage are really unnecessary (and not well informed on the topic)?

The "Amadeu Antonio Stiftung" has a list [1] of 183 deaths after 1990, where they describe the circumstances of each death. There is also a German wikipedia article that discusses different statistics [2].

Sorry, both sources are in German. Maybe Google translate will help a little?

[1] http://www.mut-gegen-rechte-gewalt.de/news/chronik-der-gewal...

[2] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todesopfer_rechtsextremer_Gewal...

It's not quite the same. Apart from the fact that the EDL are not neonazis, over 100 asylum seekers were killed by racists in the last 20 years in Germany. Some of the bigger events were racist riots in Rostock [1] and Hoyerswerda [2], and arson attacks on asylum seeker homes in Solingen [3] and Lubeck.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_of_Rostock-Lichtenhagen

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_of_Hoyerswerda

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solingen_arson_attack_of_1993

How did it take you weeks to install? You basically just extract a small archive.

Seriously? This is a photo of someone eating pork. I can only see how you can be 'offended' by this photo if you think no one should be eating pork.

Vodafone does that too. I found out when I was trying to look up a wine at tesco.com and it was blocked.

Do you really think societal structures that privilege men are a myth? Apart from being quite obvious to anyone who is not extremely biased, there are whole academic branches that study this. I'd say calling that "mythology" puts you into conspiracy theory territory.

I agree that it is written a bit casually, but can you explain what the "easily spotted lies" and the misconstructed arguments are? Also, who is "they"?

I know this is not on the official line of most articles that make it to the frontpage, but I thought a different perspective that tries to analyse the motives of Snowden's helpers might be interesting.

Were tens of millions of Germans really involved in a conspiracy to industrially murder millions? Of course. They just weren't aware of it.

This isn't true. There has been quite a bit of research and when Germans say they didn't know anything they were just making excuses after they lost the war.

I picked this out because it seemed to be quite central to your argument.

The title is misleading: the city wants to distribute around 2000 linux CDs at events -- that's hardly making it a norm.

This reminds me of the following study, that had similar results but a better title:

  How fast does the Grim Reaper walk? 
  http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d7679

You don't like "lighthearted jabs", but you call yourself waffle_ss!?

I watched your video, but I feel like it didn't quite tell me what 'bohr' actually does to help me write (or read?) papers.

I just wanted to submit this: it's the best informed article I've seen so far.

> Pause. This doesn't make sense. If you have a polynomial algorithm then it's in P. If you've reduced HC to MSP then you've already shown MSP is NP-Hard.

This actually makes sense, although it wouldn't be necessary to point out.

If the author proves that P=NP, then all problems in P are NP-complete (because every problem in P is reducible to any non-trivial problem in P).

The paper doesn't look very promising to me, but the basic logic of the argument makes sense.

I'm not sure, but I think I did understand what you were saying. I was genuinely interested in undecidable problems people might run into and that are easily seen to be at least as powerful as the halting problem. Thanks for the example!

I think it's usually just called the pigeonhole principle. It's a special case of the Infinite Ramsey Theorem.