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The third remarkable thing about Cohen’s plea was its substance. The president of the United States’ personal lawyer admitted to lying to Congress about the president’s business activities with a hostile foreign power, in order to support the presid…
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@Bill said: You cannot repeal natural selection. We have the choice of maintaining the human collective genome in a kindly way, or nature will maintain it in a harsh way. There is no third option. Millenarianism correlates strongly with i…
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I'm not sure I follow the hype. It sounds like we're essentially talking about machine learning, applied to medicine - which is huge and exciting, certainly. But is genome data a particularly useful signal? I mean, if you want an AI to detect cancer…
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Finally! Genetics on the blockchain! Start the party!
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@Bill said: I find if an author simply declares something about the way human beings will do something, and it contrasts sharply with the way I think human beings will do something, the story becomes pretty much irretrievable. That's lite…
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To be honest this sounds more like a logic puzzle than a story. Shouldn't it all depend on what's meant to happen - i.e. who the characters are and what they're up against? If the story to be told needs a number to be ~1%, then just say that, and ha…
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Apparently 15 different incumbent representatives with "A" ratings from the NRA lost their seats the other day, all 15 being replaced by candidates with "F" ratings.
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@Rufus said: The entire country suffers from confirmation bias. I knew it!
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Seems like America's just incapable of having a bipartisan reaction to anything anymore. Be it school shooting massacres, endless war, shitty veteran hospitals, undrinkable water, kids in cages, foreign interference in elections, whatever - nothing …
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@Bill said: Sure it is. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but nope. E.g: if someone enters on a tourist visa and never leaves, that's not a crime. (They could be subject to civil penalties and deportation of course.) They are crim…
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@Bill said: Ruling on whether the 14th Amendment should apply to the children of people here illegally isn't legislating from the bench. It originally was one of the post Civil War amendments and was aimed at ex-slaves. The authors never even con…
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US president says he instructed US troops to commit war crimes lol
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So you're saying vibrators don't exist? I have to disagree.
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Ooh boy, another "X and Y aren't useful labels, don't map well to reality, and have no accepted definitions, but here's a bunch of things I strongly believe about Xists and Yists" hoedown. Yeehaw! Meanwhile on the planet earth, the obvious label …
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Trump is trying to get the supreme court to reinterpret the constitution, said the guy who also says Trump wants originalist judges who won't legislate from the bench.
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Hold on, it's not the cozying up to totalitarian foreign leaders is it?
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Was it the "free press is the enemy of the people" stuff?
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Vibrators are a social construct.
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Yeah clme, what part of mass shootings, pipe bombs, and repealing the 14th amendment do you find "radical"?
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Demand your money back.
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@UnclePat said: Eleven dead and a bunch of pipe bombs from right-wing terrorists this week Leftist activists have been shouting in restaurants Basically there's animosity on both sides
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@Bill said: In the sense of formal logic, your point might be valid. In the sense of the subject under discussion, I don't think it makes much practical difference. I know you don't, but the "race is a social construct" position hinges on…
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A: Show me somebody who can't discuss an issue without claiming the other side is mentally ill, and I'll show you someone who has no coherent opinion on the topic at hand. B: Bill might disagree with that. A: Who cares what Bill says? He's men…
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Geneticists have even become good enough to detect which parts of a given continent one's ancestors hailed from. 23andMe can detect ancestors from the various regions of Europe, and those barriers to genetic mixing were mostly just political boundar…
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Incidentally to clarify, the question being implicitly asked was whether or not "hispanic" is one of the genetic populations that you claim directly correspond to self-identified races for the vast majority of people. If it is, then all members o…
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@Bill said: There just aren't many people who claim to be Japanese because 23andMe says that .1% of their genes came from Japan. Of course there aren't, that's not at issue. The position you're arguing against has no relation to the posit…
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@Bill said: Calling something a social construct isn't that meaningful. It's meaningful if we both understand what I mean, full stop. Do you not? This hand-wavey insinuation serves no purpose. (Unless, as I said, you're just trying to …
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@Bill said: Calling something a social construct usually isn't helpful. Most persons who make such claims are obfuscating rather than clarifying. Everything is a social construct in the sense that a complex reality is getting mapped onto symbols.…
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@Bill said: Go back about nine generations and, according to 23andMe, I have a North African ancestor. Go back about ten and I have a Japanese ancestor. Next census I might claim to be an African-Asian-Caucasian mix. Or maybe I'll check other an…