In other news today...
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Anyone looking for a job? I think some of you guys might qualify:
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The listing says ideal candidates should have "exceptional sleeping ability," the "desire to sleep as much as possible" and an "ability to sleep through anything."
My son says he has none of those abilities and desires. My experience disagrees.
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Something something mattresses and napping. (Although I suppose that leads us down the path to animal testing, and that's a big no no...)
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@cvi mostly because of the paperwork, right?
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@topspin I don't think spiders can sign consent forms.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
"The international team of researchers found that people with a strong sense of fairness cheat less – regardless of whether they had previously won or lost."
(I had to use Copy Paste Pro is Disabled to copy that quote. Is that cheating?)
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
"This highly-cited study of relatively small sample sizes "
Motherfuckers. Stop wasting everyone's time.
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
(I had to use Copy Paste Pro is Disabled to copy that quote. Is that cheating?)
Hmm...didn't even notice that. I used the primary selection method to copy my text. Selecting + ctrl-c seems to work, too.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
(I had to use Copy Paste Pro is Disabled to copy that quote. Is that cheating?)
Hmm...didn't even notice that. I used the primary selection method to copy my text. Selecting + ctrl-c seems to work, too.
Seems to just be in Chromium for me, where the copy option doesn't even show up in the right-click menu without the extension. I tried in Tor and had no problem copying.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
(I had to use Copy Paste Pro is Disabled to copy that quote. Is that cheating?)
Hmm...didn't even notice that. I used the primary selection method to copy my text. Selecting + ctrl-c seems to work, too.
Seems to just be in Chromium for me, where the copy option doesn't even show up in the right-click menu without the extension. I tried in Tor and had no problem copying.
Yeah, in chrome a right click deselects the text and so there's no copy.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
"The international team of researchers found that people with a strong sense of fairness cheat less"
They've also found outgoing people talk more, people who dislike cheese eat less cheese, and people who can't swim stay out of the deep end of pools.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
"The international team of researchers found that people with a strong sense of fairness cheat less"
They've also found outgoing people talk more, people who dislike cheese eat less cheese, and people who can't swim stay out of the deep end of pools.
The study is not as dumb as you make it sound. There are people (usually ones without much of a conscience) who will claim that no one is better than anyone else, no one is more moral or cheats less than anyone else. This is a small point that refutes the earlier, smaller study.
I have thought that, if I were a sociologist, one study I would like to do would be whether belief in the permanency of marriage correlates with length of marriage. I see many studies that examine whether other factors (e.g. age at marriage) correlate with divorce rate, but I have not seen one that compares beliefs about marriage with divorce rate.
For example, do people who truly believe "til death do you part" have a lower divorce rate than people who believe that you should get divorced as soon as you feel that the marriage isn't making you happy? There have been studies comparing religious denominations, but that's not the same as individual beliefs.
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@jinpa I guess it depends on what "sense of fairness" is.
Ie, if it's a characteristic of the universe (then it's anyone's game), or a goal (which is how I interpreted it).
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
"The international team of researchers found that people with a strong sense of fairness cheat less"
They've also found outgoing people talk more, people who dislike cheese eat less cheese, and people who can't swim stay out of the deep end of pools.
In other late-breaking news, circles are found to exhibit roundness, and water may contain moisture.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
"The international team of researchers found that people with a strong sense of fairness cheat less"
They've also found outgoing people talk more, people who dislike cheese eat less cheese, and people who can't swim stay out of the deep end of pools.
In other late-breaking news, circles are found to exhibit roundness, and water may contain moisture.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Is molybdenum and vanadium also affordable and sustainable, or is it just calcium that wrote the headline?
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@Applied-Mediocrity Molybdenum and vanadium are not, that I know of, part of human bones; so that makes them more boring as far as I'm concerned.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Wake me up when they come with skis and snow chains. And heating; in the winter, I'm not commuting with anything that doesn't have heating. My kids would freeze to death before we got all the way to daycare.
And then we get to the topography of Finland. You know what Amsterdam has that Helsinki doesn't? A flat acre.
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I want to see one of these cycling enthusiasts cycle my commute route with my kids in tow. Because no matter how fit they are, I bet they'll be wheezing like an asthmatic before they're halfway through.The traditional car is oversized for carting just 2 kids to daycare and me to workplace, in an urban area, yes. But considering the above, the replacement is more likely to be a heated-cabin tuk-tuk than a cargo bicycle.
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@Applied-Mediocrity molybdenum is slightly rare and rather a bitch to deal with. Don't remember vanadium.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
And heating; in the winter, I'm not commuting with anything that doesn't have heating.
(; I do realize that there's a major difference between the coast and inland.)
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Is molybdenum and vanadium also affordable and sustainable
Dunno about affordable or sustainable, but molybdenum is made in many countries (China most of all, but Chile and the US are also big makers); it's used a lot in some types of steel. I remember my grandfather having a very boring book on the subject. Vanadium is a bit trickier (and isn't made in such large quantities), but is still made in many places. I've no idea what world reserves of these metals are, but they're not exactly rare.
I'd guess that if anywhere tries to play silly games with any of these, somewhere else will ramp up production. The limit for production right now is almost certainly demand.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
molybdenum is made in many countries
Molybdenum is a chemical element with the symbol Mo and atomic number 42
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@boomzilla The ores are found in many places. The smelting of it into metal (creating the metal from the ore, in a sense) occurs in multiple countries.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Wake me up when they come with skis and snow chains. And heating; in the winter, I'm not commuting with anything that doesn't have heating. My kids would freeze to death before we got all the way to daycare.
And then we get to the topography of Finland. You know what Amsterdam has that Helsinki doesn't? A flat acre.
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I want to see one of these cycling enthusiasts cycle my commute route with my kids in tow. Because no matter how fit they are, I bet they'll be wheezing like an asthmatic before they're halfway through.Looks like everyone in Finland will have to die For the planet.
Also: for reasons concerning very niche Polish movies, I find molybdenum very funny.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla The ores are found in many places. The smelting of it into metal (creating the metal from the ore, in a sense) occurs in multiple countries.
Yes. I would have accepted any of produced, refined or smelted. "Made" just doesn't quite fit.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Molybdenum and vanadium are not, that I know of, part of human bones
So no soylent green? So you do have a plan?
Yeah, Mr. Zecc. Yeah, Science!
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@Applied-Mediocrity I'm reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, and if there's anything I've learned is that I should say I cannot confirm or deny that I have plans.
The thinking is that If I don't start being mysterious about my plans even when I'm innocent I risk not being able to do the same if I'm guilty in the future without that being a telltale. Unless I become a liar of course, but I'd rather not.
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@Zecc This comes up in other areas as well. For example, an enlightened monk is not allowed to tell a layman he's enlightened, nor can he lie. So a friend of mine figured out that he could ask a monk if he was enlightened, and if the monk said, "I'm not allowed to tell you that", then that would mean he was enlightened.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
OK, someone had to have staged that...
Nessie, of course.
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Yeah, not so easily get me (my company sure, but not me). I work with software developed in the 70s, there isn't much modern that goes on here so there will never be any text message that has me log into something, hahaha.
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@Dragoon I think I'm also safe; WTF-U hasn't ever quite understood what a text message is and why you would send one. Worse, marketing probably hate the sending of them as they'd not be in the full corporate colours and with our special custom font.
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@loopback0 I have a feeling I've read that article at least four times a year for the past decade.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 I have a feeling I've read that article at least four times a year for the past decade.
You can look forward to it 4 times a year for another 598 years!
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It’s sentient!
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@DogsB Machine learning clearly still has a long way to go. It can't even learn that badmouthing your boss isn't good for your future yet.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
It can't even learn that badmouthing your boss isn't good for your future yet.
It was probably programmed to just not badmouth humans...
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@boomzilla there was already an “emoji movie”. Same level of garbage.
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Following from last week's news about fiber supplements:
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Today I Learned the Big Bang Theory had one decent joke.
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The toddler, who is from the village of Kantar, near Bingol, Turkey, was bitten on August 10. According to media reports, her neighbors heard her screaming as the snake attacked her in her backyard.
When they reached her, they found her with a bite mark on her lip, and a 20-inch snake between her teeth. The snake later died from the toddler's revenge bite, while the 2-year-old was taken to Bingol Maternity and Children's Hospital to treat her injuries. After 24 hours under observation, she was recovering well.
The species of snake involved in the incident is unknown. Of the 45 species of snake found in Turkey, 12 are venomous. However, as the little girl isn't seriously unwell, it's likely that she was luckily bitten by a non-venomous species.
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shots fired!