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Fair enough. But this happens in every biologically relevant discussion.. Every time results are reported on mice, someone will criticize that it wasn't done on humans, as if biologists are complete ignoramuses and not intimately familiar with the strengths and limitations of their own science.

If an engineer presented a model of a bridge and someone jumped in to say "buh, but you didn't ACTUALLY BUILD the bridge so this is worthless", people would rightly tell him off, wouldn't they? Why is this low-effort criticism of biology allowed ?

> ranking content that users with similar upvote behaviour higher

That's how you make echochambers

The vast majority of content is absolute shit though, so speaking strictly for me, I'm willing to try

This is awesome! Can we get our hands on the data? I would be lovely to see where I fall in the distribution of scores..

Also it would also be nice to include things like age, sex etc to normalize the data?

That's all I needed for an answer, I inadvertently annoyed a lot of people it seems!

why not GIMP and Inkscape?

You know that "organic" is pretty much a bullshit marketing term right?

> large government subsidies of corn and soy

That's not exactly what leftists fight for when they fight for government money. Gut those, gut those hard I don't care.

Is the government behind the sugar lobby too? https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-in...

Is the government now bringing all the unhealthy things from the West to developing countries? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/16/health/brazil...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4092629 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8161771 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1363897/

Or is it the free market looking for a new source of dollar at the expense of people's health ?

When the free market is in charge the results aren't much better, why not have another go at the government approach and learn from our mistakes?

> I would guess that those who have learned the language have a more logical, grammar based structure and write more deliberately.

We have our own native languages with their own idiosyncrasies and we don't make mistakes like "could of" or "you're/your" in those languages. There's just no excuse for those simple mistakes...

Greek has 5 very common and 1/2 rare spellings for the sound 'i' (as in 'kit'): ι, υ, η, οι, ει /υι,ηι

Imagine if people who can't tell you're/your and write 'could of' had to face this reality... They are lazy ignorant people and the other native speakers need to stop enabling them and making excuses.

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I'm not actually sure if 'ηι' exists, google is showering me with irrelevant results.. in any case, furthermore, there's

two ways to spell 'e' (as in bed): ε, αι

two ways to spell o: ο,ω

two ways to spell the av/ev sound: αβ/αυ , εβ/ευ

two ways to spell the af/ef sound: αφ/αυ , εφ/ευ

and more. Maybe the difference is that all this crap makes you actually pay some attention to the language if you don't want to embarrass yourself

> would be nice to incentivize accountability

If only we could "incentivize accountability" the way we do it for poor people...

> Maybe we just need to come up with a better solution.

A solution to what? There's not problem besides "how do i make more money out of this"

Give me 90% of your $100, it'll increase your 10 dollar's buying power

> So, longer incarceration reduces crime.

Killing them would also reduce crime (https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cells.png) but I don't think that this is enough of a metric to judge something as good for society

In final accounting, in the words of the authors:

These results suggest that for individuals on the current policy margin between prison and probation, imprisonment is an ineffective long-term intervention for violence prevention, as it has, on balance, no rehabilitative or deterrent effects after release.

A great loophole to subvert bureaucracy and return the power to the whims of individuals....

They use the same genetic code as us, what's your definition of life? Having access to Netflix ?

So i looked it up and from what i see Mygalomorphae (which is tarantulas, trap-door spiders and others) are an infraorder of spiders. I don't know why I remember the difference to be more distinct.

In any case, the way i mentioned it is as a technicality (like tomato is a fruit). mygalomorphs are slightly different than other spiders, a bit like ""ancient"" spiders. They have two pairs of book lungs (breathing organs), and their fangs are parallel and face down (in spiders the fangs face eachother i think)

Glad i could share ^_^

Good question, i think all spiders also do this (tarantulas are not technically spiders themselves), but scorpions do it differently. Scorpions lay a small.... it looks like a mucus dildo, they call it a spermatophore.... on the ground and then guide the female over it during a sort of mating-dancing ritual.

Yeah I understand that a lot of people get the creeps with spiders. I remember a friend back in highschool telling me "it's the way they walk, it creeps me out"

But what's also true is that everyone ended up being curious about my tarantulas and would spend a few minutes checking them out, even if their first reaction to the concept of me having pet tarantulas was disgust or fear.

I wonder to what degree arachnophobia (even mild) is a product of society. This article is a good example, if even when someone is about to tell you something new and interesting about spiders they call them terrifying, of course most people will internalize this.

Lots of little details.. Do you know how tarantulas mate?

When a male has his ultimate (final) molt and reaches sexual maturity he is a completely different spider. During this ultimate molting process he obtained his sexual organs, which are bulbs (emboli, plural; embolus, singular) on the end of his pedipalps that are used to transfer sperm from his sperm web to the female. In many species males also have tibial spurs, which are "mating hooks" on the underside of the tibia (or long segment) of the first pair of walking legs and are used to engage the female's fangs during mating. taken from here: http://www.tarantulas.com/sexing.html

So the males dig a little hole, lay a sheet of silk over it and deposit their sperm in this little 'bowl'. Then they suck it up in what is effectively syringes that are developed at the end of their pedipalps. They use those to transfer the sperm to the female

I used to keep tarantulas as pets and went on to study biology

> Just when you thought spiders couldn't get any more terrifying.

Why do we have to go for the same tropes again and again ? You're writing a science-dissemination article, is it really necessary to portray spiders as 'terrifying' ? They could have said "cool", "weird", "unique", "alien", i don't know i'm not the one getting paid to write stuff.

But no, let's write this as if we're talking to middle-schoolers, ooooh scary spiders !!!!!!

And maybe I'll win the lottery and escape poverty, but playing it is irresponsible while I'm poor

So by far the best way for the businessman to reduce their footprint is to not have more private-jet-flying-children

>prepare your children

If you're stressed about the environment you shouldn't be having children

So overall you feel we don't need to take any measures to reduce our impact on the system?

>That knowledge is probably our biggest advantage as a species

And if you take this knowledge out of a person, they are little more than a wild animal.

> Survival is definitely valuable, by simply allowing you to produce value longer.

...can you please take a step back, read this again, and think about what it is that you're saying?

> I'm not comfortable with selling opium becoming a legal business model.

How about synthetic opium? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Timeline._Overdose_deaths...

"Doesn't apply to me, thus it doesn't apply to anyone"

wow that pricing is aggressive..

How much data can I have in the system with the free version?