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Really sad that they were bullied into getting rid of unity. No global menu in gnome is a joke. Feels like going back in time.

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From my perspective, getting rich from sex, gambling or drugs is almost like cheating.

Now facebook will access to my contact list :( It is really difficult to remove Whatsapp as it the primary communication tool for most of my network. Really sad news.

A big problem with research into nicotine is that it has been conflated with tobacco smoke. You should really substitute "nicotine" with "tobacco smoke" in these sentences.

I'm logged in but get "Looks like you are not enrolled in this course!".

I haven't been excited about my career in a while but I am getting more and more excited about data science. I have a new desire to learn and to actually finish my masters degree.

Thanks for putting these resources together.

No, it would be called "nut-hugging".

Haha, I see that you are still posting links to that scalzi crap.

>Apple is simply just x-many months ahead of everyone's product roadmap

I don't know. I think the lack of water resistance makes the iphone obsolete for many.

I liked the video. I hate it when people take themselves too seriously.

Good luck to the team.

I feel like I have been living in a cave. I have never heard of Penny Arcade but people are referring to them as legendary. Visiting their site feels like going back to 2006. What am I missing?

I agree. It also causes my fans to spin up which isn't very relaxing.

It makes my skin crawl when I see it. I really hope this "because noun" thing doesn't become anything more than the irritating form of humour that it started out as. It is almost as irritating as "on accident".

I think it just activates an alarm when it comes into contact with water. It's not a floatation device as far as I can see.

Does the alligator actually die in this video? I was expecting a very short shock that would scare the alligator, not the prolonged discharge shown.

I think it is extremely important in emerging markets.

I like this. Being able to do it in your own time relieves the pressure of being put on the spot and working in a foreign environment.

Of course I would mind, what does that have to do with electronic cigarettes?

I wish people would stop sneezing, coughing, stinking, wearing perfume etc in public but we can't have everything our own way when we interact with other people.

>And, take this with a grain of salt (sample size of one), but I feel way better. No more coughing in the mornings, I take hills on my bike like a pro, and I'd swear I look healthier.

This is the same for me. A huge thing for me is that the tiredness that I feel when I smoke is nonexistent on ecigs.

You really don't have to eat that much protein (maybe two grams per kg of lean body mass) just make sure that you are eating several hundred calories over your maintenance every day and you are lifting consistently, with good intensity and incorporating progressive overload.

A lot of this stuff (very high protein, high meal frequency) is out there because it keeps supplement companies in business.

>For example, I need to eat 6 meals a day @ 40g protein / 40g carbs / 20g fat in each meal.

The importance of meal frequency is pretty much regarded as bro-science these days.

and the problem with this is that the groups have a conflict of interest, if they do solve the problem that they are addressing then no one will continue to fund them. So the only way that they can stay in business is to make sure that the problem isn't solved, gets worse or is seen to get worse. Erin Pizzey discusses how this has happened to feminist organisations in this video[1].

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5AOj6EhRuY

>Helping people is never wrong.

How could you type that with a straight face?

I wouldn't say that it is irrational. It's about wanting to be in control of your own fate as much as you can be.

You are describing the processes in our universe that allow the existence of the created universe. From within that universe, the actors would have no knowledge of these processes or even the existence of our universe unless the creators explicitly provided them with this information. To them, their universe would appear to be everything in existence just as ours does to us. That is why, to me, these universes are analogous to our own and since they are the only universes we know to exist besides our own (even though they exist within our universe), I think it makes sense to consider the possibility that our universe is no different and that our universe may exist within a parent universe and that our universe has a creator in the parent universe just as our child universes have creators in ours.

As far as evidence goes, there is no tangible evidence (and if the theory is correct, it would probably be impossible to get evidence unless the creator allowed it) but if you have 100 bags and in 99 of those bags there is an egg, it can be reasonable to assume that there is an egg in the 100th bag. That isn't really evidence though especially because that 100th bag is different from the other 99 as it contains them. It could be argued however, that this is is a type of evidence. I'm not sure how exactly but I think someone smarter than me could.

Regarding scale, I don't think that that is such an issue for three reasons:

1) If something is contained in something else, it is reasonable that it's container is larger so just as our universe is on a larger scale than our child universes, our parent universe could be on a larger scale to our own.

2) Only the actors and what they observe need to be simulated (I may be the only actor, maybe it's you) the rest can be approximated. Perhaps this is why it is so difficult for scientists to come up with a unified theory. Maybe macro and micro events within our universe are simulated in different ways and the simulator that runs our universe is inconstant when these two simulations need to be merged.

3) Perhaps it takes the equivalent of years in our parent universe to simulate a second in our universe maybe this very moment is the only one that has been simulated and the past is just the initial state.

edit: The bag/egg analogy isn't great but I am sure that you know what I mean.

I don't quite understand your reasoning. A creator as an explanation for the origins of the universe is as simple as anything else.

>There is equal evidence for both god and the tooth fairy.

Not really. There is no evidence for the actual existence of the (or any) tooth fairy. It could be argued however, that there is evidence of a god or gods specifically because every universe that we know to exist other than our own has creators. The universes created in computer simulations, dreams, imagination etc all have specific creators who are the gods of those universes. Why would our universe be any different from these?

What's the law for someone always mentioning Betteridge's law of headlines when a headline is posed as a question on Hacker News?