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On September 18 2015 01:31 Lord Tolkien wrote:Also, BoonMear PMed me this and didn't want to post it in LLL because he didn't have time to make a wall of text (and he doesn't want to make non-wall-of-text posts so...). http://www.vox.com/2015/9/10/9188517/political-bias
Scored 50% across all categories. I tried my darndest to be right. For example I honestly don't know how much the renewable energy sector grew over that period. I guess my bias would show with how I guessed? Accidentally closed the tab too 
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Apparently I'm not very biased. 19%.
Also LordTolkien's corporate tax rate stuff was interesting.
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Holy shitload of wolf spiders batman!
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I didn't know anything about your countries stuff. Scored 25%. All the crime stuff owned me.
The corporate tax stuff that LT was talking about is essentially shifting the responsibility of the tax and not just getting rid of it, right? Interesting stuff.
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Political bias of 0%. Did not expect that.
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On September 18 2015 01:03 phyvo wrote:I'm basically saying "if they were as educated as I am". Which means someone who merely majored in environmental biology and read one book on the subject. IMO inserting a gene by design is probably better than using radiation zapping simply because we know exactly what we're trying to do and exactly what we're putting in there to solve the problem. But it's not like radiation zapping has produced some kind of crazy health problem over all these decades. Show nested quote +On September 18 2015 00:58 Dandel Ion wrote:
tbh scepticism towards regulatory agencies and monitoring is very understandable imo
sad but true For instance, the government agents who are supposed to make sure pipelines are safe can make way more money working for the actual oil company. So it's no surprise when you hear that they're understaffed for the number of oil pipelines they have to inspect.
The problem is we are looking for a certain characteristic, let's say it's immune to some disease. But how does that immunity link back to genetics? In a wonderful simple Mendelian world you have a single gene that controls a trait and all we gotta do is plant some peas. However in reality we have gene expression that's modified by a bunch of other genes at the transcriptional, translation and whatever other levels. We're close to being able to understand the amazing complex but elegant interplay between all these factors, but nowhere near being able to edit at will.
With the technology we have now, it's very hard to give an organism a desired trait. It's much easier to use a variety of mutagens to generate a whole bunch of variations, then pick and clone the ones with the traits we want by selecting for them. Basically, right now it's much more viable to use a top-downish approach rather than building from the bottom up.
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On September 18 2015 00:42 Requizen wrote:
Interesting. I know they've been popular, I just never picked one up and honestly I don't play a lot of turn-based RPGs anymore. I played a SMT game on the 3DS, but it was really not my thing since I hate TRPGs. It really does sound like the sort of story I'd enjoy, though.
Probably one of the Devil Survivor games? That's a TRPG spinoff. the main-line SMT games and Persona are traditional JRPGs.
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it honestly feels like calc gets harder every time i have to redo the class
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In total, you correctly answered 3/18 (16.67%) of the political knowledge questions. 80% of people correctly answer between 4 and 9 questions; 6 is the average. Your score is higher than 5% of test takers.
Looks like I'm pretty garbage.
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On September 18 2015 02:12 Seuss wrote:
Apparently I'm not very biased. 19%.
Also LordTolkien's corporate tax rate stuff was interesting.
13.89%. I'm ok with this.
I wouldn't like being unbiased. Gotta have some passion yo.
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I got 10/18 of the political knowledge questions. I think 1-2 of the ones I got right were fairly lucky though 
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On September 18 2015 02:42 ticklishmusic wrote:Show nested quote +On September 18 2015 01:03 phyvo wrote:I'm basically saying "if they were as educated as I am". Which means someone who merely majored in environmental biology and read one book on the subject. IMO inserting a gene by design is probably better than using radiation zapping simply because we know exactly what we're trying to do and exactly what we're putting in there to solve the problem. But it's not like radiation zapping has produced some kind of crazy health problem over all these decades. On September 18 2015 00:58 Dandel Ion wrote:
tbh scepticism towards regulatory agencies and monitoring is very understandable imo
sad but true For instance, the government agents who are supposed to make sure pipelines are safe can make way more money working for the actual oil company. So it's no surprise when you hear that they're understaffed for the number of oil pipelines they have to inspect. The problem is we are looking for a certain characteristic, let's say it's immune to some disease. But how does that immunity link back to genetics? In a wonderful simple Mendelian world you have a single gene that controls a trait and all we gotta do is plant some peas. However in reality we have gene expression that's modified by a bunch of other genes at the transcriptional, translation and whatever other levels. We're close to being able to understand the amazing complex but elegant interplay between all these factors, but nowhere near being able to edit at will. With the technology we have now, it's very hard to give an organism a desired trait. It's much easier to use a variety of mutagens to generate a whole bunch of variations, then pick and clone the ones with the traits we want by selecting for them. Basically, right now it's much more viable to use a top-downish approach rather than building from the bottom up.
That makes sense. It's like Game Genie codes. It's much easier to modify the ones we already know than to enter random nonsense and have something we want happen.
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On September 18 2015 02:50 TheYango wrote:Show nested quote +On September 18 2015 00:42 Requizen wrote:
Interesting. I know they've been popular, I just never picked one up and honestly I don't play a lot of turn-based RPGs anymore. I played a SMT game on the 3DS, but it was really not my thing since I hate TRPGs. It really does sound like the sort of story I'd enjoy, though.
Probably one of the Devil Survivor games? That's a TRPG spinoff. the main-line SMT games and Persona are traditional JRPGs.
Yeah, I think it was Devil Survivor.
Eeh, I haven't played a JRPG in a long time. I'm so used to fast paced games now that number crunching and turn based games don't really do it for me at the moment. Maybe down the road.
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I just want to back up Requizen and say that 2.8 is going to be glorious. I don't have a DS so I wouldn't be able to touch BBS or DDD without this glorious donation from Enix.
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Oh man, just kicked the shit out of a training/demo presentation.
Also, I'd just like to say that I appreciate the fact that we've been able to have reasonable political discourse here.
I'm in a phenomenal mood now.
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only 6/18 of the questions right, but also only 8.33% bias.
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On September 18 2015 03:43 MagnusWolf wrote:
only 6/18 of the questions right, but also only 8.33% bias.
Well that's the basis of the test. Assuming they correctly place your political orientation.
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In total, you correctly answered 8/18 (44.44%) of the political knowledge questions.
On a scale of 0-100%, your total political bias was 5.56%.
Well damn, I thought I'd end up more biased for some reason, lol.
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9/18, 7% bias though.
Possibly one of the lowest numbers in Seattle.
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TheYango, how big was the DotA scene pre-LoL/DotA 2. I was trying to find numbers but my google fu is apparently weak. The best that I can find is that TFT sold 5 million copies, which theoretically limits the playerbase except it doesn't because yaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Basically I'm attempting to validate/disprove my impression that LoL/DotA 2 are to DotA as WoW was to EQ, most of their players never touched the original because the playerbases just exploded in size.
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