open0's comments

More transparency in some form, requiring researchers to publish code and data openly for instance.

I wrote my own remote scriptrunner thing because I hate Ansible so much.

Not really the case, mathematical terminology and conventions change over time.

This phenomena where two nouns are placed side by side is called apposition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apposition#Restrictive_versus_...

So the source of the confusion is that, in English, non-restrictive appositives typically are indicated with commas, but so are lists of conjuncts.

> From my uninformed point of view

Due to the tone of your over-confident first post, initially I thought you were a lawyer on Facebook's payroll making a deceitful argument.

You really think Facebook's lawyers would advise disclosing a link between Facebook usage and depression found in their internal studies? Do you really think that Facebook would even ever allow for that conclusion to be reached in this particular internal study? Come on.

Is it known that in many American high schools the police will routinely search the halls, lockers, parking lots, and even force students to stand with their stuff placed on their desks while they walk around the classroom searching?

Or how about that starting in 4th grade we had D.A.R.E., where they regularly bring in actual cops to teach a "class" during which they attempt to coerce students into snitching on their families? This is when they're not busy teaching us about drugs that 95% of the students had never even heard of.

How about that it's very common for the police, if they find someone with a larger amount of drugs, to rob them rather than arrest them? This happens all the time with cops learning the license plates of particular dealers, although most drug dealers that I know have preferred this eventuality even if they lost a larger amount. Another friend lost 2 pounds of weed and a lot of money over a random noise complaint.

These American institutions, the schools and the cops in this case, are a total failure and need to be completely reworked.

What a dumb take.

Using Safari is amateur, the design looks nice.

Why don't you go check it out yourself?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-to-body_mass_ratio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalization_quotient

> fish are way less intelligent than farm animals

There is no concrete evidence of this. A lot of sea creatures, including fish, have skin cells that can create polarized light and some seem to have developed communication systems with pulses of polarized light.

Just the other day it was found that some fish can pass the mirror test, didn't you see that?

The prevailing theory is that ratio of brain mass to body mass is more telling than the absolute size of the brain. Fish may fare worse on this metric but I suspect it's just an area where we have very little understanding yet.

Being vegetarian or vegan is not so hard. It is one of many fundamental changes that society should pursue to avert the current ecological crisis and mitigate species loss.

I've had well over a billion rows in multiple tables with PostgreSQL and it wasn't a problem at all.

Chia and flax seeds are some of the best sources of Omega-3s...

> Telling someone they are a victim and there is nothing they can possibly do to better their situation is not a helpful or productive action.

Who is telling people that they are victims? Who thinks that being a victim means that it's 100% outside of that person's control?

These are the straw-men that so many dumb comments here are based on. There are real victims in the world and most of the time they're just trying to tell their stories, only to get constant derision from idiots in cesspools like Hacker News.

> * I don't blame you for being unfamiliar with it*

I do.

Not quite. No script, even the IPA, is perfectly phonetic. Natural languages deviate in so many ways over time that this is the only possible eventuality.

Language is unconscious and you won't understand how it works until you let go of a lot of false culturally-programmed notions, and then actually study it by engaging with the work of linguists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coarticulation

For Hindi there are additional phenomena that will alter the sounds of spoken language in certain contexts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhi

"genre" is one of the few.

One of the languages I know allows for a word-initial /ŋ/, which English does not have at all.

English wiktionary had over 500k entries as of a few years back.

A "word family" is the term for the related forms of a word resulting from derivation, inflection, and other processes. Usually "conjugation" only refers to inflection of verbs whereas "declension" is used for inflection of nouns. And "lexeme" or "headword" are sometimes used to refer to some canonical form of a word family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexeme

> This lets you isolate what is purely personally genetic.

No it doesn't. Not at all actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_study#Criticism

Maybe an actual geneticist can jump in here, but it's my non-expert opinion that you all are jumping to conclusions about a topic that you're not experts in either.

I had other studies in mind (done in China) regarding that specific point, it's what I had assumed a lot of posters here were referring to because it's normally a favorite of people who are eager to jump to certain conclusions about genetics.

There are other problems with twin studies, most importantly that developmental health starts at conception which means that genetics are not the only thing that twins are sharing. Once again I'll refer you to Wikipedia for further criticisms of twin studies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_study#Criticism

I find the UI of recent versions of GIMP to be very nice for the simple image editing / processing that I do.