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lopatir wrote: I'm worried about the bleeding hearts saying we shouldn't punish or even admonish criminals anymore because they were, "born that way."
Might be an idea to set brain-size requirements for lawmakers, judges, policemen, etc, though. God knows enough of them nowadays are vicious, nasty b@st@rds[^].lopatir wrote: where should I go for brain smallening smallerizing reduction surgery?
Um, I think that clearly demonstrates that it would only be vanity surgery.
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That was the first word that came into my head when I read the headline.
Pinch of salt required.
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Try Terry Pratchett's retro-phrenology (Discworld) - shaping the head in order to create the desired characteristics. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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The key phrase is "may have", and like all research it is largely speculation.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: The key phrase is "may have"
To me, that shows that serious scientists were involved. "Lesser" scientists would have declared it as an absolute -- so, way better than astronomy, but not as trustworthy as Maths.Richard MacCutchan wrote: like all research it is largely speculation
Anyone who argues with that is obviously lacking experience.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: that shows that serious scientists were involved
Possibly, but so many of these studies take quite small samples. And there are so many reports like this on an almost daily basis (what you should eat, what you should not eat, etc.) that it is difficult to take any of them seriously.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I'm waiting for the follow-up research that proves that accessing the Internet has the effect of shrinking many people's brains.
Penny Arcade did some very closely related research on this subject years ago. The result was their (highly NSFW) GIFT (Greater Internet ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) wad Theory).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on oneโs own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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Dan Neely wrote: Penny Arcade did some very closely related research on this subject years ago. The result was their (highly NSFW) GIFT (Greater Internet [mastadon] wad Theory).
heh.
Looks like they got it right[^] (NSFW).
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People have said this in the past. Just after posting a simile about cooking and software development, it hit me hard how much more similar the two. More so then traditional "engineering" disciplines.
You get taught how to read a recipe and implement.
Then you learn that the recipe is at best a guide.
Each new project your recipe gets shorter, but the implementation time gets longer.
Day 1 - recipe is 5 pages long, has all the details, what tools you gonna use, methods described in detail.
Day 365 - a few bullet points, the world "cloud" on it own line. ๐ your good to go and implement the companies new payroll system.
But seriously. Cooking has many ways to do the same thing. Yes there are "traditional" methods. You want a roast turkey, it has to be X Y and Z. Then a vegan comes in and shows you can have the same flavour, taste and experience at 1/5th the cost, lower calories.
Yeah, but SOAP will always be better then this JSON thing. Wheres the types!!
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maze3 wrote: Then a vegan comes in and shows you can have the same nothing like the flavour, taste and or experience at 1/5th double the cost, lower calories.
FTFY!
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maze3 wrote: Day 1 - recipe is 5 pages long, has all the details, what tools you gonna use, methods described in detail.
... and most people still manage to make it inedible. Just like devleopment! 
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Me: *Gordon Ramsay*
My colleagues: *uses microwave*
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I've had a lot more experience of Day 1 recipes that were, in their entirety: We want a program that will do everything for us, and is completely intuitive, so that no-one will need any training. You've got three weeks.
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And how did you spent the last two weeks of that?
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does Uber do software dev?
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Mum's got educated, in a venomous way (5)
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Mum's MAM
got educated BA
in a venomous way
MAMBA
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Dang, I knew that was far too easy. I'll try harder next time!
Congrats, you're up
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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It was fourth on my mental list of "snakes with five letter names" 
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Not to be Picky but I assumed that in general the species are called Mambas and particular variety is Black or White mamba
cheers,
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Hey! I didn't set it!
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There are four species of Mambas (snakes of the Dendroaspis genus, which means "tree snake"). The "Black mamba", which doesn't live in trees despite its family name, is grey or brown. Sounds like a question on QI: "What colour is a black mamba?" Cue sirens and -10 points to Alan Davies. Black mamba pic [^]
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@melchizidech
You won yesterday, remember?
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