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"The porn industry is quite serious about following the letter of the law" and "This antiporn movement is more about control and censorship than protecting children." are both claims that require evidence to be judged whether true or false.

So, Puritan can't be twisted? Using isn't being emotional and irrational?

Being against exploitation is puritan?

Statistical evidence, please.

Star Trek communicators and tricorders come pretty close, but then again that was predicted for the 23rd century. One beef I have about The Expanse is that they have cell phones, albeit fancy holographic ones. Not sure we will still be using that paradigm, we may have moved into wearable devices or something involving direct brain communication by then. We are already on the verge of that.

I'd swear on A Canticle for Leibowitz.

I saw an otolaryngology, got a sleep study, was prescribed a cpap with the study recommended pressure, and I am fine. I suppose I could have wandered the tech desert, but this is my health we are talking about. I have other tasks I am better suited to do than wander through a field I had zero training in. I approach my cardiology issues the same way.

Yes, box-cox can be used, even if the lognormal itself isn't a perfect match for the actual distribution, with the correct choice of lambda.

Objectification is dehumanizing.

I've found timings in general were lognormal a long time ago. I had to routinely apply transformations to get meaningful ANOVA and DOE results.

I believe he passed. Absolutism in the defense of Nazis is a vice, as I see it. Cloudfare is not a government entity, concepts of governmental speech suppression do not apply to it.

How much was written by AI?

Before all of that was Clarke's short story "The Sentinel", which was the actual genesis of the idea.

"People are our greatest asset."