12elephant

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by 12elephant 7y ago
Ah yes, I am familiar with that thread – I've been following it. One thing does strike me as strange. The common ancestor here, RaTG13, was only sequenced and published by Shi's lab in Wuhan in late January. Despite supposedly bei
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by 12elephant 7y ago
Where did you see this result?
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by 12elephant 7y ago
How is not building an access road to a private beach causing harm? The fact that people feel entitled to tell others what to do with their own private property is sickening.
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by 12elephant 7y ago
Alex Jones, for example, has been removed from YouTube and Facebook.
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by 12elephant 7y ago
My sentiment exactly! To me, the essence of America is captured in the New Hampshire state motto: "Live free or die". There are some people who don't vibe with this sort of philosophy. But thank God the USA exists for those o
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by 12elephant 7y ago
How is the MAGA hat a threat? I'm a minority. Not only do I not think it's threatening, I'm even considering buying a few. Not for political reasons, but just because its become so iconic I think they'll be worth a lot m
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by 12elephant 7y ago
What is the Zybourne Clock? A quick google shows that it is a defunct game?
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by 12elephant 7y ago
Is this sarcasm? That sounds a lot like snapchat. Or just sending videos via SMS instead of text.
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by 12elephant 7y ago
I don't think the researcher means to imply Koko understands rhymes. Rather her hearing is not fine-tuned enough to hear the subtle difference between the sounds "nipple" and "people". So she uses them interchangeab
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by 12elephant 7y ago
what do you mean by "strong undercurrent of scarcity"?
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by 12elephant 7y ago
You turn off autoplay by exiting netflix.
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by 12elephant 8y ago
This is the same response I gave to throwawaymath: The original post is called "What even is a number?". The comment I replied to tried to answer that question with "some formalism". What I'm saying is: questioning
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by 12elephant 8y ago
The original post is called "What even is a number?". The comment I replied to tried to answer that question with "some formalism". What I'm saying is: questioning foundations leads you to new foundations. New found
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by 12elephant 8y ago
An axiom is simply something made up . At the end of the day, all of our Mathematics rests on foundations that are made up. It's difficult to say what the empty set is. Because it isn't really anything at all.
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by 12elephant 8y ago
Your castle is built on sand. What, then, is {}?
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by 12elephant 8y ago
Maybe some people just prefer the authoritarian model. It is not an objective truth that non-authoritarianism > authoritarianism. That's just, like, an opinion, man. Further: when has Russia not been an authoritarian state?
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by 12elephant 8y ago
So, does being a Putin fan imply one has 'gone off the deep end'?
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by 12elephant 8y ago
Working in the same place, in my anecdotal experience, leads to better communication. A couple orders of magnitude better. Face-to-face communication provides much higher "bandwidth" than text-based.