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by 77pt77 2y ago
At least someone gets it.
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by 77pt77 2y ago
> just how lucky the west got with Temüjin dying and stopping the expansion that was literally right at our door. For geographical reasons they would have gone further west than Germany.
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by 77pt77 2y ago
If that were true, when the Portuguese and Spaniards got to tne new world 90% of the people would have died recently of disease. Those chinese ships were small floating cities and disease would have spread throughout the continent.
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by 77pt77 2y ago
The next step is to start taking "1421: The Year China Discovered the World" seriously. Vide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Menzies
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by 77pt77 2y ago
Plebe... The aristocracy doesn't even defecate. I've met one adult that believed this.
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by 77pt77 2y ago
There you go. You already have an excuse.
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by 77pt77 2y ago
He also crushed ice with his teeth.
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by 77pt77 2y ago
> So, what is your job? Grant the status of their profession to their opinions. Even worse with lawyers. AI will never make a real difference in that field.
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by 77pt77 2y ago
>In the US you need a prescription within the last year to buy contact lenses. I was told you even need prescription to buy glasses, which is ridiculous. Even many places online require it, but some just let you input the values. When I
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by 77pt77 2y ago
Not true. Mouth pH and mouth biome make all the difference. Also spacing between teeth. I used to be friends with someone that ate bags of gummy bears a day. Never flossed, brushed a couple of times a week. Zero cavities well into his 30s,
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by 77pt77 2y ago
> which will hopefully reduce anxiety as well as reducing costs. We all know this is not going to happen. You'll just pay a premium for the novelty.
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by 77pt77 2y ago
I'd prefer regrowing my own teeth, but that's just me.
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by 77pt77 2y ago
Convenience always wins against quality.
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by 77pt77 2y ago
> he told me that I misunderstood, because it was "impossible" to update encrypted data without decrypting it. I politely tried saying "actually no, that's what makes homomorphic encryption super cool", and we we
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by 77pt77 2y ago
Turns out being surrounded by two massive oceans and friendly and much weaker nations is a great advantage, An advantage that hasn't been put ti much use because once could make a strong point that things have been stagnant for 60 year
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by 77pt77 2y ago
> They are quite vocal when customers don’t turn in automatic updates. I'm sorry but this is the customer's fault. If I'm using your services you work for me and you don't get to bully me into doing whatever you think
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by 77pt77 2y ago
> the federal government issued a security advisory Well, I guess that's it... Maybe rust will take the same path as Ada.
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by 77pt77 2y ago
You might be surprised...
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by 77pt77 2y ago
> The title is misleading, no? No. I got the correct meaning at first glance.
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by 77pt77 2y ago
I've been to tiny embassies and I was thoroughly searched and anything remotely looking like an electronic device was temporarily confiscated. They usually make a big deal out of it. This in embassies between friendly nations!
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by 77pt77 2y ago
> But if we go back 20 years (others have said this is written in the early 2000's), satellite communication was probably worse than 28.8k modems I take it you are under 30 years old. You've got all your timings wrong.
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by 77pt77 2y ago
> nothing is technically stopping you from walking into a SCIF with a phone most of the time That is ridiculous. I've been to multiple embassies as a nobody and no electronics were allowed and this was strictly enforced.
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by 77pt77 2y ago
A real life "cone of silence" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_of_Silence_%28Get_Smart%2...
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by 77pt77 2y ago
Hug of death.
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by 77pt77 2y ago
Is it standardized?
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by 77pt77 2y ago
definitely not oocyte
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by 77pt77 2y ago
And then: > Type this sentence in all caps!
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by 77pt77 2y ago
I used it up to like 2010 or so. Maybe 2013. The hardware was much better but compilers got far more complex and it didn't get that much faster. Still the best thing you can do after linux from scratch. A shame that drobins tried to pu
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by 77pt77 2y ago
Of both quotes the latter is definitely closer to the truth.
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by 77pt77 2y ago
> True experts can understand from the layman's perspective and tailor the response to that level of understanding. The Feynman paradox: > if you can't explain it to a six-year-old you don't understand it yourself but a

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