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Alan_Dillman
9y ago
The trick I figured out was to select age 99(the oldest permitted). The reason why is that the questions for that age bordered on historical facts. Empire State Building and whatnot. The questions would have been written by middle aged men
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Alan_Dillman
9y ago
Also the flora changes with the gain in elevation.
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Alan_Dillman
9y ago
That's not a theory, that's someone injecting creation myth into science. It violates Occam's Razor badly. It is less plausible than life just starting on earth. There is no good reason for adding the complexity of starting e
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Alan_Dillman
9y ago
Thanks. I'm glad you agree, and I'm pleased that you liked my writing.
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Alan_Dillman
9y ago
They don't know that they can ask. But people —average people— do that for their food, their cars, their homes, their personal appearance. This includes clothes, hairstyles, after market pigmentations, permanent and temporary, as well
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Alan_Dillman
9y ago
I was quite surprised that the Nordic countries have more reported billionaires per capital than Canada, despite the Nordic nations being —theoretically— less business friendly. Example: Canada has about 1.08 billionaires per million people
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Alan_Dillman
10y ago
Nice read, and I am wishing I had been in on the original topic. If I had, I would have commented that the version upgrade process sucks for anyone that starts from a minimal base(like I do). If I go through the upgrade, I will end up with
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Alan_Dillman
10y ago
I'm with you. I want computers to be tools to enrich me, not act as a crutch. To flourish is to tear the heart out of what makes Linux great.
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10y ago
I've used Linux for the decade you didn't. We don't want a coordinated anything. The Linux community practices "fork it for fun", at the drop of a Red Hat. That's one of its core values and it is antithetical t