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by Amezarak 2y ago
To be clear, that paper is not arguing Jewish ethnic groups were intermixing with European locals since prehistoric times, it is arguing that the Ashkenazi Jews (or perhaps it would be better to say: the proto-Asheknazi Jews) assimilated lo
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by Amezarak 2y ago
My understanding of ethnicity on a genetic level is basically that it's the degree of relatedness above "clan", e.g., you have something of a hierarchy from: individual > family > clan > ethnicity. What's the is
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by Amezarak 2y ago
By winning clear majorities, either "side" can do whatever it wants, including changing all the House/Senate rules to pass laws with simple majorities.
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by Amezarak 2y ago
That article says they were probably teenagers, not young children. > After interviewing residents of Sidi Bou Said who had known the philosopher, his report concluded: "Michel Foucault was not a paedophile, but he was seduced by th
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by Amezarak 2y ago
What happens if you don’t pay? I ask this out of genuine curiosity - I’m not sure what happens in the US either, I don’t believe they brick carrier-locked phones that a customer stops paying for but I’m not sure. But I’ve enough experiences
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by Amezarak 2y ago
The CVT Fits expressly forbid towing in the owners manual, at least for the first few model years.
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by Amezarak 2y ago
I’ve never heard this story before, but she could have reported him herself rather than persuading her husband to, as the GP claims she did. I do think it’s a little distasteful to press someone else into a moral decision you made but won’t
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by Amezarak 2y ago
People keep repeating this but isn’t the case. The smallest cars from budget automakers are their cheapest cars and they’ve almost all been discontinued for lack of sales. I know, I drive one. And people look at it as a joke, they’d never b
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by Amezarak 2y ago
> . People want to live in Star Trek or Star Wars so want it to be true. I think it's more than just wanting it: a century of scifi has convinced people that "cheap" (in terms of energy and time dilation) FTL travel does
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by Amezarak 2y ago
It doesn't work like that. Backcrossing it with one of the parent species (assuming fertility in the first place) as you'd expect tends to increase the likelihood of fertile offspring in proportion to the number of generations. An
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by Amezarak 2y ago
We could make that the definition, but we'd doing a lot of redefinition: coyotes and wolves would become the same species, as would lions and jaguars. Fertility issues tend to increase with genetic distance but aren't guaranteed;
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by Amezarak 2y ago
That's not the definition of species. Many species can interbreed, sometimes even species that are pretty distantly related.
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by Amezarak 2y ago
> Generally Neanderthals are pointed out as an exception to cross species fertility since... There's no such rule and Neanderthals are not notable as an exception. Fertility is just a very rough proxy for genetic distance, which is
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Yes, but the ability to bond decently with people may be a trait that was bred into them during the early domestication process.
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by Amezarak 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Fortwo They are perfectly legal to sell. There's just little demand and most manufacturers have discontinued sales. I own a not-quite-that small car and the manufacturer discont
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Do they? With a credit card, the impact of a fraudulent charge is I click "dispute charge", and my credit limit is effectively lowered by the amount of the fraudulent charge. If the dispute is resolved in my favor, great. If not,
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by Amezarak 2y ago
strace -e trace=open -f -p pid If you want to see all file-related calls, replace "open" with "file" or you could add the calls one by one: e.g., trace=open,read.
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by Amezarak 2y ago
It’s been a while since I read Cook, and I’ve read lots of similar literature, but can you point me to where exactly he is surprised by wanting to trade for metal? It seems more surprising he’d be surprised since natives everywhere had alwa
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by Amezarak 2y ago
I think education is really a proxy for something else. It’s common for animals to stop breeding when the social and environmental conditions aren’t their ideal, even if they are healthy.
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by Amezarak 2y ago
I’ve personally perused the primary source material: hundreds of newspapers and the letters of revolutionary leaders. There is no sense in which this was a motivating factor for almost anyone. I can’t even recall it mentioned. I’m also in p
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Much of this comment could sort of be true if you put a really heavy spin on cherry-picked facts and poured some salt on them, but there’s no way to substantiate the claim the US revolted because the UK was freeing slaves. For example, that
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by Amezarak 2y ago
But of course there's different demographics; nobody is the average person. And even people that had already been infected with COVID-19 were required to get the vaccine. But it's also interesting to think about it from the perspe
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by Amezarak 2y ago
If by “formal identity” you mean that Arab nationalism didn’t exist until the late 1800s/early 1900s, no quibbling from me, but the Arabs certainly understood themselves, and the outside world understood them, as an ethnic group for th
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Yes, this is true to a large extent; the "golden age" thinkers are very often Persians, Greeks, Berbers, etc. returning to the status quo before the disaster of the conquests. There aren't all that many Arab figures represent
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Arabic and Coptic Egyptians are genetically distinguishable.
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Modernizing Schedule a to Include Consideration of Additional Occupations(regulations.gov)
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by Amezarak 2y ago
The historical range of the bison did extend into those states, but granted, not into most of that land area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_bison_belt
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Maybe the GP did engage in the naturalistic fallacy, but nobody has been able to demonstrate why eating meat is wrong either, they just say "I personally feel killing animals to eat them is so evil that it should be illegal." OK,
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by Amezarak 2y ago
How did did the riparian ecosystems thrive when there were tens of millions of bison? There is the same order of magnitude of cows in the US today (90 million) as bison hundreds of years ago (30-60 million.) Bison are also generally much he
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by Amezarak 2y ago
What is the solution to recover topsoil in the midwest without cattle? I'd also be for returning the buffalo that made it so fertile in the first place, but clearly what we're doing now is not sustainable.

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