Erlangolem

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A Dramatic Non-Reading of William McGonagall’s Bad Poetry(improbable.com)
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
The spider on the dollar bill gives me legal advice in my dreams, and it says I don’t have to pay taxes. Plus, it says the best way to deal with cops is to scream, “false arrest” at the top of my lungs. All praise the great money spider.
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What an ‘Infinite’ AI-Generated Poscast Can Tell About Future of Entertainment(theverge.com)
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
Dune is based on notions of grand manipulation over thousands of years; there is really no coincidence at all. I love Star Wars, but the writing is not particularly good. Coincidence in fiction is ultimately a contrivance, and I don’t mean
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Victorian Urban Legend: Ox Ring(strangehistory.net)
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
Churchill was definitely a racist and a killer, and that list of his atrocities and would-be atrocities is chilling. I object however, to the inclusion of the firebombing of Dresden in that list. The Germans were an enemy in the second Worl
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
I violently disagree with 19. The overuse of contrived means of creating tension is lazy, predictable, and frustrating. More unpleasant is the tendency of characters to become inexplicably stupid, inexperienced, and illogical under those ci
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How a Fake Mountain Range Slowed Down Arctic Exploration(atlasobscura.com)
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Once a Year, This Island Goes Completely Vegetarian(atlasobscura.com)
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Validating a New Non-Penetrating Sham Acupuncture Device: [pdf](aim.bmj.com)
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BreadBot is an insanely over-engineered gadget just for baking loaves of bread(theverge.com)
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
Something similar happened with a drug: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritonavir#Polymorphism_and_t...
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The Unruh Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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Three NASA Sattelites Recreate Solar Eruption in 3D(nasa.gov)
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The Eccentric Adventures of Captain Davis, Sea-Desert Dweller(atlasobscura.com)
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
The idea that there is a conflict of prediction vs. reality, and a simple failure to connect disparate sensations into a whole are nothing alike. The former is a characteristic of something like motion or VR sickness; your body expects one
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
In Ayaya’s telling, her autism involves a host of perceptual disconnects. For example, she feels in exquisite detail all the sensations that typical people readily identify as hunger, but she can’t piece them together. “It’s very hard for
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Big Vape is copying Big Tobacco’s playbook(theverge.com)
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The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature(fermatslibrary.com)
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Why Is Consumer IoT Insecure?(pentestpartners.com)
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
ITER isn’t really a source of breakthroughs in necessary materials; it didn’t develop new superconductors, hasn’t solved the fusion blanket problem, it won’t be breakeven, Stellerators already are superior in terms of containment, and ITER’
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
What about The Ukraine? We can learn a lesson from their choice to give up their nuclear arsenal too. South Africa gave up a program, Ukraine gave up an arsenal.
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Docker for Hackers? A pen tester’s guide(pentestpartners.com)
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The Screen Time Debate Is Pitting Parents Against Each Other(theverge.com)
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
ITER is a political tool, not a scientific one. The real cutting edge fusion research is being done at some small private companies trying to make aneutronic fusion work, and from places like MIT. If we’re ever going to break the endless cy
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The Long, Complex History of Oakland’s Man-Made Bird Islands(atlasobscura.com)
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To Test Einstein’s Equations, Poke a Black Hole(quantamagazine.org)
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