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by Jedd 3y ago
Author wrote a rant (self-labelled) on this subject in 2018. Read https://mitxela.com/rants - head down to the Spare Time and Hard Work heading.
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It's a bit more complicated than this, but one shortcoming is that wood simply doesn't burn hot enough to smelt steel (1100 or so?). Coal was, for us, effectively an essential step. Advances you mention in your third paragraph do
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> Compared to what. I guess that was a question. Reading TFA, compared to not using glyphosate. Garlic, f.e., does not deleteriously deplete the soil's microbiome. After being cooked it provides a lovely aroma / flavour (comp
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by Jedd 3y ago
You haven't stated your position, which highlights your side-stepping of revealing what kind of evidence you'd need to change your mind. You refer to 'Mark' a lot - are you aware we don't know the author's name
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> I'm afraid this is just not informative at all, and doesn't give me a good impression of the rest of the book. Coincidentally, this fairly describes the reaction of a sceptic reading the book of Mark. Anyway, you quoted entir
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No, that sounds fairly reasonable - not necessarily the 'hypothesised and then discovered, therefore credible' (that may be survivorship bias), but certainly the potential for that document to be 'Q'. Given 'Q sou
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I was defending my earlier logic (we don't know what's in Q, therefore we don't know what's not in it). Have you identified a flaw there? I would prefer to earnestly cite Price, Carrier, Fitzgerald etc, but those citatio
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Okay, Thomas - lots of dispute about when it was written, and the anthology style makes timing even harder to determine, while increasing the chance it was modified over the centuries. I recalled something about the intrigue over some parch
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I had a look around for this recently discovered book, but can't find references -- can you point me towards some please, it'd be fascinating to read the contents / context.
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Hmm, there's a LOT of inaccuracies between the gospels and trusted historical documents - the bottom section of rationalwiki's Gospel page [0] has some examples - though these are more historical than geographical. I was probably
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I don't know how you get to that conclusion. Q is literally 'source' - with unknown author and unknown content - so we don't know what's in it nor what's not in it. Therefore I challenged the claim by parent th
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I have read a fair amount on this subject. If you could cite some rational sources that describe what you're alluding to, I'd be delighted to read them. As I noted in a sibling comment, the consensus is Marcan Priority, but a) it&
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Well, we get into murky territory here. I'd suggest a large portion of self-identified Christian believers really haven't thought much about it at all, beyond (as you say) some orthodox assumptions about divine nature etc. But a
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> There are some parts of Matthew and Luke that neither come from Mark nor Q so they each also have one or more other sources unique to themselves. Given that we know nothing about the provenance or contents of 'Q' - it's
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I thought it was fairly non-contentious [0] that the authors of Matthew and Luke borrowed heavily (almost exclusively) from the author of Mark's work, along with this unknown source (usually referred to as Q). It seems fairly reasonabl
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More accurately, the question is why the unknown author of the book of Mark, who never claimed to have first or even second hand accounts of Jesus, used that metaphor in his story. The subsequent two usages by the anonymous authors of books
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I think there's enough evidence to suggest that whoever the people that wrote Matthew and Luke were, they were capable of introducing their own errors, along with embellishments, from their source material. Given they wrote in Koine, a
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LightZone is still very much being maintained - albeit by one developer. There's an effort underway to recover the original web site, but the domain name owner disappeared a while ago, which complicated things. Agreed on the paradigms
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I suspect this comes out of: Ansel.photos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38390914 from two days ago.
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The first story in this class that I read was Empires of the Deep - really amazed me on two fronts. First, the way the economics of these endeavours are so flawed that even the most passionate creatives / sponsors can't viably g
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> The singularity cultists are also insane. Are you dismissing everyone that has concerns about unleashing the genie, or are you specifically referring to cult-like behaviour (I'm not familiar with any, but presumably it exists) aro
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Well, he's retrofitted batteries to a diesel, and ended up with a hybrid diesel / electric truck. I have no idea about local terrain, and really, if the mill(s) are at the bottom of the hills, and there's no longer-haul truck
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Hi Pranay - actually I've had a signoz tab open for about 5 weeks - once I find time I'm meaning to run it up in my lab.
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Yup, this is what I mean about 'we're exceptional' claims. 'It can't work here, and can never work here, because ...' and then followed by some basic math mistakes wrapped up into some wild extrapolations, augm
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Any story like this always summons up people eager to cry 'But where I am is an exception'. They rarely say where they actually are. The thing that most countries - a convenient non-geo construct only because most countries have a
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The killer feature of OpenTelemetry for us is brokering (with ETL). Partly this lets us easily re-route & duplicate telemetry, partly it means changes to backend products in the future won't be a big disruption. For metrics we&#x27
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> So why is it not the dominant method of agriculture yet? Define dominant? I'll note that permaculture does not have an army of lobbyists, sales people, marketers, lawyers, pushing this into public policy, beating its drum across m
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Okay, so now it sounds like you prefer the defaults of Gnome over those of KDE, while resenting the more sophisticated configuration options offered by KDE. I've never really understood the complaint 'there's too many confi
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Cheap enough? Some of the biggest success stories have been implementations in $-poor environments. There's nothing inherently expensive about the principles of permaculture. As to 'work at scale for staple cereals' I think y
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This seems like a weird rationale for that decision. Are you in one of those countries affected by this move? I note in the original post by Google (two links away from 'mobilesyrup', who don't deign to mention the actual cou

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