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by Maursault 3y ago
> That youtube video from Axis of Comedy is amazing; they go through 38 songs from bands as diverse as Journey, Elton John, U2, the Beatles, Bob Marley, Green Day, Aqua, and Beyonce. What's amazing is how they somehow failed to iden
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by Maursault 3y ago
uh, you forgot the actual tl;dr, which is cinematographer --> megachiropteran
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by Maursault 3y ago
How could OP fail to mention media server? > Running a web server to serve that page and a few other random pages. Dull. Not just any web server, with Apache 2.4 already installed by default, once httpd.conf is configured, in particular
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by Maursault 3y ago
Holy downvoting, but there is a massive amount of valid negative criticism of Sheeran's music:[1] it is boring; it is a downer; it all sounds the same; too much of it could not remotely be considered novel; Sheeran does not take risks
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by Maursault 3y ago
Some people are so poor, all they have is money
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by Maursault 3y ago
> Heavy marijuana Ordinary marijuana is measured fractions of an ounce or in grams. A half gram in a bowl, which is a lot, contains many doses. I've never heard of this heavy marijuana, but it should be easy enough to identify and a
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by Maursault 3y ago
Functionally speaking, the WWW is an implementation of HyperCard. They're very similar, again, functionally.
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by Maursault 3y ago
> The first photovoltaic device was built in the 1830's, and mass photovoltaic deployment only became profitable in the last decade. This is a bizarre comparison. The US invested about $1.5T total in developing nuclear power. Almost
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by Maursault 3y ago
> this issue is that it got caught in a death spiral due to Chernobyl. Nuclear (fission) power's unprofitability predates Chernobyl to the very first reactors and continuing up to this day. The Shippingport Atomic Power Station was
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by Maursault 3y ago
> in a universe with infinite dimension, variation and depth. Poetic license? Not only are there not infinite dimensions, none of the three or four dimensions we know about are infinite.
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by Maursault 3y ago
If nuclear power were profitable, no amount of vehement opposition due to environmental risk could stop it. There'd be nuclear power plants everywhere. Fortunately for your vehement opposition, considering all costs. nuclear power has
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by Maursault 3y ago
This strategy isn't going to work. Dropping the moniker isn't going to make any difference. They need to drop the platform. Until they do, they'll never catch up to Apple. Intel has been pwned by Apple since 2020, and that
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by Maursault 3y ago
A Civil Action , 1998, is not directly about DuPont, though DuPont did manufacture the same chemical that the film concerns itself with, trichloroethylene. Duvall was nominated for best supporting actor for his role in this, and the film
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by Maursault 3y ago
> There are two so-called gospels of Thomas: the one called the Gospel of Thomas, which is a collection of sayings attributed to Jesus, and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which is what we're talking about here. The Infancy Gospel is
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by Maursault 3y ago
> Note that Mark is generally thought to be recording an earlier, possibly oral, gospel dubbed Q. No one thinks Mark is based on Q. Q, or Q Source, for the German word Quelle, meaning "source," is the material common to both Ma
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by Maursault 3y ago
Most don't make the distinction, but that the Apollo missions succeeded in landing on the Moon is far less doubted as whether the footage was faked.[1] [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085910/
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by Maursault 3y ago
> as opposed to the real Gospel of Thomas, the gnostic one. This is a simplistic and superficially supportable description. Because of its discovery with the Nag Hammadi library, and the cryptic emphasis on "gnosis" in
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by Maursault 3y ago
> The Gospels were written down within the next few decades: from Mark being penned within a couple decades to John being penned about 60 years later. Not contradicting you, but it is worth mentioning the earliest composition date for th
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by Maursault 3y ago
Intel needs to abandon x86/AMD_64 and backwards compatibility and release their ARM designs, if they have them, otherwise, then they should have them. Exactly who is running even 20yo software, and why, exactly, does Intel care? They s
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by Maursault 3y ago
Homer, apparently, doesn't specify, wine- colored . Is it possible he intended, "intoxicating?"
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by Maursault 3y ago
> Awesome! So you agree that yes the courts have ruled that they violated californias unfair competition laws. Not quite. Effect does not precede cause. I corrected you, and you then parroted my correction. > No, not if the contact br
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by Maursault 3y ago
I tried to watch it three times and failed. I don't have a problem with audiences liking it. But awarding it the Oscar for Best Picture was tragic for The Whale. At least it is SciFi, but Star Wars or E.T. it was not.
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by Maursault 3y ago
> "the trial judge did find that Apple violated California's unfair competition laws" > There's the line there from the article. You have used terminology that was absent from the article and the decision, namely,
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by Maursault 3y ago
Academy convention is to award older, more accomplished actors for previous work that was not awarded. Chalemet's age compared to Paul's is irrelevant. IRL, Chalemet is too young (compared to his competition in 2022) to be awarded
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by Maursault 3y ago
> Other than turning Paul into a crusader Are you referring to Paul's visions of future jihad? That is definitely in the novel. Paul takes advantage of the Fremen seeing him as their Mahdi, and uses their zeal to fight the Harkonn
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by Maursault 3y ago
It won 6 Oscars, deservedly, though all technical, but should have won Best Picture, which went to CODA. CODA had a budget of $10M and a box office take of $1.9M, while Dune had a budget of $165M and a box office take of $402M, if that tell
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by Maursault 3y ago
> Otherwise this just sounds like bullshit? Yet it is very compelling bullshit that stands up to intense scientific scrutiny.[1] [1] https://einstein.stanford.edu/content/relativity/a11332.html
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by Maursault 3y ago
> that doesn't mean that his assertion is valid because I'm not qualified in the appropriate domain. You are very eloquently and thoroughly attempting to justify your ad hominem argument, and to be more specific, you are presen
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The article never once mentions "anti-competitive practice," nor, dare I say, does the judgment. While Epic's allegations of anti-trust were dismissed, the court found "Apple violated California's unfair competition
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by Maursault 3y ago
> were the ones who finally cracked the puzzle What puzzle, precisely? That DNA is a double helix? The article makes it clear that Franklin was already aware of this fact when Watson and Crick had their epiphany. Watson's and Crick&

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