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by Qem 2y ago
Full paper: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/20...
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by Qem 2y ago
Could we just print using yellow paper to make the dots indistinguishable from the background?
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US prosecutors to seek death penalty against CEO killing suspect Mangione(aljazeera.com)
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by Qem 2y ago
> Here, eight fragments of megafauna teeth from the Brazilian Intertropical Region were dated, in the locations of Itapipoca (Ceará State) and the Rio Miranda valley (Mato Grosso do Sul State), with the respective ages: Itapipoca – Eremo
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3,500 years BP: The last survival of the mammal megafauna in the Americas [pdf](faperj.br)
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by Qem 2y ago
Growing with lax environmental oversight. Apparently oil companies can push the brunt of liability for oil spills to the taxpayer there. See: https://ieefa.org/resources/recent-decision-leaves-exxonmobi... Under those
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by Qem 2y ago
Mandatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2608/
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by Qem 2y ago
Related: https://x.com/paulg/status/1905210240888422787 Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250330165351/https://thecradle...
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by Qem 2y ago
Rodents are a closely related group to primates. They are grouped in the same superorder: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euarchontoglires So between a random rat and your cat or dog, the former is likely a closer rela
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Space cowboys: The maverick pioneers of galactic travel(aljazeera.com)
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by Qem 2y ago
> Prize winner’s age at the time they receive their prizes is steadily increasing over time, though the age when they do their prize-winning work isn’t, suggesting Nobel’s are increasingly being awarded to past work. This could be due to
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by Qem 2y ago
Probably Microsoft treats a pure-text, simply specified, human-readable and editable spreadsheet format that fosters interoperability with competing software as an existential threat.
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by Qem 2y ago
9. Excel hates CSV It clearly means CSV must be doing something right. This is one area where LibreOffice Calc shines in comparison to Excel. Importing CSVs is much more convenient.
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by Qem 2y ago
Paywalled, but full study available here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
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A Beginner's Guide to Pharo: Why Smalltalk Still Matters in 2025(medium.com)
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by Qem 2y ago
I suspect the hypothesis life on Earth actually started on Mars and traveled here through microbes carried by meteorites ejected in impacts will be eventually confirmed. Explains why life appeared almost immediately after the Earth formed.
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by Qem 2y ago
Archived version: https://archive.is/FOyoH
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by Qem 2y ago
It's a horrible name. I guess we already discovered so many compounds that nice-sounding names are exhausted. If Deflate had not been picked as compression algorithm name, it surely would be a fine name for a weight loss drug.
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by Qem 2y ago
> The tech necessary for steam engines was available by the late Roman empire IIRC I read somewhere it depended on the previous development of firearms, as it allowed metalworking to advance enough to produce metal tubes with very smooth
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by Qem 2y ago
> while president trump is aligned with a large share of the population of the US Judgement is passed by the end of the term. So that's a open question for now. > how the 'feedback loop' works for elon musk and robert k
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Trump EPA's Next Move: Making It Harder to Sue for Getting Cancer from Roundup(theintercept.com)
7 points by Qem 2y ago|1 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
> how the 'feedback loop' works? If the leader does too much of a poor job it tends to be voted out. Democracy doesn't work by ensuring great people get power. It just avoids perpetuating leadership that gets too misaligne
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by Qem 2y ago
>but end-Permian seemed to be a "first gradually, then suddenly" as pollution from the traps put more and more stress on the biosphere until suddenly... AKA the Seneca effect. See https://terebess.hu/keletkultin
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Google to acquire Israeli firm staffed by former Unit 8200 officers(thecradle.co)
4 points by Qem 2y ago|4 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250320104001/https://thecradle...
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James Jesus Angleton(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by Qem 2y ago|1 comments
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by Qem 2y ago
Featured in the latest Kennedy docs release: https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1902344051766260192
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by Qem 2y ago
Related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Caribbean_diving_disast...
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Stanisław Lem: Visionary of Science, Philosophy, and the Simulation Hypothesis [pdf](researchgate.net)
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by Qem 2y ago
AKA "The Seneca Effect". There's a book written on that: https://terebess.hu/keletkultinfo/seneca.pdf

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