Vaphell

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by Vaphell 5mo ago
> my understanding of what classifies something as being a part of the same species is the fact that they can make children that are viable to have children themselves things are a bit more complicated than that, because having fertile o
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by Vaphell 7mo ago
> The article's central premise is based on a false assumption, which is that people taking UBI will be idle. There is no significant evidence to support that claim. You really think there would not be a massive increase in the numb
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by Vaphell 4y ago
in the world of antivaxxers, flat earthers you really trust a jury full of laymen to make judgements? Quoting Blazing Saddles: "These are people of the land, the common clay of the new west.... you know, morons" The vast major
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by Vaphell 4y ago
you really think that in a world chock-full of antivaxxers, flat earthers and the climate change deniers it's hard to pad a jury with clueless mouthbreathers and exploit widespread anti-corpo sentiments? Same shit with glyphosate.
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by Vaphell 4y ago
> nuclear power plants can not follow load, they just generate constantly nuh-uh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-following_power_plant#Nuc... Modern nuclear plants with light water reactors are designed to have
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by Vaphell 5y ago
there is a theory that "modern" overbite lent itself to pronouncing f and v sounds, which are more tricky with perfectly lined up teeth https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ability-pronou...
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by Vaphell 5y ago
no, it traces back to the same thing pretty much, but in modern Polish it's indistinguishable from ż (ž?) I assume that long time ago it went like this r' -> ř -> řż -> ż, which effectively removed the foundational r-ness
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by Vaphell 6y ago
1. it's a slower check, just like equals() intended for value equality is slower than reference equality == in java. 2. 1 == True and 0 == False, as booleans subclass the int type. On the other hand is distingushes between 1 and True,