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by ahazred8ta 5mo ago
Julian invented the tinfoil hat.
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by ahazred8ta 5mo ago
Khipu researchers don't have it easy. It's rough when your only Rosetta stone is a Gordian knot.
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by ahazred8ta 5mo ago
With the decline of cigarettes, there are homo sapiens children growing up today who have never seen fire. First time in two million years.
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by ahazred8ta 5mo ago
Ditto Dr. Eugen Weber's 'The Western Tradition' - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=eugen+weber&ia=videos&iax=videos
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by ahazred8ta 5mo ago
There's a gallery of variant versions of Cinderella from different countries, even China. In many of them she has an enchanted cow. http://www.365cinderellas.com/
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by ahazred8ta 5mo ago
You can make a wooden basin or waterproof pit. Fill it with water, drop in hot stones from a fire. This is common in preceramic cultures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_boiler -- https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by ahazred8ta 5mo ago
"ɢʀᴇᴇᴛɪɴɢs ғᴇʟʟᴏᴡ ғʙɪ ᴀɢᴇɴᴛ"
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by ahazred8ta 5mo ago
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begun upon this downward
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by ahazred8ta 6mo ago
There are ultra thin credit card size BT / GPS trackers designed for wallets. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=credit+card+size+gps+tracker&ia=we...
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by ahazred8ta 6mo ago
Area code 272 (CSC for 'Cancer Support Community') 1-272-867-5309
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by ahazred8ta 6mo ago
There's a star trek fan who has a primary dog and an emergency backup dog. There's also the british 'heir and a spare' .
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by ahazred8ta 6mo ago
There's a 'build the Japanese train system' board game "1889" -- https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/23540/shikoku-1889 -- https://www.amazon.com/Shikoku-1889-Railways-Play
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by ahazred8ta 6mo ago
Obligatory xkcd. Mouseover for The Last Answer. https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1448:_Question
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by ahazred8ta 6mo ago
A perfect hash function https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_hash_function has to be specially constructed for each desired set of inputs. Generic hash functions cannot be 'perfect'.
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by ahazred8ta 6mo ago
Original paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec2916
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by ahazred8ta 6mo ago
Many people who switch religions are not completely tacked down around the edges .
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by ahazred8ta 6mo ago
It can be any colour you like.
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by ahazred8ta 6mo ago
Every 20 years, Jupiter and Saturn are in position for a gravity assist, which allows you to reach half the outer solar system. In the 1970s, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were all in the right half.
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by ahazred8ta 6mo ago
Yes, there are quite a few anti-AI projects. https://old.reddit.com/r/badphilosophy/wiki/index
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by ahazred8ta 7mo ago
The hive mind never sleeps. ;-)
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by ahazred8ta 7mo ago
The classic Slow Tuesday Night (1965) by R. A. Lafferty. Sort of post-singularity. I liked the part where they use an AI-assisted ghostwriting machine to spit out a scholarly text in seconds. (People who buy it just read the quick summary
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by ahazred8ta 7mo ago
He may have been saying Quaeso Te, Non! -- plain vanilla latin for "I beg you, no!"
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by ahazred8ta 7mo ago
March 1926 to October 1957 -- It only took us 31 years to get to orbit. And 5 more years to get to Venus.
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by ahazred8ta 7mo ago
If only ST:TAS hadn't given us the Holodeck... IMHO TNG would have been better without the holodeck episodes.
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by ahazred8ta 7mo ago
Ditto the 1982 Lenell Geter case -- he was sent to prison based on a faulty witness ID. https://www.LenellGeter.com/Content/About/ -- https://exonerationregistry.org/cases/4406
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by ahazred8ta 7mo ago
In different states, police use cognitive aptitude tests such as the Wonderlic -- https://jobdescriptionandresumeexamples.com/10-important-fac... -- https://www.practice4me.com/lst-police-exam/ -- the
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by ahazred8ta 7mo ago
> The Automobile makes cities less pleasant to live in In 1900, there was a major manure crisis in all large european and north american cities. The swarms of flies were inescapable. Although certainly the new roads required by increa
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by ahazred8ta 7mo ago
Dilbert's take on 'random' number generators: https://www.random.org/analysis/dilbert.jpg
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There's an outfit in DC that social engineers government buildings. "Who are you, and what are you doing here?" ... "We've got chocolate cake!" "Oooo!!!"
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by ahazred8ta 7mo ago
Pete Seeger - "We're filling up the seas with garbage (garbage, garbage, garbage)"

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