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by aksss 2y ago
I’m confused by your question. Paul was from Tarsus, a Roman citizen, and brought Christianity to the gentiles/goyim, but was himself a Jew, from a Jewish family, and of long Jewish descent. Maybe I’m not understanding the implications
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by aksss 2y ago
> I don’t understand boners Well, he literally got into a 70-ft wooden sailboat and crossed the Atlantic ocean with no certainty of landfall, basically sailing on spec, and because of that voyage, opened up a new hemisphere of the planet
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by aksss 2y ago
Ducks and witches, on the other hand. . .
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by aksss 2y ago
And here I was blown away by the ignorance of many of the questions. Why no landing legs? Why is this more impressive than the other rocket landings? What’s the thingy that fell off during separation? Sometimes I need to remind myself tha
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by aksss 2y ago
As in life, when a person is on a road to nowhere, it’s the homecoming that’s sweet. The only thing more exciting than an Earth landing will be a moon or Martian landing. Or the in-orbit fuel consolidation docking, if only because it will b
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by aksss 2y ago
(judgement aside, just facts) There's a lot of that going on with the FBI, including bot nets / marketplaces that they commandeer. How long do you let it continue? It's a fantastic way to gather intelligence, and the risk tha
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by aksss 2y ago
Maybe it's a new level of accessibility to data that's afforded by AI?
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by aksss 2y ago
Plug for csnakes.. https://tonybaloney.github.io/CSnakes/
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by aksss 2y ago
I tend to not give a flip about personalities of people behind things. If you make the best widget and I need a widget, you do you and I’ll get to widgeting. Practical outcomes are the priority.
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by aksss 2y ago
> I love my blog. Ha, ditto. I’m sure I’m my own biggest fan and reader. I’m making content I want to see more of on the Internet, and am proud of it! :)
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by aksss 2y ago
I more worry about AI hoovering up my hard work and that makes me think about the honesty of my beliefs about why I write. In my hobby domain, authors were traditionally very protective of obscure sources, it was all about getting the book
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by aksss 2y ago
Letting the metrics steer the ship is a fool’s errand in this kind of blogging, but I do find it an interesting novelty to see how people are getting to my stuff, search terms for organic visitors, etc. It doesn’t drive what I write, but it
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by aksss 2y ago
Not op, but.. Writing for my future self (I know from coding) is like writing for another person. So making it readable, sources cited, etc. is being kind to future me. Also, it’s like that old saw about teaching - if you can’t explain some
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by aksss 2y ago
Anything new or different is an uphill battle, but I have a hard time believing that anyone who has spent even the slightest amount of time with pip and conda, getting their python execution house of cards built.. just.. so.. is going to st
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by aksss 2y ago
Dumping what you find to be the best vehicle for your needs / technical enjoyment based on either a personality in the company, the fear of other’s impression of you for driving it, or both.
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by aksss 2y ago
This is called, “cutting your nose to spite your face”.
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by aksss 2y ago
I’m not sure what your last sentence is saying. To the question, an example would be resource extraction and refinement. The United States has no less appetite for the materials but denies permits locally in favor of other countries doing t
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by aksss 2y ago
Any conflict would leave the small island looking like Gaza, a pyrrhic victory for everyone involved -- if you're trying to seize more than land. It's conceivable that the country making islands in the SCS would see a mere land gr
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by aksss 2y ago
> They have no serious industrial policy. Ignoring how we define "serious", they do have an industrial policy. You just may not agree with the wisdom of the outcomes wrought by the regulatory regime. I don't know how you e
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by aksss 2y ago
When the island of Taiwan gets the Alderaan treatment, I'm not sure that will be an issue.
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by aksss 2y ago
I believe Musk is a naturalized citizen of the U.S. The legal status of alien refers to one who has not gone through the naturalization process, IIRC. I'm sure Brazil could attempt to have anyone extradited, regardless of citizenship s
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by aksss 2y ago
Wasn't the court threatening to start penalizing the local X ee's as the only local target they had for enforcement actions? "The social media giant published pictures of a document allegedly signed by Moraes which says a dai
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by aksss 2y ago
You can insure anything.
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by aksss 2y ago
This is on target. Tagging collaborators certainly has advantages, not so much for invoking a social glare at home but helping to identify them to intelligence sources, certainly.
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by aksss 2y ago
Seeing some video from one of the hospitals, there's a lot of variety to the injuries. It looks like some people were looking at the pager when it exploded (injury to face and hand), some were wearing it on hip, some in pocket, some pr
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by aksss 2y ago
The unreliability of sharing video with android users over mms is what drives my use of Signal. That and it's cross platform.
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by aksss 2y ago
Plug for Lin Yutang’s translation and his writing in general. Very enjoyable translation for English speakers.
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by aksss 2y ago
Predators including the human variety.
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by aksss 2y ago
Nothing in this decision prevents regulatory agency rulemaking. Nothing in this decision "guts" the agencies.
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by aksss 2y ago
I think it's the other way, right? ..That farming/agr and livestock are both examples of domestication (of plants and animals). The root of the word "agriculture" is specific to plants (ager, agr = fields).

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