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by alkyon 1y ago
Very nice. One nitpick: Malaga-Fuengirola C-1 line is suburban train and not metro (C stands for Cercanías) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1laga_Metro Warsaw Metro has 36 station but only one is included. Metro
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by alkyon 1y ago
It´s like saying that the Japanse diet is mostly about rice and ramen. I find a lot of sophistication in Italian cooking, especially accompanied by a good wine. The problem is that in the US Italian food is mostly some fastfood abomination
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by alkyon 1y ago
Reality is more complex then that. Qatar has been sending millions to Gaza (and transitively to Hamas) for years. Important point is that Israel was aware of it and even approved of it - more details here: https://edition.cnn.com
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by alkyon 1y ago
Conservatives are champions of free speech unless it concerns Palestine and Israel. In this case any vague rule is good to supress it and impose full censorship.
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by alkyon 1y ago
"The White House announced that the US and Qatar had inked deals worth at least $1.2 trillion, including a major transaction which would see Qatar Airways buy 210 aircraft from the US company Boeing." So US president also shook ha
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by alkyon 1y ago
Trump visited Qatar this year in May (Irish president 2 months ago). He also discussed cooperation and investment. Your arguments is flawed. Most likely you're mistaking Qatar for some other country.
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by alkyon 1y ago
Other precedent was South Africa, where cultural boycott contributed to dismantling of the apartheid regime. This could also work for Israel.
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by alkyon 1y ago
It adds to drama. This year Israel had a rather weak song and got very few votes from the jury. But then it almost won thanks to the majority of votes from text messages. Pure magic.
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by alkyon 1y ago
> penis wss fused inside her, and he had to watch while a bear ate her face Sounds very convincing, but it's just an urban legend: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bear-naked/
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by alkyon 1y ago
This is flagged by anti-Semites, obviously. Yes, Palestinians are Semites by all definitions.
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by alkyon 1y ago
I found this video from 3Blue1Brown more informative in terms of mathematics involved: https://youtu.be/spUNpyF58BY?feature=shared Edit: In fact it was already mentioned in the comments, but I haven't noticed
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by alkyon 1y ago
Comparing US war against Nazi Germany with war crimes Israel is now committing in Gaza is kind of dumb. You don't really know what you're talking about -- genocide is by definition mass slaughter of people based on their ethnic or
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by alkyon 1y ago
I don't think it's really about applying a definition A to a definition B incorrectly, but rather about expanding or restricting the meaning of a given definition. Is the Gaza genocide on the same level as what happened in the War
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by alkyon 1y ago
> Literature from before 1800, Davis notes, is ‘mostly unread, even by writers’ I strongly disagree. There are many counterexamples, some authors are still widely read. Besides Shakespeare, it's Defoe, his Robinson Crusoe is one of
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by alkyon 1y ago
This might have its roots in Nazi era when even children happened to denounce their parents to the Gestapo. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20756166 "Several historians have claimed that ordinary citizens who volunt
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by alkyon 1y ago
I don't deny that his output is highly valued among AI researchers. Provocative as my question may be, the point I wanted to make is that his most highly cited paper that I already mentioned is suspiciously very in line with the OpenAI
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by alkyon 1y ago
Yes, he published a paper claiming GPT-4 has "sparks" of AGI. What else is he known for in the field of computer science? https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712
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by alkyon 1y ago
I moved to Spain 3 years ago and still think it's kind of nonsense in Central and Eastern Europe. Today it was 19/10 degrees Celsius (68/50 F) in Warsaw. With these temperatures you could only use AC to warm your home. I unde
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The strangest David Lynch facts – ranked(theguardian.com)
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by alkyon 1y ago
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/aptitude/puzzle-19-poison-and-...
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by alkyon 1y ago
Obviously 1000 rats is a wrong solution, you could remove one and still get the answer. But we could get better than that when you think about a thousand as three dimensional cube (10^3). Treating a rat with just one layer of the cube we co
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by alkyon 1y ago
I wasn't familiar with 'Poison and Rat' puzzle that the post mentions as an inspiration of the title riddle. Without looking at the answer I came up with a geometric interpretation of it (explained below as this is a spoiler
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by alkyon 1y ago
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate is by far my favourite of all Chiang's stories. It is always great intellectual pleasure to read them, however sometimes I find his writing style a bit dry and I don't get so involved emo
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by alkyon 1y ago
In the table there is also 'Skulachev quinone (SKQ)', so it doesn't look like he ran out of space for writing out the whole name. It kind of gross to call ascorbic acid like that, as someone who studied chemistry I'm rev
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by alkyon 1y ago
Ascorbic is not a correct name of a compound. Should be 'ascorbic acid' or Vitamin C. Such sloppiness cast doubt on accuracy of the whole review.
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by alkyon 1y ago
Anyone interested in getting a great overview of the late republic should read the Cicero trilogy by Robert Harris
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by alkyon 1y ago
Success in itself is not a sufficient condition of happiness. How many unhappy billionairs are out there?
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by alkyon 1y ago
I don't know if this was bad faith or not, but honestly, you need to be a bigoted retard to ban Slaughterhouse-Five of all the things. The side effect of this is that some literary classics will enjoy a brief surge in popularity among
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by alkyon 1y ago
It could also be indicative of the issues bigots have with their own sexuality. A good example of this, was a Hungarian MEP who as a married man and an author of ultra-conservative Hungarian constitution defining marriage as being between m
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by alkyon 1y ago
Like Wagner and lots of other artists around that time. Agatha Christie's most famous novel? - Ten Little Niggers. Jean Genet was a convicted criminal. I try to separate the work from the artist, even if it's difficult.

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