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by astine 4y ago
> > Nature creates superfluous number of males > A rather astounding statement. Selective pressure should result a ratio appropriate for a given species of plant or animal. It’s not my field, but I haven’t seen any literature sugge
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by astine 4y ago
You should actually watch that video rather than just posting it. Mearsheimer's whole thesis, that Russia is trying to "wreck" Ukraine in order to keep it out of NATO and wasn't motivated by territorial expansion has bee
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by astine 4y ago
Based on Russian state propoganda and Putins own words, the motive for the invasion is Russian nationalism. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60562240
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by astine 4y ago
> Contrast this with Russia, who invaded a state in which many Russians live, for concrete matters of national security. You mean for concrete matters of national chauvanism? It's amazing to still see people spreading this misinform
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by astine 5y ago
Many people would not be alive if Stalin hadn't defeat Hitler, that doesn't mean it was good. The defeat of Nazi Germany wasn't good? The fuck?
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by astine 5y ago
Maybe, but you could also argue that bad information is irrelevant. If I search for "cancer treatment", it's not necessarily helpful for "black salve" to pop-up on my search results.
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by astine 5y ago
If you're actually interested in flat earth theory you'll search for "Flat Earth." If you search for "Charting a Flight", You're probably not looking for flat earth content.
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by astine 5y ago
I watched the Mearsheimer lecture. The first point is that he gave it in 2015, so it's pretty old. Second point is that his main idea about Putin's motives are largely falsified by the recent invasion. Mearsheimer says that Putin
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by astine 5y ago
You can set "show dead" in your profile to see it. I can still read it.
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by astine 5y ago
" What's brilliant is the US's ability to make Putin appear much more evil than he really is. Yes, he is a dictator and isn't a good person, but he's been bringing back Russia from the dead and lifting its people ou
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by astine 5y ago
"Russia has far more basis for invading a rapidly arming country on its own border than the US did for invading Iraq or Afghanistan or Vietnam or Korea." Ukraine's attempts to prepare against invasion do not justify said inva
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by astine 5y ago
"Some of these people in Ukraine are hardcore neo-Nazis, and we are giving them weapons. Some a genuine I'm sure, and I haven't been to Ukraine, and only have a few friends from there. So it's hard for me to gauge exactl
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by astine 5y ago
"(interestingly under the auspices of NATO, a "defensive" pact)" According the grand strategy of the cold war, those missiles were defensive. Their presence was requested by Turkey and when they were removed there was
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by astine 5y ago
">One persistent U.S. demand is that Ukraine’s territorial integrity be restored. Indeed, the U.S. is party to the Budapest Memorandum in which Russia guaranteed Ukraine’s territorial integrity in return for Ukraine’s transfer of So
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by astine 5y ago
Well, the Swahili coast is nowhere near the Nile/Mediterranean and it was quite advanced. But that was connected to the Arab world via trade and I think what you mean is did any African societies develop to a similar level of sophistic
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by astine 5y ago
I do hope you are familiar with the civilizations of Kush, Aksum, Congo, Ghana/Mali/Songhai, etc. You could also add the Swahili coast to this list.
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by astine 5y ago
Because archaeologists call everything sophisticated including stone-aged hand-axes if they're comparing it to something less-sophisticated, such as the pastoralist communities that people usually think of when considering southern Afr
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by astine 5y ago
"Drainage channels" are far from "evidence of a sophisticated civilisation". The term "civilization" has a technical meaning in archaeology which includes things such as permanent settlement and a hierarchica
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by astine 5y ago
This is not about SQL; it's about user interfaces. The author is only using SQL as an explanatory tool.
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by astine 5y ago
I'm pretty sure most of these photos were take in Arabia and not the Sahara. Some of them are clearly in Palestine and Jordan. Arabia is also mostly bright desert so the point stands.
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by astine 5y ago
Tinco is referencing a famous story by Xenophon who was a Greek mercenary who fought for the Persians. The city being references is believed to be Nineveh(1), which was indeed a capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire at one point. The ruins of
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by astine 5y ago
If you're manually generating your own CSV files, you probably know what kind of data you are generating and consequently whether your data is going to contain commas. If commas and newlines don't exist in your data, then you can
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by astine 5y ago
Git didn't need GitHub to become popular. Torvald's name being attached to it is what did that. But GitHub is what gave Git the near monopoly on open source version control that it enjoys today. Once it became more convenient to
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by astine 5y ago
In addition to what majormajor said, there TA had a bigger sense of scale than Starcraft or Command and Conquer. There was a greater discrepancy between the size of large and small units and the size of the units had a bigger impact on the
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by astine 5y ago
So says the Bible, right before talking about Noah who goes on to live many centuries, apparently.
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by astine 5y ago
Many drugs are addictive, but I can choose which drugs I get addicted to.
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by astine 5y ago
Sapiens is a big "picture human history" book, which is a genre which is always going to have a number of weaknesses due to the problems of trying to squelch all of human history into a single readable book with a clear thesis.
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by astine 6y ago
And now your memory usage will grow eye-wateringly large. Instead, convert the algorithm to be iterative or at least tail-recursive and it will be faster than both the naive and memoized versions!
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by astine 6y ago
The problem that I see: Social media has emboldened people to look at attention and fame as something that has to be achieved. People actively fight over it. This does seem to be the problem in my view attention is a 0-sum game on one soc
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by astine 6y ago
For those of us not in the know, what is so special about today regarding WSB? I know there's a feud with short sellers going on, but I haven't been following the details.

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