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by bergoid 8y ago
Could it be that this morphine blocker is blocking endorphins? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorphin
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by bergoid 8y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17743796
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by bergoid 8y ago
> The Quora answers (your [2] and [3]) are biased and full of factual errors and misrepresentations Such as?
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by bergoid 8y ago
> the Trans-Atlantic Trade was a sui generis world-historical event, at a whole new scale (by percentage perhaps the largest forced movement in human history) Wrong. The Arab slave trade [1] exceeded the Western one both in scale [2] and
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SPRINT ABM – Zero to Mach 10 in 5 Seconds(youtube.com)
1 points by bergoid 8y ago|0 comments
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by bergoid 8y ago
I fully agree with your assessment of the reaction (or lack thereof, and its reasons) to 9/11 by the GWB administration. It is well supported by the testimony of Richard Clarke [1] and by the investigations of senator Bob Graham [2] [3
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by bergoid 8y ago
I think the idea of "asymmetric warfare" is well established and it fits totally your description. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_warfare Sure, there will always be people who think this not "r
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by bergoid 8y ago
Agreed.
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by bergoid 8y ago
It's not too much of a stretch to describe 9/11 as an act of war.
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by bergoid 8y ago
Something similar is happening in Europe. The golden jackal [1], a close relative to the coyote, is expanding its range northward and westward from the Eastern Mediterranean [2]. They are breeding now in Austria [3] and recently an animal w
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by bergoid 8y ago
> Does that explain why it's so wobbly when going sideways Yes. Check out the smooth movement of a vehicle with properly oriented wheels: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16994136
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by bergoid 8y ago
It's a pity that they got the orientation of the rollers wrong. The wheels should have been oriented either like this: ___ [\]| |[/] | | [/]|___|[\] or like this: ___ [/]| |[\] |
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by bergoid 8y ago
> I doubt he would dare lie to congress He wasn't under oath so the stakes for lying aren't too bad.
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by bergoid 9y ago
> There's quite a bit more evidence than that: > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1464209/Borders-folk-... A unit of "Moors". Again, Mediterranean looking North Africans. Despite th
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by bergoid 9y ago
> Beard is an expert on the history of the Roman Empire, and says that this is not a misrepresentation. Her academic credentials are the very reason why she got criticized for what she said. Saying that the BBC school video is accurate i
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by bergoid 9y ago
> We have no reliable evidence regarding what proportion of Roman Britain was "black". We have good historical evidence that there were Romans present in Britain who we'd these days describe as black (e.g. an Ethiopian sol
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by bergoid 9y ago
> Taleb isn't painting himself in a very flattering light with these attacks. They're very weird and bitter. This is his default style as a polemicist and it distracts indeed from the points he is trying to make. > And I can
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by bergoid 9y ago
What they mean is that these unseen galaxies are within the radius of the observable universe, but too faint to be detected with current telescopes.
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by bergoid 9y ago
> These laws not only existed, they where far more stringent, prosecution far easier and the punishment far more severe. Try going back then and discussing the king/queen in a negative way. True. > And yet, his book was still pub
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by bergoid 9y ago
> "Any communication which is threatening or abusive, and is intended to harass, alarm, or distress someone is forbidden" Prohibitions like this one are overly broad and smother a lot of legitimate discussion. Exceptions to fre
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by bergoid 9y ago
The Orwellian implications of these definitions are hair-raising. This turns crime into something that is in the eye of the beholder and lies the burden of proof upon the accused.
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by bergoid 9y ago
What advantage does living in the Martian underground have compared to living in a free flying space colony somewhere in the asteroid belt? With the latter arrangement you have lots of minable resources at hand, only a small delta-v away fr
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by bergoid 9y ago
In mathematics education, I always disliked the way inifinity is shoehorned into the different sets of numbers and treated as "just another number", so that you can write shorthands like: 1/∞=0, instead of the more accurate ∀
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by bergoid 9y ago
> They didn't really get past the Germanic tribes and stopped expansion They were unable to find a new natural border that was as easily defendable as the Rhine-Danube combination. > Presumably also because there wasn't much
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by bergoid 9y ago
I just tried it out. Really great tool. Thanks!
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by bergoid 10y ago
> Note to opinion-makers: talk about cleaning up more and GW less. You are turning off your audience and volume won't change that. I think what turned off a lot of people is the transition made by opinion makers from the straight an
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Ariane 5 launch delayed indefinitely(satellitetoday.com)
2 points by bergoid 10y ago|0 comments
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by bergoid 10y ago
Non-native English speaker here. What exactly is the grammatical error in: "The amount of images in circulation affects our ability to appreciate and understand them"?
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by bergoid 10y ago
Unless you are excluding Pluto deliberately for not being "a planet", its moon Charon has half the diameter of Pluto. They are even both orbiting a common center of gravity outside Pluto. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by bergoid 10y ago
The writer ruined it for me at the end of the article by casually arguing for the existence of telepathy with a couple of vague anecdotes.

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