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by bitcurious 2y ago
Fortunately won't be a big issue, as: >OTOF-related deafness is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. If both parents are known to be carriers, each sib of an individual with OTOF-related deafness has at conception a 25% chanc
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by bitcurious 2y ago
> Things like the creation of the Amazon rainforest Kind of a ridiculous myth when you consider the diversity of life uniquely adapted to the various micro environments of the amazon rainforest. It would be multi-million-year terraformin
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by bitcurious 2y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel The US hasn't been especially loud about it, but it's been a dominant force in 'internet warfare.'
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by bitcurious 2y ago
Can you speak more to your perspective? The only way I can understand your take is to say that the West Bank is rightfully Israeli and therefore its residents should be citizens with voting rights. Are you opposed to an independent Palestin
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by bitcurious 2y ago
> Ok why is it that some people say northern lights look EXACTLY like these spectacular photos, and others say in real life they are actually barely visible and you need a camera and very dark skies? There is a lot of variability in peop
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by bitcurious 2y ago
> https://www.memri.org/reports/al-jazeera-arabic-qatari-owned... This is obviously a source with a considerable bias, but they link to many concerning examples of Al Jazeera reporting. I personally don’t speak Arab
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by bitcurious 2y ago
>I’m not aware of any such ratio used by the IDF. The IDF has a robust decision making process, in excess of a single “ratio” approach. Here is an article that talks about an aspect of this: http://law-disrupted.fm/idf-la
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by bitcurious 2y ago
Note the context: I corrected your use of “Russians” in favor of “Soviets.”
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by bitcurious 2y ago
The Soviets* pretty clearly did not kill all of the civilians in Germany, nor did they attempt to. Unlike the Germans themselves, who exterminated whole towns and had a plan that involved total genocide of their conquered peoples. Pretty wi
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by bitcurious 2y ago
The typical phrase is “infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars.” It gets at the same idea as you. https://www.czdefence.com/article/infantry-wins-battles-logi... .
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by bitcurious 2y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/29/nyregion/college-protests... A fairly credible source discussing just this question. A pretty blatant example is a linked video of protestors intimidating three Jewish
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by bitcurious 2y ago
Interesting article. The history of the various scripts actually does have at least a limited parallel in the world - Ancient Egypt. >Although many people think of Egyptian hieroglyphs as logographic or pictographic, it actually combines
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by bitcurious 2y ago
Older episodes of RadioLab are absolute gems. Around the time Robert Krulwich retired I noticed a palpable shift. The new hosts' motivation shifted from inform to influence. It still has good stories, but the framing is somewhat more m
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by bitcurious 2y ago
> Yet they don't seem to exist yet? Is this harder to do than it sounds? It exists, but isn’t advertised much as it’s essentially a military technology. If you read about the homegrown attack drones Ukraine is building they use a va
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by bitcurious 3y ago
Re: France and the United States, you have the timeline mixed up a bit. France & the French intellectuals of course played a large role in the American revolution, but it was America that became a democracy first. Lafayette, one of the
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by bitcurious 3y ago
The US became absurdly wealthy during the 20th century. Canada did well too. Poland, Czechia, Estonia and a few other recently independent democracies are thriving as well.
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by bitcurious 3y ago
Something approaching a personal CRM is a huge gap in the current market. Sunshine seems to be backing into that.
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by bitcurious 3y ago
Apple's main fitness competitor Peloton supports non-peloton fitness bands, cadence meters, etc.
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by bitcurious 3y ago
A Garmin watch can’t track heart rate during an Apple Fitness Plus workout, an example.
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by bitcurious 3y ago
> know they can relight the engine on the booster and we know they can relight for landing burns. Do we know that? Booster crashed into the water at full speed; landing reignition failed.
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by bitcurious 3y ago
During/post covid there has been a massive migration out of urban centers into rural places. Thus far the effect has been that affordable places are less affordable, while expensive places stayed expensive.
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by bitcurious 3y ago
I’ll admit that I merely skimmed the study, but as I read it states that local/municipal property taxes in many cases don’t cover the road infrastructure required to support those homes. To make the argument that they are subsidized yo
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by bitcurious 3y ago
If I wanted to try my hand at this hobby, what’s the best place to get started?
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by bitcurious 3y ago
If you bought the winning lottery ticket, you’d be a lottery winner.
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by bitcurious 3y ago
Could we use gravity lensing to directly measure the difference in redshift of the same star at different points in time?
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by bitcurious 3y ago
The engineer in question said that they refused to work for a company that participated in project Nimbus/contracting with Israeli state. Is that not a resignation?
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by bitcurious 3y ago
Cool thing about wiki is that you can edit it! That way the next person to read it gets the benefit of your knowledge.
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by bitcurious 3y ago
Unless you consider it as funding in a seed round. These days, OpenAI is worth double digit billions at the very least. If Musk funded the venture as a startup, he’d have increased his net worth by at least a few billion.
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by bitcurious 3y ago
That's a pretty strong statement, maybe expand on what's false, incorrect, or misrepresented?
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by bitcurious 3y ago
If the prompt is in English it should presume an American/British/Canadian/Australian nurse, and represent the diversity of those populations. If the prompt is in Chinese, the nurses should demonstrate the diversity of the Ch

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