blancheneige

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by blancheneige 8y ago
> For ~500 years, books look approximately the same I think you can even go back as far as 1000 years to find those same standards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_minuscule
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by blancheneige 8y ago
I'm 90% sure I remember watching a documentary from 10+ years ago about a French egyptologist postulating the same mechanism and finding evidence for these ramps on site. I remember specifically how it solved a major puzzle pertaining
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by blancheneige 8y ago
> most atheists tend to have faith in science without actually understanding science quoting OP because you kind of just confirmed his point. no, we do not know that the Universe is 13.7 billion years old, that we’re all made of the stuf
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by blancheneige 8y ago
> a state's own political system has nothing to do with the topic that sounds very contradictory. unless you are implicitly admitting that intelligence agencies are above government oversight. in which case you might have a point. n
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by blancheneige 8y ago
> You either get called "complacent" or "naive." Your original comment is certainly not naive, with the current state of affairs being undeniably ripe for spying operations. > This stuff is going to happen regardle
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by blancheneige 8y ago
>Allies have always spied on each other. It's thanks to that kind of complacent commentary that we're shrugging off intelligence agencies hacking into the computers of senators investigating said agencies. What a time to be ali
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by blancheneige 8y ago
tesla.brakes = false while(true) tesla.speed++
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by blancheneige 8y ago
this has been my experience has well. most of the recruiters that have contacted me have at some point admitted they specifically targeted top 10 schools only
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by blancheneige 8y ago
correct: https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/ this is the subprime bubble all over again, with the govt providing a risk free opportunity for private entities to maintain the insane price runaway until it all comes crashing d
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journalists also like to maintain their status as gatekeepers of information
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so what you are saying is that in hindsight it's easier to see which side was making exaggerated claims?
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it's about preemptively conditioning the west into accepting the mass arrival of "climate refugees" that's going to happen no matter what.
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by blancheneige 8y ago
as a side note, keep in mind that with the option of downloading your entire messaging history, it will be sent as an unencrypted zip file to your email address. a surveillance dragnet dream come true.
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by blancheneige 8y ago
surprised no one has mentioned The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch. it's a must read on the subject, in particular when it comes to all the irreducible hints and theoretical constraints that would allow us to rule out a simulated re