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by catalogia 6y ago
How the stones of the pyramids were worked is no great mystery. The interesting part is how they were lifted into place. The external-spiral-ramp and one-long-ramp theories both seem extremely unlikely. Internal-ramp seems plausible b
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by catalogia 6y ago
This sort of astronomy used eyeballs and oral tradition. What archeological traces would that leave?
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by catalogia 6y ago
> And it's not clear that being able to swim would necessarily save many of the people who have died in major ferry, etc. accidents. The ability to get off the ship and into the water seems like the trickiest bit to me, particular
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by catalogia 6y ago
That probably says more about the composition of your social circle than anything else.
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by catalogia 6y ago
The issue with SQLite and concurrent writers isn't that it's slow, it's that it just can't do it. WAL mode lets you have as many readers as you want concurrent with a single writer, but it doesn't give you multip
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by catalogia 6y ago
Besides passengers the Lusitania was also officially carrying hundreds of tons of rifle ammunition and more than a thousand cases of artillery shells. Some have asserted it had even more than that, undeclared/unofficially. From wik
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by catalogia 6y ago
No, actually you had too few blockers running. The article loads fine for me with all js/css disabled.
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by catalogia 6y ago
What specific technology are you referring to? I'm unaware of any Polynesians technology that couldn't plausibly been independently used tens of thousands of years earlier. The accomplishments of the Polynesians seafarers was p
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by catalogia 6y ago
Like Wiley E. Coyote running off the side of a cliff; he doesn't fall until he makes the mistake of looking down.
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by catalogia 6y ago
> and other beach dwelling large mammals Like walruses? Sorry..
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by catalogia 6y ago
> Humans made it to Australia without any Land Bridge. For that matter they also made it to Hawaii without any land bridges. Polynesian navigators and sailors proved that neither land bridges nor high technology are needed for these
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by catalogia 6y ago
The image being the product of a computer program processing data does not mean that it's a hoax. That's moronic, and it's not even remotely what I'm talking about. Fixing the image is not a matter of "editing it o
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by catalogia 6y ago
I'm not sure people upset with the current state of social discourse have much incentive to vote for an incumbent. That seems inherently counterproductive.
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by catalogia 6y ago
Nobody is obliged to vote on a matter. At least not in America, I've heard it might be different in Australia. When I feel as though I cannot make an informed decision, I choose not to vote. Why should my uninformed vote be so value
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by catalogia 6y ago
> or because you just don't know what's going on. Exactly. Anybody who earnestly tries to be informed will realize that there are limits to what they know and subjects for which they are not [yet] informed. There needs to
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by catalogia 6y ago
From what I understand ARM designs and licenses some chips but also licenses the right to design chips implementing the same ISA. So not all ARM processors are designed by ARM.
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by catalogia 6y ago
The US is not a legal monoculture; there are some parts of the US where public nudity is permitted. Example (NSFW, article contains some nudity): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_nudity_in_San_Francisco Laws conc
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by catalogia 6y ago
That the image tweeted is a product of photoshop in the first place should be obvious to anybody who looks up. Go outside tonight and look up. Does the sky appear as it does in that tweet? Obviously not.
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by catalogia 6y ago
> That's because what they mean is that the moon appears more brightly at night, and I suspect you know this. No, I don't think that's the reason. The moon is frequently very bright during the day, not even remotely har
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by catalogia 6y ago
I don't see why they would. The stars typically used for astronavigation are very bright; brighter than starlink satellites. A brief web search leads me to believe typical starlink satellites have a magnitude of around 5 or more, whi
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by catalogia 6y ago
> Truth is, most people never look at the night sky, period. Truth is people never look at the sky period . Ask people when the moon is visible and most will say "during the night." But about half of the time, the mo
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by catalogia 6y ago
You're being sarcastic, but there are plenty of places were that is true and those places haven't descended into madness.
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by catalogia 6y ago
The turbines driving the pumped produced 41 MW or 55,000 horsepower each. Absolutely stunning.
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by catalogia 6y ago
Are moderators really meant to watch the whole video in cases like that? It seems to me like they could stop once the content of the video became apparent. Even just a fraction of a second of that sort of content could be scaring, but I
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by catalogia 6y ago
You might be confusing private nonprofit universities with for-profit schools.
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by catalogia 6y ago
You say "he" but for all you really know any number of people could have knowledge of that tripcode.
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by catalogia 6y ago
That's a grossly unfair characterization of SSC.
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by catalogia 6y ago
For better or worse, many restaurants have dress codes.
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by catalogia 6y ago
Could be, to be honest I don't even know what it's about. But if "QAnon" came from 4chan than the "[whatever] didn't come from 'QAnon' because it actually came from 4chan" doesn't make mu
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by catalogia 6y ago
AFAIK that's the origin of the "QAnon" shit too, so I'm not sure that really contradicts much.

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