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by cwmma 7y ago
I had to look it up, but Sonny Perdue (the secretary of ag) is not related to Perdue farms (large chicken manufacturer)
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by cwmma 7y ago
How long until Schema.org degrades into something like The Version War? 1. https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48fdb8829e239
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by cwmma 7y ago
Fail Safe is was based on a book called 'Fail Safe' while Dr Strangelove was based on one called 'Red Alert'. It's an easy mistake to make as they have incredibly similar plots which really hurt Fail Safe (which I
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by cwmma 7y ago
fun fact, if you were to travel into the earths core, gravity would go up first before it started to go down as you got closer to the dense center of the earth
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by cwmma 7y ago
the sun dials they used were less sophisticated then modern ones and didn't give uniform hours throughout the year, according to Wikipedia, those types of sun dials date to the 13th century.
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by cwmma 7y ago
Don't rush to improve chicken coop, warns local fox
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by cwmma 7y ago
I was suggesting why the Chinese disasters may have gotten less play in the west
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by cwmma 7y ago
like some sort of train that a car could drive onto and be transported? This has existed for years.
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by cwmma 7y ago
disasters in china tend to operate at just a whole different scale then ones in the west, like take the Taiping Rebellion, by some counts the 2nd deadliest modern war and it's not very well known in the west.
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by cwmma 7y ago
Whats with Cincinnati? There seem to be an disproportionate number of them there and all of them in a line from the south west to north east.
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by cwmma 7y ago
the thing about an IQ is that all it measures is the ability to take an IQ test, and ability to take an IQ test is thought to correlate with some sort of thing called intelligence, but nobody is quite sure how it relates to intelligence, wh
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by cwmma 7y ago
My favorite one of these is Iquitos in Peru, which is an Atlantic port, reachable by ocean going vessels, 2,200 miles away from the ocean
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by cwmma 7y ago
a meets/exceeds scale becomes stack ranking when the proportion of different ranks is capped so that even if everybody on a team did well, some would have to be given the lowest ranking
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by cwmma 7y ago
yeah I debated trying to bring that up, but felt it would make the point a little more complex and he's still wrong even if the money wasn't laundered
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by cwmma 7y ago
or the fact you can go from Amsterdam to the black sea fairly directly and from there to st. petersburg is even more mind boggling
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by cwmma 7y ago
he is saying that 'most terrorist money comes from charities' does not imply 'most charity money goes to terrorists'
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by cwmma 7y ago
yeah but it's structured like serial killer movie, even if it's ambiguous as to whether it might just all be in his head.
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by cwmma 7y ago
the 'global resurfacing event' they refer to probably rules that out as wikipedia describes this as '[covering] most or all of the planet with lava'
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by cwmma 7y ago
I think the big thing is that hub and spoke was always considered more efficient but here they are saying that if you take into account resilience into the equation then p2p may be more efficient than a hub and spoke model.
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by cwmma 7y ago
because it's attached to the moon, which is preventing it from falling into the earth which it would otherwise do at that altitude going that slowly.
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by cwmma 7y ago
But do they have a two-chambered heart? Birds have a 4 chambered one and crocodiles have a 3 chambered one, which IIRC, is in some ways more complex that's very well suited to their current style of ambush hunting.
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by cwmma 7y ago
I was thinking if you were getting a lot of false positives, especially with loyalists that could make it a problem
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by cwmma 7y ago
it seems like the protesters should make some home made blue water dye and spray random people with it to create plausible deniability
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by cwmma 7y ago
interestingly there was a project to break unbroken 4 rotor navel enigma messages and they still have one unbroken one https://enigma.hoerenberg.com/index.php?cat=Unbroken
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by cwmma 7y ago
I'm usually a Mercator apologist, but this is a really bad map to use that projection for
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by cwmma 7y ago
if he still hosted his blog on tumblr he wouldn't have this problem
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by cwmma 7y ago
I used to play a variant where captures were not announced so the only hint that you lost a piece was when you tried to move it and were informed that that wasn't a legal move
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by cwmma 7y ago
yeah but in your example, nobody would call a 1 year lease an 11 month lease, because you have the thing for 12 months not 11
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by cwmma 7y ago
or the fact that they spoke English in the first place...
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by cwmma 7y ago
MOND has other issues, not least of which it only explains galaxy rotational curves, it doesn't explain the larger structures of the universe (which dark matter does explain)

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