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by dav_Oz 4y ago
While the new evidence/discovery itself can be quickly summarized: > Within the now-dominant two-domain picture to which the Asgard archaea are contributing, the big story of life on this planet goes something like this. Some 4 bill
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For anyone interested in the kind of drugs involved here: > The analysis showed the presence of atropine, scopolamine and ephedrine in the three replicated hair samples (Fig. 5) at the following concentrations: 6.7, 9.2, and 10.7 (mean =
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Concerning "pronunciation-vs-spelling" the Tibetan script has one of the most (egregious) mismatches.[0][1] So, relatively speaking, written English is just slightly worse than Hangul.[2] [0] https://m.youtube.com/w
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Jalali Calendar(en.wikipedia.org)
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It is likely with low confidence that the source you were most certainly replying to is referring to the front of shaping "Public Opinion" in which intelligence agencies highly likely with low confidence took part in [0] and with
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Useful abstractions. Exploring their usefulness can be fun (the pedantic kind) and even sometimes illuminating. Obviously right from the start "taxonomy" itself is arbitrary. A more universal tool than naming, establishing branch
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https://archive.is/W05Mq
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Don't expect German "Pünktlichkeit" on German railways, though.[0] The Austrian and especially the Swiss railroad systems are far superior. Since the "Bahnreform" of 1994 the infrastructure progressively deteriorate
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Well, one major player on shaping the streets was the emerging car industry itself. Not the only factor of course but nevertheless a very interesting story [0] to tell from that perspective where pedestrians not obeying the new strict rules
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Since he wrestled his whole life and will probably continue in some way or another to keep himself fit, he doesn't care. However you can easily prevent your ears from "cauliflowering" after severe ear trauma if you drain the
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It was very common in Eastern Europe during the Soviet time. For instance it is still referred to as "kompot" (original meaning: a popular type of fruit drink) in Poland. The phenomenon is also generally known as "Polish Hero
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Incidentally a helpful dichotomy in this regard is laid out in Nietzsche's first major work: The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music (he was a superb classical philologist by trade and one of the youngest tenured "Classi
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Citing from the paper [0] > Einstein’s equations, however, give no prescription for converting the actual, position-dependent, distribution of stress-energy observed at late times into a position-independent source. Croker & Weiner
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Imhv the bodybuilding/powerlifting community is pretty open about it once you immerse yourself there. But, yeah, the non-initiated get a pretty skewed picture about how muscular one can get, naturally. That's a whole another discu
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To be fair given the context of snapchatting, tiktoking, voicemessaging, online dating [... stories, filters ...] written text is simply demoted to snippets of additional information/expressiveness. Sentence-s, well structured sente
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Tex Johnston's first flight was in 1925 with the age of 11 on a "barnstormer". At the time where the first flight regulation appeared in the US. Back then "flight acrobatics" beside showing off the skills of a pilo
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> The most significant factor influencing thermal comfort - even more important than air temperature and clothing - is human activity or body heat production (the metabolic rate). For instance, while it takes 12 clo-units to keep a resti
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It needs a few tries but imho it does a fairly good job encapsulating those flat "edgy" mainstream late night comedy jokes. With a little human post-editing/adjustments, a potentially useful tool. I have never done stand-up c
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From a macro-economical perspective: Recession. Inflation is way up. Wealth distribution still growing more uneven: 'Classical' middle class is disappearing. From a non-US/middle European perspective[0]: the US-tipping system
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The email from Primitive Technology says it all: > [...] But wanting to stay out of internet drama. I'll leave it up to the discerning viewer to decide what's real or not. My advice to people who really want to know if the tech
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After a while I realized that a fairly amount of podcasts/episodes have pretty low density information throughout say a 3 hours talk. There are those gems where sufficiently good preparedness of the interviewer (e.g. read the book and
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Long lasting (religious) traditions inevitably will weave universalities of the human condition into the fabric of cultural practices. If one traces back Christianity historically, it grows more like a sponge taking in concepts and practice
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Depends on the metric and what you mean by growth per se. If no physical object is involved but rather just changes or reconfiguration of the - let's say - human brain, in the end, all possible states are limited by the (overall)
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> Their presumed links with paganism and witchcraft meant they were often treated with suspicion. Unfortunately, one of the most cruel forms [0] of medieval "suspicion"-treating. I will spare the details, here. The article is
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I second this as a classic example of advocatus diaboli [0] in order to find a hole/weakness/wrongness in one own's initial argument/assumptions. Taking the Nietzsche quote[1] into the context of his work: " Jensei
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> They can use their international reach to try to sidestep taxes and regulations. And, since their debts to each other are a very real kind of private money, when the banks are fragile, the entire monetary system of the world also becom
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Different kind of books tolerate different speeds. "Easy" books (e.g. fairy tales/children books) are more forgiving at varying speeds. For more "difficult" books (e.g. older books/philosophical treatises) you
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I think it isn’t inherently “bad” (until you begin to fight for “resources” i.e. academic careers - which in my mind is what this now long-standing “controversy” really boils down to) that physics/cosmology at the frontier bleeds into
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> And while AI generated art is just another tool in a giant warehouse of ever expanding tools, who gives a shit? Cause take a look around at the impact of the best of the best. There is none. The quality of that “tool” in particular is
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Well, who knows him really? What I‘d gather about him over the decades of work, is that he deliberately uses provocation/expressive words for his art/communication. I think in the context of that little clip he was hinting at the

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