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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Don't get me wrong. This is just a geopolitical assessment. I am not taking sides, here. I am not for any war aggression whatsoever. I'm just trying to see a broader picture in the fog of brutal war, here. Like the Yemen war bein
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So, this seems to be now as I suspected a massive blunder on the side of Putin, whatever his motivations, the US has really played well here, comparable to how Russia had played the US in Syria. The situation after the very risky offensive
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Excuse me for my pessimism but a short while ago I was reading and digging deep about the infamous Gulag-system in the Soviet Union roughly from 1920-1960. And after endless unimaginable suffering, excess of violence which just roamed free
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> Even the talented people—you could take Dune, made by Denis Villeneuve, an extremely talented, gifted artist, and you could take No Time to Die, directed by…Gary?” Cary Fukunaga. Cary Fukunaga—extremely gifted, talented, beautiful arti
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If I were go to such great lengths and finally resort to order a multi-frequency signal jammer isn't the next follow-up question: Is it powerful enough? Or could it disrupt like ... I don't know ... 911 calls in the vicinity? No
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> 20. Historically, private currencies have resulted in instability and therefore have evolved into fiat currencies over centuries. The retrograde step back to private currencies cannot be taken simply because technology allows it (it a
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> I don’t see any inspiration for those of us who really want to learn math, or physics, or chemistry, but just don’t want to focus on it for 4 years. Truth be told (in physics at least with no prior extensive knowledge beyond school)
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It's a great angle on the communication side of science. I think the notion of "great man" like the genius of "Einstein" or "Newton" is seriously skewed. If you take a closer look at their correspondence a
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> You want to get paid: move to cheap suburb of a medium sized city and start writing heresy, the more inflammatory the better. Accusations of politicians and celebrities. Cheap pablum for frothing basement trolls and listicles of reaso
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Update after 2 years of 'crisis management': The social fabric of the western societies had been severely damaged. Trust in science is at an all time low. The absurdly rich are absurdly richer. Not few people are now flirting open
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What about "tainted" bitcoins? Those [0] would take some effort to "wash". Because of serial numbering some dollar bills can be worth more than others; certainly there seems to be a 'market' for that.[1] So, in
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For clarification: Half-life of atoms as in "radioactive decay" (weak, strong and EM force) cannot really be modified by perservations methods. Here [0] a precise answer. The decay-time of bio-molecular strucutres/bonds (con
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As a European I had quite the opposite experience in (high) school: my literature classes (English, French, German) consisted entirely of close readings and going meticulously through every rhetoric device/figure of speech (german: &qu
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Beforehand [0] the author of this text, Butler, the most respected general in the US at that time was offered to lead a coup d'etat to overthrow FDR and then to become effectively a dictator. [0] https://bigthink.com/the
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Here some "gems": >That mathematical construct has been shaped over centuries by science, yes, but also power, religion, capitalism and colonialism. The clock is extremely useful as a social tool that helps us coordinate oursel
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If one looks a century back: AT&T, Xerox, IBM ... those were opportunities we can romanticize in hindsight looking back at the glowing examples of Bell Labs, PARC etc. Today's Big Tech is unrivaled in its unique position to fund R&
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Cannabis for most people starts and remains a recreational drug but for some it can lead to chronic abuse. In that way it is quite comparable to alcohol, stimulants etc. There are people who I would regard as highly functional and productiv
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This dichotomy of gifted/not gifted learners is heavily biased on what you see is all that is and ignores the cognitive medium, the water we all swim in and through we all interact. Yes, as s private tutor (mostly for maths) I witnesse
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Can only attest to small to mid-size businesses (up to 300 employees) in Europe. The default expectation (from business school?) seems to be if for a given job interview you are left (95% of the time) with say 1-4 (reasonably) good choices
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A square of x by x for x ∈ {2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22 ... } = {2, every uneven n multiplied with 2} 4n+2 = 2*(2n+1)
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Somehow ironically the writer of that article, W L George, died 4 years later aged 43 on "pneumonia and heart failure" and "had been ill from the last twelve months" [0]. It reads like a high-school assignment in which &
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In phonology you can account for that level of detail with "narrow transcription" it is often helped by recording the sound or even MRI[0] (sagittal section) Since it does not significantly alter the meaning of the word if you bri
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For somebody unfamiliar on how start-ups on that scale "work", I suppose this edge case offers some valuable insight. I more often than not had a hard time understanding what some well funded start-ups I had contact with are actua
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It is written by design to outrage, the reaction just validates that "latent racist patriarchal structures in science" (arbitrary wokeism speak) are indeed "present". It is a power play game by attacking ("subvertin
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I wonder under which "rules" polygyny/polyandry where tolerated. I'd imagine it could be also explained by "changelings" or "widowing".
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From a more paranoid perspective: I'm curious about the possible abuse scenarios given the ubiquitous use of PCR-testing for nearly two years, now. If I'm informed correctly for a viable sample for NGS you need like 2mL saliva (wh
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A lot of energy and effort is put in playing the game of "guessing" how much a given "currency" is worth to others who are also guessing ... etc. Strategies range from ... fancy analytical methods finding intricate patt
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If I look around me - and I'm more at the bottom, at grassheight relative to billionaires and UHNWI in general on skyscrapers - I see a host of other immediate "longevity issues". For one there is a substantial amount of peop
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Waxing (also possible with bee wax) once you streamline the process (chain link, hot water for cleaning, cheap wax warmer the one women use and since the new chains (every 5000-10000km) are heavily pre-lubed you need 3 steps to remove the m
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I wonder as to how far the current crisis is used by 'machiavellian' power players to weaken civil liberties and constitutional rights as was the case with "9/11" to push something through like the "Patriot Act

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