delichon

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by delichon 3y ago
So a northern version of the Navajo culture that grew around the buffalo migration. It's a competitor for possibly homo sapiens' oldest profession, eating grass indirectly by following grass-processing devices around and eating th
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by delichon 3y ago
God bless and long live and please never betray us Larian Studios. The large success of Baldur's Gate 3 is a large contrast to Ubisoft and underlines the lie that this is necessary.
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by delichon 3y ago
I've got a Brother black & white laser printer that is mostly a UPS label printer. But a couple of years ago bought big Canon color printer. Since then my blank walls have filled up with my favorite art, photos, people and things.
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by delichon 3y ago
A medieval war horse is too much responsibility for a gift and it isn't ethical to brand one. But a Dodge sports car is acceptable.
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by delichon 3y ago
> large container ship needs about 3,000 megawatt-hours a day The internets say that a megawatt-hour can power about 750 households, making the reactor for one container ship enough for 2 million households and change. Can that be right
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by delichon 3y ago
It's this simple: Twitter is where most of the people I want to follow are. When they move on I may well follow them there. I did stop going there for a few years, found that I missed them and went back. With the Control Panel for Tw
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by delichon 3y ago
The point is making money according to the title.
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by delichon 3y ago
There are a lot of guys who drank Bud Light and read Sports Illustrated who changed both habits for the same reasons. It's about the circulation change you'd expect if Mother Jones hired Bari Weiss as their managing editor.
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by delichon 3y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful response. I quite like this story and admire your response to your tragedy. I reacted less well to the garden variety death of a parent. For you just to not be functionally flattened and still able to give stren
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by delichon 3y ago
Maybe it has something to do with their change in editorial direction? https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jul/29/the-sports-...
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by delichon 3y ago
Probably true. I think there's a case for Ptolemy being an originator of separating data from intuition, even if his planetary model didn't reflect it. Moving our intuition away from the center of the universe. By recording measur
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by delichon 3y ago
In terms of the relativity of our frames of reference. We can't even measure time on a clock or the length of a pace and declare it to be valid for anyone that has followed a different space-time path. One minute to me isn't the s
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by delichon 3y ago
Our science journey has been about gradually moving humanity away from the center of the universe. Ptolemy, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, et. al., taught us that we're part of nature rather than a privileged special case. Scientific though
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by delichon 3y ago
Here's someone making the exact opposite recommendation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38835731
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by delichon 3y ago
My < $10 purchase was a bottle of black fingernail polish. I used it to paint over the little red light on my bedside cordless phone, recharging bluetooth headset, etc. In bed at night I can't tell the difference when I open or clos
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History Is Written by the Losers (2016)(scholars-stage.org)
78 points by delichon 3y ago|39 comments
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by delichon 3y ago
> These findings provide evidence of differences in brain responses to texts presented in print and digital media, including deeper semantic encoding for print than digital texts. I wonder if the effect diminishes if the digital media is
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by delichon 3y ago
Great story. I'd be sorry to convict this guy if I'm on a jury and maybe wouldn't. The father would probably be quite happy to die in prison if the result is a live son. Maybe there was a better way via calm words, or handcuf
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by delichon 3y ago
I'd guess that this isn't quite reciprocal, and attractive males would receive more honesty from both sexes. It's a shame that the study wasn't symmetrical.
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by delichon 3y ago
> Any judge is free to veto governance. That's the teeth in the separation of powers. If you prefer more centralized decision making or a less limited democracy, you probably see that as a bug created by the Constitution. The execut
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by delichon 3y ago
> The biggest problem is theft. Not only is it easy to steal from self-checkout machines, it can be hard not to steal from them. This is me. At a Walmart this weekend the machine booped instead of beeped, and I didn't get that meant
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by delichon 3y ago
How can an affiliate link not be in conflict with an unbiased review? They don't get paid if they don't recommend the thing.
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by delichon 3y ago
"Although we do not find meaningful increases in ideological extremity of recommendations, we show that a growing proportion of recommendations deeper in the recommendation trail come from extremist, conspiratorial, and otherwise probl