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by dghf 10y ago
> Do we have any reliable estimates about child mortality in those times to make such a claim? I'm guessing you could make a start by counting how many child skeletons vs adult skeletons you dig up? Plus if you're looking at a
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by dghf 10y ago
No zsh? I've attempted to try zsh a couple of times, but both times I was daunted by the sheer number of config questions asked by the set-up tool (may have been Oh-My-Zsh, can't remember), questions to which my only answer could
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by dghf 10y ago
> It should be noted that North African is generally not black It's not as simple as that. Do a Google image search for 'Tuareg' and you'll find a number of faces that meet modern British (and American) conceptions o
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by dghf 10y ago
Why? Someone might know what I'm talking about and provide the reference that eluded me; or, just as usefully, they might be able to demonstrate I'm speaking nonsense.
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by dghf 10y ago
But is it meaningful to talk of spending a year or more of subjective time accelerating at 1G? According to the Wikipedia page you link to, it does not become harder to accelerate a spaceship the closer it gets to c , at least from the poi
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by dghf 10y ago
> it begs the question as to where the population went to I'm guessing they married out. I cannot find a reference, but I seem to remember learning that eighteenth century Covent Garden in London had a significant black population,
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Treating acute psychosis with drugs can prolong the anguish(aeon.co)
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by dghf 10y ago
And if you could attain (and sustain) it, it would bring you close to c within a year (shipboard time).
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by dghf 10y ago
> The only real solution will be some kind of essentially magical faster than light technology Doesn't have to be faster than light, if you don't care about everyone you ever knew being dead for decades (or centuries, or millen
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by dghf 10y ago
> Since acceleration acts by pushing against you, rather than acting against your entire body as gravity does, I'm unsure as to whether it would be an adequate substitute for gravity. I'm far from an expert, but I thought it wa
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by dghf 10y ago
> Uh, fallout is only deadly for a few weeks or so even after thousands of nuclear weapons are used on a country. From Command and Control by Eric Schlosser: "Strontium-90 is a soft metal, much like lead, with a radioactive half
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by dghf 10y ago
Ah! All is now clear. Apologies to all.
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by dghf 10y ago
Is the form with apostrophe 's' definitively the only correct version? If so, do you have a link? In general, opinion seems to be divided as to whether the possessive form of a singular noun ending in 's' takes an apostr
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by dghf 10y ago
Yes, but if you entering the wormhole at one end and leaving it at the other are events with spacelike separation, then those events have no absolute order, which means that there is at least one frame of reference in which you leave the wo
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by dghf 10y ago
I'm in the middle of reading _Command and Control_ by Eric Schlosser: if it is to be believed, then in the immediate wake of Hiroshima and Nagasaki there was a widely held opinion (possibly approaching a consensus) even among the uppe
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by dghf 10y ago
> The real equality that matters is equality in dignity as human beings, equality before the law, equality in our respect to each other. But in practice these things are to some extent dependent on equality (or at least less disparity) i
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by dghf 10y ago
> if at every moment you literally have an infinite amount of worlds branching off As I said in my reply to Natanael_L, I was given to understood that the idea of worlds branching off was a misapprehension of the many-worlds interpretat
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by dghf 10y ago
IANA physicist, but my layman's understanding was that under many-worlds the universe doesn't actually fork. Rather, the superposition of states observed in things like the double-slit experiment applies to all particles all the t
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by dghf 10y ago
> I'd rather embrace nonlocality than the crazy many-worlds stuff. Why do you describe many-worlds as 'crazy'? Edit: to whoever down-voted me, this was a serious question.
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by dghf 10y ago
Darling gets a couple of good bits in that episode. The part where a car comes to take him from his desk job at HQ to the front, and you see the driver only from the long shadow he casts on the office floor, is chilling.
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by dghf 10y ago
Made even more confusing that you can do it with some nationalities but not others. So "a French" is out, but most nationalities ending "-an" are OK: an American, a German, an Afghan, a Norwegian, a Russian, an Italian.
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by dghf 10y ago
> However, I think this could be replaced with the simpler: If you have met one person, you have met one person. But that's exactly the point. The quote is pointing out that people with Asperger's or autism differ just as much
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by dghf 10y ago
That gave me pause, too. I think they mean it's not a replica because there's no original -- or rather, it is the original. That is, it's not a copy of any particular Viking-era ship found buried in mud or whatever; it&#x27
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by dghf 10y ago
> The war in the west didn't start until May 1940, when Germany invaded France. To be picky, the Battle of the Atlantic started the same day as the British and French declaration of war, with the sinking of the SS Athenia. And the N
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by dghf 10y ago
> ... and should you get in trouble with the law, it's going to be time to find a Francophile lawyer. Maybe, but a francophone one would be more immediate use.
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by dghf 10y ago
If the criteria they use become known, you're also creating a loophole for terrorists to target. I can't remember the name of it, but some years back there a was a film (or possibly a TV drama) about a Chechen-American jihadi -- p
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by dghf 10y ago
From the article: > This post merely a reminder of the actual values mentioned in the Manifesto. I was inspired by this great talk: Agile is Dead (Long Live Agility) — Dave Thomas The talk's title is hyperlinked to the same URL you
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by dghf 10y ago
But "agility" is a noun. By using it here instead of "agile", he's emphasising his point that the latter is not a noun.
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by dghf 10y ago
(This is meant as a reply to sievebrain: there appears to be some sort of thread-nesting limit.) Bakunin did on occasion describe himself as a communist; but like Kropotkin, his communism was of the libertarian rather than authoritarian var
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by dghf 10y ago
There are commonalities. IIRC, a diagnosis of autism requires significant impairment in all three of, and severe impairment in at least one of: - social skills - communication skills - rigidity (reliance on routine) That doesn't stop a

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