dotancohen

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by dotancohen 5d ago
Language is also a cultural signifier. English might not be a barrier, but protesting in English certainly communicates that the protesters care not for German culture.
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by dotancohen 6d ago
Instead of the eyes of their own politicians? Are their goals to actually effect change in Germany or to disparage Germany in the eyes of the global press?
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by dotancohen 6d ago
That's a very selective interpretation of what GP said, in fact I don't see how you even got to that conclusion. "We" as a species is a far different entity than any single individual who is temporarily or even permanent
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by dotancohen 6d ago
Humans had completely mastered fire by about 200,000 years ago - after 800,000 years of experimentation. Speech is dated to around 60,000 years ago, though some say we started down that path 200,000 years ago: right when we mastered fire.
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by dotancohen 6d ago
Why are the protesters in Berlin holding signs in English?
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by dotancohen 6d ago
I suggest using Enzo to clean up your submission. Most people here would tell you they don't like AI writing, but a near complete lack of punctuation and capitalization is worse.
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by dotancohen 6d ago
In my HN Threads feed, the very next item is another HN user mentioning how they have difficulty paying for parking spaces without a smart phone, from this very page. Search "and sadly accept the cost of our principles" on this pa
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by dotancohen 6d ago
I independently came to that conclusion after noticing that my comments on some controversial subjects will slowly acquire upvotes, then nose dive 2 or 4 votes very quickly. At first I thought that some mods might have double-value votes (H
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by dotancohen 7d ago
I personally live in a country with a large religious population that rejects the smartphone, so thankfully I personally have not encountered a situation where needing a smartphone is vital. However we've seen many people right here on
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by dotancohen 7d ago
When a pattern is repeated many times, it is not a fallacy to recognize that pattern at the begining. If I see a tiger crotched in the bushes, is it a fallacy to gather my children and head back to the cave? Pattern recognition is not a fal
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by dotancohen 7d ago
How do people without smartphones pay for parking?
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by dotancohen 7d ago
People tell me this all the time. Yet I've never had a WhatsApp account and I do just fine. The only problems I've had were a single barber that accepts reservations over WhatsApp exclusively - so I go to the barber two shops over
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by dotancohen 7d ago
> Headphone jack for special music Actually, this phone does have a headphone jack.
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by dotancohen 7d ago
The best ice cream I ever had was at a small shop in Athens that had unsweetened ice cream.
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by dotancohen 7d ago
TFA refers to the evolutionarily history of the brain, not the specialised functionality of different parts of the brain.
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by dotancohen 7d ago
People with maternal Jewish DNA have two brains.
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by dotancohen 7d ago
I very much appreciate the correction, thank you.
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by dotancohen 7d ago
I believe that tri-colour house cats are all female. This is a tri-colour male.
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by dotancohen 9d ago
> I can assure you that lawmakers were not thinking about efficient disaster recovery plans or back ups when they made the laws. That's why the input of actual specialists in a field should be the one drafting the policies.
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by dotancohen 9d ago
It might be the you of Theseus. You really don't want to know what the future holds.
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by dotancohen 9d ago
No. _You_ are supposed to have three copies of everything - and two of those should be off AWS.
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by dotancohen 9d ago
Neoliberal philosophy is stable ground for a lawsuit?
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by dotancohen 10d ago
I had the fish.
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by dotancohen 11d ago
> Contrary to the Great Man version of how we mostly talk about history, scientific discoveries, technological breakthroughs and such have historically often occurred multiple times in multiple places often in close proximity time-w
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by dotancohen 11d ago
We can date archeological finds accurately enough the the word guess is not appropriate. I know that sewn clothes have existed something like 20,000 or 30,000 years. And I think I read recently about woven fabrics dating back maybe 8 thousa
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by dotancohen 11d ago
Quality of the information from the pop-sci book not withstanding, I've also taken physics courses on the subject. Albeit twenty years ago. But go ahead, you win the internet argument. When I thought this was a discussion, and I could
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by dotancohen 11d ago
Didn't the people that we today call ancient historians mostly just write about their own time? The very few who wrote about events that preceded their time were not using archeological methods.
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by dotancohen 11d ago
But that has nothing to do with the GGGGGP's question about things happening in the past. I anticipate your reply that the light is just sending information about what happened. But a moving observer could perceive _our_ now as occurri
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by dotancohen 12d ago
The point I've been trying to make is that one can not travel from one cosmically-distant place in the Earth's reference frame to another cosmically-distant place in the Earth's reference frame without breaking the reference
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by dotancohen 12d ago
I think that a huge conceptual leap was the realisation that sex leads to pregnancy. The earliest surviving texts talk of hereditary - implying this was known before writing. This realisation has been the basis of transfer of power and reso

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