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by elevaet 2y ago
It's certainly a country at the nexus of many dimensions. What's the significance of wearing Koloradka? It looks like something christian priests wear, I don't think I understand.
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by elevaet 2y ago
Israel is very intertwined with the typical conception of "the West" via a very cozy relationship with the USA including billions in annual funding, and a great proportion of its citizens having roots in Europe and the USA.
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by elevaet 2y ago
Could still have a demo showing how example recordings got transcribed
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by elevaet 2y ago
I definitely remember seeing wood carvings of that fig sign. I never really knew what it meant and assumed it was an afro-brazilian thing, but sounds like it has european roots, interesting.
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by elevaet 2y ago
Good question. I always assumed they were unrelated to the official sign language but I don't actually know. I wonder if there are many commonalities between the informal gestures used in Italy and Brazil.
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by elevaet 2y ago
I believe that bit about sign language in Brazil. When I spent some time there years back I was impressed that most people seemed to know a bit of sign language. There is also a lot of informal hand gesture-slang culture. I remember some th
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by elevaet 2y ago
The ultimate garbage dump
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by elevaet 2y ago
It matters! We still have so much in common that's not due to convergent evolution, especially at the cellular level.
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by elevaet 2y ago
I think we tend to have a lot less heavy metal poisoning in general than we did at different times in the past. It's only fairly recently that we realized how dangerous these metals are and started removing them from things like plumbi
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by elevaet 2y ago
I remember some chatter on HN that sun exposure also causes the skin to produce nitric oxide, and that this is potentially under-studied.
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by elevaet 2y ago
Writing a commit message doesn't seem like a good example because it's usually a moment where you can pause the flow state because you've just completed the thing that needed flow They're more like the period at the en
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by elevaet 2y ago
Please, what is an MoE model?
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How to keep Earth from being cooked by the ever-hotter Sun(arstechnica.com)
2 points by elevaet 2y ago|0 comments
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by elevaet 2y ago
I've been noticing a lot of these "EV hit pieces". What's going on with that? Is it organic? Are there nefarious actors (ahem ... oil?) trying to stem the tide? What's going on?
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by elevaet 2y ago
> They make a crazy dinosaur sound Do they? Or maybe we base out ideas of what dinosaurs might have sounded like on birds like these... ;)
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by elevaet 3y ago
I think this book was the basis for the Avatar movie. I read it as a teen and really liked it, but you do a great job of poo-pooing it haha.
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by elevaet 3y ago
The name of the ship doing the work is Falkor (too), which is named after the ship RV Falkor, which in turn was named after the Luckdragon: > The retrofitted vessel was renamed R/V Falkor, after the Luckdragon in the fantasy novel T
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by elevaet 3y ago
That analogy really cracked me up since we have no idea what it's like to be a tree either.
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by elevaet 3y ago
> people don't like eating straight fungus What do you mean? People love eating all kinds of mushrooms!
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by elevaet 3y ago
That's true, but because mushrooms are so wet (~90% water), if you look at the numbers for dehydrated mushrooms vs meat, mushrooms start looking a lot better. I think dry mushrooms are about 30% protein by weight, which is in the ballp
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by elevaet 3y ago
This seems like a much more promising avenue than lab-grown meat. Fungi are already rich in protein, are a bit closer on the tree of life to animals than plants are, are sedentary by default, and are absolute chemical powerhouses. If we can
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by elevaet 3y ago
> (The Mongol Empire didn't manage to eliminate the practice of Islam in the areas under its control, despite ritual washing being punishable by summary execution, so it's plausible that Islam is just that persuasive.) When&#x2
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by elevaet 3y ago
How much hiring is going on? I've heard some people say that it's mostly a lot of churn right now - layoffs make the headlines, but there's a healthy amount of hiring going on at the same time. I don't really know the ex
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by elevaet 3y ago
I think this same kind of dynamic happened with London as well.
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by elevaet 3y ago
That may be true, but fundamentally this is about autonomy. These Nations do not necessarily fall under the jurisdiction of the National or Provincial government since they never ceeded their territory. It's a bit of a grey area for su
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by elevaet 3y ago
> You probably know more about your health, lifestyle, and family history than the average person your age, so you might have a different life expectancy. That's an interesting thought - just by virtue of the fact that you clicked o
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The Undersea Art Gallery That Ensnares Illegal Trawlers (2021)(wired.co.uk)
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by elevaet 3y ago
Can you give the elevator pitch on why someone should get one?
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by elevaet 3y ago
This massive gender imbalance initially made me reject the tech industry and spend my first few years after graduation in a completely different industry. It was painful to see the comp sci program start out around 15% female in first year
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by elevaet 3y ago
Only a small portion of the direct route flies over the Indian ocean, the rest is basically over land: https://www.airportia.com/flight-img/7760680/sq308-sin-lhr-s...

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