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by fiblye 6y ago
That comes with the big assumption that in basically any given corner of the universe, civilizations in galaxies billions of light years away are pumping out radio signals strong enough to be detected from earth. How likely is it that by th
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> But this is assuming radio signals are the only way we could detect a civilization, what about probes (von neuman or regular), dyson spheres etc. ? That’s trying to find a needle in a universe sized haystack, and we’ve only just starte
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> Thus, the fact that we are unable to detect any signal from even a single other civilization is quite puzzling, we should be inundated by those signals. Or other societies realized widely broadcasting noise is bad for whatever reason.
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by fiblye 6y ago
>Growing up in the USA, my impression was that licorice is one of the most popular candy flavors among children. ...I don't know a single American under the age of 70 who will admit to liking licorice. Everyone I've ever known
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by fiblye 6y ago
Seems like if we can manufacture the active chemical (bromoform) without seaweed, it'll be much more scalable. Then there's also an even crazier idea: create a massive sea in the middle of Australia and use that for seaweed farmin
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Oh wow, incredible comment. I looked this up and apparently allergies are pretty strongly linked to stuttering. It's a connection I'd never assume to be possible. As someone who sometimes has weeks of cluttered speech, and weeks w
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> There is nothing whatsoever we can do about it. Plain and simple. [citation needed] Humans could never fly. We could never destroy entire mountains. We could never drain an entire sea or make an island. We could never split an atom. We
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The worst part is when you eventually make it back, it loses your position on the page. They made this change years ago and it still drives me nuts.
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It wasn't long ago that comments were shouting that this was the absolute most qualified person to lead Mozilla when others were questioning having a lawyer lead a tech company. Someone with at least a little hands-on experience in bui
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Yeah, I never understood the PDF hate at all when I only used Macs. They were snappy, had smooth scaling, editing them wasn't too hard, and scrolling was smooth. It was a fine way to read documents or even books on a computer. Then I h
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by fiblye 6y ago
I’m not Chinese, but I do fear what I say on wechat because I know there’s a possibility I’ll be blocked from entering China again, or worse, blocked from exiting. I also fear what I say on American sites for similar reasons, and because I’
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Yeah, I remember that. Just massive floods of comments saying she's clearly a traitor and no punishment is severe enough. It was weird, because news started out as a blend of neutral/positive/negative when the issue was first
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The 3DS is also region-locked. If you're on a non-Japanese system, you likely won't legally be playing most games in Japanese.
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by fiblye 6y ago
This[1] is from the year prior, but it indicates that wages may not be going up and causing income to go up. People may just be working more. Not sure if it applies to 2019 as well, though. [1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog
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by fiblye 6y ago
The note about the Piraha language not having embedding is incredibly interesting. Example taken from Wikipedia: >Everett stated that Pirahã cannot say "John's brother's house" but must say, "John has a brother.
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by fiblye 6y ago
Every .info domain I've ever seen in my life has been a spam site. I didn't click the link because of that preconceived notion and opted to google it instead. And of course, this is the tagline: > Creepy Uncle Joe Biden is back
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Let's assume, by chance, there's some strain of bacteria that can not only survive but thrive in Venus's environment. This bacteria is introduced to an environment that has all it needs to spread quickly. There's absolut
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> His argument is that dynastic wealth doesn’t persist in the United States. America doesn't really have people who've been billionaires for 7 generations. But America does have people who were born into enough money to never h
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by fiblye 6y ago
Doctors on average know more about medical subjects than non-doctors. Engineers generally know more about engineering than non-engineers. Climate scientists know more about what’s going on with the climate than non-climate scientists. Faceb
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by fiblye 6y ago
> in fact it's almost being denigrated and shamed. "Almost" really isn't necessary there anymore. There's a growing group that believes virtually all doctors, scientists, and professionals within certain fields a
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by fiblye 6y ago
Some musicians also refine their style and grow with age. David Bowie's got great music lineup spanning every decade of his career from the 1960s to the day he died. I think people who enjoy his music can easily pick out a definite cla
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by fiblye 6y ago
> ...which is fine and well within their rights. Not anymore. :) Portland decided that the rights of the individual outweigh the rights of businesses when it comes to this issue. Strongarming people into giving up their privacy won'
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by fiblye 6y ago
It depends on the museum. The curators decide what they want. I've been to museums full of nothing but plain black swabs across a canvas. I've also been to ones with nothing but realistic scenery paintings made within the past 20
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Here are two paintings. [1] https://cdn8.openculture.com/2018/08/22215450/sciencde-and-c... [2] https://painting-planet.com/images/9/image293.jpg Painting [1] demonstrates a mastery
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There's room for many kinds of art in this world. Minimalism has earned its own space.
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A lot of it traces back to anti-Soviet forces. Many modern terror groups are offshoots of militant forces funded and trained to fight against the Soviets. What major western country had the resources and motivation to destroy Soviet influen
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by fiblye 6y ago
I can tell Nicki Minaj from them, but I can't tell Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, or Ariana Grande apart and they've been looping on the radio for years. I can point out a specific song that I've heard before and looked up who i
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by fiblye 6y ago
> Is music supposed to challenge you? Music can be whatever it wants. But music having complex melodies, varied lyrics, telling stories, and having social or political commentary has very much always been a thing. Plenty of that music st
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> You can't turn off gifs or canvas because it would just break too much internet. That sounds like a challenge. I think if there were a click to play button on gifs > N megabytes or > X*Y resolution, nobody would complain, no
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by fiblye 6y ago
This is the common sense solution. And what sites are replacing videos with massive gifs? Buzzfeed-like sites have always been filling their pages with 250 megabytes of gifs. News sites with half a dozen autoplaying videos certainly won&#x2

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