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by fourtrees 5y ago
Having both witnessed the whole opioid debacle first hand, first the sleezy over-prescription, then the reactionary under-prescription, which has caused, in my opinion, at least, as much, if not more, suffering and death than the over-presc
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by fourtrees 5y ago
I wonder if they've read that part of the bible where the madam in Jericho saves the Jewish spies using her brothel as a safehouse and thereby helps facilitate the capture of the city.
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by fourtrees 5y ago
I've always enjoyed 4x games and some of the Civs have been the best among them. It's ultimately a minor gripe and sort of needed for the game to function, but I don't like how they represent history as a linear progression f
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by fourtrees 5y ago
I'm not believing a word of this until a news organization besides the Telegraph confirms it. If they didn't have such a strict paywall, maybe I'd be more convinced by their reporting. It's not completely implausible tha
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by fourtrees 5y ago
It's the same in the rural and semi-rural Northeast (I mean Vermont and upstate NY specifically), most of the cattle are raised for dairy. Though a farmer in the area (an old neighbor actually) recently converted a good portion of his
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by fourtrees 5y ago
That's the first thing I thought of as well. Other invertebrates would presumably work too. There's already no taboo against eating crustaceans, and mollusks are generally acceptable as well. Though you probably have to restrict m
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by fourtrees 5y ago
I was thinking the same thing, but it was at least published after Solaris which came out in '61. Of course, he could have done The Truth before or during the writing of Solaris . It could still be a proto-Solaris. And anyone who&#x
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by fourtrees 5y ago
From a glance at Wikipedia, it looks like the "third way" has been used by organizations with wildly different ideologies all over the world for at least a century now (and I wouldn't be shocked if it could be traced back at
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by fourtrees 5y ago
It might be Saxon slang. It means to ride the streetcam without a ticket. Blackriding; sounds so much cooler than it is. It was a while ago, but I'm pretty sure the semester-ticket was free with matriculation.
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by fourtrees 5y ago
You can takes lines of reasoning like theirs very, very far and reach what and reach what Einstein called "Spinoza's God" -- a God indistinguishable from or identical to nature (or a God of whom nature is a part). At some po
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by fourtrees 5y ago
If it isn't symbolic, I'd guess the swimmer had just decided to abandon all but the most important piece of his kit. The helmet would also afford him a bit of safety if he stuck his head above water to see what's going on and
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Neat idea, but I'd bet it was a completely native decision, maybe forced on some poor naval architect by a grandee who didn't understand the implications of the order. Then again, there's no proof one way or another.
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Wow, I thought the AfD was the rightmost of the German parties. I wonder if the fascists (not being hyperbolic, Mussolini advertised fascism as a "third way", the others being communism and liberalism) are localized in Westphalia
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Yup, we share this issue with India and probably most of the world. The rural/urban divide is also something of a global problem. Education was tough to come by before the internet made it into the woods. You're poker comment&#x27
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by fourtrees 5y ago
That's fascinating that NASA has developed such a reputation in India, especially when India has their own full-fledged space program. I watched Chandrayaan-2's descent and nearly teared up watching the controllers observe and pro
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Yeah, textbook prices have risen following tuition prices to absurd levels. I didn't buy a single textbook during my education in Germany (well maybe one for the language exam). Everything given to read seemed like it was taken from th
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by fourtrees 5y ago
To be fair to Robinhood (I know..), "time in the market beats timing the market" has been a maxim some believe since they were trading paper in the street. The debate over the better strategy hasn't to my knowledge been settl
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by fourtrees 5y ago
I'd disagree with aircraft. The modern 737, the NG or the MAX, is a world apart from the plane that first flew in '67. Almost everything except for the seating configuration has been upgraded or changed on the plane. The type-rati
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by fourtrees 5y ago
I'm almost certain your right. Cicero would have used something like a "w"; Modern Latin which co-evolved with central Italian uses the "v".
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Is it even possible to learn exclusively by immersion as an adult? I was under the impression that roughly around puberty, we lose a good part of our ability to just pick up languages and a combination of study and experimentation was requi
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by fourtrees 5y ago
I think the word-final sigma has been found in manuscripts dating to the 1st century BCE, but I think its use was only in cursive and not universal. So, I think you're basically right; certainly majuscule scripta continua documents l
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Oh that's a really neat theory! So many regularly declined nouns and related word classes end in the sigma. It certainly makes sense considering the frequency of -s ending words. The rough breathing mark seems like it could have playe
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Now that's interesting. I hadn't heard that the shopping list reference had been called into question. That deepens the mystery quite a bit.
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Ithinkyouwouldgetusedtoitprettyquickly. Plus, the suffixes on most words of the major languages of the time would have helped delineate words. But I do agree that it could have acted as a small impediment in learning to read.
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by fourtrees 5y ago
That's kind of the point. No one does or has for at least 1700 years. "Daily" or "Enough for tomorrow/the time after" seems to lead the pack due to its' appearance in an Egyptian shopping list and similar
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Yup, the entire eastern half of the Roman Empire used Greek as a lingua franca.
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Brazil did it successfully in the late '70s or thereabouts. They didn't pay for people's slaves. There was a difference in the ideology of manumission before the law was passed. In short, it seems to have been more like New O
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by fourtrees 5y ago
I thought it was about the A380's retirement for a few seconds.
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Wow, that red pottery was everywhere during the mid-Principate.
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by fourtrees 5y ago
Maybe it's time to bring Georgism back into the conversation.

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