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by gilleain 3y ago
Why are you so certain that you can recognise an entrance to hell when you see one :) ?
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by gilleain 3y ago
Perhaps. The way I read it, the choice of "proper written sentence" gives it the flavour of "Proper. Written. Sentence" - as in, with an annoyed emphasis. As always, you can apply rules to English if you like, but someti
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by gilleain 3y ago
Having just spent a large part of the weekend tracing and adjusting some zellij I tend to agree. Annoyingly, though the example I was reproducing (from an image of a tiling on a wall) had either been squashed in one dimension or the origina
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by gilleain 3y ago
Interesting, I had no idea what a 'ringisho' was, so I found some (likely simplistic) information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_management_culture > The term of "ringi" has two mea
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by gilleain 3y ago
For examples of famous Hitler fans, one good example was Unity Mitford, one of the 6 Mitford sisters, daughters of an English baron. Unity (and her sister Diana) were so close to Hitler that they were part of his inner circle of friends. h
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by gilleain 3y ago
So I've played a couple of his games, and they are great (for me!) because they feel like old-school RPG games like the 'gold box' series (Pools of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds ...) but with a more modern interface and
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by gilleain 3y ago
Thermal stability, as far as I know. So hyperthermophiles, presumably. edit: hmmm. from this interesting review - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959440X2... (open article) - it looks like
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by gilleain 3y ago
Heh, thanks - that gave me the impetus to go on reading, and was worth it for this quote: > I think a warrior-poet of the teeming Oghuz would respond to the Harvard fiasco by cutting off the heads of everyone involved and then carting aw
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by gilleain 3y ago
I was curious, so looked this up, but I have no prior knowledge of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_cleaner > Chlorinated brake cleaner containing tetrachloroethylene will, on exposure to high temperatures
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by gilleain 3y ago
> I'm reminded of the algorithms used to render planar drawings of proteins, which are similar to knots Yes, like the PTGL - https://bio.tools/ptgl - or, er, TOPS diagrams. The main relationship to knot diagrams is
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by gilleain 3y ago
Also known as the 'true lovers knot' I believe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_lover%27s_knot (It isn't the smallest non-alternating knot. This page says 8_19 is the smallest. https://math
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by gilleain 3y ago
Not just 200 years ago ... English kings had a tendency to spend all the money on foreign wars. Take Henry VIII for example: > Henry inherited a vast fortune and a prosperous economy from his father, who had been frugal. This fortune is
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by gilleain 3y ago
I recommend this book a lot, but 'Cats’ Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People' ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223609.Cats_Paws_and_Cat... ) is a great look at how biology inspir
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by gilleain 3y ago
Likely it was originally a 'nodeshell' - in other words, a title of a page without any content. So someone created the idea, then someone else ran with it and filled it in. One thing that was great about E2 was that the same title
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by gilleain 3y ago
Side-quest : "what the heck is 'epigraphene'?": > Graphene’s original promise to succeed silicon faltered due to pervasive edge disorder in lithographically patterned deposited graphene and the lack of a new electroni
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by gilleain 3y ago
Another take on this book from the V&A: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/owen-jones-and-the-grammar-of... Including some details such as: > Henry Cole, another key figure in design reform, had helped Jones publish
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by gilleain 3y ago
So Tremors, then?
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by gilleain 3y ago
Bigger : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchaetus_rappi can grow to 6.7m !
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by gilleain 3y ago
The ever-excellent Perun has a video about Houthi attacks on shipping, and the effects that has on global trade : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GKlKYQDDcQ
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by gilleain 3y ago
It's almost as if there could be a web site that featured human-only art (how would this be verified .o(thinks)). Might do very well ...
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by gilleain 3y ago
> I think I'll go to Morrisons today and be mugged differently This is a beautiful sentence, i think. Same sh*t, different day I suppose.
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by gilleain 3y ago
It also has multiple backup copies of the genome, and there some other (more speculative?) mechanisms listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans#Mechan...
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by gilleain 3y ago
tl;dr - A lake flooding a salt mine might have revived a salt-loving (halophile) bacterium (archaea?) - Halobacteriales - that might have been present in spore form or other hibernation. Side note : extremophiles are fascinating as they eac
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by gilleain 3y ago
To save people looking it up, _aqua regia_ (wikipedia- 'literally "regal water" or "royal water"') is a mixture of nitric acid (HNO3) and hydrochloric acid (HCl) in a 1:3 ratio. It was used by alchemists, as i
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by gilleain 3y ago
The problem I have with the 'effort' theory of value - which I also used to use! - is that you can take it to absurd conclusions. For example, a beginner painter will take much longer to make the same painting as a master; so jud
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by gilleain 3y ago
It occurred to me the other day that there are (at least) 3 different meanings when referring to the value of a work of art: * Aesthetically pleasing - often there is a traditionalist idea that only landscapes and portraits are 'real&#
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by gilleain 3y ago
Also they miss mentioning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythrocruorin which is green, but for a different reason than biliverdin in lizards. Seems it has chlorocruorin in which looks very much like a 'normal&#
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by gilleain 3y ago
Interesting - a minor point, but the sulfur does not seem to replace the iron, but is just an -SH group on the haem.
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by gilleain 3y ago
There's a talk by Albert-László Barabási about this : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RfgjHoVCZwU&pp=ygUUYmFyYWJhc2k... "The hidden networks of everything" (7-8mins)
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by gilleain 3y ago
Some do, others ruthlessly murder their rivals to get to be prince (in the sense of ruler, not 'son of the king'). Others have to win a power struggle to maintain the accident of birth that put them there.

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