griffzhowl

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The crypto bros crowdfunding a new country(bbc.com)
41 points by griffzhowl 2y ago|56 comments
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
Thanks, it's interesting and gives some suggestive information about the motivations concerning navigation and calendrical reform. It has some severe weaknesses when trying to make the case for influence on mathematics, though. The aut
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
> Stillwell makes no such conclusion about the lack of transmission Stillwell: "It is sad that the Indian series became known in the West too late to have any influence or even to become well known until recently." (p. 184, 3rd
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
The thing is, circumstantial evidence that transmission could have happened, though suggestive, isn't positive evidence that it did happen. The absence of such direct evidence such as translations or quotations from relevant Indian wor
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
It gets at a profound question which is related to the problem of evil: is it better to make a bad world good (whatever those terms might mean for you) than for the world just to have been good the whole time? Is it better to have suffering
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
Higher pressure, to prevent hydrogen leaks from elsewhere coming in
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
Yeah, this is a kind of calling card of the Long Now Foundation. See their landing page: "established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking" https://longnow.org/
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
My thought too but later in the article it says that was by using the dye in combination with laser speckle imaging (whatever that is)
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
Set up whatever apparatus you like, you can always set up its mirror image, and then the electrons are going in the opposite direction. So which is right and which is left? Remember you haven't yet established with the alien what you m
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
How would that allow you to distinguish the coil from its mirror image?
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
See also this paper by one of the foremost researchers in the field and colleagues for how Berger and his team haven't been rigorous with their methodology with Homo naledi "No scientific evidence that Homo naledi buried their dea
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
Yes, Libertarian could make sense. There are some reports now from his former classmates that he took conservative positions in school debates. This makes the motive all the more enigmatic.
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
> Keep in mind that "the right" is now split into pre-Trump conservatives and "Trumpists" Trump has been leader of the Republicans since the shooter was twelve years old... In any case, you've weakened your claim
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
Apparently Crooks was rejected from his school rifle team for being such a bad shot they thought it would just be too dangerous if he participated...
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
Yes, on its face it looks like he's saying that you can throw out the weights of any network and still expect the same or similar behaviour, which is obviously false. It's also contradicted in that very section where he reports fr
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
I've also heard it about the Buddhist tradition, that at least three groups of monks would memorize parts of the canon, and they would preiodically come together to chant it. If one group differed from the other two, they would know th
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
If tiny hearths with fat-covered sticks were common elsewhere, this would be a valid objection. But as it is, this seems to be a distinctive practice that is present at the same location separated by 12k years, and the ancient one was burie
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
It's actually not that far-fetched when you consider the long view of human history. Hominins have been capable of cultural transmission for millions of years, and during most of that time it made most sense to repeat what the previous
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
If it's based on a real flood, they presumably follow a power law distribution, where you have relatively frequent "normal" floods, and progressively larger floods are rarer and rarer, till you get an occasional gargantuan on
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
"Survive" means, after growing in normal Earth conditions, seven days' exposure to Mars-like conditions didn't kill the plants, and they were able to regenerate after being returned to Earth-like conditions. So it doesn&
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by griffzhowl 2y ago
> An intelligent entity will want to survive I don't see how that follows at all. You could have an intelligent entity, in the sense that you can ask it any question and it'll give a highly competent response, that is neverthel
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by griffzhowl 3y ago
It's definitely not true that the Romans introduced winemaking to Georgia. It's been made there for 8000 years and might have been the site of original domestication of the vine. They still make wine in a similar way so that means
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by griffzhowl 4y ago
Nothing in the article contradicts that 'fact'. The question is only whether the development of eukaryotes involved other significant steps in addition to the mitochondrial endosymbiotic event, or whether the latter event was all
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by griffzhowl 6y ago
GCHQ were involved which means the NSa would have known about it since they're not really separate organizations. I believe they would refrain from briefing the president on something which was important to keep secret.
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by griffzhowl 7y ago
tl;dr We haven't had any deep conceptual revolutions nor massive new sources of cheap energy for a while Estimating how much innovation to expect depends on how you set the baseline. There are a couple of reasons for considering the fi