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by hammock 3mo ago
> islam arises primarily as a repudiation of polytheism and what is perceived as loose monotheism I doubt that “repudiation” of said things was the main driver. I’m pretty sure by 600ad Rome was pretty solidly Christian (or at elite leve
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by hammock 3mo ago
A lot of words but I agree with you with all my heart. Proportions best relate to the whole, not some “2 inches from the edge” or whatever arbitrary standard. What I would add also is the human scale . Along with the dimensions of the spac
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by hammock 3mo ago
No doubt. I call them empirical geometric methods, you call it an analog computer, same thing. He didn’t invent anything though. The method of hanging a chain and adding custom weights to find the ideal shape for a complex masonry structure
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by hammock 3mo ago
Truth, beauty and goodness are known as the “transcendentals” for a reason. They are linked. They don’t come one after the other.
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by hammock 3mo ago
Designing in an era where calculus exists, using chains and weights strikes me as gratuitous or onanistic. The Ancient Greeks and Romans also used the same or similar empirical geometric methods to generate ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbol
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by hammock 3mo ago
Gaudi stuff is cool. I used to live in Barcelona, I know all about it. But numerology is not the same as mathematics- nothing in the article comes close to sniffing at the math of classical architecture. And while many have said I have a we
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They got destroyed by the indians
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by hammock 3mo ago
The Vikings didn’t “conquer” new lands the way you might imagine. Rather than just raiding, they often settled, intermingled with the locals farmers and established new states. As seen in Scottish Isles, Ireland, Danelaw (England), Ukraine,
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by hammock 3mo ago
> Solar cell is the only practically viable power source with no moving parts Did you forget about batteries and fuel cells?
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by hammock 3mo ago
You can probably share specific evidence of NSA violating U.S. citizen rights. But can you share specific evidence if NSA spying on a five eyes nation or Israel post-Snowden?
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by hammock 3mo ago
> Doubt Can you substantiate your doubt with even one piece of hard evidence?
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by hammock 3mo ago
“Costco is the anti-Amazon” Haha OK Just wait until Amazon turns some of its warehouses into Costco-style retail stores…
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by hammock 3mo ago
The problem is not that milk is a mammary secretion. After all, boys and girls both drink mother’s milk! The problem is dairy practices that keep cows pregnant for 9 months out of the year, every year, and milk them for 10-11 months out of
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by hammock 3mo ago
Boeing and other aerospace companies have teams of several hundreds that do this work.
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The US does not spy on Five Eyes government leadership or that of Israel. And perhaps more: in the wake of Snowden, which obliterated many diplomatic relationships the U.S. has with other countries, Obama issued a directive that the U.S. wo
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Do you think those are maybe correlated? The measured density on the path
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by hammock 3mo ago
I mean, yeah. Ticks live in grasses not on the ground. If you walk on bare trail and don’t brush on grass or other plants your chance of a tick is much lower
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by hammock 3mo ago
It’s not superfluous. It’s saying “it’s unsafe to assume any space is private.”
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In fact, their positive legacies are improving with time
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You’re making an orthogonal point. His point was that regardless of political decision making, the US Navy has demonstrated an incapacity of controlling the Strait of Hormuz, which is bad
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by hammock 3mo ago
How about the nuclear button? I’m curious where you personally draw the line.
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It ought to be illegal for a publicly elected official to enter an NDA like that. It goes against the same principles that are the reason why we have things like FOIA
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And why not? Every vaccine currently on the market is safe and effective.
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I thought we are making cancer vaccines now. We are literally developing vaccines to fight thrombosis (aka blood circulation).[1] And we have vaccines that work against bacteria, specific toxins, parasites etc. Not sure you and I agree on w
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by hammock 3mo ago
What do those same democrats think about Trump’s HHS/FDA now, and why is it so different?
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by hammock 3mo ago
> Did we ever get a vaccine for trench foot? > No, because trench foot is something not treatable by vaccines. Isn’t that tautological? History and the future are full of things that can be treated with a vaccine that were not previou
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by hammock 3mo ago
I appreciate the data and am prepared to concede the point. It seems like a mixed result though, as quite a bit of sentiment did flip after the election. From your study: “85% of Democrats say they are worried the FDA will rush to approve a
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by hammock 3mo ago
“You need to x” is still the (apparently flawed?) personal responsibility model. Replace “you” with “we will do x to you whether you like it or not” and now we’re talking
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Sounds nice but is that what you really mean? The government created Covid, let it leak from a lab and now people want to give them power to force millions of innocent people take the medicine they also created. “Finding and halting the boo
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> If it was Ebola instead of COVID-19, 1000% guaranteed that all those antivaxxers would have been banging down the doors to get a vaccine Sadly, no. There is a theory that Ebola cases are really just arsenic poisoning from the mines in

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