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811.
by henearkr 6y ago
Excellent! I can recognize a lot of the strange life forms evoked in science fiction masterpieces. The first part of this series, also, gets a particularly compelling resonance at the light of the recent Venus phosphine discovery. https:&#
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by henearkr 6y ago
Oh no. He was among the very first physics books I read as a youngster. What a sad departure.
813.
by henearkr 6y ago
Do you think that could be an effect of the relative separation from mainland India and of the pressure of Islam from the South?
814.
by henearkr 6y ago
"most of the north-east is converted [to christianity]" is surprising, but actually that's true, for several Indian states that are in the enclave eastern of Bangladesh (Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya). Not "most"
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by henearkr 6y ago
FB could have taken the same stance than Google about carbon-neutrality targets. It could have also pledged to not data-mine user DMs. It did not.
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by henearkr 6y ago
That's good to hear. It seems to me that FB is still a little short on ecological engagements. At least, compared to Google. So, room for improvement. About privacy concerns, for example: FB is not guaranteeing anything about not minin
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by henearkr 6y ago
PR is different from what the employees see from within. Moreover, Google supported its "responsible" positions by carbon-neutral engagement, retracting from Chinese market, stopping mining email data, and more. I don't reall
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by henearkr 6y ago
There are several ways to build a business plan to make profit, and Google chose the one where they attract and retain an elite scientific and engineering staff in order to build awesome products, and so they respect the ideological lining
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by henearkr 6y ago
I am not really personifying it besides the introductory line: I am explaining that the mechanism is that Google cares foremost about attracting and retaining a somewhat socially and ecologically responsible (one could say as well leftwards
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by henearkr 6y ago
Google stopped several projects it had collaborating with Defense, retracted from the Chinese market, stopped mining Gmail data... all of that illustrate my point. So, it is a point of view supported by evidence, not "naivety". As
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by henearkr 6y ago
This aligns with how I have always seen Facebook, in contrast to Google for example. In their business plan Google (now Alphabet) favors a "greater good" for society rather than purely revenue optimization, whereas Facebook center
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Choanozoan and picozoan marine protists are probably virus eaters(phys.org)
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by henearkr 6y ago
Yes, exactly. So, why didn't they just use a Neuralink instead? Now it feels like they unveiled the Amiga a few months after having unveiled some Alienware laptop. Edit: no, the real reason why the Neuralink could not be used here, a
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by henearkr 6y ago
I'm surprised that my comment could be interpreted in such a way! lol (but the other comment by jonathanstrange hints that you are not alone, so maybe my writing style could use some improvement) To the contrary, even so I'm sure
825.
by henearkr 6y ago
Thanks a lot! I see many points of law on the base of which an appeal would win. For example, forcing witnesses to say a statement, and then writing it down out of its context, sending essential (as it appears during the trial) documents to
826.
by henearkr 6y ago
Wow. Again, the contents of the discussions are so obviously in favor of Assange (the accusation being really unfair and... dumb, again and again), and the judge is so clearly in favor of this dumb side. What would be the possible recourse
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by henearkr 6y ago
I get that you are in disbelief, but this is actually a thing. Numerous testimonies are unambiguous, such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u69YSh-cFXY Like, the interviewee is able to read extremely fast ("
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by henearkr 6y ago
I think you misinterpreted the use of "endophasic activity" here, it just means that the speech is not real, that it is inner, or the brain not producing any real efferent output, just internal-bounded output. So, the study consid
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by henearkr 6y ago
This study assumes that everybody hear the sounds of words while thinking, and that's not the case. Many people (although I don't know the statistics) do not have this "inner speech".
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by henearkr 6y ago
This has nothing to do with an abstract notion of morality. In our society, we look out for each other, if somebody is in distress, e.g. hurt on the side of the road, we help him, call an ambulance, he gets medical help. The fact that socie
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by henearkr 6y ago
Okay, I guess we just need to wait for geological samples to be sure then ^^;
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by henearkr 6y ago
But here they say that Venus may have had oceans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Venus#Ancient_liqui... This is from studies ranging from 2007 to 2016, so it's neither really obsolete or too new.
833.
by henearkr 6y ago
Or multicellular life with buoyancy organs.
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by henearkr 6y ago
Venus was much more hospitable in the past. Then it underwent a huge greenhouse effect that turned its atmosphere into a hell. So maybe life could have had time to develop natively before this event, and then would have migrated to the habi
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by henearkr 6y ago
Oh, thanks a lot!!
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by henearkr 6y ago
It ought to be released the 14 September morning, and still nothing: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/latest-news
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by henearkr 6y ago
Your guess is as good as anyone's at this point of our knowledge, but, if they are growing entirely suspended in atmosphere, I can imagine that, even though for most common elements (oxygen, nitrogen...) passive diffusion (like respira
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by henearkr 6y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24463423
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by henearkr 6y ago
The aim to publishing this paper is probably that: first of all to invite as many as possible scientists to propose new abiotic pathways that would have been overlooked. The sensationalism is probably an excellent way to pick their skeptici
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by henearkr 6y ago
Next time somebody here creates a shell company for very bad things, please try naming it YPal!

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