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by henearkr 6y ago
You forgot that these 16 digits have a structure, with the 4 or even 8 first ones being determined by the type (visa, mastercard) and the bank/country, etc.
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by henearkr 6y ago
Well, people building/buying Wagner's busts are some big fans of his music who want somehow to materialize their fandom. They certainly are not fans of his life, his life is extremely irrelevant, it may as well be totally forgotte
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by henearkr 6y ago
He was a great oceanographer, engineer, filmmaker, and he opened the eyes of multiple generations on what lies in the oceans and how it's fragile and important to protect it. Isn't that worth a monument? He may have said/done
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by henearkr 6y ago
This is his private life. It has nothing to do with your allegations of "bigot", "liar", etc. If this is your references, you end up having denigrated him. About your allegation of J. Cousteau having protected marine lif
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by henearkr 6y ago
No your observation is correct. Japanese people have many credit cards but also pay a lot in cash, and small restaurants for example do not accept cards. So they are now in the absurd situation where they do not have enough credit card numb
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by henearkr 6y ago
Yeah, lots of credit cards does not mean one can use cashless payment everywhere, paradoxically... It's more 5 cards than 15, I admit... I edited my comment accordingly. It still seems a lot to me, why not just one?
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by henearkr 6y ago
The first digits are a header identifying the type of the card, (visa, mastercard...) and probably other characteristics. The main problem is that in Japan everybody has like 5 credit cards, because every big company has its own financial b
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by henearkr 6y ago
It's the Xeelee Sequence, by Stephen Baxter. The focus on the late-Anthropocene "Bottleneck" is in the volume called "Transcendent". The end of the age of farming is located near the 27th century. After they restore
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by henearkr 6y ago
Lol. I am just reading a novel set in the future and where our current period is referred as such, because, at the end of this climate crisis and huge extinction event, humans decide to restore the biosphere to its last post-glacial state.
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by henearkr 6y ago
You were perfectly making sense! ^^ I hope you are better now, I am sorry to hear that you had medical problems... Do not give up! Your contributions are helpful.
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by henearkr 6y ago
Why shut up? Your post was very informative and thanks to you I learned a lot of things! However, I bet that the scale of the wildfires in our apocalyptic late-Anthropocene is something hardly seen before in healthy forests... all these spe
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by henearkr 6y ago
Ah good point, not to ditch gmail but to ditch the "@gmail" domain name. That makes sense, thanks.
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by henearkr 6y ago
In this case you don't need to ditch Gmail, they don't use anymore this data to custom ads. However each time you visit any website, your enemies are not only Google Ads but also Criteo, Facebook, etc (and they are much much less
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by henearkr 6y ago
There are providers (not free, though), like ProtonMail, who store your data encrypted, in a fashion that would prevent this threat model. I bet that Google would sooner gladily erase itself all of its data rather than give them to a fascis
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by henearkr 6y ago
You could still have good production by using permaculture or other natural methods (or at least methods that are not energy-intensive).
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by henearkr 6y ago
Thanks a lot for the reference! We are an animal species literally growing on fossil fuels.
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by henearkr 6y ago
Done like this, it's like a carbon sequestration project that would decide to periodically dump all of its captured CO2 in the wild back again...
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by henearkr 6y ago
So it's a net non-zero CO2 footprint? That would rather be against fertilizer then.
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by henearkr 6y ago
To be fair, you need to compare a complete workflow including the renewable production of the jet fuel. If the overhead of heavy batteries does not annihilate the benefit of the carbon-neutral production rendered possible by using electrici
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by henearkr 6y ago
I admit that the more I think about your arguments, the more I lean to be convinced. It makes sense. However, I really hope they find what was the flaw(s) that led to the surprising result on the BBB of rodents.
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by henearkr 6y ago
Then 4G or Wifi may be worse than 5G. Experiments with inter-cellular adhesion were, among others, at 900MHz and 1800MHz, thus closer to 4G. However I don't know if other frequencies were really investigated (or with the same care, wit
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by henearkr 6y ago
All is not just about energy absorbed or burns. There are reports of the space between cells becoming larger (less inter-cellular adhesion) because of RF, and this led to the conclusion that the blood-brain barrier was weakened due to some
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by henearkr 6y ago
I agree those are mere plausible ideas with no real foundations, but the aim is to open our imagination to the realm of the plausible. Even those phenomena that are improbable and barely plausible, there are some of them we will encounter,
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by henearkr 6y ago
Nice to see that I speak with a peer SF lover! ^^ I agree, I would be surprised if we discover first alien life in a non-chemical form. Somehow though I would love to be surprised! There are so many possible environments and substrates, and
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by henearkr 6y ago
I don't know if you read the other books from the Xeelee series, but the neutron star is probably not even the strangest life form Baxter considered :) I don't want to spoil too much though.
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by henearkr 6y ago
You only considered chemistry-based life. Cannot hold it against you of course. But some hard SF writers like Baxter also imagined life based on electromagnetic interactions, nuclear reactions (life in the mantle of a neutron star), fluid v
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by henearkr 6y ago
Maybe Julia would be the more natural language for music theory, as both are one-based indexed.
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by henearkr 6y ago
I've read it once, so feel free to contact me if you need any help!
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by henearkr 6y ago
Here is the entry point that I read recently: https://phys.org/news/2020-08-parasites-important.html This is the link above which made me overconfident to easily find on the web many examples of such natural regulation
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by henearkr 6y ago
Steve Awodey's "Category Theory" is an excellent book to learn the basics, and there are no requirements to know beforehand topology or higher abstract algebra in order to follow it.

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