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by hugh4 11y ago
You do realise that the King James Bible is just a fairly recent translation of a bunch of much older stuff and that we have much older Bibles written in various languages, right? Now, a first draft of the Koran , that would put the cat am
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by hugh4 11y ago
I've never understood that one, what does it actually mean anyway?
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by hugh4 11y ago
I don't pretend to know or especially care about accuracy, but the semi-archaic language of the King James Version gives it a certain authoritative-sounding zing that others may lack. "Thou shalt not kill" sounds a whole lot
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by hugh4 11y ago
Iceland is still breeding at a healthy yet sustainable 2.04 births per woman, actually. Compare to 1.4 in Italy (and I thought they were Catholics!) or 1.38 in Germany. Actually now I look it up the US is only 1.88 in the last stats that co
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by hugh4 11y ago
This is true. In fact I'd put the causality the other way -- Europeans are going slowly extinct precisely because of the unavailiability to the regular family of things they take for granted in America: big cars and big houses. It&#x
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by hugh4 11y ago
But how can Americans socially signal their sophistication and enlightenment without talking about how much better things are in Europe?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Not very hard, once you know how to do it. No idea if it's been done correctly here though.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I'm not suggesting lying, I'm suggesting using a broad definition of "negotiating"
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by hugh4 11y ago
Sure. Livejournal is still going strong somewhere, after all. Most people will eventually move on to the next thing, though, and the thing after that. Live by the network effect, die by the network effect.
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by hugh4 11y ago
The same possible gain that motivates people to blow themselves up and crash planes into buildings and burn churches and synagogues. That is, no possible gain that a rational person would understand. But Islam is not a rational memeplex.
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by hugh4 11y ago
If challenged I would stick it under "negotiating a contract". "Yes, I am negotiating a contract for investment. The work I am doing is part of the negotiation"
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by hugh4 11y ago
So there's a huge gap in the market for a nsfw patreon? (Porntreon?)
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by hugh4 11y ago
> What if I told you a lot of people find Transformers: Dark of the Moon as pretentious and vapid as its title is ? Then I guess I'd say "yeah, probably"? I haven't seen any of the Transformers movies past the first o
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by hugh4 11y ago
That's why he said "too artsy and pretentious for me" instead of "too artsy and pretentious in absolute terms and those who disagree can suck it". Chill, nobody is insulting your taste in movies.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I'm not saying it's not aliens, but it's not aliens. I read the paper which quite happily discusses clouds of debris of various kinds and avoids any mention of aliens. Comets sound reasonable. Still, it looks like an object w
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by hugh4 11y ago
Was it any less on-topic than the comment it replied to, or was it just a less fashionable opinion?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Alternatively, eat lots of cake so that you die of something else first.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Interesting, but I'm confused. I had to look up Doggerland but apparently it's been submerged for 6000 years and was in the North Sea, why couldn't your Norwegian ancestors have come from Doggerland originally?
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by hugh4 11y ago
So why not shift operations to a less restrictive country? Make people tick a box that says "I am currently outside the United States" to receive the fancy information, if necessary.
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by hugh4 11y ago
How did it confirm that? Did they have a sample of your (purported) great-grandfather too?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Was that the plan then? You'd need to have one hundred percent purity nitrogen with no oxygen and no water, is it really possible to keep it at the level of purity you need?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Silicon will oxidise the moment you put it in air, were they going to keep it in ultra-high vacuum or just deal with the oxidisation?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Is that still planned to go from Bakersfield to Fresno with a promise that they'll totally get around to building the tricky bits once everyone sees how great it is to be able to travel quickly between Bakersfield and Fresno?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Seems an important distinction given that the largest quake recorded in California was a 7.9 and the largest in San Francisco a 7.8. So presumably an 8.0 is plausible but an 8.5 may not be.
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by hugh4 11y ago
And they knew exactly what to do: bump up the cost knowing the taxpayer would be on the hook anyway.
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by hugh4 11y ago
So just to be clear, do you think intelligence and financial status are completely uncorrelated?
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by hugh4 11y ago
To my ears an Appalachian accent doesn't sound that different to a regular American accent, it's just an exaggerated version of it.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Perhaps, or perhaps the people who go to the symphony do so because they enjoy the snobby atmosphere and wouldn't go if the concert hall looked like a Southwest flight. Meanwhile the Southwest flight people won't go to the symphon
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by hugh4 11y ago
Why not just simplify it down to MacArthur Fellows are smart, and smart people are smart enough to solve the rather simple problem of not wasting a large windfall?
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by hugh4 11y ago
At city traffic speeds I'll take the car. It's heavy but it's also a big flat object and I will land on the bonnet. Bikes are nasty jagged pointy things which will impart huge forces to randomly chosen parts of your body with

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