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by idiocrat 4y ago
From Wikipedia: The hedgehog's dilemma, or sometimes the porcupine dilemma, is a metaphor about the challenges of human intimacy. It describes a situation in which a group of hedgehogs seek to move close to one another to share heat du
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by idiocrat 4y ago
The Hedgehog's dilemma is relevant for loneliness. From Wikipedia: "The hedgehog's dilemma, or sometimes the porcupine dilemma, is a metaphor about the challenges of human intimacy. It describes a situation in which a group o
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by idiocrat 4y ago
How much is the finder bounty? Maybe it is worth cycling/walking 1400km with a sensitive scintillation counter? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1UZdLVlBXg
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> [...] We know that number one ingested foreign body in children are coins. They're the things that kids swallow. [...] When the first child swallows a coin, the parents are in shock! Calling ambulance! When their second child swal
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by idiocrat 4y ago
I watched the 4 min video. Unfortunately Dr Berg seems not to consider the concept of biological half-time. I am sure he know the concept, just forgot to put it into his calculation formula. He basically assumes that if his patient consumes
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by idiocrat 4y ago
https://www.turning-japanese.info/2021/06/naturalization-sto... Excerpt: [...] the seven requirements [...] 1) Have continuously lived in Japan for 5 years or more? 2) Be 20 years of age or above, and b
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by idiocrat 4y ago
https://www.turning-japanese.info/2021/06/naturalization-sto... Excerpt: [...] the seven requirements [...] . 1) Have continuously lived in Japan for 5 years or more? 2) Be 20 years of age or above, and
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Becoming legally Japanese (the info site)(turning-japanese.info)
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> the overall culture is extremely hostile to granting citizenship to non-native people Sorry, I need to disagree with you. The process is fairly straightforward and formal. You need to fit very few and fair formal criteria, but if you d
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by idiocrat 4y ago
Bookmark for reference. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/25
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Wow, thats a change! "In the 118th Congress, H.R. 25 would implement a NST. This proposal would replace the current federal income, payroll, and estate and gift tax system with a 23% tax-inclusive sales tax rate in 2025 (30% tax-exclus
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by idiocrat 4y ago
Pakistan seem to be most unfortunate country. Last year big flooding. Now electricity outage. Growing food crisis. https://time.com/6247300/pakistan-food-crisis-climate-change... People do not deserve such situation.
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"... power a turbine with energy produced when liquid cooled by stored snow is then vaporized by the heat of the surrounding air." Is it a reversed heat pump? The straight heat pump has a COP of roughly 3. The reversed will have t
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by idiocrat 4y ago
Here is an interesting but sad documentary from 2020. (1h40m). It addresses the concerns about hydrogen. "Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will — that we are losing the batt
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by idiocrat 4y ago
It would be a nightmare for me to become an uebermensch as that person is. Everything is ultimately fine-tuned and maximum optimized. No space for errors, mistakes, suffering or playing. So neat and sterile. An app is missing for those pesk
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by idiocrat 4y ago
Another good test is to take that person out to the mountains. (Assuming yourself is fit enough). The weak people will whine and complain about the hardships (sores, sweat, tired, hungry, ...) The strong characters will stay through the cha
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by idiocrat 4y ago
While the ETW is helpful with a deep dive into problem analysis, a look into the Event Viewer can give some initial hint about crashing processes and other system/app faults. Sometimes I page through the Event Viewer entries, trying to
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by idiocrat 4y ago
I seriously doubt that the China will be deterred just so by an increased US war spending. They seem not to care.
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Lovely. The only way to achieve peace is to promote the glorious war. There are definitely no other ways around. To save what have left of democracy, we need to invest another 10 trillion USD other people's money into this new adventur
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by idiocrat 4y ago
For me it is always a pain to see how people are touching the pins of electronics with bare hands. The video shows that he is working on a some kind of lacquered workdesk and have a microfiber cloth for wiping. This all exposes the electron
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by idiocrat 4y ago
Strengthens your immune system. Without exposure (playing in mud, touching other people), we are only weaker. Bio life is really complicated. Sterilization works well only to a certain degree, before becoming damaging, e.g. causing resistan
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by idiocrat 4y ago
As somebody said, we all will have our own individual and personalized content being created and streamed to us all time, so we will stop any meaningful interaction with each other. To add to it, the footprint of carbon-based humans on envi
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by idiocrat 4y ago
These are my all-time favorites. Sorry if not fitting your "watched in 2022" criteria. Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072742/ Thank You For Not Breeding (10+ years ago)
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Please consider waiting for one day, before re-trying with your valid password. Your account will be auto-unlocked after a cool-off period. It helped me in the past.
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How to Be a Good Chiseler: 20 Practical Tips 1. Chisel regularly. 2. Try to get something out of every chiseling project, even the most boring ones! 3. Don't get too attached to one chiseling technology, let alone to one chisel. 4. Be
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Waiting for Monty PAIthon, when AI will develop a true sense of humor and we all will laugh about the programming bloopers which it will invent. But there is also a great danger of the Killer Joke, which results in instant death of anyone,
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The low rate of false positives have been well documented in the Archibald Buttle vs Archibald Tuttle case. And the government never makes mistakes.
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I wonder what is the rational of removing features like allow for customization.
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Was not Win 10 the last operating system version?
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> The wealthy have always enjoyed expensive lifestyles and hobbies. Sorry to jump in. There is a 2003 documentary by the name "Born Rich". This is about the children from the wealthy people and how they are coping with the bore

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