infradig

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by infradig 7y ago
The advice i gave to my kids when walking to school... don't assume a vehicle is going to stop for you at a crossing.
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by infradig 7y ago
My guess is yes. In Valis quite a bit is made of the play on words with Phillip meaning horse-lover. So Phillip K Dick = Horsedick (though that's not the sense it's used in Valis).
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by infradig 7y ago
The expression is "never went away" then, as "never went anywhere" usually means it dudded.
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by infradig 7y ago
Same as "to land a punch". To successfully hit a target.
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by infradig 7y ago
The media.
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by infradig 7y ago
I would say the ratio of a circle circumference to its diameter is naturally occurring.
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by infradig 7y ago
http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange...
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by infradig 7y ago
I hope so. Google Fit is atrocious.
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by infradig 7y ago
That's an incredibly alarmist statement without any clear backing in the medical literature.
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by infradig 8y ago
"The memory and computation and storage are distributed across large collection of neurons in the brain yet they logically conform to computer design principles." That is an opinion not a statement of fact.
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by infradig 8y ago
I haven't read the article. As a dog owner my assumption is there was a special trained bond between human and his dogs. They would have been impossible to handle after his death anyway so they would have been killed and buried along w
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by infradig 8y ago
Or just compare identical to non-identical twins?
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by infradig 8y ago
I thought the Little Ice Age actually began several centuries before this. Maybe they lengthened it, or deepened it. But something else was happening as well. Perhaps it was part of an going process... the plague in Europe and the near east
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by infradig 8y ago
Why no mention that this is a known area of undersea volcanoes? They are already causing considerable melting of glaciers from below. See: https://www.livescience.com/46194-volcanoes-melt-antarctic-g... Literally the first
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by infradig 8y ago
Cannibals? You might want to edit that.
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by infradig 8y ago
Ok, I'll put it out there... Fallen Angels by Niven and Pournelle.
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by infradig 8y ago
A day after an article about fake-news research being retracted and here are people commenting enthusiasticly and gullibly about another piece of fake-news research being promulgated. It's like no one has heard of the social sciences r
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by infradig 8y ago
The ones with diffraction spikes are foreground stars. The others are in the Triangulum galaxy.
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by infradig 8y ago
Well I don't generally consider chess mastery to be a sign of genius. Or maths, or music either. Fundamentally they are not creative, generative activities. There's a reason they are called a prodigy and not a genius. Of course th
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by infradig 8y ago
My preferred personal pronoun is "lord". Pretty soon it will be required that people call me "lord" or I will get offended and take them to whatever human rights commision is appropriate.
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by infradig 8y ago
You should only watch 2001 on wide screen in the cinema. I recently took my 12 and 16 yro kids to see it and it literally blew their minds.
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by infradig 8y ago
First the UK and now Australia. Next New Zealand and then Canada. Then the USA will have its five-eyes partners outsourced and fully-equiped to do all its internal spying.
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by infradig 8y ago
I did virtually the same thing in about 1991. Was really into NNs back then. Apparently that was the dark ages for NNs.
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by infradig 8y ago
What about passing your assets on to your wife?
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by infradig 8y ago
We used to smoke dried banana leaves as kids back in the early 70's. Never heard of anyone smoking the peels.
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by infradig 8y ago
What does that mean?
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by infradig 8y ago
Doesn't matter how meticulously researched it is if the conclusions are just plain bonkers.
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by infradig 8y ago
If they go straight thru the atmosphere and out then yes, that is exactly as they would appear.
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by infradig 8y ago
Not to put a downer on speculation but probably military jets that lit the afterburners and zoomed away. My first thought was F-111s, but since it seems they were radar quiet, maybe stealth planes.
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by infradig 8y ago
Lookup kinetic energy on Wikipedia. It will take you from KE = 1/2 Mv^2 to E = Mc^2 in a few small steps.

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