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by jgilias 3y ago
Some people want areas without black people, the Irish, Muslims, old people, women, men, gay people. It really has nothing to do with having or not having R-rated movies. It’s just discrimination against children, and by extension their par
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by jgilias 3y ago
What the hell… Thank you for posting this. I was thinking of going for a vacation to Korea _with kids_, and now I don’t think I will. Can’t imagine needing to explain to my well-behaved 8-year old that, no, we can’t go to some place we’d wa
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by jgilias 3y ago
Might as well be that the cause and effect is reversed here. Such as, populations that were in contact with the Neanderthals had to become smarter to outcompete them.
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by jgilias 3y ago
Them hunting all year round is much more plausible than having cattle in caves throughout the winter. I don’t know what’s your experience when it comes to animal husbandry, but just the amount of manure that this activity would generate som
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by jgilias 3y ago
Or they might as well have had social structures similar to chimps, or lions. With an alpha male on top of the hierarchy enforcing social cohesion through violence and having near-exclusive mating rights. Again, something we just don’t know
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by jgilias 3y ago
Most of this would readily show up in archeological record. And it really doesn’t. And because it doesn’t it’s pretty clear they hunted all year round. This is substantiated by research pointing towards them having adaptations for having go
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by jgilias 3y ago
Sewing technology is something that preserves quite well in the fossil record though. Maybe some Neanderthal group somewhere had a needle, but we really don’t have any evidence for any sort of widespread use of that tech, as we later find i
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by jgilias 3y ago
Can you point me to some sources about Neanderthal animal domestication? That’s very interesting, I’d like to read more on that! Specifically about clothes and shelters though. To my knowledge we really don’t have finds indicating that they
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by jgilias 3y ago
I hoped to see an image of a face! I wasn’t really talking about passing a chimp skull for a Neanderthal one. I was dissing the method of reconstruction itself. It basically assumes a Homo Sapiens like soft tissue morphology and works from
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by jgilias 3y ago
It’d be nice though if the images were also understood as just acts of imagination. You could take a chimp skull, use the same techniques used to ‘reconstruct’ Neanderthal faces, and you’d get a similar result - a smiley fellow with a tad n
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by jgilias 3y ago
This definition: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/figurat...
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by jgilias 3y ago
I don’t think it’d take offense at alcohol. Most likely that’s because cocktail rhymes with Molotov.
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by jgilias 3y ago
> The plunging US values are being felt around the world because properties in top-tier American cities were once magnets for global investment. Offices were seen as super safe bets backed by high-quality assets with long-term leases and
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by jgilias 3y ago
But you don’t know that. As in, it’s impossible for you (or me) to know that. I do care about my cells. Like, not individually, but I do care that they are in as good an environment for them as I can muster. I don’t think they have any conc
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by jgilias 3y ago
I think you misunderstand what emergence is. It’s really not an argument about if you have agency or not in your individual actions.
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by jgilias 3y ago
This couldn’t be farther from the truth though. As in, I don’t think any place I’ve even been to would count as a megacity. Let alone where I live. The way I see it is that emergence is not an agent. More like some basic law of nature. Thin
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by jgilias 3y ago
Sorry to hear this! I hope you can manage to get out of it, depression can be a real bitch! Do seek help, it’s nothing to be ashamed of.
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by jgilias 3y ago
Yeah. I think anyone who has had experience with school/kindergarten parents chats trying to organize _anything_ would find the idea of shadowy organizations running the world laughable.
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by jgilias 3y ago
I’ve come to the same conclusion. But not just about companies, but everything. Talk to someone in the military, or government agencies, or working on large infrastructure projects. It’s the same story everywhere - chaos. And it’s generally
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by jgilias 3y ago
The whole idea that you can sort energy usage into useful for society or not buckets is pretty ridiculous. Ok, Bitcoin bad. What about video games? Netflix? Porn? The very idea of sorting energy use like that is a very slippery slope. We ha
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by jgilias 3y ago
Housing inflation everywhere is mostly due to the stock of housing growing a lot slower (or not at all) compared to the growth of broad money supply. If there’s more of the thing that you use to account for stuff, but stuff doesn’t become m
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by jgilias 3y ago
After lowballing myself and ending up working for some time for a lot less than what a friend of mine got for exactly the same position many moons ago, I started to just not give my number. I’d typically explain in a friendly, non-threateni
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by jgilias 3y ago
We’re still afraid of boogeymen, aren’t we?
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by jgilias 3y ago
I really hope this ends up killing LeetCode interviews with fire. The negative assessment of one of the interviewers about a candidate how “he hadn’t prepared to solve even the most basic LeetCode problems” is especially telling. Maybe the
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by jgilias 3y ago
That’s a fair point. In the current iteration there’s not much functional difference. The vision though would be to build something that feels a lot like one of the centralized git services, just built on top of Nostr. So, it’d be some kind
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by jgilias 3y ago
Nostr can be thought of as an open, decentralized, censorship resistant messaging layer with a built-in micro payments system. Regarding why this might be useful. Remember when youtube-dl got taken down from GitHub? I think it’s now back af
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by jgilias 3y ago
That’s my understanding too. The way I thought about this before was that normally an insect would ‘keep the moon’ on one side to navigate straight, but artificial light messes that up and they end up spiraling around those light sources. W
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by jgilias 3y ago
This is not a ShowHN, as I’m not the author. I just find the concept really cool!
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Gitstr: Send and receive Git patches over Nostr(github.com)
90 points by jgilias 3y ago|59 comments
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by jgilias 3y ago
Thanks for sharing, it was a good read!

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