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by lainga 2y ago
I have struggled to find an established name for this value. I thought it would be something called the "Schwarzschild density", but no luck. Famously, the [someone's name??]-density of the observable universe just happens to
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by lainga 2y ago
In 1999, Shigetaka Kurita created 176 emoji as part of NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, used on its mobile platform.[25][26][27] They were intended to help facilitate electronic communication, and to serve as a distinguishing feature from other se
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by lainga 2y ago
The training data is ideo-semantically compressed? News to me... is it perhaps stored in kanji?
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by lainga 2y ago
On the third hand, if you've ever had to interact with a Korean bank over the internet (or read any of the laws that constrain this interaction), then yes, > South Korea’s government has put a whole lot more thought into this than w
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by lainga 2y ago
It's weird to me that there's no mention of silicate weathering in that article as the big negative CO2-temperature feedback. If anything CO2 levels are fighting against a warming/wetting Earth which weathers more rock and ca
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by lainga 2y ago
I think the proposing team ran out of options on the formal track so now they're going the ad-hominem track against the IUGS (they're uncomfortable with the Anthropocene, they're climate-change deniers, etc.)
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by lainga 2y ago
> They acknowledge an anthropogenic "event" is under way but aren't admitting the anthropocene because of its recency and unclear boundaries. You mean aren't admitting the anthropocene as an epoch? That's not wha
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by lainga 2y ago
Related: Geologists reject declaration of Anthropocene epoch https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/22/geologists-r...
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by lainga 2y ago
Here's as close as I got with a bit of fiddling. You may or may not be able to winnow out minor changes using the inverttags parameter [] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?hidebots=1&hidecategoriza... [] htt
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by lainga 2y ago
Big context shift for me was realising roughly 2019 that Portal:Current events could efficiently replace 95% of my news scrolling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
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by lainga 3y ago
>I've read many of the recent popSci books on global warming Have you read any of the IPCC reports? Are you familiar with the RCPs?
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by lainga 3y ago
You will need to create and propagate a religion that emphasizes the virtue of smashing up silicate rocks and wetting the dust. It's a lot more tedious than cloud seeding, but it's low-tech and works at scale. Ed. this produces ca
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by lainga 3y ago
On a narrower window, we're fixing the fallout from eliminating acid rain[]. Think of it like we were cloud seeding for free, and now we can do it with aerosolized salt instead of sulfates. [] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by lainga 3y ago
It's happened before! "A total of 1000 coins strung together were referred to as a chuàn (串) or diào (吊) and were accepted by traders and merchants per string because counting the individual coins would cost too much time. Because
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by lainga 3y ago
There was a separate one for Businessweek with an endless Droste-effect of a lady reading a Businessweek issue, headlined "When will Bloomberg get its sh#t together?" I wish I were a fly on the wall when the decision was made to g
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by lainga 3y ago
When the French get someone up there, we can consider it.
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by lainga 3y ago
The explanation I saw was tax farming. You don't have a surname, so for the Emperor's purposes, you're getting the surname of the guy who collects your taxes for me
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by lainga 3y ago
Yes, he never returned to England. The Shogunate declared "William Adams" dead and "Miura Anjin" born, by which legal fiction he could remarry.
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by lainga 3y ago
Indeed, but the switch from long-standing to long-riding is a relatively recent innovation, by the Romans, Arabs et al. (by breeding horses large enough to ride on), after the Sea Peoples demonstrated how to defeat charioteers
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by lainga 3y ago
Le Carré said this in the interview about his life (The Pigeon Tunnel): “At a certain age, you want the answer. You want the rolled up parchment in the inmost room that tells you who runs your lives and why. The trouble is that by then, you
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by lainga 3y ago
And who knows -- maybe they wouldn't have all left if you didn't regard them as "anglos and jews"
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by lainga 3y ago
How do these low-quality studies come about? Who is paying for them?
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by lainga 3y ago
Who's "we"?
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by lainga 3y ago
I'm afraid I can't direct you to anywhere with the caveats you've set. If Reddit does do the inevitable, I hope you find an alternative that you can tolerate.
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by lainga 3y ago
But not to give you health insurance.
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by lainga 3y ago
cf. the many elderly who volunteered to clean up at Fukushima
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The author did also work at Apple and SRI after graduating from MIT...
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by lainga 3y ago
It's bizarre at my local Wal-Mart. Cursory selection of rotting, fly-covered (no exaggeration) produce, and then 50 shelves of packaged food. Of the shelves - there is exactly a quarter aisle for canned vegetables and another 1 3/
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by lainga 3y ago
I think "spirit of the law" can be interpreted as how the (written) law was trying to get at The Law. But even that spirit is not The Law. Here's an example - modern Germany defines itself as a Rechtsstaat . On the face of i
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by lainga 3y ago
And now we come to the unfortunate fact that there is no equivalent in English for the distinction between Recht and Gesetz , or droit and loi , both being subsumed under the term law . The former is an immanent thing, a "shared

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