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by lgvln 3y ago
What lies in the heart of the Galileo's Copernican Heliocentrism argument is the Church is and can be wrong, thus challenging the authority of the Church. It is often used as an example because it is the prime example of the beginning
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by lgvln 3y ago
> His trial and sentence were not so much about his science than about his lousy attitude toward legitimate authority References? The charge of heresy is for heretic views, such as the Copernican heliocentric model in his case. It threat
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by lgvln 3y ago
The author conveniently fails to mention Galileo was found guilty of heresy by the Church, forced to retract his Dialogues and lived the rest of his life under house arrest for advocating the Copernican heliocentric model over the doctrin
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by lgvln 3y ago
What is missing from the article is the ascent weights were found in a different location as the wreckage, which led to the hypothesis that the passengers knew the submersible’s hull was failing and had dropped the weights to ascent. Also,
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by lgvln 3y ago
https://archive.is/fSVmc
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Daniel Ellsberg has died(nytimes.com)
755 points by lgvln 3y ago|297 comments
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by lgvln 4y ago
Singapore has existed and will continue to exist with or without the current government. Prosperous for _whom_? Inequality is rising and according to CIA World Factbook, Singapore is ranked the 24th on the Gini index, right behind Saudi Ara
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by lgvln 4y ago
It worked well only by narrow definition of GDP pp, which is the article's point. Besides, what he intended for the rest of the world is irrelevant to whether the system is worthy of admiration. In any case, he has advised China's
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The World Admires Singapore’s Benevolent Autocracy. Should It?(nytimes.com)
3 points by lgvln 4y ago|5 comments
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by lgvln 4y ago
Some others have pointed out, the reason might be geopolitics.
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by lgvln 4y ago
Any evidence for the claim that WHO/WHO reports are not to be trusted?
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by lgvln 4y ago
What’s even more difficult to wrap your head around should be the poor response to the pandemic; the lack of regard for the vulnerable (citizens) and the poor (nations).
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by lgvln 4y ago
I'm going to have to ask: ... made us incredibly vulnerable to what ? Losing our status as the most powerful nation? Impacting the livelihoods of our most vulnerable and in-need (citizens)?
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by lgvln 4y ago
Another major flaw of exFat is that TRIM doesn’t seem to be supported across all OSes. I had a WD Passport SSD slow to a crawl because of that. Formatting it to NTFS and connecting it to Windows solved the issue.
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by lgvln 4y ago
It seems like it is common for military vessels to turn off their AIS regularly, presumably to hide their movements. The USS Fitzgerald had its AIS turned off right outside of Tokyo, another busy shipping lane, when it collided with a conta
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by lgvln 4y ago
One’d think the countless bombings of the region to be quite ‘flattening’.
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by lgvln 4y ago
The poll in the article is for “fintech” specifically, not tech.
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by lgvln 4y ago
Not really. I guess it’s about disruption of the person’s lifestyle and he/her liking for cats vs the actual welfare of the cats - how having good intentions alone is often insufficient. I would put the current number of cats at 10, pl
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by lgvln 4y ago
I have a quasi-thought experiment for fellow HN readers. If you found out one of the stray cats at unofficial “cat shelter” tested positive for FeLV and the person who runs the “cat shelter” seems oblivious to it, would you consider unethic
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by lgvln 4y ago
I’m sorry to hear both your cats passed away at age 2-3. Can I ask whether the cats were infected with FeLV or FIV? FIV cats can often live a relatively long life (~10 years) if kept indoors. Whereas the median lifespan for a FeLV positive
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by lgvln 4y ago
I’d argue that the thinner edge is more ergonomic than the regular MacBooks; it doesn’t “cut” into your wrists as much. I suspect the wedge shape also provides some incline to the keyboard, which is preferable for most.
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by lgvln 4y ago
That’s not how trust works.
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by lgvln 4y ago
Let’s not forget the whole fiasco with Singapore’s TraceTogether app for contact tracing during the pandemic. The actual implementation of it differs significantly from the white paper they open-sourced. The actual app does not anonymize th
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by lgvln 4y ago
Wasn’t the “Ghost of Kyiv” debunked as a myth, or at least the videos and images were(taken from a variety video games)?
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by lgvln 4y ago
I’m not optimistic, considering the state of democracy in US. It looks like liberalism and democracy is insufficient to counteract the ill effects of capitalism - the transformation of society from a market economy to a market society.
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by lgvln 4y ago
Right. On the same day this was also posted to the HN: https://theintercept.com/2022/04/22/anomaly-six-phone-tracki...
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by lgvln 5y ago
> Maybe, but TikTok is an order of magnitude above other social media apps when it comes to learning what you like. I suspect that is because TikTok has different goals compared to other social media companies. Their aim (right now) is t
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by lgvln 5y ago
Very much so. A (in)famous authoritarian government prosecuted (successfully) a citizen of the country (while he was overseas in both instances) for publishing a private post on his Facebook (which was critical of the government).
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by lgvln 5y ago
If neither of you are historians then why is your opinion more credible than his? In any case, the evidence supports his view much better than yours. While climate change is not the only factor in the collapse of the many civilizations of t
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by lgvln 5y ago
Your title is incorrect. The destruction of the 3G/4G towers did not allow the encrypted phones to intercepted. It forced the Russians to use insecure commercial communication methods, which can/are intercepted. Please do not chan

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