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by markovs_gun 2y ago
> I'm not sure if this pre- or post- dates the Jewish tradition of replacing the Name with "Adonai" (Hebrew for "Lord") or its Greek/Latin equivalent, That taboo already existed even before the New Testament
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
Yes, with the caveat that with religious texts there are certain conventions that get conserved even across languages. For example, The Book of John starts off "In the beginning, there was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the W
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
This is an open question, and an important one to understanding the early history of the universe. Essentially, as far as everything we have seen in the lab shows, and everything we know about the laws of physics says, certain quantities li
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
That's not the vibe I got. For me it seemed like FedEx showed up, said they had a pallet of electronics, and the guy signed for it as a crime of opportunity. Then someone else stole some later.
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
Imagine being the thief in this case and getting stuck with an entire pallet of these weird indie handhelds that you can't fence because nobody knows what they are just hanging out on your garage.
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
Yeah as someone with a disability (juvenile arthritis) I hate this a lot. If I could take a pill and be cured of arthritis forever I would do it, and I would hate my parents if they decided to not give it to me because of some insane idea a
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
Search engines have gotten bad, and I feel like LLMs are just making them worse and worse. I am sick of wading through pages of shitty AI generated articles and SEO'd junk articles that may as well have been written by AI to find any a
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
I would be careful equating the oracles of Delphi with psychosis, since religious practices can bring about visions and out of body experiences without drugs or underlying pathologies. For example, some Eurasian shamans practice "ecsta
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
I feel like the point of learning integration isn't to know how to integrate, but rather how to use math to solve open ended problems within a firm set of rules. Plus you have to be able to check whether a numeric integration method is
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
Technically everyone in Lord of the Rings sounds like a Norse Saga character and this was done intentionally by Tolkien, who read the sagas extensively.
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
I don't know if this is true. The way psychosis manifests is influenced heavily by culture. In some places, hallucinations from psychosis are largely positive rather than threatening. https://news.stanford.edu/stories&#
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
Priests weren't (and, I suppose , still aren't) expected to do heavy labor or manage a household, and they had to be literate to perform the Mass and all of the various sacraments. They were all scholars of religion and philosophy
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
I feel like this may be a regional thing. If you don't live somewhere with a lot of Pentecostals this would definitely seem abnormal. I would say the majority of Pentecostals I know effectively believe that most major mental health pro
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
Amazon and Apple both picked their names to show up early on in lists, and anyone who remembers the phone book days remembers all sorts of plumbers with names like "AAA plumbing"
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
This. I have never bought a watch for more than $300 and I would have to buy 33 $300 watches to get to $10,000. If I live 60 more years, that's one watch every 22 months for the rest of my life.
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
I agree somewhat, but I would like to point out that a huge portion of the cost of advanced weapons systems is waste intentionally baked into the processes of designing, manufacturing, and testing these systems to squeeze as much money out
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
I believe what he is saying is that if a large stockpile of weapons is the best guarantor of peace, then it shouldn't matter who has it. It's an attempt to paint the argument as absurd by showing an extreme case.
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
Yeah the Russia-Ukraine war is basically the Russo-Japanese war in terms of being a grim preview of what happens when industrial nations fight an all out war. I worry that whatever happens next will make WWI and WWII look like child's
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
Yeah and social engineering is much easier to spot than your company approved search engine giving you malicious links
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
Yeah having rights is great but it's not a lot of help when the cops can just beat the shit out of you and arrest you for resisting arrest. Maybe you'll get it overturned in court but what good does that do if you missed work or l
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
It's really bad but in my mind there's a dollar amount where I stop feeling bad for the victim for losing. Like if someone's grandpa gets taken for his life savings for $1 million by bank scammers that's horrible but lik
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
Aleister Crowley's conception of magic is much more modern than the forms of occultism discussed in this article though. He was a modern man living in a modern world, influenced by modern philosophy. If you had asked someone in the 150
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
Woops I clicked on the first link and it was so long I forgot that it wasn't the originally linked article
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
I am going to be honest I didn't really understand what an eigenvalue was until reading this. I'd read the definition but like I didn't really understand why you'd care about that. This was a great article
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
It's pretty easy to get in contact with someone most of the time if you search for relevant roles on google with site:linkedin.com, or if you want to reach execs, on their business pages. I usually include several combinations of first
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
My first job was at a large defense company and let me tell you why Boeing's stock never drops- they can't lose money. The contracts are already signed. The money will be paid regardless. There is no consequence to failure because
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
I got news for you- there are still long lines to get into the doctor's office in the US, especially in rural areas.
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
That's not the mechanism by which this happens. It's likely illegal (or at the very least, a bad look PR wise) for them to increase your rates based on your refusal to be spied on, but the base price will likely increase as the ad
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
Does it really matter if it's opt-in when insurance companies are going to make the price without the "discounts" you get for opting in completely unaffordable for most people? When I shopped around for auto insurance most re
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by markovs_gun 2y ago
Yep. Reputational damage is a thing of the past in a world where everyone is completely bombarded with useless and incorrect information 24/7. Maybe it was never a thing at all, and companies merely assumed it was as a theoretical. Eit

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