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by marton78 5y ago
He was convinced that without an American preemptive strike, even more would die. He was wrong of course, as we now know, but it wasn't clear at that time. There's an episode of Hardcore History on this topic, I think the title wa
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by marton78 5y ago
I forgot the link: https://youtu.be/PO6xtSxB5Vg
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by marton78 5y ago
This interview with Cornelius Lanczos is also worth watching. He is not one of the Martians, because he went to England rather than to America, but he grew up in Budapest in the same time -- and he is a formidable storyteller.
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by marton78 5y ago
Aren't younger sons less risk averse and thus more likely to bring forth societal change?
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by marton78 5y ago
Yes, but due to ethical considerations. One doesn't have to agree with the outcome of his reasoning, but it's well established that his reasons were ethical, not cynical or egoistic.
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by marton78 5y ago
"Who watches the Watchmen?
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by marton78 5y ago
It is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-2P3MSZrBM
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by marton78 5y ago
When you start dreaming about yourself being code and consisting of modules you know you've done something to your brain.
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by marton78 5y ago
> I cannot translate it to English in a single word but the way I understand it would be "what is needed, no more, no less" (which is also mentioned in the article). This might not be translatable to English in one word, but it
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by marton78 5y ago
Presumably they didn't read your user name...
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by marton78 5y ago
Oh, "Der Untergeher". Read it in German, if you can. It's... memorable.
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by marton78 5y ago
The same is true for Bond Girls and for the Batman's romantic interests.
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by marton78 5y ago
I have always found the humility of Muslims saying "In sha'Allah" admirable. It's a beautiful way to remind ourselves that our fate -- and our life -- is not entirely in our hands.
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by marton78 5y ago
White in this context follows the definition on the US census
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by marton78 5y ago
You might have come across the name Jesus.
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by marton78 5y ago
I'm in a similar situation. Living in Germany with a German wife, German neighbors, German speaking friends, my children are the only people I regularly speak Hungarian to. My 6yo daughter speaks well enough when she's around her
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by marton78 5y ago
No thread about the heat death of the universe in the internet has ever lacked this comment. And justly so. Absolutely stunning short story.
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by marton78 5y ago
Obligatory link to Isaac Asimov's wonderful short story "The Last Question" which explores this topic: https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf
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by marton78 5y ago
What do you mean physicians don't know about this. The existence of memory T-cells is common knowledge. It is taught in school.
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by marton78 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy
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by marton78 5y ago
I think they meant "you should practise your duress password".
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by marton78 5y ago
In which country are children filling up ICUs?
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by marton78 5y ago
I don't think that's the case. It's about time to say goodbye to the illusion that we're ever going to extinguish this fire. It's seems to me the COVID is about to be become endemic, this is the new normal. It'
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by marton78 5y ago
It's like UX but for developers...
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by marton78 5y ago
This has absolutely nothing to do with socialism.
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by marton78 5y ago
I'm not sure I can explain anything related to the FDA (I'm European) but maybe I can shed some light on the insight what people are worried about. These vaccines have been applied hundreds of million times in the past year, true.
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by marton78 5y ago
Poverty, drug use, poor life choices.
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by marton78 5y ago
In addition, the vaccines currently in use -- at least in the West -- are either mRNA or vector vaccines containing only parts of the virus (as far as I know only the spike protein from the virus's surface). I would expect them to resu
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by marton78 5y ago
Your claims would benefit from you substantiating them.
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by marton78 5y ago
Oh God, we have those in Berlin, too. They're almost exclusively used by British beer tourists.

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