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by mchahn 11y ago
Discerning fake video from real just got a lot harder. Video is one of the last bastions of honest evidence.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> The highest age was about the same That's not what I took away from the article, but I could be wrong. That wouldn't be anything interesting to discuss or write about.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> primitive cultures live[d] as long as we do BTW, an extremely minor point: I intentionally used present-tense because primitive cultures still exist.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> This means that life expectancy was short. Surely you know what I meant. If you made it to middle-age you lived just as long.
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by mchahn 11y ago
And he never got a penny for the theft, just a lifetime of enjoying the violin. I'm not excusing him, just commenting.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> You can easily extend your time whenever you want The city will lose a lot of money with this. The amount taken in meters is a small fraction of what they make with tickets.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> the initial converts to agriculture were less healthy and happy Land ownership and class separation didn't start until agriculture.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Or was your comment meant to be snark that I didn't get? Nope, just reporting what I read. It was on the interwebs ...
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by mchahn 11y ago
FWIW, this article [0] says that short life expectancy is a myth, and that primitive cultures live as long as we do. However, you are definitely right about infant mortality. Kids were 30 to 100 times more likely to die. 0) https:/&#
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by mchahn 11y ago
I have quit using toothpaste. I researched what it was for and it was reported to have grit to polish the teeth, mouthwash action, and fluoride. I don't need fluoride and I don't want to grind my teeth down. I also haven't h
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by mchahn 11y ago
I don't know if this makes sense, but I read recently that contrary to many people's images, hunter-gatherers actually had much better lives than we do now. Less work-stress, more family-time, etc.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> If a surgeon amputates the wrong limb, is he just doing his job? No, I would consider that outside of his job description (grin). I didn't say it, but I meant that if he was following standard modern procedure it was excusable. P.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I'm sorry if I get too personal, but years later I found out I have prostate cancer (so slow I will die of old age first). I have wondered if that procedure caused it. I'll never know and it doesn't matter.
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by mchahn 11y ago
7,917.5 miles?
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by mchahn 11y ago
Yes, the covering up is bad, but I would never sue a professional doing his job. Once I had an enhanced contrast MRI for my kidneys. To enhance it they injected a ton of iodine into my blood. They warned me that my prostrate would get hot (
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by mchahn 11y ago
It is strange to work in a field where everything produced is lower quality than desired. My wife is continually amazed that I continue to beat my head against the metaphorical keyboard. I have said that I have always hated computers even
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by mchahn 11y ago
> are consigned to a numb jaw or lip or tongue for the rest of their lives. My wife suffered from this, but the nerve grew back in about a year. When the novacaine went away she was very nervous about this and called the dentist. The de
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by mchahn 11y ago
I didn't brush my teeth until I was 25 and I had no particular problems before or after. Well, I had one problem. My new wife demanded I brush my disgusting teeth.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> even if the zero itself doesn't correspond to anything physical. Good point. Zero stones don't physically exist. That is why it took so long for cultures to include zero as a number. I read an entire book about zero (and o
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by mchahn 11y ago
Hmm. One could define DC to be a wave with zero frequency and most equations would work correctly. You often define a value at a singularity as a fixed value because that fixed value is approached as you get closer and closer. I personally
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by mchahn 11y ago
I don't know about performance but the windows ecosystem sure is buggy inside, or at least stdout says so. One time I needed to work on a driver and I enabled kernel debugging. My console immediately started spitting out a steady str
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by mchahn 11y ago
I use set -e or not based on the needs of the script. Many times I want the script to continue and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I don't set until partway down the script so the top isn't strict. I wouldn't want to set
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by mchahn 11y ago
> I imagined a real steeple, but not a specific one that I have seen before. I think that is the meaning of abstract for this question.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> What would an abstract non-existing steeple look like? I think this answer places you squarely in the non-abstract group. Not that it means anything.
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by mchahn 11y ago
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=autism+abstract+thinkin...
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by mchahn 11y ago
> everyone is technically on the spectrum. Most spectrums start at zero.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Do you have any sources Just the author of the book. She didn't claim it was scientifically studied. Neither did I. Edit: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=autism+abstract+thinkin...
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by mchahn 11y ago
Do you have abstract hands or real ones? Edit: more seriously though, hands are real things you've seen
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by mchahn 11y ago
I have no idea. One would think the opposite, that programmers think in abstract concepts. I heard an interview with her on public radio (it was called in since she couldn't appear in person) and she seemed very intelligent and belie
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by mchahn 11y ago
A functionally autistic woman, Temple Grandin, wrote a fascinating book on autism. She offered a simple test for autism. Think of a church steeple (stop and do that). If you thought of a real steeple you had actually seen then you probably

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