menybuvico

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by menybuvico 6y ago
The irony in all this is that fertility tends to drop amongst people considered successful and (mostly) progressive, meaning that conservative unsuccessful people will out-breed them. One would think that the logical thing to do if you&#x27
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by menybuvico 6y ago
The Amiga-version was on 4 floppies, as most Amigas were equipped with drives for DD floppies (880k when formatted for the Amiga), while contemporary PC's had drives for HD floppies (1.44 MB formatted with FAT).
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by menybuvico 6y ago
> What are your thoughts on a state of permanent lockdown in order to eliminate the tens of thousands of worldwide deaths that occur every single year due to the common flu? Total lock-downs might not be necessary. From what I can tell,
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by menybuvico 6y ago
This. I've got plenty of devices capable of tuning into the (mostly dead) MW band, but only a single one capable of receiving LW broadcasts.
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by menybuvico 6y ago
No, that's likely to end up in the half we'll never be able to figure out. Unless the aliens are good at record-keeping and decide to tell us one day. :D
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by menybuvico 6y ago
This. I also noticed quite a bump up when I actively decided to try to not be a cynical asshole _all_ the time. Meditation, on the other hand, never did it for me. But hey, as long as it works. :)
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Global trade was a thing back then. It collapsed around 1200 BC, but before it did, there was a lot of knowledge (and probably cultural phenomena) spreading around amongst much of humanity. I doubt we'll ever know half of it.
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Self-propelled modular elements that are built separately, and then placed and connected to others.
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Fought is expressing it mildly; they're outright refusing unless you threaten them with court action.
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by menybuvico 6y ago
And yet, one of the largest risks is that our modern society simply assumes that none of those will ever happen. When I grew up in the 80's, society was built around the expectation that WW3 was pretty imminent, and while I'm quit
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Yes, and they were really handy too. As others mentioned, they were also buggy and never really caught on. I still have a bunch of floppy disks with briefcases in them. Alas, the feature has been removed from recent versions of Windows.
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by menybuvico 6y ago
As does encrypted data.
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by menybuvico 6y ago
I suspect any evidence short of multiple artifacts from multiple locations would be circumstantial at best, regardless if the traces are in the planet's geological record or in the genetic code of an ancestor of whatever the supposed a
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by menybuvico 6y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. It's definitely plausible that a prehistoric civilization would have left genetic traces of meddling with other species. Whether they'd have done it deliberately or not is more of a phil