mirimir

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by mirimir 8y ago
Yeah, I totally agree. I mean, 20-30 kyr of ~stability is amazing. And here we are, after maybe 10 kyr of technology, pushing atmospheric CO2 to arguably dire levels. And the anthropgenic extinction event. Not to mention those hypersonic gl
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by mirimir 8y ago
Were the Americas really that idyllic?
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by mirimir 8y ago
OK, so indigenous civilizations in the Americas go back at least 20-30 kyr before European invasion. And it seems that they had more or less reached equilibrium with their environment. Sure, they used fire to modify the environment. In the
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by mirimir 8y ago
I'm using Firefox 60 in this Debian VM, and that site is definitely serving WEBP, which I can't view (on anything).
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by mirimir 8y ago
Same here. If it's something I'm particularly interested in, I look for a cache, snapshot or whatever. Edit: Or just read HN comments.
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by mirimir 8y ago
> Replace "foo.txt" with a user supplied variable, let's call it "$F". It becomes cat $F | blah_blah... I mean cat "$F" | blah_blah, first trap, but everyone knows that. I think that you forgot to edit
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by mirimir 8y ago
See https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/02/20/emerging-risks-mel... I've tried to get the article by Jeff Colgan, but MIT Press won't let me. But I think that this is mainly toxic chemical waste. PC
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by mirimir 8y ago
They say that ~50% of a lethal dose of just about anything will get you high.
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by mirimir 8y ago
That's a freaky (sorry, but it fits) idea. I mean, it does seem that rabies increases the likelihood that its hosts will bite others. And respiratory viruses cause sneezing. So it's not impossible that selection pressure could dri
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by mirimir 8y ago
> It was quite fun to suggest that chem trails flat earth etc might be a anmerican corporate conspiracy to extract woulrd dominance. It's more likely a Russian plot to damage US scientific and technical capability. Why else would RT
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by mirimir 8y ago
You just have to accept that most people are not rational . They don't experience reality through a scientific (for lack of a better word) perspective. Most believe in some sort of magical deities or spirits or life force or whatever.
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by mirimir 8y ago
Something like that happened to me. I had several TB of data on a RAID10 array on an LSI MegaRAID controller. A nearby lightning strike took out the server. And the server manufacturer had gone out of business. I had backups of the data its
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by mirimir 8y ago
Yes, feedback. But also, shipping by barge uses lots less energy than shipping by rail, and far less than shipping by truck. So overall, it's probably positive feedback.
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by mirimir 8y ago
Thanks. And yes, Burroughs didn't bother much with attribution.
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by mirimir 8y ago
Matthew Stover is just about my favorite fantasy writer. He's arguably best known for the Star Wars prequel novels. But in his second novel, Jericho Dawn , his heroes go up against Yahweh, in defending the Canaanites against the Macca
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by mirimir 8y ago
What I get is that, at some point, Yahweh (perhaps aka El, consort of Asherah) got tired of believer support, and declared "trust me or burn". Maybe three thousand years ago, priests invoked aspects of Yahweh in the usual way. Bur
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by mirimir 8y ago
William S. Burroughs: "Hurry up, please. It's time." And OK, those weren't his last words. They were the last words in his last book, The Western Lands . Maybe they were more about being ready for death. His final journ
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by mirimir 8y ago
Not a downvoter, but I was surprised to see "indica" and "sativa". I mean, I know that they're species. But most marijuana that people encounter these days is hardly recognizable in those terms. I only know a little
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by mirimir 8y ago
Yeah, happens sometimes. Way back in the carefree days, we could spend days in bed. Smoking marijuana, eating, having sex, sleeping, having sex half asleep, reading to each other, maybe doing some cocaine, or even some shrooms or LSD, etc,
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by mirimir 8y ago
True. Basically, the brine is just sea water with some of the water removed. Based on the numbers in TFA, 2.5L of sea water becomes 1.0L of fresh water and 1.5L of brine. And so the brine is just 67% more salty than the sea water was. And i
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by mirimir 8y ago
Campbell: > Marijuana ... is not an aphrodisiac ... No, but it does improve sex.
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by mirimir 8y ago
That's very cool! Thanks.
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by mirimir 8y ago
Well, you can open code inspector, and delete whatever you don't like. You get to keep more design than just using reader mode. But it takes more time.
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by mirimir 8y ago
Well, the EU government isn't really "unelected". It's just indirectly elected. Before 1913, for example, US state legislatures elected their state's senators. As I understand it, the original goal was to insulate s
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by mirimir 8y ago
I was trying to be accommodating. But yes, "existing" would have been more accurate.
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by mirimir 8y ago
Yeah. My wife has a couple PBS "Downton Abbey" paper cups in the cabinet.
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by mirimir 8y ago
> Yes, I _know_ they're of no use, but it _might_ be (is my OCD thought process). Hey, I know that "wrapper" is intended to induce eye roll. But I do save some bags and packaging. For example, laminated packaging with an
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by mirimir 8y ago
Maybe so. But my wife would disagree ;) What did sound familiar was the sense of overwhelm. And the pattern of "don't touch my piles, because I know where everything is". Some years ago, when we were living in an ancient farm
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by mirimir 8y ago
I'm clearly a hoarder. As a child, I collected WWII stuff. Some, I found myself in battlefields. And some, I got through trade with other kids. And a lot of it got disassembled. Both out of curiosity, and for parts. So I had quite the
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by mirimir 8y ago
Re the Vietman War, of course opposition made perfect sense. It was a stupid, misguided adventure. It was driven by the "zero tolerance" standard for accepting communist development, even when in response to legitimate grievances.

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