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by monkeydreams 3y ago
Australian giant earthworms are larger than this by far.
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
This is why I shrugged when I misread this as "30cm worm fossil... found in Gippsland". I do love me the Karmais. It was a rare joy to see that their range had spread again a few years ago as they were (and still are) very close t
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> The vagueness is seen as a feature, not a bug. The kid is supposed to read between the lines and find out what the problems are really about. Pity the poor child who is capable of thinking both inductively and reductively. Such lax tes
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> I have always had trouble reconciling the "tidal stresses rip everything apart" with the idea that "everything hits the center in finite time, thus infinite density and singularity". From whose perspective? Two astr
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December in Melbourne (and most of Australia) is a wind-down month. Over the week between Christmas and New Years many jobs essentially stop as we have three public holidays (which will always fall on week-days) across six days and people t
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
> which implies our assumptions about distance of things in the universe are wrong. There are two easy interpretations. One of these is imagining a new entity; aliens. The other is to imagine that humans are, essentially, human and falli
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> If aliens don’t exist, why are defense contractors trying so hard to shut down a bill that simply says “show us what you know about aliens”? Convince me that you have told me everything that you know about aliens. If not, i will force
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
All stories have a moral. That is why humans love them so much.
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I was with you 100% until this point: > it's a full on ecosystem that experiences impacts from laying large farms on top of it. You think that the Saudi government, with the extremist clerics holding a knife to their throats, their
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
My point was rather that the person with $600k of shares has more options than a person with $600k of housing wealth.
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> You get to keep the money when you move to a less expensive area. Or you retire and downsize. I live in a satellite township to one of the poorest suburbs in Melbourne, Australia. My house is tiny, too small for the four of us, and has
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
Wealth is only useful if it increases the net options of the wealth holder. In the case of housing wealth - if base level housing is expensive - then owning a home is less of a measure of wealth than it is a balwark against the cost of rent
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Oh, they will try ( I'm looking at you, Dell), but you can quite easily stick by your guns and refuse to accept anything other than product delivery. If they have taken your money they have to provide the goods or an appropriate replac
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
Understanding why it took medical experts so long to realise that masks were important is a saga in its own right. It's not a case of hypocrisy as such, as the fact it went against the core belief of clinicians about what separates a s
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
> I’d like to see Democrats ask their wealthy donors to give that up. What about Republican's wealthy donors, or Green's wealthy donors? Or are you suggesting this is just a problem with the others?
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My daughter suffers from functional seizures due to FND and we do something similar with counting. When she is suffering from a complex motor tic we will ask her to count at a "comfortable speed" - which is always 100+ counts per
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
> It’s every bit as strange as it sounds. Nope. Much, much stranger.
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My team have a very wide and complex domain of work; essentially we cover all of the domain of public health administration - patient management through to billing through to regulatory reporting, etc, etc. My team can be presenting formal
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I have 10 direct reports across 2 teams, with responsibility for a number of actual deliverable work pieces external to these staff. 10 direct reports is about half a week's work at a bare minimum without development, process improveme
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> Godot is much less featured but extremely easy to learn imo. Also, for 2D, it is sooooo much easier to implement. No messing around with orthographical cameras, no tilemaps appearing with random lines, colours, etc. And 2D performance
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
Yes. It doesn't have the asset store quantity behind it yet however the actual development side of things is quick and relatively simple.
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Which is what public officials do because perfect is the enemy of good, but better is still better. Ideally he probably wanted 100% compliance. And if he could get 70% rather than 60%, so much the better.
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> However this is one of the many reasons why there are housing shortages in many areas. Yes, wealth inequality and land development practices are reasons why housing is in such short supply.
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> 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago (get 2 whole mins for this one) Three, if you misinterpret it as I did.. 3:35 3:34 3:54
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I suspect that the point of this technology is to experience false positives, thereby sowing further discord and distrust. They will find signals everywhere, if they are even indeed interested in bothering to filter for them, and will claim
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> If you want to have a maximum effect on the design of a new engineering system, learn to draw. Engineers always wind up designing the vehicle to look like the initial artist's concept. This is a key truth that works in a number of
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Agreed. This is further warming, and we have made it worse.
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> Whatever country you live in could so something in the future they don't like When Australia invades a close neighbour and commits war-crimes against the civilian population, I will happily accept the closing of my Namecheap accou
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One of the biggest frustrations I had with Twitter is those periodic decisions to swap my feed back to algorithmic. I would always find myself staring at a tweet I had seen before but which was hugely popular, or at something from some cele
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by monkeydreams 3y ago
What function do critics serve? A critical analysis of a book or movie is entirely unlinked to whether or not the piece is enjoyed by its audience. Why should the audience care what a critic says if they enjoyed a film? Indeed, should they

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