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by nemo 4y ago
I agree that the weather is terrible, and as a person who likes birding and exploring outdoors it really sucks to live here for that, Cedar Fever is miserable. My main disagreement is that there's great Mexican food to be found if you
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by nemo 4y ago
Germany's GDP: 3.8 trillion USD Russia's GDP: 1.4 trillion USD they're not that close in size...
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by nemo 4y ago
Vatican II was a trivial change compared to vast numbers of other changes in the Church - the Church of the 3rd-7th c. and its hierarchy were dramatically different than the Church once they'd broken from Constantinople and Eastern Rom
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by nemo 4y ago
The post opens with a false dichotomy. In general my experience has been that we hired someone that management selected because they'd "done it" before (always in very different contexts), they ramped up to our project, and i
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by nemo 4y ago
He has to keep acting out to maintain the image of coolness to his followers and he appears to be hooked on the likes. It's a cycle that escalates which is why he's gone off the deep end at this point imo.
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by nemo 5y ago
Dark Castle (1986). An early Mac B&W game that showcased the system's audio capabilities. It has jumps with the "hup" sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCkbp4wurW0
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by nemo 5y ago
Symmetry appears in creatures that spawn out sperm into the sea and let it land where it may, and many other very simple life forms with non-sexual reproduction, or reproduction where attraction isn't a factor, as in most plants. I&#x2
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by nemo 5y ago
FWIW, the device is called an 'orrery'. When it was made in Syracuse, it wasn't a product of an industrial base, but was a project made by a certain sort of mathematician and scholar doing cutting edge engineering and applied
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by nemo 5y ago
Maybe a screech owl? https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Screech-Owl/soun... Barred owl calls also can be a bit squawky/jarring: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Barred_Owl&#x2
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by nemo 5y ago
I'd recommend taking a look at iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/home When you post observations, their AI does a great (though not perfect) job of identifying species. Works really well for birds, butterflies,
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by nemo 5y ago
While the joke's entertaining, there's an important related truth: birds are far more real than many things we imagine are real.
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by nemo 5y ago
I've started going to Corpus Christi more recently for the spring migration and have been amazed by it. While birding elsewhere I met older folks who used to visit Corpus or Houston every year for the migrations but have stopped going
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by nemo 5y ago
Draining aquifers and lower levels of rainfall in FL are definitely also contributing (as are things like the Turkey Point plant near Miami) but the moderate sea level increases in FL and parts of the Gulf coast are also having an effect on
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by nemo 5y ago
On the Florida and Texas coasts the groundwater is brackish, and with the increasing sea levels from AGW, that salinity is intruding further and further inland.
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by nemo 5y ago
Halon used to be the standard for data centers using gaseous fire extinguishers in the mainframe era. See: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/dinosaur-pen.html The op's a bit outdated, but not completely
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by nemo 5y ago
I meant a bit in a diminutive sense, since the trace exposure to phthalates and dioxins which you will be exposed to when unsheathing a record will have lasting effects on your liver. They won't be severe, but the liver has to work ext
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by nemo 5y ago
You're not going to die or feel any ill effects from a brief exposure to the phthalates and dioxins released by vinyl, but those phthalates and dioxins both hit the liver very hard while dioxins are carcinogens even in trace amounts. I
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by nemo 5y ago
Wise to not have any of the stuff anywhere. The off-gassing from records is nearly instantaneous and reaches measurable levels where it's dangerous within minutes - having the extra surface area for off-gassing from the grooves makes i
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by nemo 5y ago
I'd recommend you read up a more about vinyl - you really aren't treating a very dangerous material seriously enough. PVCs are highly toxic, and at this point there are many regulations to ban their use in plumbing, consumer goods
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by nemo 5y ago
Whatever discipline you're working in, you could invite uninformed strangers to educate you about your job and your field for a while and see how that goes. Experts benefit from their expertise which include being taken seriously when
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by nemo 5y ago
Einstein exists - he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and was a part of the institutional science of his day which was very much driven by showing expertise to gain attention from the established figures or start a ca
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by nemo 5y ago
It's not just individual scientists (who certainly aren't going to seriously entertain every crank they encounter - that would be insane), but institutions that hire based on expertise, consider which papers to print based on expe
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by nemo 5y ago
The paper was written by people with no training in the methodology, the result was that their methodology was very sloppy, and at this point scientists working in geology, archaeology, and related fields have shown that virtually every cla
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by nemo 5y ago
In the real world scientists do look at claims by others, consider if those people are actually domain-specific experts in the area they are making claims in, and judge accordingly every day. You're thinking about some imaginary ideal
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by nemo 5y ago
Science is driven by methodology, but requires participants to be trained in that methodology to participate meaningfully. The criticism of these folks was that they were never trained in that methodology, which the continuing criticisms of
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by nemo 5y ago
Broslough has many criticisms in his threads that go well beyond mere ad-hominems and I don't think there's a real ad hominem in anything he wrote. Pointing out that a researcher has no scientific training and is working out of a
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by nemo 5y ago
>all we know about ancient times is what ancient authors have written Contemporary approaches to ancient history do not rely exclusively on literary sources, but build a much fuller picture from epigraphy (inscriptions and graffiti can t
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by nemo 5y ago
The Church did hold the consensus opinion, and accepted the minority opinion, Copernicanism, as a hypothesis. At that time, the epicycic systems made better predictions than Heliocentrism with round orbits. Kepler's later elliptical mo
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by nemo 5y ago
>To my knowledge, one person and one experiment (usually, except where the product is purely mathematical) is enough to propose a new theory (but also to refute an existing one). To my knowledge theories proposed that way in modern scien
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by nemo 5y ago
Google/FAANG have no real point of control anywhere in the process of how the sciences operate. Scientists publish in journals, while social media, search, et al. are handy but not something that guides their research or their consensu

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