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by nemo 6y ago
While this thing is being referred to as "mummified" the fossil itself is a result of gradual processes that replaced the original form of the corpse with minerals. It's not dried meat in there. The find was a few years ago,
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by nemo 6y ago
When you're looking at things this old the reality is any DNA found has a very good chance of being from bacteria & other organisms/contamination from the more recent than 100 million years ago past. Even if you come up with a
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by nemo 6y ago
The half-life of DNA is ~521 years at 13.1°C. This dino is more than 100 million years old. Scientists have been working very diligently to try to recover DNA from millions of years ago, but the reality is any DNA found has a very good chan
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by nemo 6y ago
>It is a much different scenario if an artifact is destroyed either intentionally or unintentionally. I'd forgotten to respond to this earlier but it's been bugging me, so I'd like to note that a significant amount stolen
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by nemo 6y ago
I don't think that we can judge whether that's an exception without going through a lot of data, esp. since different neighborhoods aren't likely to be at all consistent, esp with age and regional differences. I used to see a
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by nemo 6y ago
The question of whether a returned article would be destroyed is something to consider, though the notion that this would happen in Iraq and Syria assumes something like another US invasion which caused the destruction and looting in Iraq a
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by nemo 6y ago
I used to spend a lot of time in book/magazine/paper reading. Now I read off screens mostly. 34 years of my life spent reading would be time well spent regardless of the medium.
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by nemo 6y ago
>As it is abundantly clear to the posters before me and those who replied above, no one except you contended that the islamic golden age did not exiat. Happily since I was a philosophy undergrad, I am easily able to spot a straw man. The
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by nemo 6y ago
It's worth thinking through the question of whether Iraq or Syria would not be entitled to see stolen property returned due to destabilization. Right now the possessor of the stolen property is an American who also has trafficked in a
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by nemo 6y ago
Your understanding of the region is not an accurate account. Not at all. There have been various sophisticated civilizations in the region, among them various Islamic states. The rises and falls of various sophisticated civilizations came a
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by nemo 6y ago
>The Elgin marbles are safe in the British Museum. Would they have been safe, left where they were found, for 100 years? There's a safe, climate controlled, stable spot waiting for them in Athens now. They would not be left in the e
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by nemo 6y ago
There's a kernel of truth there. The limestone casing was destroyed by an earthquake in 1308. The rubble was repurposed for other building projects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza#Casing_s...
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by nemo 6y ago
>in Egypt, the Great Pyramid was once covered with gleaming white limestone, but this was removed and used to build mosques This is a very misleading distortion of history. The limestone casing on the Great Pyramid was destroyed in an ea
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by nemo 6y ago
>So if you have high standards instead of being content with mediocrity, you.. have a problem? The OP was questioning the assumption that the vast majority of workplaces are the kinds of toxic workplaces described by the article and some
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by nemo 6y ago
The errors the WHO has made have generally been corrected and so far as reliable authorities go on the pandemic there isn't a more reliable one, even if all are fallible. It's a better standard than nothing for stopping misinforma
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by nemo 7y ago
Radar's owned by IS&T. IS&T was completely broken under Jobs and hadn't changed much under Cook while I was there.
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by nemo 7y ago
IS&T is largely internal, but there are a number of IS&T owned external web apps for registration, surveys, and support related things. I worked in IS&T on teams developing them years ago.
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by nemo 7y ago
"Anti empirical" really should be enough.
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by nemo 7y ago
How does the LTV account for the labor involved in mining copper, silver, and gold being virtually identical but their values being quite different?
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by nemo 7y ago
"people who believe in marxism are ideologues and people who believe in the predominant ruling-class economic wisdom are simply wisely following expert advice" You are half right. People who are adherents to Marxism are certainly
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by nemo 7y ago
There's no doubt you believe that, and if you would like to salvage what you can with open eyes to the glaring and serious faults in Marx's work, that's fine, though for me it's like trying to save Creationism. Those wor
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by nemo 7y ago
ICE is not the Border Patrol. They are a separate agency that mostly operates far from the border. So far as I can tell the wish for the abolition of ICE is primarily tied a desire to eliminate an unrestrained, rogue, abusive policing org t
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by nemo 7y ago
He was a socialist, but anti-authoritarian, and a strong critic of all forms of Hegelianism including Marxism. He tried (with limited success) to formulate alternate concepts of socialism that weren't authoritarian and had a respect fo
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by nemo 7y ago
I think it'd worth reading that page again with an open mind. If you really read through that and thought that there are no fatal issues that's fine, I don't agree, though I doubt there's anything that anyone could say t
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by nemo 7y ago
Anyone interested in Marx should read Bertrand Russel's critiques of Marxism and his analysis of the Manifesto with an honest mind. The Hegelianism behind Marxism is a tool that can prove both that the Kingdom of Prussia in the 1760s w
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by nemo 7y ago
They are not mere kooks. They are an organized criminal enterprise. They've engaged in arson, kidnapping, extortion, attempted assassinations, money laundering, and other criminal acts. They are actively malicious and that's as re
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by nemo 7y ago
"Why does your goal of trying to limit their "manipulation" have more validity than their goal of limiting yours?" Because Scientology's views aren't held in good faith and claims about society should be assume
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by nemo 7y ago
Strangely, your articles largely agree with the summary of the article you're criticizing and don't really contradict it at all. "About 70-90% of all existing coral reefs are expected to disappear in the next 20 years due to
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by nemo 7y ago
Interesting. Still better than dirt, though.
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by nemo 7y ago
Mueller's indictments list a stream of evidence from leased VPNs in the US that the GRU was using with images from their servers made available to the Feds. You've been lied to. There's copious, rock solid evidence. The singl

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