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by nemo 2y ago
>Intelligence is also not skill, but the thing that makes you skillful in all cognitive tasks. Careful with that "all", even the most highly intelligent humans still have peaks and deficits in different domains.
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by nemo 2y ago
I haven't kept up, sounds dubious to me. You and Carrier are both far more invested in the conspiracy theory than the evidence, trying to discredit sources rather than actually read and understand them, more like a religious apologist
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by nemo 2y ago
The Testimonium Flavianum is clearly questionable, no one accepts it as genuine, though the question of whence it came is interesting and ultimately IMO slightly strengthens the historicist case, but since it's clearly not a reliable p
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by nemo 2y ago
This is not taken seriously by most historians because there is some very significant evidence you have to discount in Josephus. He was a Jewish general born right around when Jesus was crucified who worked with sources in Judaea to write h
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by nemo 2y ago
For the record, Carrier is a crank who you should have also many good reasons to doubt his word on topics in ancient history since he always works with an agenda, evidence for him is only useful when it fits. Contemporary historians don&#x2
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by nemo 2y ago
>It would be good to replicate it, just to put down some of the naysayers that quibble over a point or two saying it was staged or influenced. No, that is not why it would be good to attempt to replicate. Shutting people down isn'
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by nemo 2y ago
> what do you have to lose? Money. There are many unethical alternative medicine practitioners out there scamming with quack treatments.
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by nemo 2y ago
Many animals can do some form of counting of small numbers where there's no connection to language possible.
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by nemo 2y ago
It's been a while, but from what I recall with early Macs apps like mail clients and browsers would have their own proxy settings rather than any system-wide setting, so you'd set the proxy in Netscape (or whatever).
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by nemo 2y ago
Secrets in env variables are a highly attractive hacking target, they leak easily and can spill the keys to the kingdom.
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by nemo 2y ago
I'm in a suburb in Austin, I did chop out part of the lawn to plant a pollinator garden, but it's nothing really special. I made a project for my house, and I'm at 550 species total, 250 Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). T
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by nemo 2y ago
Nice! I've got a house iNat project with an ever expanding pollinator garden so I can pick up more species without having to travel. I'm at ~250 Lepidoptera.
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by nemo 2y ago
The overextension of Byzantine territory under Justinian led to later collapse, and in the end harmed the Romans and (along with the brutality of the Roman tax farmers) was one of the key steps that paved the way towards the Caliphate'
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by nemo 2y ago
You really don't need to make excuses for Justinian's incompetence, but if you want to, have at it.
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by nemo 2y ago
The Gothic Wars left Italy devastated and earned the long term enmity of people living on the peninsula who sometimes preferred the Germanic warlords to the bloodless sociopaths ruling out of Constantinople, opening a wedge that would conti
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by nemo 2y ago
Yes, the Romans never called themselves Byzantine and personally I prefer sticking with the term "later Roman," "Eastern Roman", etc. but if you're speaking English with other English speaking people in the US then
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by nemo 2y ago
>To begin at the beginning is tricky. Did the empire begin when the emperor Constantine moved his capital from Rome to Constantinople in 324? When the city was consecrated by both pagan and Christian priests in May 330? Or did it begin i
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by nemo 2y ago
Trying to language police the use of the word fascism to describe right-wing authoritarians is a waste of time and for me raises a bright red flag for the person doing the language policing. Instead of trying to get people to stop using a t
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by nemo 3y ago
Squirrels flash their tails for a lot or reasons, including trying to attract mates, as well as distract predators, but they also use their tails to communicate with each other. Tree squirrels typically can communicate with each other via a
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by nemo 3y ago
>So if you start paying the Andean villagers a lot of money for vicuna wool, all their neighbors will start raising vicunas, because who doesn't want to get rich raising sheep in the mountains? Vicuñas are dromedaries, they're
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by nemo 3y ago
Under U.S. copyright law, the person who creates a work is the copyright owner. So if a photographer takes a picture of an artwork, they own the rights to their image. Read more here: https://www.copyright.gov/engage/vi
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by nemo 3y ago
The aesthetics really matter with these coins, the Ancient Greek coins held to a fairly high standard of art and collectors often see the nicer Greek coins as ancient art objects are much as coins. The portrait of Athena and the stylization
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by nemo 3y ago
I'm a collector with a few fourrées and a few other ancient counterfeits, they often are a bit cheaper and so long as they're still decent to look at they've just got added interest to me. I've got other ancient forgerie
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by nemo 3y ago
It's worth noting that the reason the calends had slipped so badly is because it was Julius Caesar's job as pontifex maximus to handle the periodic updates to the calends that kept it in sync with the solar year. But he was too bu
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by nemo 3y ago
One of the Nazi slogans was "we think with our blood," and while Mussolini wrote ideological tracts when he was transitioning from being a young socialist, that ideology was immediately discarded once he took power. Right-wing aut
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by nemo 3y ago
Instead of making up your own strict, carefully selected, and historically inaccurate definition (no historic fascists ever cared about ideology as anything other than a pretext for their authoritarianism.) I'd recommend reading up o
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by nemo 3y ago
>Sorry but complaining about things like this and calling it fascism or end of the world or whatever looks like a joke Sorry but denying the reality of the current GOP's open efforts to subvert democracy while they speak openly of s
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by nemo 3y ago
The study's questionable, and at the very least not universally generalizable. My handwriting is so bad notes are pointless typically, and I avoid hand writing anything so far as possible since writing is painful as well as pointless.
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by nemo 3y ago
I'd suggest reading the article which quotes experts in the field explaining that the fossil record does not fit this model.
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by nemo 3y ago
This computational model doesn't match the fossil record which suggests the flaw is in the model, not the evidence.

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