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by nemo 3y ago
Stuffit was created in 1987 by Raymond Lau - compression was useful in the days of 800 KB / 1.44 MB floppies. AOL as a company with the name "AOL" started in 1991, and they started as Quantum Computer in 1989. Cell phones sta
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by nemo 3y ago
The purpose is to practice slowly with care to learn the moves thoroughly so that when it's time to perform them quickly you'll know the form and can flow quickly - the teacher was showing slow demonstrations. I've never foug
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by nemo 3y ago
My Tai Chi teacher (Yang Family) is also an Aikido teacher and he teaches Tai Chi as a martial art, interpreting the form in terms of blocks, grappling moves, joint locks, etc. He learned at least some of that from earlier Tai Chi teachers
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by nemo 3y ago
Pretty sure it was as much a part of planning the first episode as his later decision to have Anakin build C3PO. The early Star Wars scripts and materials are all over the map, there was no plan. This script just makes that all the more cle
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by nemo 3y ago
Anyone who's watched jumpers hunt a while can see they're really clever little spiders. Always love finding them outside, they're little muppet spiders.
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by nemo 3y ago
* yes, roughly the same Latin, and only in N. Africa & the Western European provinces, not the eastern provinces
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by nemo 3y ago
>why does it always have to be a religious object if an object doesn't have a clear and distinct purpose attached to it. Worth looking at how the Romans themselves thought. They were incredibly superstitious, overbearingly and obses
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by nemo 3y ago
In that case this isn't a tool, it's a decoration. And if none of them are worn, then the decoration isn't imitating a knitting tool, since some would show wear if that were its actual use.
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by nemo 3y ago
I don't think they would, geographic frequency actually does make the knitting tool idea more compelling, though none of the dodecahedra show any sign of wear from use which makes the knitting tool hypothesis sound unlikely - if the do
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by nemo 3y ago
No, that's not right at all. Those areas were all part of the Roman empire and thoroughly Romanized as well. They used generally identical Roman technologies in Britain as North Africa or Italy, spoke the same Latin, used the same buil
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by nemo 3y ago
Roman North Africa was thoroughly Romanized by the era these start showing up, and the eastern provinces were as well. The might be some cultural reason these show up where they do, seems likely, it's very, very dubious that this cultu
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by nemo 3y ago
They were very sought after, but it was very common for folks to put their money in a sealed ceramic pot to protect and hide it, either buried under the floor of their home somewhere or outside in some secret spot. There were regular wars,
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by nemo 3y ago
Why none in Roman North Africa or all the other provinces in the east which were also "the middle of nowhere" with the same needs of metal work as Gallia/Britain.
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by nemo 3y ago
Romans used oil lamps for lighting generally, they had dipped tallow candles but the only uses we've seen of them in the imperial era are ritual use at altars, and dip candle use was generally later than the period the dodecahedra come
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by nemo 3y ago
>Any metal we find after 2000 years is a miracle. That's not really true. There's regular finds of hoards of thousands of ancient coins that are in excellent condition, esp. Roman coins. You'll find there's an actuall
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by nemo 3y ago
One thing to keep in mind is the geographic distribution of these things. They're mostly found in the province of Gallia and Britain, and not in other regions. There'd be a lot of metalworkers in Rome and the surrounding cities in
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by nemo 3y ago
It has no bearing on this issue which will be identical for either Chrome of FF (or Safari, or others). Private browsing has nothing to do with server side tracking, so there's no "obvious" reason to respond by switching a br
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by nemo 3y ago
The US oil sanctions were in 1941. At that point war was inevitable, the sanctions were a response to Japan's military machine rolling across British Commonwealth territories in the Pacific. The US wasn't formally aligned but was
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by nemo 3y ago
> The US started the war with economic sanctions. Like Ukraine started a war with Russia by economic alignment with the western powers, or Poland starting a war with Germany in WW II for their offenses against German citizens. > This
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by nemo 3y ago
There were a number of gladiator schools that trained gladiators for combat, there's interesting ruins of Ludus Magnus, the largest of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludus_Magnus
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by nemo 3y ago
As a past manager (and getting ready to manage another team now), the last thing I'd want would be for anyone on my team to have to deal with being swamped by inane requests from another team and that's something I'd step in
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by nemo 3y ago
It's not "tattle to the boss", it's using a manager as a resource to help a team work together more effectively. That's part of what they're paid for. If it was one person, a 1::1 could make sense, but they&#x2
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by nemo 3y ago
Sure.
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by nemo 3y ago
>I can think of many other companies and rich owners who have done much worse things Me too. He's still a trash fire of a human being on a moral level. The businesses that he runs aren't anything that I see as valuable contribu
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by nemo 3y ago
Can you understand why some might feel resentment towards a wealthy billionaire capriciously abusing his wealth and power to be a glaring, overt mortal failure? If you look at the absolutely pathetic figure he cuts as a moral agent in the u
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by nemo 3y ago
>We admire the Victorian era bridge still in use but forget all the bridges that long ago collapsed, Engineers tend to put care into building bridges that don't collapse, and have been doing so for millenia so collapses can happen,
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by nemo 3y ago
I have read Euclid in Greek (and Proclus' commentaries on Euclid) and I'm a big fan of math history in general. My formal studies were tied in part to Greek mathematical history and axiomatization though more related to Plato &amp
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by nemo 3y ago
I did a Classics major and an MA, started on a PhD, and carried on studying since then for a few decades. I was a Hellenist in school, not a Latinist, and I share your admiration of the Greek's intellectual development, but your unders
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by nemo 3y ago
I would suggest that you try taking a more modern approach to history that focuses more on learning about the subject while trying to see things without biases. Your value judgments about the Romans and the Greeks are where things fall apar
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by nemo 3y ago
The funny thing here is that the idealization of the Greeks that you're up to here is directly inherited from the Romans who idealized the Classical and Hellenistic Greeks. But it's worth learning more about what the Greeks and Ro

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