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by nkoren 6y ago
Holocaust denial is inseparably bound up with being intolerant of the right for Jews (and Roma, and Homosexuals, and so forth.) to exist. If you are a holocaust denialist, then you are by definition absolutely intolerant, and I am perfectly
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by nkoren 6y ago
Roman artists used vanishing point perspective, which to medieval artists -- who had no grasp of perspective at all -- was pretty amazing. What the Romans didn't do was use vanishing points systematically -- they would have multiple co
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by nkoren 6y ago
An important piece of context for the renaissance, which is often lost in modern discussions, is that it was not a movement which was attempting to be "innovative" or conceptualised itself as such. Rather, it was fundamentally bac
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by nkoren 6y ago
This is a surprisingly well-documented phenomena: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/10/151003-anima...
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by nkoren 6y ago
Oh, I see, of course Wikipedia has the answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interfa... > Dobelle's first prototype was implanted into "Jerry", a man blinded in adulthood, in 19
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by nkoren 6y ago
I recall watching a film about an 8x8 matrix of electrodes being inserted in the gap between the two hemispheres, just above the occipital lobe, producing 64 pixels worth of vision. The recipient had what looked like a DIN socket in the sid
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by nkoren 6y ago
You still have to spin up the planet. An earth-like atomosphere would freeze solid on the dark side, and air from the light side would be rushing into the dark side, where it would freeze, until the light side was stripped of its atmosphere
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by nkoren 6y ago
That stood out to me as well. There's a real opportunity cost to not moving more deliberately: those few extra months represent several hundred thousand lives lost. Could a vaccine be worse than that? Of course if the answer is yes, th
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by nkoren 6y ago
For people who weren't there, I think it's difficult to appreciate the kind of efficiencies which were gained by QNX and BeOS. I first started running BeOS on my PowerPC Mac clone, back when those were a thing. There was a 1.44MB
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by nkoren 6y ago
It cuts both ways. You're not wrong, and yet atrocities frequently depend on people following orders, which is something that only an unreasonable person won't do. Basically, for good or ill, history pivots around the unreasonable
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by nkoren 6y ago
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people." -- George Bernard Shaw
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by nkoren 6y ago
Huh. 35+ years ago I enjoyed making animations like this, on my C-64 and a friend's Apple II, by writing very very long lists of POKEs and PEEKs. Funny to see thyis style coming back around again.
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by nkoren 6y ago
Do you honestly think that somebody trained in astronomy could mistake a bird for satellite? Have you seen how satellites move? They traverse the sky in a perfectly straight and constant-motion fashion that is utterly unlike any bird. Eve
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by nkoren 6y ago
A 3D artist I follow on Instagram has done similar things in CG, and I find them quite compelling. Admitedly the locations he sets them in are well-known to me, which probably amplifies the effect, but I think it's legitimately interes
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by nkoren 6y ago
This surely should give some credit to the venerable old Solar Cat Book: https://www.amazon.com/Solar-Cat-Book-Jim-Augustyn/dp/089815... (Which would evidently make me an alarming amount of money if I could find m
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by nkoren 6y ago
This really is a much better source -- thank you!
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Algebraic Number Starscapes(arxiv.org)
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I barely used ClarisWorks, but was very familiar with its BeOS-based successor, Gobe Productive. It was an incredible application; I used it as my primary office suite for years. It was just so well-integrated and thoughtfully designed; I
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by nkoren 6y ago
Good questions! I'm now living on a different continent, and haven't been able to follow Arcosanti's politics too closely, but my understanding is that the current leadership issues may in fact signal the end of the stagnatio
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by nkoren 6y ago
Guess I should offer: I lived at Arcosanti for 5 years, and knew Soleri well. AMA!
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Water isn't a problem there. They've got wells tapping into the Agua Fria river, which is half a mile away. Its subsurface flow makes it the third largest river in the state.
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Not his creepy traits per se, but certainly Paolo's ego impeded Arcosanti's development. Typical Founder's Syndrome: a general unwillingness to take on external ideas and relinquish control. When challenged, he would often te
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by nkoren 6y ago
The Falcon Heavy uses 27 engines and has a perfect track record ,so they've got some credibility here.
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Ah yes, those famous provinces of Russia, which but for the intervention of some meddling foreigners would have no language, culture, history, or national identity of their own.
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Or, for more recent and perhaps relevant examples: Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and the Donetsk Republic.
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by nkoren 6y ago
I'm defending a thesis I haven't thought about too much, but just to play devil's advocate, I'd say: 1.) Interesting about sedentary hunter-gatherers during the upper paleolithic -- I'd like to know more about that!
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by nkoren 6y ago
Heh, that's a good reaction. :-) Maybe I don't know the problem well enough, but the relatively simultaneous nature of domestication seems like less of a mystery to me. More recent domestications (eg. in the Americas) seem to indi
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by nkoren 6y ago
> but the state of public knowledge is so remedial that it's genuinely frustrating sometimes. This, I believe! Although it's probably a true statement for virtually any scientific profession. That said: I don't know the fi
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I'm going to do something deeply shameful, and link to a Daily Mail article on the subject. It's weirdly... pretty good. It has some of the better photographs that I've seen of the site, and an angle on the story which is per
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I'm assuming that they are pre-Filter, but not the first. From the moment they develop radio technology, they immediately start receiving signals from dozens of existing alien civilisations. This causes them to think "shit, we rea

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