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by nonbel 7y ago
I don't know the original term used, but in greek the same word translates to "several" and "some": https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=el&t... So could have been &q
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by nonbel 7y ago
> "I think the claim that the pots were reproductions, dumped in the bay to age, to be a lot more likely." That guy said there were only 16 of them, the archeologist said he found hundreds.
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by nonbel 7y ago
It says navigable rivers. Most islands don't have that.
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by nonbel 7y ago
Those have navigable rivers?
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by nonbel 7y ago
According to Aristotle the Carthagineans had a secret island they treated as a military secret. It fits a description of the Americas: > "In the sea outside the Pillars of Hercules they say that an island was discovered by the Carth
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Underwater Exploring Is Banned in Brazil (1985)(nytimes.com)
122 points by nonbel 7y ago|100 comments
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by nonbel 7y ago
That is between them and their "customers", I guess. Bitfinex has been shady for a long time and tether from its beginning. So, good luck to them. But that is nothing new.
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by nonbel 7y ago
No. They claim the money was seized from a "partner" (Crypto Capital) by various governments (~$400 million to Poland, etc), and they are trying to get it back.
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by nonbel 7y ago
> "The New York Attorney General’s court filings were written in bad faith and are riddled with false assertions, including as to a purported $850 million “loss” at Crypto Capital. On the contrary, we have been informed that these C
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by nonbel 7y ago
>"As am I. But the carnage in cryptocurrencies is a reminder that the status quo beats anarchy or random stabs in the dark." The situation with bad cryptocurrency exchanges failing does not remind me of that at all. It is far s
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1965 scientist claims the moon is plasma, landing on it won’t be possible(youtube.com)
1 points by nonbel 7y ago|2 comments
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by nonbel 7y ago
The FDIC and other schemes to intervene in the case of bad banks allows banks to get so huge they can't be allowed to fail. Then everyone needs to pay for the idiots who put their money into bad banks. In fact, it becomes smart to put
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by nonbel 7y ago
Nah, looks like it was governments confiscating the funds rather than a ponzi: https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/cryptocapital-co-may-be-cry...
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by nonbel 7y ago
> "Cryptos took the Wild West approach due to... something... and somehow think that the scams that people have used in the past with banks will not be used again with crypto." The point is that people who make bad decisions wi
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by nonbel 7y ago
The FDIC is more a feel-good measure: >"Currently, the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF), which is a fund set aside to cover the insurance obligations of the FDIC, has a required reserve ratio of only 1.35%. And that is only after a deci
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by nonbel 7y ago
Looks like the last shakeout, not a big deal to anyone who didn't trust tether to begin with: >"OAG does not seek lo enjoin or interfere with the orderly operation of Bitfinex or Tether' s legitimate businesses. if any. in
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by nonbel 7y ago
> "Accord ing to documents prov ided to OAG by Respondents, and based on statements made by counse l fo r Respondents to OAG attorneys. an individual at Crypto Capi tal told the senior Bitfinex executive the reason that funds total
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by nonbel 7y ago
> "That is already useful information about the hypothesis being tested" The important part is to choose the correct hypothesis to test. However, there is no requirement to use the effect size to test any hypothesis, although e
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by nonbel 7y ago
Very interesting, I hadn't heard of this issue. Others have reported issues with archaeological and historical evidence from this same period, proposing that up to 700 years of mainstream chronology shouldn't be there: https:&#x2
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by nonbel 7y ago
I actually thought this on my own after watching some history channel series about the first millennium AD, roman empire, whatever. I was struck at the similarity of some events that were supposedly separated by hundreds of years, almost as
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by nonbel 8y ago
The supplements have vastly improved the situation. There is no denying that.
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by nonbel 8y ago
That isn't what is going on. The stuff that gets published in the "tabloids" (Nature, Science, PNAS, etc) is sloppier.
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by nonbel 8y ago
Yes, at ~6:53 in the video she shows how they are selecting images to include that look like a black hole. If you plug in enough noisy images you will eventually get a few that look like a bright donut.
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "What do these kinds of images and plots tell us of any value?" It tells you "p38γ is essential for cell cycle progression and liver tumorigenesis". You have to be blind not to see that.
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by nonbel 8y ago
Why do you make an exception for biology?
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by nonbel 8y ago
In my experience quality vs prestige is a U-curve. At one extreme you have the really crappy journals that publish nonsense, at the other the really "prestigious" journals that are more like tabloids reporting exciting sounding co
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Reliable novelty: New should not trump true(journals.plos.org)
114 points by nonbel 8y ago|38 comments
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by nonbel 8y ago
Any idea how bright it might be? Eg, could it be as bright as the sun? The moon?
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by nonbel 8y ago
Makes sense. So I guess they could probably tell us an upper bound on how bright it is.
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by nonbel 8y ago
From reddit: >"Hi, regarding the image itself: What I don't understand is why does it look like a donut and not a bright sphere? Assuming the black hole is actually spherical and not disc shaped, I would expect the Halo to be s

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