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by nsns 11y ago
This illusion of efficacy, with often detrimental results, is nothing new[0]; a fatal naivety which ignores human agency. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Tribes_Act
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by nsns 11y ago
Ah, rationalization, the anesthetic for morality.
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by nsns 11y ago
Well, terrorism is really not about the number of deaths, it is more about the (frightening) spectacle, about instilling terror , this could, but doesn't have to, involve a large number of deaths. Its whole point is that it weakens th
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Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Company, to Launch from Florida(nytimes.com)
1 points by nsns 11y ago|1 comments
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Snakebite treatment 'will run out next year'(theguardian.com)
3 points by nsns 11y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 11y ago
The entire western world was pretty racist before (and during) the war, the war (or its aftermath actually) changed that. The article (naively?) applies newer sensibilities to a previous era. My favorite anecdote: who refused to shake Jesse
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by nsns 11y ago
Well, I guess with a bit of anachronism and hindsight anything could be made to look sensational and exciting.
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by nsns 11y ago
But wouldn't this quote only be true if said drill self-destructed after a single use?
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by nsns 11y ago
You mean like this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarne%E2%80%93Thompson_classif... ?
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by nsns 11y ago
The last paragraph says: Small cautioned that the carbon dating was only done on the parchment in the fragments, and not the actual ink, but added "If the dates apply to the parchment and the ink, and the dates acro
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by nsns 11y ago
According to Darwin's theory, don't organisms evolve simply in order to adapt (by natural selection) to their environment? Where did this belief in growing complexity come from? (Could it be perhaps just a crude reflection of the
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How China's economic slowdown could weigh on the rest of the world(theguardian.com)
2 points by nsns 11y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 11y ago
Escape by swimming caught on camera - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7CWajaOx4E
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by nsns 11y ago
I would say these so-called "ethical questions" are always a red herring (not because they're unimportant, but rather because we don't have a reliable authority to handle them); the real problems that should really be ex
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by nsns 11y ago
But don't all essential components of nature seem random/unexplainable from our point of view? While we can codify their behavior and interrelations via some theory, it never actually explains why they are so and there in th
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by nsns 11y ago
"...and there is only so much space out there" How so?
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Digital Bodleian Library(digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk)
52 points by nsns 11y ago|2 comments
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Plugging Leaks: Merkel's War on Germany's Press and Parliament(spiegel.de)
4 points by nsns 11y ago|1 comments
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by nsns 11y ago
Well, if he's "Google's", he's a sell out, by definition.
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by nsns 11y ago
It's a whole genre actually.* * http://cup.columbia.edu/book/extreme-poetry/9780231151603
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by nsns 11y ago
But if these cars can be "commandeered", they (i.e. my movements) could also easily be tracked by the companies themselves (with the information then sold to "trusted partners"). For some reason, that frightens me more.
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by nsns 11y ago
Let me tell you about my mother
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by nsns 11y ago
I think many important entries get to the first page not because people upvote them on the "new" page, but because people keep on re-submitting them, where resubmition actually functions as an (unintended) upvote. That said, it se
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by nsns 11y ago
I remember when I visited Delhi and found out that Bookworm in CP has closed, I was devastated. But of course, you can always travel to Daryaganj, where the supply of books seems endless, if not too friendly to normal customers
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by nsns 11y ago
What's more, opting out essentially marks you as more interesting to spy on.
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by nsns 11y ago
Absolutely. Or take for example my friend, who's a literary translator - she sometimes has to research online the most outlandish and obscure subjects, which have no bearing on her own interests...
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by nsns 11y ago
How exactly did we reach a stage when this is acceptable behavior for respectable company? Such shady practices should have never become mainstream.
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by nsns 11y ago
...and limited to 512 shortcuts. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/29/windows_10_bug_alert...
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by nsns 11y ago
But is it only BER? As mentioned int the article - what about Stuttgart 21 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_21 ) etc.? It is possible that these sites exist as new financial "loopholes", transferring t
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Neo-Nazies Publish All German Refugee Housing Units on Google Maps(in German)(berliner-zeitung.de)
5 points by nsns 11y ago|7 comments

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