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by pictureofabear 3y ago
Yes, this is what every supersonic intake does. The leading edge of the intake for supersonic flows is meant to create an oblique shockwave that reflects off the other parts of the intake to progressively slow the flow to subsonic speeds be
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
Life's about "experiences" not owning property!
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
I've had my 65" LED Samsung smart TV for almost 10 years now... it cost about $800 back then. I thought about replacing it recently, but decided against it because it's working great and I don't feel like I'd be gai
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
This seems like it might upend Descartes' "cogito, ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am") in that the process for forming thoughts in a language is not indicative that we exist, rather it merely indicates that we have
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
Haha--that one caught my attention as well. His litigation is so audacious as to begin setting precedent. This is how our system should work though; through contention it strengthens itself.
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0Y1uAA-2Y A good lecture by John L. Gustafson on beyond floating points?
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
"On early Earth, the reaction could have taken place in small pools or lakes of water, the authors said. Large oceans, though, would have probably diluted the concentration of the chemicals." This has interesting implications for
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
Nice try ISIS.
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
I didn't get that same feeling from reading the two articles, but Turchin's article on Elite Overproduction is relatively new and the idea is only as old as 10 years. It's a theory that's very convenient for explaining t
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
That was a great blog. Thanks for sharing!
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
I feel like the word "sir" has also been gradually sliding into informality as well.
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
Cousin marriages are still fairly common throughout the developing world.
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
In a non-dysfunctional family. All of my cousins are bums! My wife's cousins are awesome though, and so are my brother-in-law's.
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
Are you Australian? After "beaut" your whole comment flipped to an Aussie accent.
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
If you need a refresher on diff eq... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly4S0oi3Yz8
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
I also struggled to find an interesting new thought in the article. It was a bit nihilistic to just say that there is no dividing line and leave it at that. Great... there is no clear-cut line, so what? Categorization is a tool for scientis
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
hmmm.. I think we're both right here. I lived in a Japan for several years and saw a similar thing that you're pointing out, but I don't think the obsession with perfectionism is a myth.
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
I've had pretty good success with my Nissan, but it has some problems. Sunroof leaks are notoriously bad on Nissans. My Honda... no problems at 250K miles.
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
Yes... a lot of people (Americans I guess since I'm American and that's where my anecdotal evidence comes from) think the Japanese are very efficient. They might be in somethings, but their true love is perfection. They love doing
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
Whole Earth Catalog was pretty expensive. $5 in 1968 is $45 today!
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
I think humans are easily influenced by programs that autocorrect/autocomplete grammar and spelling. I notice a huge stylistic difference in articles written today compared to twenty years ago. There seemed to be much more variety and
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
In the cult of BoredApe, you are not allowed to disparage BoredApe.
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
It's in the figure labeled "'How Did the NPOV Rule Change' (figure 2 from the paper)". If you're searching text or reading text only, I guess you wouldn't see it.
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
TLDR; Wikipedia's definition of "Neutral Point of View" evolved from "Providing different, attributable points of view, diverse sources, and prohibition of pejorative labels" to "statements of fact, sourcing h
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
Yeah, I'm not saying emoji came from emoticon. I'm saying some people called them emoticons, and others called them emojis. At some point, we there was a debate about it on the internet (when the internet was much smaller), and th
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
Yes, those are quite flammable too.
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
You can also turn it into a bomb. That would be neat.
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
eh.. there wasn't much of a punchline. Just a lot of humble bragging.
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
Can you explain this idea a little further? Or do you know of some further reading on this topic?
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by pictureofabear 3y ago
They were the same thing at one time. "Emoticons" came first.[1] When someone replaced :-) with a smiley picture, there was a debate about whether they should be called emoticons or emojis. Emoji won out. 1. https://www

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