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by pitspotter 6y ago
These days if I feel any sort of respiratory illness coming on I head straight to bed and get my head under the covers. The secret is to create a 'cave' or pocket of air by using a pole or prop to hold the duvet or comforter up li
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by pitspotter 6y ago
I know, right? The thought is that people wouldn't downvote ideas that they dislike as much as they regrettably do now. Yet at least some of them would gladly downvote a poster who behaves badly, e.g. is deliberately disruptive.
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by pitspotter 6y ago
Good point. So it can also 'get away with' having tiny retinas, since there's less information available to resolve.
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by pitspotter 6y ago
Yes, and I was thinking about its eyes. The human eyeball has diameter roughly equal to the entire length of this lizard, making its volume 10,000X larger than the lizard's eyeball. OTOH, with a pupil that small, visual depth of field
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by pitspotter 6y ago
My view right from the start of the internet has been to make quarrelling exact a cost, just as it does in real life. Thus downvoting should cost equal karma...
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by pitspotter 6y ago
I'm not sure it's possible to educate such people. Newton's breakthroughs came during a temporary excursion from university. Einstein was considered a failure who would not do as he was told. Darwin dropped out of medical sch
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by pitspotter 6y ago
>The construction of Academia was predicated on providing a downside hedge or safety net for researchers. Where they can pursue ambitious ideas where the likelihood of success if secondary to the boldness of the vision Is there a citat
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by pitspotter 6y ago
It's taken me a long time to figure out that classics are actually fun; they're the good stuff that persisted beyond the faddish pretensions of their times, and helps me to see put some of the nonsense of my own time in perspect
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by pitspotter 6y ago
I frequently get mails from banks and other service providers with subject lines like 'changes to our agreement'. I don't read those either. Mind you, it might be fun to send a few unilateral changes back their way, detailed