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by ralfd 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Shereshevsky The wiki page is more interesting: > Shereshevsky also participated in experiments in which he showed that he had control over his body's involuntary (autonomi
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by ralfd 2y ago
It is noteworthy that Wikipedia gives as cost for the Artemis program a total sum of US$93+ billion (2012–2025). It is a bit difficult to compare, because NASA shuffles around cost, and the plan is that Artemis will do way more (moon base)
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by ralfd 2y ago
Population of US was also only 132 million in 1940. Today it is 333 million.
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by ralfd 2y ago
But would a new US-Tiktok not try to expand globally? Original-China-TikTok would then compete with US-Tiktok in Europe and elsewhere.
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by ralfd 3y ago
It is more complicated. Modern violins can be louder, and audience generally think loud=better, but this may not what the player prefers or what is wanted in an orchestra. There is also the issue of playing an instrument only an hour vs pla
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by ralfd 3y ago
What a trivial blog post. Aside, Apple going into services is incentivizing them making durable devices which are used long-term. Without services Apple may "not be happy" that you use a 9 year old Macbook. But with services they
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by ralfd 3y ago
Great, I am heterosexual too! But as an aquarius I would need your zodiac sign to know if I can truly relate to you.
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by ralfd 3y ago
She is still very proud about the photo. So if she changes her mind again, your principled opinion is to unban and use the image again?
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by ralfd 3y ago
And before that Forsén was a long time fine with it, but this didn’t stop the push to ban the image.
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by ralfd 3y ago
I mostly agree, but: > It's a shame rules have to be made to force behavior. „Have to“ is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the sentence. Is this rule really necessary (because Lena’s gaze is just to enticing and leading the whole fie
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by ralfd 3y ago
And decades before she was always fine/amused/proud with it being used. Probably she is just being tired being always asked about the issue. https://media.wired.com/photos/5c5354d391d0df22c1dee493/mast...
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by ralfd 3y ago
Link? Search can’t find it.
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by ralfd 3y ago
Because this is the government (or bureaucrats on a power trip) picking winners/losers? Law Prof from Madrid: https://twitter.com/laz_radic/status/1771152693291057439 > The DOJ complaint against Apple file
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by ralfd 3y ago
You would be surprised what the margin is in retail.
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by ralfd 3y ago
Corridor Crew SFX specialists watching/explaining the stunt: https://youtu.be/_lDM1nAmPHI?t=797 The bow is real, the back of the ship is CGI.
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by ralfd 3y ago
> If Aztecs were writing, why would they care to record these things? The oldest (known) Christian art from America is this featherwork from 1539 made by the nephew of Moctezuma: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect
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by ralfd 3y ago
Was it r/comics?
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by ralfd 3y ago
> Your brain is going through scenarios with no correcting input. But this is pretty interesting as your subconscious is bubbling up into your ego!
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by ralfd 3y ago
The higher the IQ, the higher the income: https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2023/02/there-is-no-iq-threshol...
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by ralfd 3y ago
They do agree with climate change, these radical leftists are just very very very very anti-capitalistic, and because of that big companies are evil and mining lithium is evil and cars are evil, and Tesla is uniquely evil and anti-union, an
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by ralfd 3y ago
So you are arguing that companies should avoid using open source?
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by ralfd 3y ago
The first iPhone had no App Store. All "third party" apps (Google Maps, Youtube) were made by Apple in partnership.
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by ralfd 3y ago
> they don't have to pay Google or Mozilla for delivering the service to their users. Spotify has a secret deal with Google: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23969690/google-spotify-...
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by ralfd 3y ago
> For whom was in tech during 90s and now in 2020s, what are the differences between Microsoft back then and Apple now in terms of why the regulators are so "soft" against an actor that is overplaying it's hand for consume
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by ralfd 3y ago
But you car does in fact limit how you do backups of it.
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by ralfd 3y ago
In the original series there is an episode where Klingons provide flintlock guns to a tribe on a stone age planet. Kirk wants to provide the other tribes with guns too and argues with McCoy about keeping the balance of power: https:/&
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by ralfd 3y ago
In the Reuters report of the ruling: "Shares of Tesla dropped about 2% in premarket trade"
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by ralfd 3y ago
Was all chatGPT affected? If one uses chatGPT for enterprise and build a product feature around it, is that version freezed or did it also return garbage?
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by ralfd 3y ago
Levine also explained that Delaware is such a popular place for companies because the law there is predictable and there is a (non-jury) fast track for company disputes. Losing $50 billion in a court case is not predictable. But moving to a
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by ralfd 3y ago
Eugenics are "merely" deeply political incorrect/blasphemic/unethical, but not a wrong crackpot theory per se. Obviously what works for plants and animals would work for humans too.

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