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The United States has technically been on the metric system since 1975. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act
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There's a quote that I sadly can't find the origin of but goes a little like: >Carlyle called economics the "dismal science". He was half-correct; it is indeed dismal.
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Still charging a king's ransom, too. Looking on Amazon right now, the i9-9900K (which reached 32.3 FPS) costs 422.59 USD, compared to R7 3700X (which reached 28.0 FPS), which costs 329.99 USD. That's a nearly 2:1 ratio for perform
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Prokudin-Gorskii's photograph of a simple railway bridge has always struck me the most of any early color photograph. The quality is such that it could have easily been taken today with a good camera. https://commons.wikimed
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>He was a smart guy, it's too bad he went apeshit and killed a bunch of people. He killed three people, one of which was arguably unintentional. Further, he has continued writing[1] and appears perfectly lucid, even into his 70&#x27
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You (and other repliers to you) may be interested in George Orwell's excellent essay "Politics and the English Language". >Our civilization is decadent and our language — so the argument runs — must inevitably share in the
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>Sadly kids nowadays (at least in Poland, where I live) don't like reading books and tend to skip even very important titles. I'm fairly confident this has been a staple throughout most of the world, and, if I had to wager, tim
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>By law, that ingenious bit of design—known as shape coding—still governs landing gear and wing flaps in every airplane today. And the underlying idea is all around you: It’s why the buttons on your videogame controller are differently s
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Some more for the heck of it: iPhone ringtone: https://vimeo.com/247872788 Chocobo theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d81qFaoe010 My Neighbor Totoro theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Not to sound too snarky, but I would suggest reading some more respected sources before saying "Reza Aslan" and "historical basis" in the same breath.
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NET as well: https://labs.bible.org/api_web_service
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True, but that raises the question as to what to do with the various footnotes other variant-related snags. It's just not particularly suited for something like an API for verses.
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I was speaking slightly out-of-hand, but it's the natural conclusion if you take the writings to have been authentically authored by Moses. Religious traditions place him in approximately the middle of the 2nd millenium BC, while secul
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The problem (which Shakespeare also has[1]) is that there are numerous versions of the texts in their original languages, with no particularly definitive or even consistent editions of the Old Testament in Hebrew or the New Testament in Gre
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Based on the story and icon of St. George. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_and_the_Dragon https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S.George_(Novgorod,_...
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If you liked this, be sure to check out the 2012 documentary 'Linotype: The Film', featuring Carl Schlesinger and footage from 'Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu'. One of my all-time favorite documentaries! https://linot
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by sb057 6y ago
A very important note a few paragraphs in to the National Geographic article: >The new findings don’t cast doubt on the 100,000 real Dead Sea Scroll fragments, most of which lie in the Shrine of the Book, part of the Israel Museum, Jerus
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Will the people who previously defended YouTube/Google's other censorship come out of the woodwork again? It's not as if it is no longer a private website able to moderate its content however it desires. Will they respond to
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Organizations are not people. It is very straightforward for an individual to change their ways from bad to good. We should have mutual empathy and forgiveness towards each other. Conversely, it is typically very difficult for organizations
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Intentional Community(en.wikipedia.org)
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Incidentally, Pokemon Red and Blue were disassembled years ago: https://github.com/pret/pokered
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Making $15,000 from simply disbursing $300,000 seems a bit steep.
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STFC19aaS (Sewage Testing for COVID-19 as a Service)
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Any system that continues to exist is necessarily self-perpetuating. Otherwise it wouldn't continue to exist. This is why there's been so many states that either existed for a flicker (innumerable Southeast Asian nations, nomadic
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28532190/why-does-window...
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"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China" - WHO https://twitter.com&
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The ME in MERS stands for Middle East, since outbreaks of it are always from camels. Such places are some of the hottest on the planet. MERS is another form of coronavirus. It is foolhardy to think spring and summer weather will save us.
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Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota said as much on JRE yesterday.[1] Obviously touching your face won't decrease your chances of catching coronavirus (or any other disease), but the reason this strain is wrecking so much
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>In fact, a Muslim was /is the referee to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre The Catholic Church has partial jurisdiction and would also be subject to any referee-ing.
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Actually, there was an (incredibly unauthorized) service held in 1919 during the Allied occupation of the city: https://greece.greekreporter.com/2019/09/26/the-brave-greek-...

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