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by simiones 3mo ago
> (False that life dies in minutes in space; plus the engineers can invest in even greater error correction than radiodurans.) What form of life can actually survive (that is, continue living, not just go into some dormant state from whi
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by simiones 3mo ago
Not in rocky bodies, except maybe for Oxygen (which is commonly found in the form of oxides, very rarely as a gas). Carbon and Nitrogen and Hydrogen and similar elements are mostly found in gas clouds and star that are not really conducive
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by simiones 3mo ago
> A lot of computational power can be thrown at the problem in this time. We know plenty of actually very simple problems that we would not be able to solve from now till the Sun explodes even if we all of the computers on earth were onl
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by simiones 3mo ago
I hate this assumption that many sci-fi enthusiasts seem to make, that as long as something is not ruled out by currently known physics rules, it doesn't matter that we have no idea how it could be built, there will be some way in some
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by simiones 3mo ago
The thing is, while the universe is full of metals, it's not that full of the materials needed to sustain life (as we know it, at least). You can find metals and other inorganic compounds on virtually every asteroid, moon, and planet,
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by simiones 3mo ago
Per the article, the NTHE "movement" are doom sayers , not doom pushers . That is, the NTHE people are people who predict that humanity and most complex life on Earth will be killed off by global warming by 2030 (used to be 2026
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by simiones 3mo ago
If I need to take notes by hand, I definitely prefer cursive writing (though I have my own variations & preferences, for example I write almost all capital letters in the print versions). I never saw a reason to learn to draw a more typ
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by simiones 3mo ago
Of course there are, even among the canonical gospels. The length of Jesus' ministry is uncertain (1 year in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, but 3 years in the later John). What Mary and Joseph did after his birth also conflicts among the gos
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by simiones 3mo ago
> For our thought experiment, let us suppose that science observes God doing something at step 1 (systematic observation). Now, what is science going to do with it? It's going to throw it out at step 2 (search for a regularity), bec
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by simiones 3mo ago
Not really. Sure, sometimes long established archaeological conclusions get overturned by new digs, new sources, or just new methods or new evidence of similar events in other places and so on. But one very important thing to add here is th
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by simiones 3mo ago
> How could it be otherwise? If there were reproducible evidence, then the phenomenon in question would be classified as natural. Imagine that we found, today, the burning bush, still on fire but not consumed by it, thousands of years
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by simiones 3mo ago
Both "immigrated to" and "emigrated to" are correct, and mean the same thing; they just emphasize, slightly, different things.
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by simiones 3mo ago
You wrote: > One can easily see the events leading to the Exodus being enabled by (or causing, depending on who you ask!) the weakening of Egypt I think that if I'm right that the events of Exodus simply never happened that would qu
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by simiones 3mo ago
Elijah (who, unlike Moses, is probably a real historical figure) lived long after the events depicted in Exodus. And Exodus ends with the all of the Israelites faithfully following Yahweh's commandments, after narrowly avoiding death f
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by simiones 3mo ago
Thanks! I found it quite interesting the first time I read about the current scholarly consensus around this, as I had before only ever heard of the mainstream religious (Christian, in my case) view of these events. Even after becoming an a
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by simiones 3mo ago
This was not idolatry, as depicted in Exodus - this was full blown state religion, held in the same esteem as Yahweh, and co-existing with worship of him. So much so that El later became identified with Yahweh, and now most people reading t
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by simiones 3mo ago
It describes it as a sectary offshoot relatively quickly corrected - while the historical evidence suggests that it was part of the main religion of these people for a long time. Note also that, while Baal became an adversary of Yahweh and&
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by simiones 3mo ago
No, they don't. But they do claim lineage to Alfred the Great, whose lineage is traced by legendary sources to Woden/Odin, and from there to Noah and Adam. In some versions, Beowulf is also part of that lineage.
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by simiones 3mo ago
Yes, Troy existed - we know that because we found it. If we found evidence of a mass migration of slaves from Egypt to Canaan, we'd also know that certain aspects of the Exodus narrative are true - but no such evidence has ever been fo
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by simiones 3mo ago
If there had been a massive migration of hundreds of thousands of people, and even more so hundreds of thousands of slaves, from late bronze age Egypt (a powerful, old, highly literate kingdom), we would expect to find significant evidence
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by simiones 3mo ago
The Exodus is an entirely fictional account though, it's not based on any real historical events. Even King David seems to be mostly mythical, though there is some vague evidence of a "House of David" being something some rea
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by simiones 3mo ago
I really wonder where this idea that the world was less polarized before social media is coming from. It's not even 100 years ago that we had some of the most extreme ideologies in history taking hold all over both Europe and the USA (
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by simiones 3mo ago
What is the false positive rate that you would be comfortable with such a scan having? What would be the risk of your personal photos and videos being recognized as CSAM and reported to your local police (and thus being shown to your local
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by simiones 3mo ago
FTA: > What changes with the return of Chat Control 1.0—and what stays the same: > What is coming back: US tech companies are once again allowed to scan private messages without a warrant or prior suspicion. This affects direct mes
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by simiones 3mo ago
> It’d be hard to pass its test suite and not be as robust as the original. This is not true, even in principle, even for Postgres itself. You'd be right to say that it'd be hard to pass the test suite and not be robust at al
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by simiones 3mo ago
You answered at more or less the same time as an OpenAI engineer confirming this is the case, explaining why they did it, and pointing to their docs that also very explicitly explain this "made-up nonsense". You should really cons
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by simiones 3mo ago
Not always, it depends on the defect. There are many, many design defects that do not significantly impact the working of the device that will not get repaired, but would usually be patched in regular software (especially for visual design
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by simiones 3mo ago
If you invest 100B dollars into compute while asking for 1T, but in reality would need 100T dollars to meaningfully move the needle, you're still significantly underestimating the amount of compute needed, despite not getting as much a
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by simiones 3mo ago
The biggest tension between software and one-off purchases is related to bugfixing, and especially security. It makes sense that you don't expect new features for a product that you paid for once. But, what is the case with bugs? If th
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by simiones 3mo ago
Interesting, I hadn't noticed... Though related to the critical mass, keep in mind that Waze has been acquired by Google many years ago now (13, specifically).

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