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by simonh 3y ago
3.206 Line A sequence of zero or more non- <newline> characters plus a terminating <newline> character. See also ‘3.403 Text File’ for the definition of a text file. No new line characters, no lines. No lines, not a text file.
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by simonh 3y ago
As is the idea that fire enabled us to boost our nutrition enabling brain growth. I have no problem with the paper in Nature, and no problem with PBN promoting it. I think they’re overreaching saying it was fermentation not fire. It may we
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by simonh 3y ago
The Schrodinger equation should be on there, it's affected our daily lives far more directly than relativity, but Schrodinger was shall we say highly cancellable. For good reasons, so I can understand not wanting him in the book.
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That's entirely true, but the problem is ST gobbled up a large share of resources and personnel in theoretical physics for decades. Smolin in particular is arguing that other ideas should get a fair shake.
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by simonh 3y ago
I've thought about this a lot over the last 7 years. It's human nature to ignore or downplay inconvenient truths that are obstacles to getting what you want, or even to distort the truth for the same reasons. We all employ 't
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by simonh 3y ago
I forget who, but in the early 90s a famous SF author was asked by a fan if he thought he was put on earth to write his books. He replied that he was put on earth to play Sid Meier's Civilization, writing books was what he did to pay t
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by simonh 3y ago
You went to Florence and didn’t have Bistecca? Go back and try again!
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by simonh 3y ago
Of course, absolutely. It’s a serious question. There is the issue that Biden or any other elected leaders are answerable to their electorate, and other institutions in their country, in a way that authoritarians are not, so it’s a matter o
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by simonh 3y ago
What’s to stop the side that loses the virtual war just having another go in reality? Can you really imagine Putin or Saddam Hussein just accepting a loss and giving up? Meanwhile a delay in real time while the virtual war is prepared and f
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by simonh 3y ago
It’s still to be determined if this is illegal.
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by simonh 3y ago
Is a brand new battery really the minimum acceptable standard for a refurb? If got a refurb and it had 6 months usage on the battery for example, I think I’d be fine with that. 3 years no, but given brand new batteries is reportedly a commo
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by simonh 3y ago
Apparently many of them are replaced. I found a thread on Reddit where a few people were saying they've bought refurbs and they often have 0 or 1 charge cycles on the batteries, indicating they were replacements.
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by simonh 3y ago
You can check the charge cycle count on the battery, and have 14 days to return the device if it's a concern.
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Refurbished devices from Apple generally come with new batteries, and sometimes other parts will be replaced as well if needed. I’ve bought several devices refurbished and they’ve been excellent. With iOS devices they even replace the outer
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by simonh 3y ago
Linking people up with other people in the same soceoeconomic class with similar interests.
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by simonh 3y ago
Consumerism and media affect everyone though, but even within countries and within specific demographic groups higher wealth and higher education lead to lower birth rates. That's true everywhere. People aren't all just corporate
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by simonh 3y ago
>Well remember that prior to the 70s or so, it was normal for a single earner (the man) to be able to provide for an entire family, including the non-working woman. That is no longer the case and indeed often two incomes are often barely
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by simonh 3y ago
You're talking about corporations manipulating media ("the particular media being pushed") to discourage people having children. I'm talking about the pushing you referred to. Even beside that I don't see how that w
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by simonh 3y ago
I just did some digging around on the research on this and that doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere, and it's a well studied issue. After all, for example existing housing stock hasn't got any smaller so that's easy to
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by simonh 3y ago
What's the mechanism by which consumerism and media lead to lower child births though? It's easy to see that in poorer countries with minimal or no pensions or social security having more children leads to greater productive capac
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by simonh 3y ago
True this. In the 1990s I visited California and I had to walk out of a sandwich shop because I could not make out a single word the kid behind the counter was saying (Brit with a BBC English accent). There's not one American accent, t
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by simonh 3y ago
They may have seen it, but how much does it influence their day to day language? I think there's an argument audio-visual recordings will promote comprehension of older spoken language forms. I'm sure a lot of modern English speak
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by simonh 3y ago
Buddhislam and the teachings of the Zensunni Wanderers. I can understand the film producers not wanting a Fatwa over their heads, and 'cultural appropriation' is a hot issue these days, but it's a sad state of affairs to be i
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by simonh 3y ago
In particular the OC Bible was compiled as a synthesis of all the major existing religious traditions of the time after the Butlerian Jihad, which united humanity in revolt against the thinking machines. The resulting total ban on computati
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by simonh 3y ago
It depends where you draw the line in the tech stack. On the hardware side they've always worked at least at the same hardware level as any workstation or PC vendor, and often arguably lower than that working with component manufacture
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by simonh 3y ago
All true, but I think it's also broader than that. Europe is massively dependent on the US guaranteeing freedom of navigation globally. They're the only power capable of patrolling and defending every major sea lane simultaneously
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by simonh 3y ago
That's because consumer DNA profiling outfits are trash, not because there's anything wrong with properly conducted DNA analysis. That's like saying the Large Hadron Collider results must be wrong because the image on your ol
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by simonh 3y ago
The college example doesn’t seem likely though. Exams are set by central authorities and independently adjudicated. It’s not up to teachers whether students pass or not, and parents and education authorities look at exam results to judge co
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by simonh 3y ago
Check out the Treaty of Tordesillas. Not quite the same thing, but still worth a look.
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Hunter gatherers range over vast expanses of territory, they have to. A few fields is insignificant in comparison. Of course that grows with the population, but that’s the far future for anyone trying to survive right now at the point agric

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