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by veddox 3y ago
To allow different circles of friends to sit together. At the weddings I've been at (usually 100-150 guests), there would be families and relatives of the groom and bride, then their school friends, church friends, university friends,
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by veddox 3y ago
The „bus factor“ is a pars-pro-toto idiom. The „bus“ refers to any event that suddenly removes an important team member. This could be literally being hit by a bus (or SUV…), but could also be an illness, a move to another city, or simply a
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by veddox 3y ago
> contrary to other things, like fusion, this is possible. Of course it's possible , I'm just saying it's not (and can never be) free . "Free for consumers" simply means somebody else paid for the costs - or mo
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by veddox 3y ago
All the problems you address are absolutely there. But I have to say I have become pretty allergic whenever I hear anybody talk about "disrupting" an existing industry, for two reasons: (1) Existing industries are usually that way
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by veddox 3y ago
On reducing land area: as an agroecologist, I do think that this is a very important goal. First, because in many modern agricultural landscapes (such as intensive farming regions in western Europe or the US Midwest), there is simply no spa
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by veddox 3y ago
There‘s no such thing as a free meal. Of course you could distribute free food to all your citizens (the Ancient Romans famously did), but somebody still needs to pay for it. It‘s not just about on-farm labour, you need big machines (and lo
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by veddox 3y ago
The tubes are called xylem and phloem. Lignin is one biopolymer that is used in their construction, but it's not the only one (cellulose is even more important) - and you shouldn't confuse the building material with the structure.
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by veddox 3y ago
> who was really writing a Late Antique world I agree with all the rest of your comment, but I think this point is only partly correct. Gondor can be interpreted as Byzantinian (late Antiquity), but Rohan is rather Anglo-Saxon (early Mid
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by veddox 3y ago
Yes, but it comes from Norse mythology, not Latin: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Midgard As a scholar of early medieval literature, Tolkien borrows tons of ideas from the Edda and other mythological sources. (To giv
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by veddox 3y ago
> Though I’ll admit Tolkien could be an outlier here. To quote a military historian‘s analysis: „ Tolkien’s first-person experience of war and his deep grounding in medieval and Anglo-Saxon literature means that – while Tolkien does not
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by veddox 3y ago
Well, some of them did. There were a surprising number of doctors and other health-care workers among the Covid/vaccine-sceptics.
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by veddox 3y ago
> It's unlikely that miracles happened as described in biblical texts due to the length of time between the events and the recording of them. I'd also expect people to exaggerate or even fabricate stories to boost other narrati
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by veddox 3y ago
> Either Jesus performed actual miracles, but then the Judas story doesn't make sense; or Jesus was an ordinary mortal, but then Christianity doesn't make sense. The assumption here is that people will unconditionally believe a
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by veddox 3y ago
The New Testament is pretty open about the fact that what Jesus claimed can be pretty hard to believe. The other disciples doubted Jesus too for a very long time. Yet eventually, what they heard and experienced convinced them enough that th
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by veddox 4y ago
> Because HN users tend to be interested in niche but powerful languages, they are not to be trusted to know programming in general? No, the parent comment meant that HN users are not a representative cross-section of programmers in gene
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by veddox 4y ago
You need to scroll down (and presumably have JS enabled).
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by veddox 4y ago
Can you elaborate on this, or link to a more detailed description of what you mean?
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by veddox 4y ago
Both of those are good (I love my Viper), but neither of them is <250$. In that price range, I‘d recommend the Nikon ProStaff. 8x42 is the „default“ size for birding, but I also like the easier portability of a 8x30.
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by veddox 4y ago
Interesting! Although I found the original paper much more illuminating than the write-up: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ancient-mesoamerica/... Also, the use of the word „civilisation“ here feels w
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by veddox 4y ago
Because it is a family of languages that are perceived by many as being aesthetically pleasing, and offer a lot of features that give you a very different perspective on programming from the typical C-derived languages. Lisp is just fun to
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by veddox 4y ago
From my own impression and what other people here are saying, it seems to boil down to ease-of-use: 1) high admin costs of forums due to security issues and spam, 2) usability issues from clunky interfaces and separate accounts for each for
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by veddox 4y ago
I always found that xkcd rather amusing, I never thought it really happened!
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by veddox 4y ago
FWIW, I had a successful arbitration process this year via the German Insurance Ombudsman after my bike was stolen and the insurance didn't want to pay. The process took a few months, but was pretty easy overall and I got my money back
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by veddox 4y ago
Loved playing this for several years, an absolutely mindblowing game with a great (if rather small) community! Eventually had to stop because I just didn’t have the time to play regularly anymore, but I still miss this world…
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by veddox 4y ago
While I heartily agree with most of your comment, I must strongly disagree with the third paragraph (this is exactly what I'm doing my PhD on): > many scientists won't go to bat against this kind of land use change. A self-resp
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by veddox 4y ago
This is an absolutely fantastic experiment and probably part of the reason I'm a biologist today. Keeping a single experiment going for so long is quite a feat, and it has payed off handsomely. Lots of great science came out of the Len
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by veddox 4y ago
> We can, with computers. Lenski and his colleagues have been working on that too, with the Avida platform ( https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01568 ). Although that was 20 years ago and I haven't heard much from it
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by veddox 4y ago
> I wonder if we could add something to the medium that increases the chance of deletions The bacteria beat you to it: Several strains developed elevated mutation rates, already back in the 90s ( https://doi.org/10.1038&#x
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by veddox 5y ago
That's a good point. The wider issue is of course that some people are smart, but not good at writing, and they might be sidelined in an organisation that leans heavily on writing. However, the corollary of that is smart people who are
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by veddox 5y ago
Great to see you commenting here! :D Were those quotes some kind of cheat system?

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