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by vixen99 3y ago
To date no culprit has been identified but let's assume the Russians 'did it'. Can somebody please lay out the tangible benefits for Russia in conducting such an operation and how the successful conclusion (for them) has play
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by vixen99 3y ago
And the list of those authoritarians is very long indeed. None of them would want to be left behind.
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by vixen99 3y ago
Good point. Within organisms there are a number of survival mechanisms even in juveniles. Braitenberg hypothesized simple mechanical vehicles that evolved survival tactics. Not understanding the latter will ultimately be a fatal flaw irresp
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Draft law could take Wikipedia offline in UK(theregister.com)
33 points by vixen99 4y ago|8 comments
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by vixen99 4y ago
its
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by vixen99 4y ago
Erwin Chargaff himself a chemist, knew very well the proportion of the bases in DNA since he'd discovered it but didn't put two and two together (Chargaff's ratio). https://www.encyclopedia.com/science-and-tec
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by vixen99 4y ago
Apart from the amusement that might be had in making it, you never know if further evidence might one day cast new light on it.
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by vixen99 4y ago
Actually lots of people are now talking about the problem of too few babies especially in Europe. Many countries are looking to their populations halving by 2100. A recent report says there are 79 countries with fertility rates (mean=1.59)
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by vixen99 4y ago
No doubt you've dispassionately gone out of your way to assesss that evidence and after detailed examination decided it's invalid. Which would be a perfectl reasonable step to make - if that's what you did. Did you?
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by vixen99 4y ago
That's just rude.
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by vixen99 4y ago
'There is no law forbidding the monarch from not granting Royal Assent'. True but I await the day that happens! The Brits don't go in for revolution but there'd be all hell to pay if this occurred. It would likely mark t
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by vixen99 4y ago
Completely agree having fed ChatGPT with a number of PDFs of recent papers in the biological sciences. Of course chatGPT is a terrific achievement but I wonder how a journalist in a serious weekly can write the following. 'Nor, ironica
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by vixen99 4y ago
Important also to consider the degree to which we choose (while improving our own environment) to get others to pollute on our behalf and suffer the consequences - as in the extensive environmental damage caused by lithium and cobalt mining
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by vixen99 4y ago
Yes, if only. I continually hear that much olive is not what it is supposed to be and it seems that authorities empowered to do something about this don't do much to stop it or perhaps they're fighting an uphill battle. In general
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Pentagon UFO chief: alien mothership in our solar system possible(militarytimes.com)
6 points by vixen99 4y ago|2 comments
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World’s last dedicated Meccano factory to close in France(theguardian.com)
105 points by vixen99 4y ago|118 comments
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by vixen99 4y ago
Do we know what Priha does or does not want and what she enjoys?
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by vixen99 4y ago
Irrespective of the argument, it's too late. The cat's out of the bag or whatever metaphor you prefer.
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by vixen99 4y ago
Paywalled.
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by vixen99 4y ago
Yes but it hasn't traveled all that well for whatever reason while Western Classical music (WCM) has been adopted on a massive scale by China, Korea and other countries in Asia, to such an extent that considering the numerous cutbacks
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Putin and Xi’s plot to control the internet will leave the West in the dust(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by vixen99 4y ago|0 comments
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by vixen99 4y ago
The surprise would be if it wasn't.
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by vixen99 4y ago
We knew a long time ago that there was no theoretical reason why any sound could not be simulated to perfection - eventually. That hasn't happened yet.
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by vixen99 4y ago
The literature on the relationship between BMI and mortality is not conclusive except for a BMI > 30. Generally it seems that lower mortality is associated with a body mass index of 20-25. https://www.nejm.org/doi/
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by vixen99 4y ago
Assuming the study is robust, here is one possible contribution. In the US in 2021, 52 million people reported using cannabis in the previous 12 months. https://www.samhsa.gov/data/report/2021-nsduh-annual-nationa.
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by vixen99 4y ago
Many would, I suspect, echo your thoughts. In terms of the people you're not sure how to describe (the 'vast ocean'), I'm just wondering how these ideas might find effect politically were they to be held by candidates. C
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by vixen99 4y ago
Their use & application can be made accountable.
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by vixen99 4y ago
For me it's the absence of an affordable automated page turner that makes this conversion difficult. I have an Auramate from Czur ( https://www.czur.com/ ) which does a pretty good job of the scanning and OCR (about 2 se
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by vixen99 4y ago
For some the use of the first name assumes a familiarity which probably does not exist. The universal rule is that appropriate levels of interaction are both accepted and used in common parlance by everyone. Thus it's rare for a speake
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A February 5, 2023 exchange with ChatGPT(philip.greenspun.com)
2 points by vixen99 4y ago|0 comments

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