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by vlehto 11y ago
Humans actually. "The brain to body mass ratio in some members of the odontocete superfamily Delphinoidea is second only to modern humans, and greater than all other mammals" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceta
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by vlehto 11y ago
I have MtF friend. We knew each other when we still we're both officially men. We became roommates for a year when she was mid transition. I thought that would be cool, because I might understand women better now that I had somebody wh
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by vlehto 11y ago
The map doesn't show elevations. Medieval maps work that way, they only show notable hills and cliffs, but no slow descents. Here's similar from Norway http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/old-map-norway-11431502.jp
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by vlehto 11y ago
It was joke, but thanks for the correction. I'd like to point out that leading scientists to make big bunch of inventions would be great feat in it's own right. Leadership alone is diffucult, scientists don't accept just anyb
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by vlehto 11y ago
I was a scout and this really frustrated me. There is currently situation here in Finland "boys are fleeing from scouting". Your choises are to play counter strike at home or knit a pot coaster with girls in scout meeting. What ar
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by vlehto 11y ago
I had similar suspicions about women's studies. But I didn't really believe it. Then I read Judith Butlers Gender Trouble to about halfway. It's a book that's canonical in womens studies these days. Holy shit it reads li
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by vlehto 11y ago
My native language somewhat lacks this word. The translation exists but is mostly too clumsy for use. Our nation is also infamous for lacking ambition and fostering perverce incentives. I think all of these things are connected. Wittgenstei
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What is SNAP?
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People have done this with small mirrors for a long time.
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You could claim that the patent system was raging success. The Wright brothers tried to hinder development of airplanes, but De Havilland managed to circumvent their patent. Creating entirely new technology in the process. Watt on the other
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It might be just me, but this article doesn't do the trick for me. The trick: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". It just lists people and their accomplishments. Nothing about how they accomplished co
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by vlehto 11y ago
I see your point. If you allow dishonest stuff to pass because it combats racism, then there is a risk that you just paint SWJ crowd dishonest. If racism is well enough hidden, I don't see the point opposing it anymore. I don't th
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by vlehto 11y ago
All of Europe follows US to some extent. There is Hollywood and most of stuff in internet in English is written by people form the states. But then there is also the U.S. geopolitical and economical hegemony. People copycat everything ameri
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by vlehto 11y ago
In your example, cultural appropriation is bad when it happens to be racism at the same time. (Not to mention that making fun of someone can be asshole thing to do in it's own right.) Could you give example when cultural appropriation
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by vlehto 11y ago
Everybody is little bit racist. It's about how much you act on it. It's awfully like with Christian morals. Everybody is a sinner. Everybody pretends to be Zealous. And everybody mocks everybody else for being sinners. Donate mone
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by vlehto 11y ago
Man genuinely speaking for women would be OK in my books. But this "Listen up dudes, you don't understand women. We do!" I'd rather pick someone transgender to tell me about it. Or read books written by different women.
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by vlehto 11y ago
All countries are doing it sure. The important point: is it the police or the military? If only military gathers data and everything is arranged in civilided manner, then there is no way civillian could go to jail for writing the wrong sent
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by vlehto 11y ago
Typically most real world gears vary in teeth shape. I mean among the gear pairs. Some are more pointy and some more round. What we see here is probably optimum teeth form. I have done some calculations about them. But the manual I used was
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by vlehto 11y ago
"That a 10,000 year storage solution was nowhere near long enough to inculcate the Earth from the true shelf-life of the waste, which is realistically thought to be dangerous for many times that length of time." With some definiti
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It's not really the flag for earth. But it gets kinda close being official flag and having 193 member states out of 194(?).
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by vlehto 11y ago
These would be the current candidates for humanity: http://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/ima... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque#/media/File:Pio... A
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by vlehto 11y ago
Yes it seems weird. "We use this NO2 as indicator of particulate, as it's too difficult to measure directly.." Frankly I would not be surprised if Exxon, BP and Shell would have lobbied these emission regulations. After all t
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by vlehto 11y ago
It's actually not rocket powered car. It's rocket powered airplane that flies extremely close to ground. At that speed, aerodynamics matter more than wheels, so all controls have to be done by flaps and slats. Those flaps have to
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The weird part of this is that if you accept higher NOx emission, you can cut fuel usage by ~20%. Since matter does not disappear, this also has to cut CO2 emissions by similar amount. CO2 has global warming potential for at least hundred y
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by vlehto 11y ago
What happens when everybody is asking for W-2? If your company starts doing bad because there is some problem with the product(s), the sales force will be gone before you can blink an eye. They just can't take a hit to their record if
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by vlehto 11y ago
Yet modern missiles are lot more effective when shot from the rear quarter of the enemy. Any fighter pilot interested in staying alive still tries to get there.
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by vlehto 11y ago
Judging war plane by it's ability of supersonic flight is stupid too. Most air to air missiles are way faster than most warplanes, and missiles have more capability to increase speed if R/D is poured into it. Putting money in rada
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>bank account or credit card Cash has been invented. They also don't have mail addresses but still some people suggest sending food. I supposed a way to give aid. No matter what way you choose the warlords and corrupt governments ar
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Part of the problem there is ironically that African cultures often look after each other. If somebody becomes a doctor, then it's expected that s/he feeds pretty big part of the extended family. This disincentives getting good sa
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by vlehto 11y ago
>How about ending hunger worldwide? It's mostly a distribution problem nowadays. It's also incentives problem if you are not all in communist. If you simply send food from Europe to Africa, it disincentives food production in A

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