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by vraid 2y ago
People in Europe and North America generally wore hats and long sleeved clothing before the 1900's. Sun tanning is a modern phenomenon.
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by vraid 3y ago
Would a line not contain more than one instruction, on average?
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by vraid 3y ago
Mandarin borrowed both from southern chinese dialects where 瑞 is pronounced ~sui. What's weird about that?
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by vraid 3y ago
Not to mention the early samurai, who were primarily horse archers aswell.
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by vraid 3y ago
I feel like manufacturing the collapse of the very ecosystems that sustain our civilization might be a steep price to pay for a short moment's increase in living standards. But i guess as long as we're all dead before the time to
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by vraid 3y ago
Most humans throughout history lived in close-knit farming communities where they shared their home with a large family and met their neighbours every single day. What sort of secluded farms are you imagining?
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by vraid 3y ago
This all feels a bit like arguing against the use of cardinal directions because they don't make sense unless you learn them first. If you use left and right for the ship, you wouldn't be able to use personal left and right withou
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by vraid 4y ago
They can be very easy to miss as most of them piggyback on the great swarms of flying spiders, centipedes, and trees migrating north each year to repopulate the barren wastelands after the great freeze has killed all but the warm-blooded li
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by vraid 4y ago
> Who says they survive cold winter climates? Anyone who put even a minute of effort into looking up the well-researched and publicly available information on the topic rather than defaulting to ignorance could have told you this. Insect
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by vraid 5y ago
We had an unregistered channel with 5 users left that got the same treatment. The topic (which was free for anyone to change..) contained irc.libera.chat
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by vraid 6y ago
Lots of animals manage by either migrating to the tropics or hibernating through the winter. Neither is viable for a modern human society.
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by vraid 7y ago
The population of roman Britain is estimated at 2-3 million at its peak. Well above the early medieval population. https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom/Roman-Britai... https://books.google.se
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by vraid 7y ago
The reason we care about emissions is due to their effect on the atmosphere, of which there is one. We don't get a free pass to emit more as our population increases. The atmosphere doesn't magically adjust. The effect of emission
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by vraid 7y ago
The atmosphere doesn't care how much or little we emit per capita. Total emissions is what should worry us.
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by vraid 7y ago
Typed racket has both dynamic types and static typechecking. https://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/ Your objection doesn't really hold water..
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by vraid 8y ago
> I heard 500 per capita You may have swapped your units there. 150 million coaches would be somewhat excessive for a population of 300 thousand.
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by vraid 9y ago
"filled 80 years" is not an idiom, but simply a word-by-word translation of "turned 80".
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by vraid 11y ago
Calling this medieval is doing it a disservice. The study took place in the late 18th century, during the height of the enlightenment.
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by vraid 12y ago
That most mammals are color blind is nothing more than a myth. A few select are, like the marine mammals, but the vast majority are dichromats with red/blue color receptors. The last common ancestor was in fact a trichromat, having one
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by vraid 12y ago
Manhole covers are welded shut where Obama vists aswell, it's not like Putin is crazier than the rest of them.
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by vraid 12y ago
Incidentally, both Sweden and Turkey are ranked below the US average. Swedish education is in a sorry state at the moment, dropping fast in the rankings and already well below the level of any other nordic country.
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by vraid 13y ago
Even a single espresso is in the range of $2.5 to $4.
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by vraid 14y ago
You seem to have confused sugar with sucrose, also known as table sugar. First off, a carbohydrate, also known as a saccharide, is a molecule composed of one or more monosaccharides. Sugar includes both monosaccharides (e.g glucose, fructos
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by vraid 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_water_distribution.s... Here is an image showing just that, in a cubic format. The sphere of ocean water would have a radius of 684 kilometers, while the remaining water, most of which is glaciers a