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by wl 3y ago
Yes, you can find hints of henotheism in certain parts of the Hebrew scriptures. However, henotheism in Judaism had died out by the time Christianity developed. It's not something found in the New Testament.
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by wl 3y ago
The Latin alphabet is ultimately derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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by wl 3y ago
Egyptian hieroglyphs are, for the most part, phonetic.
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by wl 4y ago
> semi-experienced programmers (the kind to browse this sub) Is a giveaway the comment is copy/pasted from Reddit.
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by wl 4y ago
Yes, humans can detect sounds up to about 20 kHz when they're younger. That number goes down with age and noise exposure. But if you ever have taken a hearing test, you might notice they stop testing at 8 kHz. If you look at equal loud
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by wl 4y ago
I don't think that's what Plato is getting at. In many ways, Plato's theory of forms discounts the value of direct experience. Firstly, look at memorizing as a workout for the brain. If you don't need to do as much of it
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by wl 4y ago
LibGen's selection of these kinds of books is nowhere near that of the Internet Archive. I guess I'm going to have A LOT more interlibrary loans in my future.
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by wl 4y ago
Yeah, looks like boron coated cadmium tape. The relevant excerpt from Command and Control ... > To avoid the embarrassment of relying on a Los Alamos design, Teller used Livermore’s new core but added a mechanical safing device to it. A
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by wl 4y ago
That's his argument, but he comes to the opposite conclusion. He asserts that these gatekeepers drove artists to be better, the gatekeepers improved the music, and that the gatekeepers curated the music.
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by wl 4y ago
Interlibrary loans.
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by wl 4y ago
If you're using a lot of zip ties, you really need a zip tie gun. Not only do you get a consistent tension, but you also trim the excess at the same time.
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by wl 4y ago
> Would it kill them to put a radio morse code link in the cabin? > It could be done with $3 worth of parts, plus a solar cell or dynamo. As an amateur radio operator who does these kinds of things for fun, no, just no. It takes a lot
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by wl 4y ago
I've had Lenovo send a tech over within 24 hours and do a repair on my kitchen table. The several day wait typical of Apple in-store-repair is glacial in comparison. And that's assuming the Apple store doesn't ship it out to
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by wl 4y ago
Compared to a 7 speed, yeah, a CVT is better for getting your cadence where you want it. 11 and 12 speeds? I've rarely felt like I've wanted intermediate gears with an 11-34T cassette.
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by wl 4y ago
The $15k+ bikes are race bikes, which are probably never going to have internally geared hubs because they're too heavy and add too much drivetrain loss. Rohloff hubs are fairly common on high end ($5k+) bikepacking and touring bikes.
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by wl 4y ago
I have such a bike. The downsides: * It's heavier than a derailleur/cassette * More drivetrain losses * It's expensive. Upsides: * Maintenance is replacing the oil about once a year. * You can shift from a stop. * Easier to a
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by wl 4y ago
A lot of us have had bad experiences with the developers. They make poor decisions and then label feedback about those poor decisions as "abusive." Personally, I've moved on. MacPorts is great. More people should use it.
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by wl 4y ago
"Hebrew Bible" is often used in secular academia in preference to "Old Testament." "Christian Bible" is the "New Testament" counterpart to that.
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by wl 4y ago
"Think of the children" has been one of the primary justifications for gun control as of late, with firearm injuries being one of the top causes of death among people under 20.
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by wl 4y ago
It's an idiom. https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=31116
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by wl 4y ago
Nope, the official name uses "ü" instead of "u," which really emphasizes that it's not actually a real English toponym and is out of place in English usage. Erdoğan is just being silly pushing this.
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by wl 4y ago
The problem with calling an apostrophe a letter is that in standard usage, it doesn't change how you read (prosody) or pronounce the text. Sometimes it's used in transliterating foreign words to indicate a glottal stop (an actual
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by wl 4y ago
It's also occasionally used in English texts as a ligature for "et" in the Latin abbreviation of etcetera: &c.
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by wl 4y ago
Looking at the degree requirements at the moment, the option to study another language isn't in place of Greek or Latin, but rather in place of other courses. > One course must deal substantially with classical reception or comparat
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by wl 4y ago
Yes, they don't make them like they used to. Including that shoe box, which is not made from acid free paper and is causing that bible to degrade as we speak. I'd urge your mother to move the bible to an acid-free archival box. Th
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by wl 4y ago
The kind of paper is important. I've handled incunabula, printed books from before 1500. Maybe the paper is dirty from hundreds of years of handling, but the paper itself tends to be sturdy and supple. This continues up until the mid 1
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by wl 4y ago
AT&T asks for the number it came from after you forward the spam message.
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by wl 4y ago
Not all residency programs are funded by Medicare. And even among those that are funded by Medicare, many have additional slots that are unfunded but exist anyway because a resident provides cheap labor. If a physician decides to change spe
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by wl 4y ago
An alternative explanation that's just as plausible: Faced with an 11 year federal prison sentence at age 38, she saw this as her last chance to have biological children.
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by wl 4y ago
Holmes' explanation: > [T]his was a reservation that was made before the verdict. The hope was that the verdict would be different and Ms. Holmes would be able to make this trip to attend the wedding of close friends in Mexico. Give

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