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by wl 5y ago
I don't find your conclusion obvious. Yes, the construction seems better than older Egyptian examples. But that makes sense: the later date of construction in the Iron Age means more ubiquitous iron tools. The inscriptions don't s
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by wl 5y ago
The Serapeum of Saqqara is a New Kingdom site at the earliest. (The name, suggesting a Greco-Roman context, is due to later activity at the site.) I'm not sure why you're bringing them up in an Old Kingdom context. And the decorat
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by wl 5y ago
Few mummies from the Old Kingdom survive. It was probably a combination of comparatively few people being mummified in that era, the mummification process being immature and thus less effective, and extreme age allowing for more looting and
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by wl 5y ago
Predynastic pit burials aren't some new discovery. They have a long history of being looted to supply the grave goods to the antiquities market. You can even see pit burials in museums, often reconstructed a century ago from purchased
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by wl 5y ago
I agree. The fact, however, is that Unicode is not sufficient for scholars who use Egyptian hieroglyphs or cuneiform. For the former, most people seem to use JSesh. For the latter, line drawings + transliterations.
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by wl 5y ago
> phallic hieroglyphics The alternative is to just not have Egyptian hieroglyphs in Unicode. The phallus is a frequently used symbol in Middle Egyptian. Then again, what's there is half-assed. There are no joining characters, so not
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by wl 5y ago
It's even worse when these emails come from ISPs you've never had an account with. I'm looking at you Charter, Optimum, and Verizon.
518.
by wl 5y ago
Finding these for released computers isn't difficult.
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by wl 5y ago
More often than not, this pauses playback instead of skipping.
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by wl 6y ago
The Cairo Museum was not built intelligently or well and was falling apart even a century ago. Much priceless material culture was destroyed in basement flooding in the years before the Nile was dammed. John D. Rockefeller Jr. even offered
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by wl 6y ago
The difference is that many places have more bodies of water for people to live next to. In Egypt, you've got the Nile, the Faiyum, and a smattering of oases.
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by wl 6y ago
I've taken a lot of messy electronic prototypes through security when traveling for work. The TSA has never cared. My camera bag, on the other hand, seems to get some baggage screeners very excited. Something about the glass being opaq
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by wl 6y ago
The risk of a confrontation escalating makes dealing with such things myself a very unattractive option, especially if it's a stranger. I've had a simple, polite request to turn down the thumping music at 1 AM end with me blocking
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by wl 6y ago
Among my friends who were big into Ravelry circa 2010, the experience seemed to be: Come for the patterns, stay for the community.
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by wl 6y ago
Sitting in an increasingly concentrated puddle of my own CO₂ when I close the door of my small home office is not a life safety issue. It just seems to affect my cognitive performance at some point. If there were CO₂ tanks or combustion in
526.
by wl 6y ago
I'm using the Kaiterra Laser Egg+ CO₂.
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by wl 6y ago
There's value in automation across different devices. Just a silly example: I've got a CO₂ monitor in my office. If the level goes above a certain threshold, it triggers a fan and changes the color of an LED light strip to alert m
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by wl 6y ago
Something like the ACA as a state-run program had none of the Constitutional problems the ACA has as a federal program. Then again, pretty much every elected American politician only believes in federalism when it suits their agenda.
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by wl 6y ago
Which pronunciation would you codify? And we'd have to do it all over again in 200 years.
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by wl 6y ago
AC runs into a problem with skin effect. At a certain point, making conductors thicker won't make them handle more current. DC doesn't have this problem. Why AC? For a given power transmission line, higher voltage will lower trans
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by wl 6y ago
In practice, it serves the purpose of letting less academically accomplished students become physicians without resorting to Caribbean medical schools. This isn't a net negative to society because much of the overachievement in the pre
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by wl 6y ago
There's a decent argument that marriage came about as a consequence of agriculture, where paternity suddenly mattered when it came to inheriting property. Of course, this predates writing, making it hard to definitively prove one way o
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by wl 6y ago
Electrons aren't the only charge carriers. When you understand that, you'll understand why conventional current isn't backwards.
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by wl 6y ago
The Deep Space Climate Observatory was taken to L1 by a Falcon 9.
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by wl 6y ago
"Aramaic priority" is the term if you want to find more information. It's a crank theory.
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by wl 6y ago
Norman Golb's hypothesis here was hardly obscure, being frequently covered in Biblical Archeology Review, not to mention actual scholarly journals. I suspect you've found yourself in a confessional bubble.
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by wl 6y ago
The extant Quranic manuscripts are so consistent because early on, Caliph Uthman had an official version of the Quran created and made a concerted effort to destroy the manuscripts that disagreed with it. And in practice, the number of text
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by wl 6y ago
The median anesthesiologist in the US earns a little under $400,000/yr. $10,000 is probably not enough to get one risk their career to carry out an execution.
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by wl 6y ago
Lethal injection designed and administered by a competent anesthesiologist who had a goal of making the process as painless and peaceful as possible seems like one of the better ways to die. It was a good idea in principle. But in practice,
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by wl 6y ago
Guns aren't supposed to be a response to day-to-day crime, legally speaking. They're only supposed to be used as a last resort when death or serious injury is likely to be imminent.

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