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by wl 6y ago
Your summary of his comment is misleading because you omit his explanation of how both are true. > “Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003″. > It is correct that the total global area burned has OVERALL declined over the
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by wl 6y ago
Here's the Daily Wire article (paywall, so here's a mirror): https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2020/6/29/on-beha... And here's a reasonable analysis of what it gets wrong: https:
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by wl 6y ago
Such a requirement doesn't exist. 77% of residency slots are funded by the federal government. But there are slots that aren't funded by the federal government. And this makes sense because residents make residency programs money.
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by wl 6y ago
The original iSight camera had a leaf shutter. It's not a foreign concept to them.
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by wl 6y ago
I created an account to remove /r/politics and /r/atheism from my front page. And I'm interested in both politics and skepticism.
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by wl 6y ago
Cyrus was the Messiah, too, but nobody pretends he was descended from King David. In any case, Jesus fails most of the Messianic criteria of Second Temple Judaism. Early Christians had to significantly revise their concept of Messiah to get
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by wl 6y ago
Solomon is depicted in the Biblical accounts as fabulously wealthy and a prolific builder. That should have left a mark in the archeological record. 1 Kings 9:15-19 suggests we look at Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, Gezer, Lower Beth-horon, and
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by wl 6y ago
There's no contemporary evidence for the reign of David or Solomon. The best you get is a reference to the "House of David" (Tel Dan Stele) ~150 years later and the Biblical account in Kings, which claims to be a redaction ma
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by wl 6y ago
Levantine archeologists and philologists have recommended many of Finklestein's works to me. Some adopt his low chronology while others don't. But he seems to be respected enough—even among those who disagree with him—in that sliv
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by wl 6y ago
I enjoy building, too. But there are so many things for me to build that I don't mind paying for shortcuts so I can use my limited time to build things I want to be building.
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by wl 6y ago
SoundJam MP was better. Mac only, though. It lives on in a heavily bastardized form as iTunes and now the macOS Music app.
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by wl 6y ago
I sometimes work with transliterations of cuneiform. I don't want s to match š, h to match ḫ, g to match g̃, r to match ř, or any accented vowels matching any differently accented or unaccented vowels. They mean drastically different t
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by wl 6y ago
It doesn't take a weapon to kill someone. A blow to the head can be fatal. And as we recently saw in the case of George Floyd, positional asphyxiation and/or choking can be fatal, too. When considering whether or not the use of de
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by wl 6y ago
You really need a citation for the notion that police in any part of the world are trained to shoot to incapacitate rather than kill. Firearms are deadly weapons. Shots aimed at any part of the body can easily be fatal because there are art
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by wl 6y ago
I assume you're referring to the death of Rayshard Brooks with your DUI comment. In that specific case, the police officer only shot once Brooks shot at him with the stolen taser. At that point, I suspect the argument he'd make is
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by wl 6y ago
> Police body cam footage can be rejected as evidence if it does not start with the officer stepping out of his vehicle. This is why so many iPhone recordings from bystanders gets thrown out in trial. That's nonsense. Evidence is ne
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by wl 6y ago
Powerful rulers subdue their enemies. It's a common formula seen over and over in various royal tombs and elsewhere. Sometimes, like in the case of the Libyans in some periods, the enemies the king claims domination over haven't b
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by wl 6y ago
Putting any of this on display, barriers or no, means you're slowly destroying it. If preservation were the primary aim, nobody would be allowed inside except epigraphers and photographers. Want to see these monuments? Look at the phot
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by wl 6y ago
As someone who has a decent grasp of Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs, I think your enthusiasm for these texts would be destroyed by reading them. I know from experience that the quickest way to bore someone I'm guiding through an Egyptian
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by wl 6y ago
You could probably do WiFi with an SDR with an FPGA, but that's about as much as a hobbyist could probably pull off.
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by wl 6y ago
You make the case that Polish uses affixes and inflection to convey meaning where English would use helper words. Fusional vs. analytic. That's not the same as the assertion that English curse words are pretty restrictive in comparison
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by wl 6y ago
Glass isn't the investment it used to be. Glass designed in the era of 35mm and early DSLRs doesn't hold a candle to the glass designed for modern high resolution sensors.
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by wl 6y ago
Not without some optics to shrink the image circle down. Even if you did that, a full-frame DSLR's image sensor is 35x larger than the iPhone's. I'm not sure why you'd want to use such a tiny sensor unless it's the
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by wl 6y ago
I've had far too many orders get screwed up over the phone, even when I've had them read back to me. Also, you still have to deal with physical payment when you pick the order up.
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by wl 6y ago
They could have partnered with those closed libraries and virtually lent out those copies. But they didn't.
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by wl 6y ago
The Loop in Chicago, which was recently smashed up almost as well as any, is probably one of the better tax bases.
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by wl 6y ago
The gun store issue in California is even worse because of the gun laws. You cannot lawfully acquire ammunition anywhere except at a gun store. You cannot lawfully acquire or transfer a firearm to another person except at a gun store. Lendi
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by wl 6y ago
> Bruised apples are perfectly edible. Maybe you just don't like them, and that's fine--there's no accounting for taste. But I don't think it's outlandish for someone to give you a bruised apple. If I'm maki
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by wl 6y ago
> Well, US has a problem with obscenities for instance, which are erased from court records, even if everyone in attendance is an adult and should be able to handle some cuss words. This is not a universal practice. In fact, I'm inc
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by wl 6y ago
Also, Macports never phoned home to Google without asking permission or notification, unlike Homebrew.

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