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I think most people take "conspiracy theory" to imply falsehood, or at least exaggeration.
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I was a guinea pig in a clinical trial for a drug that was meant to help with social symptoms of autism, the mechanism of which had something to with vasopressin (I don't know the details): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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Inside the competition to decode a Herculaneum scroll(scientificamerican.com)
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It doesn't render quote-tweets correctly for some reason. The original tweet's text is replaced with the quoting one's.
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Seems like one of the libraries that can output Lilypond (like music21, mingus, abjad, or music-suite) would be better for that purpose.
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This article about the surprising (to me, at least) influence of Carl Schmitt in China talks about Wang and his background. https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/why-carl-s...
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No one said more rights; that they should have all the rights of a single citizen is contentious enough. What if, for example, we grant freedom of speech to this entity, and we take freedom of speech to include the funding of political
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I really hope this Straussian stuff, which is basically obscurantism as public philosophy, doesn't come back into vogue. It was Strauss's disciples, like Paul Wolfowitz, who led us into Iraq with their noble lies. No, thank you.
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First passages of rolled-up Herculaneum scroll revealed(nature.com)
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Aside from the interface, this instrument has the functionality of arranger keyboards that cost well under $100. A $750 Roland is not comparable.
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> Crime skyrocketed in 2020. Did genes transform overnight? No. Lawlessness became easier to get away with. So more people committed crimes. This article is an odd mixture of careful argumentation and bald assertion.
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I didn't downvote the comment myself, but I do think it's glib and reductionist in a way that purely economic arguments often are. In general I find explanations of this kind of behaviors are often facile rationalizations of thing
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The interactions I had--some of them, I should add--in Greece were combative from an American perspective and not a Russian one. If the scenes described in the link are typical of Russian life, then the Greeks I encountered indeed probably
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This article about Russian's habit of yelling is interesting: https://classical-russian-literature.blogspot.com/2020/07/th... I haven't been to Russia but some of it reminds me of encounters I've ha
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FWIW, the NYT's decision to cover this particular story could be as simple as an editor's having figured out that pet-related content sells really, really well.
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Here's another re-creation of HyperCard, WyldCard: https://github.com/defano/wyldcard
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I don't recommend these. Racket's libraries for making games are slim compared to, say, Pygame, or Love2D.
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Like the other commenter said, The Gospel of Thomas is a real religious scripture from a date very early in the Christian era. When Origen, Eusebius, and the other Church Fathers decided which texts and doctrines were properly Christian, th
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by xhevahir 3y ago
Can anyone summarize this Platform As A Service idea for someone who doesn't know much of anything about the Fediverse? How would this become Meta's new business model in the event of Facebook's death? (Which the author seems
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Carbon is Facebook.
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I don't think that feature is covered in vimtutor. As far as I can tell vimtutor mentions registers only once in passing and buffers not at all.
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Part of why a lot of readers have found this literature to be inexhaustible is, I think, its surprising combination of familiarity (since it's had so much influence on subsequent Western culture) and foreignness. For example, consider
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I'm getting kind of tired of this constant use of the term "enshittification." Sometimes the writer is describing the things that tend to follow the sale of a business to private equity; sometimes, as here, it's the dete
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What? Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is one of the most important books in the history of Western thought. Saying that "even in France no one longer reads this" is like saying that The Origin of Species is irrelev
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Paris and Bologna had lots of violent students too at that time. Villon, the poet, famously was a burglar and street brawler during and after his student days in Paris. This article is interesting and compares the sorts of violence that too
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In my experience it's the unaspirated plosives ("p", "t","k") at the beginnings of words; I watched a YouTube video recently where an Indian consistently pronounced "two" like "do." Mad
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French isn't my first (or even second) language, so I'm no authority either, but from sentences like "la pornographie s’inscrit dans une haine raciste" they seem to mean that, when they label performers things like &quot
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As far as I can tell from skimming the study, the 90% figure is about the videos themselves, not whatever shady business happens behind the scenes, and answers to a very contentious definition of "violence"--for example, some porn
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I'm reminded of a quote from Henry Kissinger's book Diplomacy : "What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify. Popular literature and films often depict the opposite--policymakers as the helpl
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Seriously. They're in the business of finding ever more ingenious ways of shifting money from one party's pockets to another's. I can think of some important ways in which they are definitely not better than me despite thei

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