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by yawpitch 2y ago
The 1917-1918 flu pandemic also stood out for the many novel short-term and long-term effects, most of which we are still learning about because records and data collection were so poor. Every new spillover is an opportunity to learn wh
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Feel the need to point out that before it made the evolutionary leap to ready human-to-human transmission there was no reason to suspect what would become SARS-CoV-2 of being capable of causing long-term effects either. We have no real idea
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Exactly why would a government not suppress a conspiracy theory? More importantly, why would you trust any government that didn’t at least attempt to suppress conspiracy theories?
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Yes, it’s a reference to SARS-CoV-2, and no, the lab leak “hypothesis” absolutely isn’t the stronger one. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Origin_of_SARS-Co...
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Self -experimentation… it doesn’t take long form writing (or any other disingenuous appeals to authority) to realize that the only serious ethical question is on whether or not it was ethical for the hyper -consenting self-experimenter to
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by yawpitch 2y ago
If you’re ever lucky enough to sit on the flowstone and watch the sun streaming into the Garden of Edam in Son Doong you’ll understand why humans started making cathedrals. I was on the first ever tour more than a decade ago now and I can
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by yawpitch 2y ago
I’m much more disturbed by the amount of faith purported NIs are willing to put in the predictions of other purported NIs about the capabilities of hypothetical so-called AIs when actually extant so-called AIs evince nothing like those capa
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> if given an infinite amount of time, a monkey pressing keys on a typewriter would eventually write the complete works of William Shakespeare Amazing that it took this long for Australian mathematics to prove that finite < infinite
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by yawpitch 2y ago
So the reveal was supposed to happen 2:27 ago… did it, or has it been rescheduled for 6 months? #familyradioflashbacks
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by yawpitch 2y ago
I used to sell those cameras; the X-700 was a decent, workaday SLR, but it was what you turned to with a sigh after staring wistfully at iconic you couldn’t afford.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Isn’t there a fundamental logic error in this argument? Hitler would, absolutely have OK’d a nuclear weapons research program if he hadn’t already made refugees of the world’s best minds on the subject, and neither Einstein, Szilárd or
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by yawpitch 2y ago
http://archive.today/oSYEZ
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by yawpitch 2y ago
… sounds like a decidedly interesting fellow, but wow, does that excerpt ever prove that economists haven’t got the slightest clue how climate does (and is, and will) effect economies.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
And my point is that what makes the difference between “feels like” and “actually is” a dystopian nightmare hinges very much on the precise value of Y. In this case we already know that we’re living the nightmare.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> Donald Trump [..] presidency That’s because it’s one we woke up from and now have a coin toss chance of having again.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
In the UK “real name” and “legal name” are just aliases for “your name” which is the identity you’re known by on documents issued by the government and its Home Office, ie your National Insurance record or your UK Passport. Your aliases are
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Oh good, a “funny” guy.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> Today, [Douglas] Trumbull is a highly regarded special effects supervisor Love this article and its maniacal detail orientation, but man what an understatement; the late Doug Trumbull is highly regarded, in the SFX/VFX context in
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> Oppenheimer’s apparent inability to accept the idea of an immortal soul would always weigh heavy on his mind. As it should have, and should always. Part of the problem with the Gita is that it presents human beings license to ignore
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Not within the likely timeframe of that presumed extinction, no.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
No. It is not technologically feasible for humanity to produce any technological artifact more complex than solid geology that will verifiably last a billion years, and even the solid geology likely won’t last anywhere near that long.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Would be helpful to note this is from 2021.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/live/lQToTWKwtuw?feature=shared
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by yawpitch 2y ago
This sounds like a matchmaking problem that could probably be solved by a competent Python developer, if we can find one.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
“A crypto [idiot] is now [LARPing as] the [non-existant] prime minister of a [completely fictional] country.” FTFY.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Probably, but “language you can use instead of C” is a very open field, from APL to Zig at least, passing through D and COBOL and Erlang and Forth, and gets even wider if your definition of “system programming” isn’t particularly well-spe
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by yawpitch 2y ago
I think you might want to provide a working definition of what precisely you mean by “successor” here.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
… all too often, we don’t even have that.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Just going to point out that if you’ve launched advertising on a platform that previously didn’t have advertising, why you haven’t done is succeeded .
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by yawpitch 2y ago
In neither meaning has she had anything destroyed. Impacted by her own actions, certainly, maybe even by a rule that makes sense but she doesn’t appreciate or understand, likely, but destroyed ? Nyet.

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