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by yesenadam 4y ago
His more recent doco Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)[0] was, for me, even more fascinating. Also, his 1977 short La Soufrière [1] is set on an island where a volcano is about to erupt. [0] https://www.imdb.com&#x2
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Sounds good.. although this comes to mind: https://xkcd.com/927/ (How standards proliferate) Even if you found a better way, the world might just end up with yet another set of keystrokes to memorize.
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by yesenadam 4y ago
It makes me ashamed to be human. Reading stuff like that, and thinking about what we do to cows, sheep, lambs, chickens, etc, it dawned on me a while ago that humans have no right to treat animals like they're just a bunch of cells to
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by yesenadam 4y ago
And maybe the life in the ocean is more than just a "resource" for humans to exploit, like so much coal or gas.
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Hilarious comment, thank you. :-)
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Dang explains: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32359993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31574948
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Hate? Sounds like total indifference. But 3 people commented last time you submitted it 12 hours ago, saying it's great. ...Although, those 3 commenters are brand new accounts with 1 comment only. Are they you?! The way you say you cou
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by yesenadam 4y ago
> This is why the Utah teapot looks squashed Although it says on that page: "The real teapot is 33% taller (ratio 4:3) than the computer model. Jim Blinn stated that he scaled the model on the vertical axis during a demo in the lab
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by yesenadam 4y ago
I was going to correct "siezed", but the original headline seems even worse! : > Asthma, cancer, erectile drugs sent from abroad make up are most confiscations, despite opioid claims
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by yesenadam 4y ago
The first paragraph of the "Puffery" wikipedia page: "In everyday language, puffery refers to exaggerated or false praise. Puffery serves to "puff up" what is being described. In law, puffery is usually invoked as a
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by yesenadam 4y ago
I think the quote must have come first: T Auvinen wanted to use the quote, which they'd seen online, but needed a reference, so searched for something mentioning Plato, stories, and rulers, and found this paper. That seems very likely.
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Same for me. Yup, weird.
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by yesenadam 4y ago
It's been done to death already. e.g. https://www.redbubble.com/i/art-board-print/Plato-I-Didn-t-S... Some variants: Einstein https://innovativewealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015&#x2
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by yesenadam 4y ago
TLDR: Lion's mane mushrooms, not magic ones or the common white mushrooms. Link to full text of paper: Hericerin derivatives activates a pan-neurotrophic pathway in central hippocampal neurons converging to ERK1/2 signaling enhan
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by yesenadam 4y ago
> Plato said it best, "Those who tell stories rule society." Source? This quote appears in many places online, but never with any source, besides "attributed to Plato", or "as Plato once said" etc. Usually t
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by yesenadam 4y ago
(IANAL) Take this, for example, from a jazz/funk/? band I like: "The Funky Knuckles is a world class jazz orchestra made up of genetically enhanced cybernetic super men. They have played at the finest venues around the world
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by yesenadam 4y ago
I tried 9x9 and it seemed impossible at first but I solved it in 5-10 minutes. I want to try larger ones! Keep fixing digits one at a time with things like parity, e.g. if the numbers are all odd and sum to an odd number, you know an odd nu
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by yesenadam 4y ago
What does "jackbox-esque" mean?
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by yesenadam 4y ago
I found the font saying the speed and angle were much too small to read, and hard to read against the background anyway, so it was unplayable. No one else seems to have had that problem! macOS 12.5, firefox, 24 inch 1920x1080 display - pret
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Surprisingly good game! Nice job both of you. 6x6 took me a few minutes, after initially seeming impossible. I like much more than Sudoku cause it uses maths as well as logic. 9x9... not so easy :-) Possible bug: I got some of the row/
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Probably anyone reading this thread knows about this already :-) but that's like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
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by yesenadam 4y ago
The worst one I've ever seen was: "must be read", prominent on the front cover. Which probably influenced my decision to buy the book. But later I noticed the sentence that quote was from was something like "This book mu
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by yesenadam 4y ago
I get all kinds of obvious spammy/dodgy emails in my gmail these days. Maybe one a week or something. Ones where you can't believe it didn't go in the spam folder automatically! Never got any before the last couple of years.
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by yesenadam 4y ago
I started using Apptivate a couple of months ago, someone on here recommended it. It makes app switching very pleasingly fast. I use a PC kbd with a mac mini :-) and have F5-F9 assigned to instantly switch to the 5 apps I always have open.
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by yesenadam 4y ago
TLDR: "For JPL's highest accuracy calculations, which are for interplanetary navigation, we use 3.141592653589793"...Using pi to 15 decimal places, you'd get the distance of Voyager 1 wrong by less than 1cm!
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Ohh ok thank you very much! Perfect explanation.
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by yesenadam 4y ago
I think Peter Singer challenged a lot of deluded, 'magical' thinking in the 1970s when he wrote in Animal Liberation about realizing that animals are not mere tools for human use, to be exploited in any and every possible way, b
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Genuine question - I read the wiki page, not knowing anything much about it. It's an ebook reader? How is it true that he brought books to millions? I can't tell from your comment or the wiki page. Thanks.
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by yesenadam 4y ago
No problem, I'm sure it's not just me who felt that. Also, please consider that even if you were totally right about everything and everyone you interacted with totally wrong, that would be no justification at all for the way you&
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by yesenadam 4y ago
Ok, I give up. That's about the 20th mocking, insulting comment of yours I've read on this page, while you pretend to occupy the high ground. Sickening stuff. HN deserves way better. Please refresh on the guidelines. There aren&#x

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