JudgePenitent

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by JudgePenitent 4y ago
Aye. I was at my friend's grandparent's house (he grew up in his grandparents house) as a youth, probably 11 or 12, and his grandfather mentioned he was offered to join the masons by a work buddy. He promptly told us he did not jo
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by JudgePenitent 4y ago
Yes and no. Yes in the sense that there was a formal pattern for learning that developed from 3k bc - end (right around 1800bc) which typically included a combination of math (fractions, pemdas, etc, administrative math, enough so you could
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by JudgePenitent 4y ago
"In short, machine learning methods are in place, but accessible data is not." "Finally, one must address the concerns of various commercial stakeholders." "A few chemical databases of reactions do exist, but these
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by JudgePenitent 4y ago
How do you arrive at 10%?
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by JudgePenitent 4y ago
Heidegger, Hitler, and Wittgenstein were all born in 1889 Hitler and Wittgenstein attended the same school even The Wittgenstein family also had all of their funds invested in America before the outbreak of WW2
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by JudgePenitent 4y ago
IIRC he had started this diet (eating only raw carrots and strawberries) before he founded apple with woz
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by JudgePenitent 4y ago
You have some very detailed reasons why Thucydides would side with the Athenians; I appreciate that. > Finally, if you want to argue that he'd say the Athenian empire was dangerous, I'd need a good reason as to why. Consider ho
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by JudgePenitent 4y ago
> but the river is gone too. The Sumerians were well known to forcibly reposition the local rivers of which there were many in the flood plain. There are probably plenty of areas with long lost boats, areas today that wouldn't appea
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by JudgePenitent 4y ago
A healthy chunk of the Sumerian texts we have today are training tablets. Scribes would copy these tablets much in the same way we copy sentences today to learn to write today, with more of an emphasis on hand writing. A small sample of the
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
Because there were so few people. The inverse of your question is why did technology seemingly explode beginning around 10k years ago? And the answer to that is simple: the Milankovitch cycles had brought about a warming trend, bringing an
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
And yet Zizek offers himself as that exact contradiction: https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/zizek-has-a-lot-to... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UOM3C3q7II Zizek is certainly a madman, being
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
Because of Egyptian inscriptions. If it was only one group, why do Egyptian inscriptions list 5+ groups? Here's the relevant article section: "The Philistines (known to the Egyptians as the Peleset) were among several groups liste
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
Well said
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
Well written article considering the very diverse time frames and sources. "Around 3000 BC, a group of savage tribes now known as the Indo-Europeans invaded Europe from eastern Ukraine and southern Russia, destroying the EEF civilizati
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
Wow! This is really cool! Is the entire nutrient cycle automated, or are there some parts which have to be manually done after the initial germination for foodstuffs? Are there machine learning algorithms which learn from the nutrient and w
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
If you aren't using stablecoins then you are paying with volatile assets. If the assets are more volatile than usd, and if the cost of said volatility is greater than potential savings with transaction fees, then you will end up paying
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
If I'm not mistaken, the source for Columbus visiting Iceland was by his son Ferdinand (who said his dad left notes laying around and his son figured out he was talking about Iceland) in his biography of his father, written in Spanish,
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
Columbus made a voyage to Bristol in the UK and certainly came across merchants who had travelled in the northern reaches, Iceland in particular. It is suggested that he did indeed travel to Iceland although the source we have for it is qui
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
> Real problem and solutions: - energy -> Need hydro or nuclear. Everything else is just marketing bullshit. Agree in general, yet from what i've read most of the worlds hydro (read: river) resources are already being tapped exte
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
this 100% 1 hour each morning when your mind is the sharpest and most ready is so much more valuable to me than 3 hours late at night when i am tired from the work of the day
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
This is a rideshare capital vs opponent capital legal battle. Any claims to doing this for the drivers is absurd; different drivers want different things, and for that, you would have to design an environment whereby a driver can be either
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
https://www.schneier.com/
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
>>In those cases were I dealt with the origins of "Europe" I started even earlier than the Sumerians: with the end of the last ice age. I applaud your breadth. The vast majority of instructors I've had prefer not notici
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
>>These are words that you can imagine coming out of the mouth of a figure like Lincoln or FDR. Pericles reaches into many of the same ideals we still venerate today. I've never seen anything chiseled into some Egyptian obelisk o
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
>>We simply don’t have a lot of records about ancient Egyptian scholarship before the Hellenistic period. Agreed. As robbiep mentioned, this is probably because of Alexander in general. >>The period of time where Egypt produced
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
>the breadth and detail of history makes generalisations such as ‘western history begins with the Greeks’ a more palatable launchpad for consumption than breaking down the nuance that inevitably unfolds on more profound study Absolutely.
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
Thanks for posting this!
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
Fitting that Diodorus should post this to hn. "So far, archaeologists have explored less than five percent of the ancient city." So still much more to come. The story of Heraklion is a great example of climate change and its impac
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
This problem will not go away unless we change our food production methods. This is a global challenge. While it might centralize in specific regions, food production destabilization in one region affects others obviously. Today, we have te
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by JudgePenitent 5y ago
Really exciting. In my dreams, humanity colonizes Venus much more readily than Mars, because Venus has much more energy to tap into, has a much stronger atmosphere, and at the closest point in orbits, Venus is far closer. I envision Bespin-

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