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by ahazred8ta 3d ago
Same thing with people who naively believe that amino acids can only be formed in space and can only be brought to Earth in asteroids, as opposed to forming *ON* Earth. Our current best guess is a geothermal vent in a high phosphorus '
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by ahazred8ta 3d ago
Socrates always used to inspect his dough before adding the yeast. The unexamined loaf is not worth leaven.
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by ahazred8ta 4d ago
"I should like to teach you the dance of my people" is from the Kikuyu fairy tale "The Warrior And The Irimũ".
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by ahazred8ta 4d ago
Seems to be self promotion by Yati https://duckduckgo.com/?q=yatifoods&ia=web
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by ahazred8ta 4d ago
Likewise you can placate the Basilisk. https://www.basiliskfoundation.com/store/p/certification-of-... https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2228:_Machine_Lea...
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by ahazred8ta 4d ago
To use a car, you need to sign a contract with an insurance company. Amish don't like contracts. That's why they couldn't have cellphones until the prepaid ones came out. That's why they are mostly not on the electric gr
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by ahazred8ta 6d ago
Spaghettification is directional / linear, and is in the form of a tidal acceleration. Expansion of the universe is uniform in all directions. Urban legends about cosmic sized black holes are in conflict with what cosmologists can actu
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by ahazred8ta 6d ago
There's a diagram for how long it takes a 'light-hugger' ship to travel various distances at 1-G acceleration. Shiptime is on the left, earth time is on the right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Round
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by ahazred8ta 7d ago
A game. "A Roblox alternative with no virtual currency and no ads."
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by ahazred8ta 7d ago
The wording makes it sound like the system would normally only show you links for certain information, but if you fiddled with the numbers in the url it would display stuff regardless of whether you were supposed to see it.
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by ahazred8ta 12d ago
The software industry is such a young field that we can still sit at the feet of the giants whose shoulders we stand on.
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by ahazred8ta 13d ago
Villages in New Guinea, the Amazon, etc, the word you're looking for is 'cultures'. Cultures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Pottery_culture & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by ahazred8ta 13d ago
To an archeologist, 'civilization' refers to builders of walled cities inhabited by non-farmers with complex social sructure, division of labor, and usually some form of taxation. Highly moral hunter gatherers living in mud huts a
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by ahazred8ta 16d ago
There are stone tools half a million years old. Who do you think made them?
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by ahazred8ta 16d ago
There was one analyst reading Pravda who noticed a lot of people were suddenly being promoted into positions held by members of a certain large clique, with no notice about what was happening to the former appointees. After one of the nucle
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by ahazred8ta 16d ago
> they should be regulated to spend more profits on infrastructure That is exactly what people have been lobbying the regulators for, but the regulators keep saying no.
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by ahazred8ta 16d ago
Many dialects of English pronounce 'tr' as 'tr' and not tshr or chr. Likewise 'dr' is 'dr', although there are some that pronounce drink like "jrink".
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by ahazred8ta 16d ago
In northeastern US, missile is anywhere between 'ill', and schwa 'ul', but not 'aisle'. "Hurled a miss-aisle" is sometimes heard in court.
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by ahazred8ta 16d ago
Spelling reform was associated with the Abolitionist movement; they published the Wecli Fonetic Advocat in Sinsinati.
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by ahazred8ta 16d ago
Almost 7200 nautical miles from Macau, China to Conakry, Senegal, west africa, through Suez. 8253 miles.
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by ahazred8ta 17d ago
In passing, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Salopek is walking from Ethiopia to Tierra del Fuego, tracing the path of human migration out of Africa. Walking the coast, not a straight line.
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by ahazred8ta 19d ago
You'd think that subjects who are institutionalized would not have this access problem.
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by ahazred8ta 20d ago
"Did we know the mechanical affections of the particles of rhubarb, hemlock, opium, and a man, as a watchmaker does those of a watch ... we should be able to tell beforehand that rhubarb will purge, hemlock kill, and Opium make a man s
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by ahazred8ta 23d ago
Jonathan Harris gave an interview where he described the suit-wearing stuntman Bob May as "A very strange individual, even by the standards of the 1960s. Whenever I said 'you bubble-headed booby', I wasn't talking to t
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by ahazred8ta 26d ago
151 kelvin at ambient pressure. Argonne Lab FTW. Midway between liquid nitrogen and dry ice.
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by ahazred8ta 28d ago
It was also somewhat popularized by the navigator in the Star Blazers / Yamato series. Anime nerds FTW.
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by ahazred8ta 1mo ago
Apparently -tamo is a superlative, and 'gautama' means 'the one who has the most cows'. There are reconstructed languages loosely based on proto Indo European. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambahs
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by ahazred8ta 1mo ago
Japan and Nepal prohibited immigration for centuries. France used to prohibit entry without a permit. The Sentinel islanders prohibit immigration in the present day. Was it illegal for them to do so?
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by ahazred8ta 1mo ago
You can buy rocks engraved with "Nothing Is Written In Stone". https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nothing+is+written+in+stone&ia=ima...
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by ahazred8ta 1mo ago
Bill used to be a magazine pinup boy. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/bill-gates-ceo...

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