ciphol

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by ciphol 4y ago
The areas where the counter-reformation (i.e. theocracy) was strongest had the most secular populations. Do you call that religion or not-religion?
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by ciphol 4y ago
Why would the climate/weather changes stop right at the French border?
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by ciphol 4y ago
Modernization drew a lot of people away from traditional religion. But Hasidim and the Amish etc are "post modern". They have developed various cultural features to "immunize" themselves against the temptations of modern
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by ciphol 4y ago
> how can he pin down the demographic decline as caused by the Catholic Church’s decline ? He gives several data points for secularization, such as the language people chose to use in their wills. Since there is a strong general correlat
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by ciphol 4y ago
Presumably a pharaoh who ruled for decades would indeed have lots of kids, if he wanted to and (as most are) was physically able.
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by ciphol 4y ago
The capacity of airships is miniscule compared to transatlantic shipping. The article suggests a 450m long airship carrying approximately 800 tons. For contrast, a single container ship is about the same size as that airship, but can carry
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by ciphol 4y ago
There aren't many such children, and it's complicated to get them in an ethical way.
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by ciphol 4y ago
USSR was poor, we're talking about rich countries.
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by ciphol 4y ago
That's exactly what I said - "if something other than money is contributed". But not every man (or woman) does these things, and likely their spouse will be doing them as well. If I do half the child care and chores, while my
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by ciphol 4y ago
Imagine you get home, plug your car in, the car runs your home heating for the remainder of the evening for free, then you go to sleep and the car recharges for cheap. Sounds like an attractive proposal?
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by ciphol 4y ago
Charging at work seems like the thing to do. Not only is there excess solar energy at that time, but workplaces are more concentrated than homes so the installation costs for chargers should be less.
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by ciphol 4y ago
If you're no longer going to be contributing income, what will you contribute instead to the family? Nobody respects or appreciates a freeloader as a partner. But if something other than money is contributed, it's more likely to w
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by ciphol 4y ago
You can't become a sovereign entity without territory on which you can enforce your norms. Amazon doesn't and (for the foreseeable future) won't have sovereign territory.
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by ciphol 4y ago
Actually, the biggest roadblock is ChatGPT's hallucinations which mean that any answer it gives to a complex question is highly likely to be completely wrong.
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by ciphol 4y ago
> Haha... Seriously? This is the narrative that was pushed indeed. Now it turns out that many people ravaged their health with these untested mRNA treatments. Search for myocarditis (even my GP now knows about this). Conspiracy theories
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by ciphol 4y ago
> ChatGPT isn't even close to being able to consistently act like a single human being with interests, plenty of long term memory, and a life outside a chat room. Wait until GPT4 comes out next year...
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by ciphol 4y ago
Trains have major weather issues much less frequently than planes.
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by ciphol 4y ago
NYT is not the government. It's a private business that looks at profit first, politics second, and impartial justice last if at all. The financial lure of a panel with SBF post-scandal must have been too much to resist. It's not
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by ciphol 4y ago
> We haven't seen any meaningful increase in real earnings in the last 50 years Who's "we"? The world as a whole has experienced rapidly growing real earnings throughout the last 50 years. Real earnings worldwide have
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by ciphol 4y ago
That's true in mathematics, but I find for any other subject it's a great reference for anyone intelligent enough to understand the subject. (One might remark that I'm just not intelligent enough to understand advanced mathem
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by ciphol 4y ago
Where are people going to keep that second device? In their wallet? The wallet is just as likely to be stolen as the phone.
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by ciphol 4y ago
I've been using a shiny metal dongle to lock my door for my whole life. Why would carrying a different shaped dongle be a problem?
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by ciphol 4y ago
I had a SSD fail not long ago. It was used regularly, but one day I noticed that reading a large file failed. I went into panic mode and stopped using it and attempted to copy everything to a new drive, but copying many of the large files f
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by ciphol 4y ago
Colloquially, "dark age" means an age when the people are unenlightened, backwards, etc
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by ciphol 4y ago
None of that is unreadable. You can always download a browser from a few years back and open the page with that. So while there may be some inconvenience with old information, there is no loss of content.
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by ciphol 4y ago
Imagine, someone whose parents are both Stanford professors might have a family connection to other highly successful professionals.
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by ciphol 4y ago
This is typical NYT reporting on tech. "I literally heard it from NYT reporters at the time. There was a top-down decision that tech could not be covered positively, even when there was a true, newsworthy and positive story. I'd n
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by ciphol 4y ago
5km per year is higher than any European or North/South American city (except maybe Moscow), I believe.
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by ciphol 4y ago
It's an interesting question how Europe would look if all the white Americans and Australians and so on had stayed in Europe. But the answer is not obvious.
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by ciphol 4y ago
India's going on a massive metro rail spree and also massively improving intercity rail. Things are significantly improving, though there will always be traffic in a city the size of Delhi or Mumbai.

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