jajag

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by jajag 2y ago
> Religion is often used to segregate humans into opposing tribes You can say that about absolutely any belief, whether religious or not
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by jajag 2y ago
> This is will force a political crisis no it won't > as the government is complaining it has no money to build houses no it isn't
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by jajag 2y ago
That's an overly simplistic approach.
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by jajag 2y ago
The paper addresses this briefly, and suggests additional mechanisms to do with UV effects on different skin layers (e.g. NO mediated vasodilatation) may be involved.
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by jajag 2y ago
> Seizing the plant and rigging it to explode as a quid pro quo demand for Russia to leave the Zaporizhia NPP I honestly don't see that happening. There's a diplomatic game being played around Russia's nuclear threats, I d
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by jajag 2y ago
For what it's worth: https://x.com/Heroiam_Slava/status/1821274958879977633 https://x.com/Tendar/status/1821222650191982674 https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status
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by jajag 2y ago
> Ukrainians always insisted what they are fighting to protect the homeland. Just what do you think they're doing if not that?
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by jajag 2y ago
It's quite a bit more than that. I've seen reports of 40-50 surrendering in just one location alone - smaller numbers in multiple reports from other locations.
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by jajag 2y ago
The Kimberly rock drawings are some of the oldest in Australia, and an intrinsic part of Aboriginal culture in the region which they are found. Assigning their origin to a non-aboriginal source was considered disrespectful by some.
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by jajag 2y ago
The Nature article is here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07447-4 Somebody (I don't remember who) suggested that Australian Boabab trees were potential evidence of the direct population of Australia fr
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by jajag 2y ago
I'd highly recommend the book "The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot" by Robert Macfarlane in which the writer describes walking the Ridgeway and other walks in the UK and other places. His description of walking the Broomway ( htt
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by jajag 2y ago
> But I do believe they got the syntax wrong - should have been "from fs import { readFile }" so that auto-complete works. Personally, I prefer the "import x from y" format because it makes it easier to visually scan
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by jajag 2y ago
In a similar vein, I recently came across Peter Laurie's Beneath the City Streets ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_the_City_Streets ) in a second hand bookshop. Despite belonging to a very different time, it&
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by jajag 2y ago
https://archive.ph/1tEgl
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by jajag 2y ago
Assembly theory might eventually provide some useful tools in this area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_theory
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by jajag 2y ago
It already has with the BSE crisis, and I'm not sure if we 100% understand how close to a much greater crises we came. I remember there was period in the UK back in the nineties where there was the grim prospect of hundreds of thousand
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by jajag 3y ago
I think you're confusing intelligence with consciousness
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Toward a Deeper Enshittification Thesis(itself.blog)
2 points by jajag 3y ago|0 comments
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by jajag 3y ago
Earlier post about this with link to the university's press release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38960728
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by jajag 3y ago
A link to the actual post: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/181241a/amazon_sol...
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by jajag 3y ago
> people who still don't believe that decentralized blockchain networks are the future of payments Imagine if the network was working but at 7 global transactions per second and each purchase took 10 mins for the payment to clear.
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by jajag 3y ago
In Ireland's case, both apply - there's an inability to build and there's defacto rent caps. Plus until very recently, an eviction ban.
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by jajag 3y ago
Here's an RTE News article on the tragedy. You can see from the photo that yes, it was pretty rough still: https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0820/1400656-cork-ironman/
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by jajag 3y ago
Festina lente
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by jajag 3y ago
> "the past is never finished" Very well said.
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Russia killed its tech industry(technologyreview.com)
172 points by jajag 3y ago|261 comments
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Jodorowsky's Star Wars(artstation.com)
22 points by jajag 4y ago|16 comments
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The Guy Who Built an iPhone Using Only Shenzhen's Cell Phone Markets(forbes.com)
12 points by jajag 4y ago|0 comments
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Public Universal Friend(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jajag 4y ago
European commissioners aren't elected in any sense of the word, they're appointed by national governments. Even if the US president is elected via an electoral college, the outcome of that vote is very much driven by the popular v

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