rustymonday

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by rustymonday 3mo ago
What remained of the scroll has been read. This scroll was severely damaged in earlier attempts to unroll it.
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by rustymonday 8mo ago
Thanks for explaining this.
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by rustymonday 8mo ago
So this was uploaded only 6 hours ago and has over 1,000 points and is at the very bottom of the front page (#28 right now).
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by rustymonday 2y ago
There were several. Clay tablets from Ugarit, a Linear B tablet from Pylos, cuneiform tablets from Hattusa (in the decades before the city was abandoned), and several records from Egypt during the reigns of Merneptah and Ramesses III.
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by rustymonday 2y ago
If consumers find that's a problem, then they should be willing to pay the 30% premium in the app store. My guess is that this is not as much of an issue as Apple claims, and this 30% premium will not be worth it to the consumer.
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by rustymonday 3y ago
Maybe I'd buy that if the exact same thing didn't happen 5 months later with Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302. Most of the blame has to be on Boeing.
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by rustymonday 3y ago
It is wrong because people will not want to fly on this plane, and carriers will be less likely to buy this model. This hurts Boeing's bottom line.
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by rustymonday 3y ago
For a post with over 800 points posted only 6 hours ago it's remarkable this isn't in HN's top 30 posts on the front page.
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by rustymonday 3y ago
Plato says that the story is absolutely true multiple times. I don't think we should blame Plato for what may be attributed to our own ignorance.
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by rustymonday 3y ago
You're right. More and more pharmaceutical manufacturing is contracted out to CDMOs. So one day big pharma might only do marketing.
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by rustymonday 3y ago
The solution is to do it before it's made illegal.
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by rustymonday 3y ago
Should people stop telling new stories? A century from now the best books of today will be classics. Books can act as a time capsule of a certain time and place and mode of life. And that has value.
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by rustymonday 3y ago
You're absolutely right. Though I don't understand why this idea persists - even in academic scholarship. It has been proven decades ago that non-meteoric iron was smelted in the Early Bronze Age. Though the main reason bronze was
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by rustymonday 3y ago
No. Iron has been smelted in Anatolia since 2500 BC. It was initially believe that this iron must have been meteoric, but isotonic analysis done in the last few decades has shown that much of this early iron is in fact non-meteoric.
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by rustymonday 3y ago
Aboriginal Australians migrated to Australia 65,000 years ago.
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by rustymonday 3y ago
It is absolutely a popularity contest. The biggest problem is that many academics are reluctant to deviate too far from current consensus in fear of damaging their reputation. The result is that research in many fields tends to stagnate and
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by rustymonday 3y ago
There's a famous quip that the person who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey was not Homer, but a different man with the same name.
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by rustymonday 3y ago
Ancient tradition unanimously ascribed the authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey to Homer. We know nothing about Homer, except that he likely lived around the area of Smyrna and that he may have been blind. Butler's theory is nice and al
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by rustymonday 3y ago
An architect decoded Linear B.
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by rustymonday 3y ago
So by this definition bacteria has consciousness. I would have to disagree that bacteria are conscious.
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by rustymonday 3y ago
I just want to add to this that when I first heard about this virus I searched the WIV on Google Maps. I believe that was 14 January 2020. When I searched it again a few weeks later, the location on Google Maps had changed. I have no screen
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by rustymonday 3y ago
Not really a paradox. The public only has minimal evidence. While the US government has mountains of data and recordings.
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by rustymonday 3y ago
It might have to do with the fact that most of Congress is old and understands the mail system, but not so much digital communications.
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by rustymonday 4y ago
I had an iPhone 4 many years ago, and Apple nerfed it with software updates when the iPhone 6 came out. These updates significantly slowed down the phone, pretty much forcing me to get a new one after only two years. So I bought an Android
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by rustymonday 4y ago
We will find Atlantis.
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by rustymonday 4y ago
We don't know that it hasn't left any physical evidence behind. The origin of many archaeological artifacts are not known for certain. It's possible that there is pottery and other artifacts from Atlantis that we've alre
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by rustymonday 4y ago
Here's the thing about Atlantis: even if you know exactly where it is, and even if you can prove it, you'll find it's nearly impossible to sell. The best way to be compensated for its discovery is probably to make a documenta
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by rustymonday 4y ago
You must not drive out in the country often. Railroad crossing with lights are not common outside busy roads. The most you'll have is a railroad crossing sign. Certainly a flashing light system is safer, but you (and that news article)
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by rustymonday 5y ago
This view has started to change in the past decade. Iron is mentioned several times in Anatolia during the Old Assyrian Period c. 1850 BC. And this is several centuries before the time of King Tut. But iron of good quality was certainly rar
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by rustymonday 5y ago
You're not wrong. But Facebook's attempt to discredit Frances Haugen is poor. From the congressional hearing today, she did not answer questions beyond her expertise [1], and she had over a decade of relevant experience in Engagem

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