samirillian

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by samirillian 20d ago
Source? I remember them referencing global cooling on science Friday on NPR as late as 2005
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by samirillian 1mo ago
> Proper hard bread couldn’t be home baked.
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by samirillian 1mo ago
I mean, tautologically, I guess all the good parts of prosperity and none of the bad. Not a proof of correctness but a list: 1. Wealth gotten by one’s own work, or by wise management 2. A lender never a borrower 3. Desires generally satisfi
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by samirillian 1mo ago
I agree, I also think it’s more like delayed gratification. Good incentives are for good people bad incentives are for fools. The further you can push back short-term incentives in favor of long-term, the better your life will be. Like we a
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by samirillian 2mo ago
No they just loudly say “It would be a shame if an unfortunate accident should occur to these bloggers”
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by samirillian 6mo ago
The one straw revolution guy planted root vegetables among fruit trees in orchards I wonder if that would make a difference
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by samirillian 6mo ago
Such an irony/nominative determinism around his name. The self cannot will its way out of the tangled mess, cannot will to be the good Christian he dissociatively admires. “it is not in the individual gift to will belief. Self has trie
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by samirillian 8mo ago
At least by analogy with sound, it doesn’t make sense to me to use the golden ratio. If you consider the tonic, the octave, the major fifth, you have 1:1, 2:1, and 3:2. It seems to me that the earliest ratios in the fibonacci sequence are m
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by samirillian 9mo ago
Wood is rigid and won’t melt or scratch
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by samirillian 9mo ago
I like how decades after the “Sokal Affair”, slatestarcodex is creating its own impish simulacrum of English departments in the 90s. The author would do well to note Frederic Jameson’s own definition of simulacrum: a copy of which there was
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by samirillian 10mo ago
I never enjoyed peanuts but I know Bill watterson the creator of Calvin and Hobbes was a big fan, so there must be something there
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by samirillian 10mo ago
Common problem in man-made lakes. When you create a lake by damming a river it creates perfect conditions for lamination, deep narrow and filled with agricultural runoff. When they pull the plug on these dams all the de-oxygenated water flo
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by samirillian 1y ago
Do you think what Israel is doing is right?
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by samirillian 1y ago
Holy crap you’re totally right
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by samirillian 1y ago
You’re all made of stars you gotta let that shit shine okay?
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by samirillian 1y ago
I don’t take a position on this because I don’t know it but I think you’re (willfully?) misunderstanding the point. I don’t think all ethical problems can be legally defined. Something may be legal and wrong or illegal and not wrong. If she
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by samirillian 1y ago
Oh interesting, well maybe I’m wrong. I mean the nerves thing stands but yeah maybe it is that easy
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by samirillian 1y ago
Can you do this? Like, I’ve killed every animal I’ve shot at so far (legally, while hunting) and I know I couldn’t make that shot. The nerves alone Jesus. I’m always surprised and dubious when I hear this claim repeated. A blood vessel in a
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by samirillian 1y ago
Is it possible that lefties twisted in the opposite direction
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by samirillian 1y ago
Ive wondered if to a bat a bat is more like a whale, swimming through the air, calling out at a rate and pitch sort of matching the distance its electrical signals travel. To them they aren’t moving fast at all, or maybe to them maybe human
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by samirillian 1y ago
Yes.
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by samirillian 1y ago
Well if this makes money good for you lol
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by samirillian 1y ago
Which is also mentioned in Strunk and White but I doubt they read it
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by samirillian 1y ago
> Just as Borges' Aleph represents the convergence of all points in the universe, Alephic stands at the intersection of AI, code, and marketing expertise. C’mon isn’t it obvious.
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by samirillian 1y ago
The problem is I don't think the first one says anything, which, however stylistic, is still the point of a script. If it doesn't actually make a meaningful expression then it's not a script. What word has 20 s's in it?
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by samirillian 1y ago
*Do
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by samirillian 1y ago
Just to clarify I don’t think that first image is Kufic script, whereas the second is the shahada (author calls it the shada) I’m not sure about the 2 kinds of scripts claim, I think there are a few more than that.
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by samirillian 1y ago
What kind of tree is this? I know a lot of trees get called sycamores
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by samirillian 1y ago
The question is what changes to the mode of production were brought by the technological advance. I think fatty tuna sushi became popular due to early refrigeration
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by samirillian 2y ago
Xenophon's Cyropedia talks about Persians becoming centaurs when they get horses but Strauss has some esoteric reading about the centaur being some flawed creature, meant to symbolize a combination of the medes and persians i don'

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