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by vixen99 4d ago
What a great idea recording & collating these remarkable instances. It tells us so much about actual and, who knows, potential human capabilities. Rather exciting!
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by vixen99 16d ago
> Leavis represents plenty of what is worst about them As in 'Leavis promptly informed his audience that Snow "is as intellectually undistinguished as it is possible to be’, an ‘intellectual nullity", and ‘portentously ign
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by vixen99 17d ago
From a comment further up: 'If you don't know, the unfortunate way the EU is structured, the Parliament cannot initiate legislation. They can only vote on whatever the Commission puts in front of them.'.
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by vixen99 18d ago
Why not give an example instead of expecting me to believe your assertion. You may be right or wrong; I have no idea.
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Oceanic NiñO Index (ONI)(climate.gov)
4 points by vixen99 22d ago|0 comments
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by vixen99 23d ago
I wish this was available for young folk in Romania: As it happens: macOS: 2.70% of desktop operating-system usage in Romania; OS X: 2.55%; Combined Apple desktop share: approximately 5.25%; Windows: 90.65%; Linux: 4.02% or so AI tells me.
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Nitrogen pollution from the sky is a likely driver of global vegetative greening(nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
3 points by vixen99 28d ago|0 comments
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by vixen99 1mo ago
What are you, a mind-reader? Skip the politics - it isn't about that. Merely that statements about 'everyone' are crap. If using 'everyone' is a figure of speech then time to junk it in this kind of context.
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by vixen99 1mo ago
As Romanians will tell you in August 2026, you can't run nuclear power stations without a cooling mechanism. In this case, it's Danube which is failing to offer that. Fusion is almost nowhere to be seen.
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by vixen99 1mo ago
You're not going to do anything at all without money as a fungible exchange mechanism (a sometime measure of 'value'). Capitalists see value in things and try to generate that value. Yes, politicians and the rest of us have t
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by vixen99 1mo ago
Not true. El Nino (increases CO2) and Albedo (long term - it's decreasing) are problematic issues in this area. If it's settled science why bother to even consider other factors? Doubtful if humanity would survive the catastrophe
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by vixen99 1mo ago
We should be aware that the Iranian regime exists in a environment that justifies lying in situations where they sense the need to do so. It should be admitted that they are not the only ones.
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Artificial Ignorance: The Political Falsehoods of Leading AIs(justfacts.com)
19 points by vixen99 1mo ago|7 comments
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Sea-ice extent in the Greenland Sea using remote sensing from 2017 to 2024(sciencedirect.com)
4 points by vixen99 1mo ago|0 comments
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by vixen99 1mo ago
I'm guessing that that's a lot of people you have in mind.
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by vixen99 1mo ago
Tangential but for those who don't know it, Whitehead's Science and the Modern World (1925) is a fascinating read.
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by vixen99 1mo ago
https://nmaffe.github.io/iceboost_webapp/ is an app for estimating glacier ice thickness using a machine-learning model. 'ICEBOOST v2.0 viewer'
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by vixen99 1mo ago
And just a few of the Hamas agents as well.
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by vixen99 1mo ago
What's the point of this? The title is not a new idea and there's naught else. Nothing wrong with a paywall but how about a link to a worthwhile discussion on this topic that we can actually read.
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2025 set a record for global vegetation greenness(nature.com)
6 points by vixen99 1mo ago|0 comments
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by vixen99 1mo ago
An updated Turing Test is overdue or has someone suggested one?
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by vixen99 1mo ago
A refresh related to one of your points: Statista says for the US: Birds killed by wind turbines: about 140,000 to 680,000 birds per year. Bats ~ over 1 million bats killed per year in North America (~926,856 bats in the U.S. in 2023 and ~8
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by vixen99 2mo ago
I'm afraid the examples of 'his finest comedy' are so 'dry' I'm missing it completely. My loss I guess.
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by vixen99 2mo ago
Certainly, lighter roasts are less intensive in taste than the darker versions. We should be aware though that frorm the health angle, dark roasts have significantly less polyphenols. Food Chemistry 129 (2011) 991–1000. Cheap coffee? Good n
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by vixen99 2mo ago
I am intrigued and wonder why you stopped at the third page?
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by vixen99 2mo ago
Some people say it nevertheless. Oscar Kambona, a Cabinet Minister in President Nyerere's Tanzanian Government tells how he met Mao in China. Prior to the meeting he spoke to some surgeons repairing a fractured leg. Were they satisfied
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by vixen99 2mo ago
Sure - no real argument but it's maybe worth examining the assumptions underlying this which you know exist because you say 'maybe' and 'I am afraid ...'. Accounts abound as to why 'doing nothing' is not n
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by vixen99 2mo ago
Not everyone will come to view this model from the same vantage point. Some will simply be curious about some famous software that they don't happen to use. So the tour is an excellent idea. Great presentation. Congratulations.
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by vixen99 2mo ago
They are cheap but the rockets to shoot them down cost (I've heard but don't count on it) around $480,000 per missile. That is not a minor consideration for a country like Romania.
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by vixen99 2mo ago
Negative happiness. For Hitler, being captured alive and utterly humiliated in front of the world's jury as it were, must have been a prospect too horrible to contemplate. Happiness with a coefficient of -10 as against maybe -5 immedia

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