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Has the time since the invention of agriculture been long enough for any evolutionary changes to occur, and if so, what are some of those changes?
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Has the time since the invention of agriculture been long enough for any evolutionary changes to occur, and if so, what are some of those changes?
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let's spell it together, kids, w-a-g-e t-h-e-f-t
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You have the correct legal definition
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British cuisine is like...
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Chicken Tikka Masala appears to have credibly originated in the UK. It's probably as British as Beef Stroganoff is Russian (okay, looking it up, it looks like the latter may be at least a bit of a myth, but it gets my point across).
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Boys experience depression differently than girls. Here’s why that matters
Honestly, none of the points on the "Male Depression Risk Scale" listed in the article match my experience. It's always been closer to hopelessness for me I think. Hopelessness and a growing desperation for a way out.
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The Verge reacting to Reddit's spokesperson trying to discredit them
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I hear fall starts for most of the northern hemisphere within just a few months of that
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Google won’t repair cracked Pixel Watch screens
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Garmin also has titanium watches with sapphire glass on their high end. I'm ridiculously clumsy with watches, so I got one thinking I'd stand a chance of not breaking it. Now the new problem is, the watch is way harder than anything else I accidentally smack it into, and can break stuff around it instead.
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Flashback - Mark Zuckerberg on billionaires: 'No one deserves to have that much money'
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Bill Gates has done significant good fighting disease. Still something that should've been decided by society, not a single person, but credit where credit is due.
Unfortunately anti vaxxers have destroyed a lot of that legacy anyway.
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This deserves my undivided attention for 4 hours
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I enjoyed how everyone in the comment thread already knew. Technology Connections is a real treasure.
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How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh
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Wirecutter used to be good, but they've pretty much entirely sold out to whoever pays them I think. The Spruce Eats seems maybe slightly better than them these days for that sorta household stuff?
TechGearLab and OutdoorGearLab are still good.
Project Farm on YouTube is top tier testing for tools and whatever else catches his eye, though I wish it was a little easier to see the results in a spreadsheet instead of having to screenshot the video.
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U.S. military bulk buys Japanese seafood to counter China ban
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Tbf, that's kinda what people thought about leaded gasoline, or greenhouse gas emissions.
In this case, yes, everyone seems perfectly fine, but dilution isn't the solution to everything when the body you're diluting into is finite.
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Compression algorithms generally rely on sensing patterns in the data to allow you to store just one example of that data and where it repeats, instead of storing it all fully. This is extremely visible in H264 and H265 for video, where the first is easily 1% the size of the raw video data, and the second is easily 1/10th the size of that, since it can detect more patterns to compress.
White noise means your mp3 is basically the size of the uncompressed data, instead of being 5-25% that size (stat from Wikipedia on compression ratio of mp3). This costs Spotify more for storage and streaming bandwidth.
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‘Everything indicates’ Chinese ship damaged Baltic pipeline on purpose, Finland says
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So, I can't easily find the name of the ship in Chinese, but it could possibly be a translation error during naming? New New is xīng xīng in pingying (romanized phonetic Chinese), which is also the same spelling as star... If whoever did the translation was bad at it and did it solely off of the phonetics or romanized spelling.
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I'm getting old
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Like how Marvel writers lately keep saying they're getting hate for writing strong female leads, when really they're getting hate for writing idiotic Mary Sue's.
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Ron DeSantis vetoes millions in arts grants to defund “sexual” theater festivals
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Congratulations, you've killed all political participation.
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scale
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Because I can't afford 120TB in SSDs...
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Solar eclipse on Mars! Perseverance rover sees Martian moon Phobos cross the sun in epic video
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A quick search says Phobos orbits 3700 miles, aka 6000km, above the surface of Mars. A few thousand of either is in fact, correct.
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TIL that there are approximately one million Erasmus babies
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Seems to me like it's about the couples transcending national borders, and starting to create a "European" identity rather than national identities.
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Thoughts on Kagi?
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... Okay, I just tried Stract, and its results are... Mostly not helpful.
My understanding is that Kagi makes an effort to tell you how they anonymize your search so they can't tie it back to your account afterwards, whereas Searx is more dependent solely on the goodwill of whoever is hosting the instance. Both are good faith dependent in the end, but one has a profit motive for keeping that faith.
Edit: I hope Stract gets there and takes off one day, but today doesn't seem to be that day for me.
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Sidewalks used to be wider
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My grocery store is literally 0.7mi from my house, but there's no sidewalks along the two 6 lane roads I'd need to follow to feet there.
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Google Pixel 8a leaks absurdly early with rounded design [Gallery]
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I'd honestly prefer they just make the battery thicker to match the camera depth. Solve two problems at once.