prime_number_314159

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"If you give a man a fish, he'll tape it to a broken ATM in protest. If you teach a man to fish, he'll tape fish to lots of broken ATMs in protest." - the wisdom of the elder humans

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A shekel is about 11.5 grams, so 21 shekels of silver is ~$300 today.

1970 was during the cultural revolution. In that year, the world population was 3.68 billion, and the population if China was just shy of 830 million - China had 22% of the world's population, so if they held (only) 20% of the world's prisoners, they'd have a lower than average incarceration rate.

The same is not true for the US today, we have less than 5% of the world's population today.

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

WaterSeer was initially somehow related to some part of UC Berkeley, rather than MIT.

You may be thinking of this device: https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(20)30444-X

... Or the metal oxide framework predecessor to it, or the newer thing that uses some sort of gel.

I'm not aware of a commercial product based on this work.

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you for this explanation. I got as far as an example that highlights the difference ("I made sure he died." vs. "I made sure he was dead."), but couldn't nail down why there is a difference between those things.

What, you just go through life not daring people to try it? His long hair says: "See what happens. I dare you."

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 65 points 1 month ago (12 children)

The text on a Twix wrapper runs in the same direction as the Twix inside, so it's better to say they're top and bottom Twix - otherwise it's ambiguous based on the direction of the packaging.

Also, for double blind experimentation, she shouldn't know whether it's a left or a right.

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You should get hyped for my upcoming light novel:

I Wrote a Light Novel on my Smart Phone About an OP Protagonist, and I Teleported Into the World of my Novel, but Because I was Someone Other Than the Protagonist, I Died Immediately.

I'm done writing all two chapters, now I just need to find a publisher that recognizes genius when I stare them in the face.

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It takes way longer than that for me to share my opinions. The Earth should be rotated at least 30-40 degrees.

I once forgot to install the Linux package when I was installing Arch on a system. Linux even let's you not use Linux, if you like.

It didn't boot.

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The browser warning appears even for a cert issued by a non public CA you have told your browser to trust, and most browsers already enforce a 398 day limit, so unless you have cooperative users, you're already (effectively) capped at 1 year of validity.

 

Somewhere in the universe, there's another intelligent lifeform, with development at a stage roughly equal to our own. They make and share video recordings edited to be emotional, informative, inspirational, or entertaining, and you know and recognize all of it (translated to your native language, of course).

You just don't know where they are, what they look like, the overall story lines, and possibly a way to convince anyone else that this is a real thing.

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