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Many bible thumper crusades are due to mistranslations. When they talk about ‘sexual immorality’ they are really translating πορνεία which means forced prostitution. Translation is also risky:
In 1631, Barker pounded out another poorly edited King James Bible. Unfortunately for him, it would prove to be his last. Smack dab in the middle of the 10 Commandments (Exodus 20:14) — one of the Bible’s most integral passages — the publisher omitted one crucial word: “not.”
shrimp cluster in groups easily spottable by flamingos not because of safety in numbers, but because they’re forced by a parasite.
The patent trolls at Intellectual Ventures inventing something is a new development, although impractical given that malaria infested areas don’t usually have reliable power: it kills 100 mosquitoes / s within a 30m radius.
downloading now to find new 0days
plus ~5M colors and ~340K auditory tones.
humans are capable of discriminating at least 1T different odors — not just 10K different odors, a number first proposed decades ago and not backed by data.
why would a clickfarm buy them? makes no sense to me.
an estimated 1000 sailors die per year (2 large ships / week) to bring us global trade.
It looked almost like a landfill in some areas. Containers had split like dropped melons, spewing cargo: remote-control boats, golf clubs, frozen lobster tails, bicycles, 1000s of plastic air fresheners. A few days into the salvage operation, the stink of rotting seafood got so foul that Austin swiped an air freshener, cracked it open, and rubbed the fragrance cartridge on his mustache.
they’re working on some g+ functionality too, like hiding boring reshares, or excessive talking about trivial events of the day.
a robust system for public events would be an amazing public good, but all efforts to create it have failed. there are plenty of startups that have tried, they’re full of spam, and the social networks make it pretty impossible to find events.
woo like this needs to be stamped out. this simultaneously raises my opinion of mr. wales and further lowers it of change.org (though it was already pretty terrible). Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia responds to ridiculous petition seeking to force Wikipedia to take pseudoscience at face value.
No, you have to be kidding me. Every single person who signed this petition needs to go back to check their premises and think harder about what it means to be honest, factual, truthful.
Wikipedia’s policies around this kind of thing are exactly spot-on and correct. If you can get your work published in respectable scientific journals – that is to say, if you can produce evidence through replicable scientific experiments, then Wikipedia will cover it appropriately.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 