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> Microsoft Edge is now the most used member of the Chrome family Doubt it. > and Microsoft Edge is moving towards implementing their own equivalent of uBlock built into the browse…

> Many details of this particular experiment made me greatly reduce my confidence and interest in social science. There is a reason why many scientists diplomatically classify soci…

Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41123155

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My personal motto: "Be the Change You Wish To See on HN".

> Is there any evidence of any tribes whatsoever existing over 20,000 years ago? Hunter gatherer tribes. > There was no tribal violence 47,000 years ago because there were no tribe…

> but we don't find anything like signs of a struggle at an inhabited cave or post battle burial pit or stolen artifacts that would be loot, or attempts at creating defenses like f…

> For anyone curious, there is absolutely no evidence of coordinated violence between Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens [0] 'coordinated'. > and it is believed that war developed durin…

"UNIX: A History and a Memoir" - Brian Kernighan

> It’s the difference between drilling vocabulary flashcards and actually reading, listening, or talking to someone. You need the 'flashcards' before you can read, listen or talk. …

> We're good at focusing on our long-term greed and hunger over short-term greed and hunger. If that were true, the modern world centered around consumerism wouldn't exist. We woul…

> DNA evidence tends to favor the Steppe hypothesis. There you go. > There are in fact some instances where Archaic Rome is closer to Vedic India than it is to Greece But you weren…

> Well, okay, but rote memorization is neither necessary nor sufficient to internalize concepts. Of course it is. It's how every human child learns initially. By rote memorization.…

> I agree with the other counterarguments raised in the article about sound shifts etc. With more DNA data, we wouldn't necessarily need linguistic characteristics to chart languag…

Yes I know. 'Local' as in 'localism' aspect of deterministic classical physics which got 'disproven' by bell. It's why modern physics is a nondeterministic quantum physics variety.…

> It makes me want to ask Putin to just launch those nukes already... What's with accounts here wanting Putin to use nukes all of a sudden? 'If I could have one wish it would be fo…

I remember seeing this posted a few days ago. When I hover over '8 hours ago', it shows '2024-07-22T15:59:19'. That's not 8 hours ago. Why is a post from 4 days ago showing as a re…

> FTA (or at least a link in it) - Macrinus was born in Africa. Just because he was born in africa doesn't mean he is black or 'african'. Elon Musk was born in africa too but nobod…

> The conventional wisdom for getting job leads as a new grad and early career is to go to job fair, have a portfolio and open a LinkedIn account. Conventional wisdom isn't very wi…

> Just a layman here, but isn’t it pretty well established that there is no hidden variable? It's been repeatedly experimentally 'proven' that there are no hidden variables. https:…