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What remained of the scroll has been read. This scroll was severely damaged in earlier attempts to unroll it.

Thanks for explaining this.

So this was uploaded only 6 hours ago and has over 1,000 points and is at the very bottom of the front page (#28 right now).

There were several. Clay tablets from Ugarit, a Linear B tablet from Pylos, cuneiform tablets from Hattusa (in the decades before the city was abandoned), and several records from …

If consumers find that's a problem, then they should be willing to pay the 30% premium in the app store. My guess is that this is not as much of an issue as Apple claims, and this …

Maybe I'd buy that if the exact same thing didn't happen 5 months later with Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302. Most of the blame has to be on Boeing.

It is wrong because people will not want to fly on this plane, and carriers will be less likely to buy this model. This hurts Boeing's bottom line.

For a post with over 800 points posted only 6 hours ago it's remarkable this isn't in HN's top 30 posts on the front page.

Plato says that the story is absolutely true multiple times. I don't think we should blame Plato for what may be attributed to our own ignorance.

You're right. More and more pharmaceutical manufacturing is contracted out to CDMOs. So one day big pharma might only do marketing.

The solution is to do it before it's made illegal.

Should people stop telling new stories? A century from now the best books of today will be classics. Books can act as a time capsule of a certain time and place and mode of life. A…

You're absolutely right. Though I don't understand why this idea persists - even in academic scholarship. It has been proven decades ago that non-meteoric iron was smelted in the E…

No. Iron has been smelted in Anatolia since 2500 BC. It was initially believe that this iron must have been meteoric, but isotonic analysis done in the last few decades has shown t…

Aboriginal Australians migrated to Australia 65,000 years ago.

It is absolutely a popularity contest. The biggest problem is that many academics are reluctant to deviate too far from current consensus in fear of damaging their reputation. The …

There's a famous quip that the person who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey was not Homer, but a different man with the same name.

Ancient tradition unanimously ascribed the authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey to Homer. We know nothing about Homer, except that he likely lived around the area of Smyrna and that…

An architect decoded Linear B.

So by this definition bacteria has consciousness. I would have to disagree that bacteria are conscious.

I just want to add to this that when I first heard about this virus I searched the WIV on Google Maps. I believe that was 14 January 2020. When I searched it again a few weeks late…

Not really a paradox. The public only has minimal evidence. While the US government has mountains of data and recordings.

It might have to do with the fact that most of Congress is old and understands the mail system, but not so much digital communications.

I had an iPhone 4 many years ago, and Apple nerfed it with software updates when the iPhone 6 came out. These updates significantly slowed down the phone, pretty much forcing me to…