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supernumerary

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    Comment #24810481

    Tapeworm mouth is pretty: https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2020-photomicrogra...

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    Comment #16996152

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invention_of_Morel

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    Comment #16658548

    Our most trenchant and persistent criticism of Facebook has been rooted in a skeptical view of its illusory component; one where illusory experience is scapegoated as our fatal fla…

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    Comment #16658335

    I have writen about why we scape-goat Facebook here - basically we are trained to be highly sceptical of illusions (cf. Plato's allegory of the cave): http://iain.land/posts/201702…

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    Comment #16384813

    Interesting: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22566141

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    Comment #16384481

    Permethrin is actually a more appropriate pesticide for bedbugs but unfortunately they are mostly resistant in the US at least. I have found literally 'baking' a room to 120F + for…

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    Comment #16366851

    Please no, Belle isle is a state park, (formerly city) the grand prix is already too much. (Could you imagine a 'Central Park grand prix'? or 'Hyde Park Heavy Digger Convention' et…

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    Comment #16295260

    Journalism in 2018 is tough.

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    Comment #16006591

    A better review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIGINiBYxis

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    Comment #15956949

    steem scales, 1 million transactions as 7 day average. http://www.blocktivity.info/ as of today...

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    Comment #15887575

    This is o-k. Seems to root it's critique, albeit obliquely, in a strong skepticism of images and illusion - itself originating (in western culture at least) with Plato's allegory o…

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    Comment #15735224

    Regarding the 'Opioid Crisis' ... while very real, the pain and suffering it is responsible for being very large - as a 'talking point' in a political context, it is very much a co…

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    Comment #15734429

    Relative to a shark, and from the Orca's perspective - we have small livers...

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    Comment #15716076

    I grew up in South Africa from 87-92, I have lived in Detroit since 2011. In terms of this being an impossible situation, I think truth and reconciliation ( https://en.wikipedia.or…

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    Comment #15669998

    In the future front end devs will be like peripatetic workers of yore, carting around their component libraries like a salesman's sample case.

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    Comment #15616164

    I love wittgenstein and agree with your gist. Being trite - Wittgenstein also said 'The world is all that is the case' ... a precept that a mission to mars for example certainly fl…

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    Comment #15606882

    I like to think of Thiel as someone who has access to Facebook, rather than a person. Besides - It's not clear how much of a person is left in the face of such a pool of legitimate…

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    Comment #15574018

    I live in Detroit. Here's a picture of the front of a truck. https://iainmait.land/img/photos/1920/ram_grill_2016_iain_ma...

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    Comment #15570719

    I wonder too. Most likely can pull em from whatever front-end is presenting the ledger but they stay in the blockchain, which makes the legality of hosting a node interesting ... N…

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    Comment #15520534

    Stop fronting. Ferndale is north of 8 mile.