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Comment · 11 months ago
“Unfortunately, much of this knowledge – and the texts that contained it – was destroyed during the Spanish Inquisition, leaving only a few bits and pieces from which to reconstruct these advanced methods for celestial prediction.“ Not the Inquisition, which happened on a different continent!
Comment · 2 years ago
I don’t think the Eu got it right; crucially they missed requiring these choice points to be automatedly navigable for users (eg “.. and if you must publish the metadata representing the choice architecture this way, use these standard keywords to present options, and must allow users to use automation to make their selection “)

The first reg this happens in will I think make billions the world over realize this is what the template of all opt-in online regulation has to be and will hopefully change the world.

Comment · 3 years ago
“The SEC this week told Mr. Burr, a North Carolina Republican who retired from the Senate at the start of the year, that it closed the investigation and wouldn’t take enforcement action against him.” Regulators had earlier said that Mr. Burr had material nonpublic information about the Covid-19 pandemic in February 2020 when he sold virtually all of the stock he owned through a retirement account.
Comment · 4 years ago
(2021)
Comment · 4 years ago
Might you have references ?
Comment · 4 years ago
https://youtu.be/6C72u3v-Y-Y (No English subtitles unfortunately!)
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus_as_a_symbol_of_medici...

“.. older representations from Syria and India of sticks and animals looking like serpents or worms are interpreted by some as a direct representation of traditional treatment of dracunculiasis, the Guinea worm disease.“

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
It's speculated in [1], that agriculture selected evolved humanity towards both long term planning and docility

[1]Cochran, Gregory, and Henry Harpending. The 10,000 year explosion: How civilization accelerated human evolution. Basic Books, 2009.

Comment · 6 years ago

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