peterfirefly

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Comment · 1 day ago
Sulla even managed to resign and survive, which I think is even more impressive.
Comment · 1 day ago
> Nothing, and I do mean nothing, touches McKellan's 1995 Richard III

Ran?

Comment · 1 day ago
Could your parents travel further and faster than a king?
Comment · 1 day ago
Selection effects are real.
Comment · 5 days ago
And then C++38's std::ui2 will solve that.
Comment · 5 days ago
It was already (accurately) described as "an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog" around the turn of the millennium.
Comment · 5 days ago
I don't think you live anywhere close to the normal world. It's like saying "all my friends have phds". I mean, don't everybody know three languages and basic multivariate calculus?
Comment · 5 days ago
It might be someone who is quite active on bilibili or weibo.
Comment · 5 days ago
We know that the quality of the astrocytes matters a lot. It's not just about the quality of the neurons or their number or the way they are connected.

I'm afraid we don't know much more than that yet.

We have created frankenrodents with human astrocytes and they are a lot smarter than their unfranked counterparts. I bet we could learn a lot if we repeated the experiment with astrocytes from humans with different, known IQs.

Comment · 5 days ago
> "ich" vs "ach"

Front vs back vowels. Not much different from "cinco", "gigolo", or "gelato"/"ragazza".

Comment · 9 days ago
He should have written longer letters and duelled less.
Comment · 11 days ago
Tiny display + a lot of them didn't have a backlight. This laptop has a big display.
Comment · 14 days ago
> Luckily, since the 80s we've had the technology to generate energy without releasing greenhouse gases.

Longer. Nuclear power tech was pretty good in the 60s (outside of the Soviet Union).

Comment · 14 days ago
Not that easy unless you really try: shared IV needles and receptive anal sex without condoms (preferably repeatedly to really prepare the tissue). And you gotta find a willing donor who is not on modern HIV drugs.
Comment · 14 days ago
Did she try TNF-α inhibitors?

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