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Also, be sure to fully specify the location—one time I just put “Athens” and ended up in Athens, Georgia.

The most common theories of reincarnation hold that it is punishment for misdeeds in past lives.

Musical notes have a characteristic volume “envelope”—attack, decay, sustain, and release. The loudest part of the note is near the start, when some initial disturbance causes something to vibrate. The decay of the vibration is at least partly caused by the second law of thermodynamics: the energy of the vibration is being lost to the environment in the form of heat and sound, and the amplitude decreases with the energy.

If you play it in reverse, it sounds like the vibration is being fed energy from an external source and then abruptly cut off.

I like Molly White’s recent take, that it might be more productive to treat this as a labor issue instead of a copyright issue (at least in principle). Even if the AI corporations aren’t technically re-selling copyrighted works, they’re still profiting from the authors’ unpaid labor.

“Mother of Exiles” would have been a cooler name than “Statue of Liberty”.

If there are a bunch of posts on a particular topic, shouldn’t it keep at least one of them? Otherwise it would tend to completely filter out the most significant or interesting topics.

I had a really good pizza topped with stinging nettle once.

Is Trump aware that ‘Ukrainian nuclear plants’ includes Chernobyl?

I’m assuming it was originally for use by the private security personnel, since they knew where it was and apparently expected to be able to access it.

And/or, the institute may have a strict no-guns policy and the safe is for visitors to store their firearms when entering.

So the way I’m interpreting this is that the finch’s song neurons are pass-by-value and the budgerigar’s are pass-by-reference.

I always insist on colors within the visible spectrum.

(4) you pass, barely

That implies that 1, 2, and 3 are all failing (perhaps with different degrees of embarrassment). If all failure is equivalent in practice, you might as well maximize the non-failing outcomes and go with A.