But they were exceptions, not the majority who were slaves/workers. You’d still expect a heavy selection bias for good body attributes if you sampled them at random, assuming OP’s hypothesis is true.
But they were exceptions, not the majority who were slaves/workers. You’d still expect a heavy selection bias for good body attributes if you sampled them at random, assuming OP’s hypothesis is true.
This should be quite easy to do (in principle). Every scientific paper has a doi, and any citation of said paper will create a directed backlink to that paper.
You can use this to build a connected graph of dois (nodes) bound by references (edges), and then use that as a basis for clustering (e.g. DBSCAN) which would naturally group papers by their topics.
To represent this in a 2D space you could do fancy embedding using some kind of distance metric between each doi, but you actually don’t need that if you know that one of your 2-axes is going to be time.
For less fancy embeddings, you can just feed the entire graph into graphviz and it will handle the rest.
I’d believe it if a good portion of black americans I’ve seen are tall and muscular, but I’d say their proportions are similar to their white american counterparts, i.e. a spectrum.
I think they just want it more, and its one of the few paths to success they have.
North American term for English Wenches. I think Hoe’s are another tool misused in this manner.
I’m not a huge fan of cancel culture either, but I’ve not paid a cent to any artists’ work that I love in my whole life, so I feel I can justify my position by holding up my hands and saying “hey, I don’t fund their lifestyle. Never have, never will.”
I’m in, take my money.
Grandad, for the last time - those aren’t parrots, they’re people, and that’s not a stick you’re holding it’s a rifle
I was cycling home one evening down a remote unlit path, when I saw this kid slumped up against a tree in a ditch. Concerned, I doubled back and called out to him “hey, are you okay?”
He didn’t look my way, just quietly responded with some hesitation “…yes.” Unsettled by the hesitation, I asked him again another way “is all well? Do you need help?”
Again, he barely looks my way and in a very quiet voice responds “…no.” I didn’t know what to do at this point, as a non-native speaker I’d exhausted my conversation options.
I try to cycle on but do so slowly, looking back at an increasingly skeletal looking figure resting against that tree in that small ditch.
In the distance I see another cyclist coming way, and I hail him to a stop with my flashlight. The guy thankfully speaks English, and I tell him about the kid and the tree, and to check up on him.
I ride on a bit more but I look back to see that the other cyclist did stop and appears to be having an equally difficult monotone conversation with the kid too. Resigned to the fact that I did all I could, I cycle on.
A little bit further down the path I see two kids walking towards me. “Hey!” I cry, “there’s another kid down by that tree over there! Do you know him?”
“Yeah, he’s our friend” comes the easy reply, and then the kicker, “we’re playing hide and seek.”
Look, would you stop being reasonable for a second and just fight already?
The Chronicles of Israfel - Starborn
Out there is someone with a hawk-whistle and a jar of raisins. I pray that you too shall never meet.
Presumably the peanuts to lure squirrels, and the whistle to sic your black-feathered demon army on them, you sicko
If those pension investments come crashing down, the government will just have to roll out a new pension scheme not tied to money. E.g. mandatory social duty where all young and able people work in rotas to take care of 1 to 2 elderly people per month.
“And Lo, let us bless his holy vessel, for though his storage was finite and his time to seek was limited, he faithfully preserved our thoughts and feelings, and carried them up onto heaven in his ascension, where he reigns in the gilded halls of FAT12 on his 3.5inch throne.”
Longevity wasn’t a metric the Phoebus Cartel was actively maximising
The one above is my favorite “There are No Flowers in the Real World” by David Lapham (of The Darkness and Batman fame). Anything written by him, Troy Nixey, Gregory Ruth and Paul Chadwick are worth reading.
Skip: “I Kant” and “Run Saga Run” and anything by Peter Bagge. Neil Gaiman also wrote a small story called “Goliath” but it’s not something I clicked with.
Isn’t Pepsi threatening to poison the water supply, which would be bad for everyone, including RC and Wolf Cola?
Coke is the devil, but its a devil I can reason with. Once it’s the dominant chain, then I will threaten it’s position by backing RC.
But not before.
No no, that’s not 11, that’s one one
The first twilight zone. All the followups just lacked the stark yet innocent tone of a someone reasoning with an unjust reality.
I’ve been making my way through the original recently, one-by-one and though some of them are hit and miss, even the misses are doing something amazing cinematically.
I’m a spy for Facebook and or the Russian/US government. Maybe something to do with China on the side too, not sure. In my free time I shill BP products to the children in my neighbourhood and have a passive income clubbing seals during my winter break. Due to a debilitating sense of laziness, I invite food delivery workers into my home and have my way with them in lieu of payment. At night I climb unto my roof to look at the star(s) whilst perching over the street and mutter to any night joggers about being vengeance incarnate. My interests include anime, dog-walking, and folding paper cranes.