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April 17th, 2023

Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity | Quanta Magazine
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derwahremawa Das ganze »Argument« funktioniert nur, wenn man keinerlei empirische Vorstellung davon hat, wie viele Leute mit geisteswissenschaftlichen Abschlüssen es gibt und wo die beruflich landen

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derwahremawa Wenig ist so konstitutiv für die westdeutsche Ideologie wie der vage Glaube, der Springer-Verlag und seine Aktivitäten hätten auf unklare Weise sicher irgendeine Art Nutzen

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: Minecraft-Klon, aber mit Klöpschen statt Klötzchen

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patrick_sahle Seitdem die Kernkraftwerke abgeschaltet sind übernehme übrigens ich das Strahlen für euch. Also keine Sorge...

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madhav_deval @complingy If you do it phonetically "the cross eyed bear"/"the cross I'd bear". This phenomenon was called Śleṣa in Sanskrit and was used to tell both the Mahabharata and the ramayana using the exact same words.

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RTomMcCoy @complingy "The glass bears paint." Could be:
- [Det N V N] "the cup contains some paint"
- [Det Adj N V] "the grizzlies that are made of glass make paintings as a hobby"

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zehavoc @complingy in French,
La belle porte le voile (the beautiful door hides it or the beauty wears the veil)
Det ADJ N PRON V or
DET N V DET N

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complingy I wonder: What's the longest sequence of words with 2 plausible interpretations where every word has a different part of speech between those interpretations?

"academic stole" is Adj+Noun in "an academic stole is..." and Noun+Verb in "an academic stole it". What about >2 words? twitter.com/aaaronson/stat…

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