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Of course the earth had corals in the early holocene.
I don't think you understand. There were no glaciers there 6K years ago or humans would not have been able to inhabit the area at the time to leave these instruments. At some point in the last 6K years the glaciers in this area grew to expand over top of of the settlement that was there (that is to say, the temperatures grew cold enough long enough to sustain growth and maintenance of glaciers in this area over the past 6,000 years), and buried these instruments. Only now, are the glaciers melting to the point that we can find such instruments again, as we approach similar temperatures to early holocene (which began 11.5K years ago).
No, it's not wrong or we wouldn't be finding 5K year old instruments underneath melted glaciers as this article's evidence shows. And ice core samples from Greenland and Antarctica support this.
What's most impressive to me is how razor sharp the slate arrowhead they show in the top photo is. I've seen photos of many stone age arrowheads but they are usually much more dull and blunted.
Yes, the early Neolithic was warmer than modern era.
Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:06PM (#50308707)
0 days since last zero day
Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:56PM (#50284064)
I don't know why you got downvoted, it's true. A lot of screens were touch screen even in the 90s, but they were typically single-touch rather than multi-touch capacitive interfaces. They were used a lot (and still are) in Point of Sale terminals, for example, where an employee needs to stand and ring up sales.
Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:44PM (#50283976)
For me, I'm reading more books because my e-reader is with me everywhere I go. The unfolded mode is fantastic for reading. It's obviously great for video too, a nearly 8 inch screen in your pocket is a big upgrade. Honestly it's big enough to comfortably use a terminal app like Termux as well. It's excellent for any note taking app you use. I use Obsidian, having more real estate is really important for long, detailed notes, plus tabs are easier to navigate there and in the browser, which of course also benefits from the bigger screen (most websites look better on bigger screens).
Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:38PM (#50283942)
Yeah and OP is incorrect, foldables are a rapidly growing segment in mobile phones. Having used one for over a year, I'm not going back, and had the Duo been out a couple months ago, I probably would have bought that instead of the Fold8.
Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:35PM (#50283915)
Foldable phones are a growing segment of the mobile phone industry. The newest iterations of foldables work quite well and I'm quite happy with mine, and I have no desire to go back to a candy bar phone after having one.

I think touch screen Mac is mostly pointless though.

Taxes only apply to net profits. Some trades create losses. At any rate, tax rates vary dramatically by jurisdiction, with some jurisdictions paying zero tax for trading-based profit.
> They are permisionless protocols

No, they are not. You can trade a tokenized stock on top of a blockchain that happens to be permissionless, but you can also fully operate a permissioned protocol on top of a permissionless network. How many permissioned products run on top of TCP/IP (a permissionless protocol)?

Smart contracts enable any sort of logic that you can encode in a Turing-complete software language, including authorization controls, or awaiting offchain KYC checks, or whatever your heart desires.

Memecoins don't have anything to do with real stock, but tokenized stocks trend towards the underlying's price as long as they are redeemable for the underlying in a timely manner.

A BTC is not notional nothing. What determines the value of a thing? The market does. Not you. The market. And the market has determined that BTC has value, and that's been true now for 16 years and counting.

At any rate, to the tokenized stock example, if you are purchasing a tokenized stock represented by a company such as Robinhood, it too is a debt in that the token is exchangeable for the underlying.

This is an even higher level of guarantee than, say, an options contract, in that the reserves are provable. It does, of course, involve trust in the intermediary, just as your bank balance does. But at any rate, this financial technology is an expansion of what isolated databases provide to the market.

Re:Four Months of Zig on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:30PM (#50269042)
No doubt, they are complex and you can't factor for everything, but I suspect that just even a cursory understanding of some broad characteristics across hardware will help you to design faster software when using a low-level language (and to some extent when using higher level languages as well), and your software will probably achieve must faster speeds than focusing on exotic design patterns in your software, for example.
Re:New iMac with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @07:31PM (#50267363)
There are plenty of local shops that are large, have plenty of seating, and don't mind you staying for several hours. It's up to the shop to enforce rules if it doesn't want people camping or using laptops or if it wants to require purchase.
Re:Four Months of Zig on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @07:21PM (#50267288)
If you understand how the CPU, memory, network, and disk are processing your program and its structures, you can design your programs to optimize for the hardware.

Full guide for ref: https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/blob/main/docs/TI...

And your bank account balance is some meaningless entries in a SQL database
By definition nothing onchain is off the books. You can download any public chain's history from genesis. Very traceable. Meanwhile KYC is pesky and onerous, but there is nothing precluding an onchain protocol from implementing KYC. Most protocols that deal with real world assets retain the ability to freeze and seize funds if required by law.
24/7 liquidity and near instant settlement, easier access for international investors, and ability to plug token into other apps and products onchain like Aave lending, providing liquidity, etc.
Value comes from the underlying. Of course you are carrying some intermediary risk but that's also inherent with stock brokers as well. Similar to a stablecoin backed by treasuries. Voting isn't the only value of holding stock, although some platforms have proposed passing through to token holders voting and dividend distributions as well.

One of the primary benefits for traders is 24/7 liquidity and the ability to plug the token into other products onchain, like lending markets.

Perps aren't the same and they carry liquidation risks.
Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:55PM (#50264862)
Mainly console games. I play some games on Mac but maybe only like 10-15% of Steam library is supported on Mac.
Re:US designates helium as a critical material on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:18PM (#50251912)
People immediately trying to point fingers, it's all so tiresome. Ultimately Clinton could have vetoed but this was likely a bipartisan supported bill. Both sides of the government were generally for balancing the budget and winding down some of the excess spending and planning that went into the Cold War era mentality. The late 90s was the only time in my lifetime, I believe, that the deficit shrank. But of course, Your Team Was Responsible For All the Good Things and The Other Team Was Responsible For All the Bad Things from that era.
Re:US designates helium as a critical material on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:13PM (#50251854)
> Government sales flooded the market with cheap helium, causing much of the private helium industry to shut down

Very sloppy

It's crazy that we have such a disjointed system that someone can die and the Federal government is unable to timely discover and process death records.
The death of security by obscurity
Re:SimCity, but with Permits on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:54PM (#50171759)
I think EPCOT could have been quite successful. The Villages, Florida was centrally planned and designed by many Disney architects (among others) and it is hugely successful and profitable.

Walt's brother, Roy (who remained after Walt's passing), was not the same visionary that Walt was. Simple as that. Most people would never have taken the risks Walt did with the company. Even the idea of a theme park that has tens of thousands of employees and requires millions of people to fly in from all over the world to be profitable sustainably, was quite a bold idea in the 1950s.

I regret that Walt passed too young. Florida would probably be covered in a large monorail network had he lived a couple more decades. And Epcot as a city would have been a tourist destination in its own right, and might have influenced urban development elsewhere.

Re:SimCity, but with Permits on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:47PM (#50171673)
Yeah well you can imagine it would be a problem if I built a 20 story shed in my suburban backyard.
Re:SimCity, but with Permits on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:45PM (#50171652)
Just because its heavily regulated doesn't mean it is centrally planned. Housing isn't decided at the federal level. Even city and county commissions that largely decide fate of large, new projects have to abide by state laws or executive orders from governors that sometimes overrule them. And as long as you propose a project that fits zoning rules on the specific parcel you own, you get a permit to build your dream house.

And if one city, county or state says no to your commercial or industrial venture, it's nice that you can shop other states that might love to have you.

Re:SimCity, but with Permits on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:39PM (#50171586)
That would be chaos. Imagine needing to sign a 10, 20 or 30 year agreement 6 months before a law expires.

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