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Does Earth have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides? (2014)

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294 points imurray | 3 comments | 22 May 25 18:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.453s | source
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1. btilly ◴[22 May 25 21:19 UTC] No.44067184[source]▶
Can we at this distance tell the difference between bipolar, mercury poisoning, and repressed homosexual?

He was also responsible for the execution of a couple of dozen people. These executions were connected to his position as master of the mint.

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2. senderista ◴[22 May 25 23:08 UTC] No.44068133[source]▶
Executing counterfeiters is certainly distasteful to us today, but I find it less distasteful than ideologically motivated crimes by modern scientists such as Lakatos (one of my intellectual heroes who I find it difficult not to despise as a person).
3. cwmoore ◴[24 May 25 19:38 UTC] No.44083303[source]▶
At what proximity can we?