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> hoarded Japanese chalk What a rabbit hole this turned out to be... That was an enjoyable 30 minutes. Thank you.

• WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
  Ah. and For the audience at home: https://duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=hoarded+Japanese+chalk&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=hoarded+Japanese+chalk&ia=we...
  • perihelions 3y ago
    And for the audience here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9723202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9723202 ("Mathematicians Are Hoarding a Type of Japanese Chalk", 109 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19718287 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19718287 ("Mathematicians are hoarding a type of Japanese chalk (2015)", 123 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20237878 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20237878 ("The Chalk Market: Where Mathematicians Go to Get the Good Stuf", 118 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9770017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9770017 ("Hagoromo president explains why he closed down his beloved chalk business", 110 comments)
    • astrange 3y ago
      > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20237878 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20237878 ("The Chalk Market: Where Mathematicians Go to Get the Good Stuf", 118 comments) All the comments here attributing Japan's ability to have a chalk factory to basically Orientalist culture reasons are disappointing. (In most of the reasons Japan and America are different here, America is the weird place, not Japan.)