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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
by 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.)