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One big problem with all car seats is that after 3-4 you have to dump an expensive and still usable seat. And I mean dump, since they cannot be donated AFAIK. It would be great if the seat can be disassembled to be used for another purpos
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Excellent analysis from Matthew Yglesias: https://www.slowboring.com/p/19-thoughts-on-affirmative-acti...
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Tintin is fantastic, as a little kid I learned so much about the world from those. On related note, anyone here familiar with the following Italian comic book series? I grew up reading these, esp. Zagor: * Martin Mystère - https:/&#x2
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You’re right, Valley Wag summarized the interview done by The Information: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/yc-s-paul-graham-the...
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For the curious, I think this is what pg is referring to: https://valleywag.gawker.com/paul-graham-says-women-havent-b... (so glad that “news site” is dead BTW). He made some Summers-like foray on female founder’s abilities
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Obligatory comment for the few who do not know: nothing was Elizabethan slang for vagina , which makes the title of Much Ado About Nothing funny ( https://amp.theguardian.com/culture/2011/jun/05/much-
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Easy Putnam Problems [pdf](sites.math.northwestern.edu)
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Interesting post with eye opening stats (even after reading many posts like this I'm still amazed at how big Brazil is!) Another interesting effect maps have on worldview that was not mentioned is the placement of North at the top ( ht
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Very interesting question, touched on famously in The Hitchiker’s Guide ( https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Ameglian_Major_Cow ). Some thoughts to consider: * the person giving consent may not be fully aware of consequ
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The biz case here is interesting: I had no idea what the postage rates are from the US, so checked and saw that they start at $1.45. Maybe you can get bulk rates from the USPS but let’s assume that’s the shipping cost. Let’s assume <50
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Over the years I’ve noticed it too, the time lag between similar posts ranging from a few hours to a day or so. My simple explanation is that a person reading the original post either remembers a related nugget of Internet that they think p
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Those of you who have low paying service jobs in Europe, is it more dignified than the US?
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Even merely knowing (conclusively) that aliens with advanced technology exist would provide enormous information, cf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter . This is covered fictionally in Cixin’s The Three Body
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Oh boy oh boy oh boy, this brings back sweet & sour memories: about 10 years I had this idea of a web site for programmer/hacker types, even bought hackerstyle.com. It would have suggestions that you could select and also would inc
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Relevant HN discussion on why Romans didn’t achieve Industrial Revolution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607187 Spoiler: it wasn’t because slaves were cheap.
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So, motivated by this article, I checked eBay, expecting to burn $20-30 to get one and found that these sell for around $100 (thank god, didn’t buy another device to add to my pile). My question is: who buys these at that price and for what
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I’ve always wanted to try TDCS, AFAIK the only way currently for recreational use is to DIY the setup. This freaks me out, fiddling with and possibly bricking your brain is not like hacking an e-ink store label or Philips toothbrush. I thin
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Are you kidding? I grew up in Turkey and they were big there, as well as in Europe (another now forgotten blast from the past is C C Catch). I bought their In the Middle of Nowhere album, that was the year I graduated from HS. We followed t
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I find your comment interesting and would like to understand why you hate a large genre of music. Is it the message in the songs, the people, Nashville? My taste in music is questionable (I still listen to Yaz and even Modern Talking occasi
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You’re absolutely right, called Martyshka (little monkey) same as in the book. As I was searching for material on her on Google I came across this interesting article: https://przekroj.pl/en/society/the-stalkers-da
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IMHO, if you’ll be watching your first Tarkovsky film start with Stalker , which is how my girlfriend (now wife of 27 years), introduced me to him many years ago. I was very much a Fellini person, and the Bergman-Tarkovsky school seemed cr
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Similar situation for me (8.7k), i.e. almost all my karma is from comments. I suspect people with high karma scores have a much higher submission to comment karma ratio. I spend quite a bit of time here, on the order of 1-2 hours per day. A
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So, instead is suppressing the desire to eat, how about inventing a drug that blocks the absorption or breakdown of carbohydrates in the gut? Or maybe control the gut biome so that growth of bacteria that breaks down high calorie food is
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I found David Deutsch’s Beginning of Infinity worldview changing.
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Thanks for the additional comments. I love (but cannot understand 95%) Road to Reality and would love to have a community around the book, so super excited about any such effort.
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Oh boy, it seems you're one of today's lucky 10000 ( https://xkcd.com/1053/ :-). The concept of EM waves slowing down in a medium is a curious one: it sounds obvious (you can hike a shorter distance in harder
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OP’s substack linked in the post ( https://roadtoreality.substack.com/ ) was easier to read and understand the motivation for this project. From the title I assumed this would be a course that would take you through Penrose’s
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The tidal bulge one is one my all time favorites, you should absolutely read the answer. tl;dr the simplistic view of two tidal bulges (that started with Newton) is wrong! This is one of those physics simplifications that still gets pushed
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This is one of the points that is a bit complex: AFAIK there is large bi-partisan opposition against Sweden's Nato entry in the Turkish public opinion (for a variety of right or wrong reasons), so the issue is not just with the AKP bas
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I’ve just spent 5 mins on your page and also took a look at rentr, here are some comments from a total internet stranger who may or may not know about what they’re talking about: * Three pieces of (mundane, well-known) advice: build stuff,

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