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Words fail me! This is a serious impediment to search & rescuer efforts as well as coordination for money and other donations. The pretext given for the closure was that Twitter owed money to the Turkish government. You can see the ang
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Some examples to get started: * Sources of quotes that are hard to find Google and other quote sourcing sites, e.g. William Inge's “We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feath
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Ask HN: What would you have a cultural investigation agency look into?
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99% of Big Projects Fail. His Fix Starts with Legos(wsj.com)
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If interested in this later part of FSF’s life I would very much recommend Sheila’s Graham’s book Beloved Infidel ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheilah_Graham ). They were together for about here years and he died
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The letters were donated to Princeton by Emily Hale with the condition that they remain sealed for 50 years after her death or Eliot's, whichever is later. Hale died in 1969, so they were made public in 2020. * Hale's statement wh
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The Letters of T.S. Eliott to Emily Hale(tseliot.com)
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Using combinatorial mechanics to generate new ideas is a powerful technique, perhaps first popularized by Ramon Llull in his Ars Magna ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull ). Similar techniques are also used i
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Where Is Physics Headed (and How Soon Do We Get There)?(nytimes.com)
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Before Sunrise (1995 Film)(en.wikipedia.org)
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From the WSJ article ( https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-news-today-01-... ): Mr. Bankman-Fried wrote on his Substack: * The collapse of Mr. Bankman-Fried’s hedge fund, Alameda Research, stemmed from a broad
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Sam Bankman-Fried launches a Substack(sambf.substack.com)
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If you’re into RotLA, I definitely recommend reading the transcripts of the brainstorming session Lucas, Spielberg and Larry Kasdan had in Jan 1978: http://maddogmovies.com/almost/scripts/raidersstoryconferenc... .
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by Jun8 4y ago
You can buy a birefringent ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birefringence ) calcite crystal that are often sold at rock shops and give it a try.
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What a surprise! I was always envious that Ørberg's famous book and approach had no counterpart for Ancient Greek. In fact in every bookstore I’ve checked books on learning Latin far outnumber those for Greek, if those exist at all. I
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by Jun8 4y ago
+1000. Not only her writing is fantastic, the articles are also extensively linked to each other, so you can easily spend 1-2 hours jumping from one excellent article to another. I have learned about so many people from the Marginalian. If
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by Jun8 4y ago
This is one of the very few comments I enter without reading the submission at all. These bra calculators are useless! Or, expressed more articulately, they may be used as a very rough starting point but are of little help. The consensus
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I know you say you’re describing from memory but wanted to comment in case other people read this comment and get the wrong idea: the decipherment of Maya writing was nothing like described here. If you’re interested, a great popular accoun
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by Jun8 4y ago
Absolutely true. I was thinking more along the lines of having people do manual labor that requires minimal training.
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Ok, this may be a dumb answer but bear with me, I’ll reiterate an idea that I often proposed to a colleague who has a heirloom land and house in Wisconsin: turn it into a adult farming fantasy retreat! Two indisputable facts: (1) Most city
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> The book I discovered later in life The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist, published in 2009. In this and his later book, The Matter With Things, McGilchrist investigates
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Serendipity: Towards a Taxonomy and a Theory(sciencedirect.com)
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Building Resilient Organizations(forgeorganizing.org)
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The Apple II interaction ad with an Apple on the kitchen table (also one on the wall!) is delightful for both of its naivete (in the last the past 20 yrs or so, an ad agency would be put through the ringer for the husband plays with cool de
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by Jun8 4y ago
Great suggestions thanks! This is a great podcast that covers some of these and other interesting obscure works: http://www.holdfastnetwork.com/sherdspodcast/
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The Hill of Dreams is a great recommendation, it doesn't get mentioned often enough (or at all :-) I think. I think his The Three Impostors is even better. If you like this sort of weird early 1900's mystic book, be sure to al
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by Jun8 4y ago
The 2020 article that you linked only mentions an internal tool that was used to change email addresses, it does not mention visibility filtering at all, which I believe is the new thing here.
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There must be a ton of ex (or current) Twitter employees on HN: can one of you verify if the user management tool shown in the photos is an actual thing and provide more information on how it works? As another sibling comment states, other
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by Jun8 4y ago
There must be a ton of ex (or current) Twitter employees on HN: can one of you verify if the user management tool shown in the photos is an actual thing and provide more information on how it works?
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Can you also please update the title to Aaranson's one which is more descriptive?

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