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by Jun8 4y ago
A test?
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by Jun8 4y ago
Note that this is just Amazon demonstrating a prototype in their Innovation Center. I take it to be a mostly PR move showing “thought leadership.” Replicating the functionality of the human hand is notoriously hard, although it has been tri
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by Jun8 4y ago
I work on projects T&L space and this does not fit my experience, in fact large warehouses and DCs are getting taller and most currently are much taller than 10’. Order pickers routinely pick or store items from the 5th and higher level
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I usually just upvote and move on, not to add a noisy comment to the discussion; however you comment was so informative and well-written that I felt compelled to comment on it. For those who want to try the fedora, I recommend the “Indiana
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Xi Broke the Social Contract That Helped China Prosper(nytimes.com)
2 points by Jun8 4y ago|1 comments
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by Jun8 4y ago
Surprised not see Chesterton and Poe not included. Father Brown stories were a major influence, see for example https://www.jstor.org/stable/1345414 . His story "Theme of the Traitor and the Hero" opens thus:
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by Jun8 4y ago
If this came in a package with all the necessary parts (mostly Lego but may include customer printed pieces) and a nice booklet explaining real life applications I'd buy it in a heartbeat!
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20 Mechanical Principles Combined in a Useless Lego Machine(youtube.com)
14 points by Jun8 4y ago|2 comments
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by Jun8 4y ago
Émilie du Châtelet ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émilie_du_Châtelet ), mentioned at the beginning of the article, was a fascinating woman, living at a time when “natural philosophy” was morphing into different sciences
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FCC’s move of FM frequencies influenced by Sarnoff really messed up with Armstrong, making his stations obsolete. This is also why there is no Channel 1 on TV in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_1_(North_Am
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by Jun8 4y ago
The origins of the word martingale and why it is used to refer to various betting strategies is interesting and obscure: https://ergodicity.net/2012/04/11/the-history-of-the-marting... . Probably the etymolo
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by Jun8 4y ago
Great suggestion. If you're in the Midwest you should not miss VCF Midwest ( http://vcfmw.org/sitearchive/2022_vfinal_20220906/ ), there are 10-15 vendors selling old computers there.
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by Jun8 4y ago
A funny myth about Basque: “ An old myth says that since there weren't any Basques going to hell, the devil decided to learn Basque, so he could talk to them, lead them to the wrong path and send them to hell. But he was to be disappoi
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by Jun8 4y ago
List of letters her family and others have just submitted to plead leniency in sentencing: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.32... I’ve read a few of these and they seem to be genuinely heartfel
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by Jun8 4y ago
Great Lakes have claimed so many ships, deadliest being the Lady Elgin with a loss of approximately 300 lives ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_Lady_Elgin ). The huge waves that brought down Edmund Fitzgerald are th
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by Jun8 4y ago
This is appalling but at least, as others commented, Laika got to be celebrated. For an example of real heartless exploitation of animals, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_of_despair . This psycho is still held
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by Jun8 4y ago
When I first read the title for some reason I envisioned the throw to look like a sentinel throwing a bomb in The Matrix . Nothing like that, obviously. My question is: was it throwing the shells out since it’s done eating them or in respo
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Business History with Gary Hoover(neckar.substack.com)
2 points by Jun8 4y ago|0 comments
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by Jun8 4y ago
As far as I understand, what is forbidden is not to propagate but to then sell the propagated plants or fruits, I.e. propagating plants from IKEA to give to a number of friends should be OK. This would be like saying you cannot make copie
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Sinuses offer new way of studying the evolution of ancient humans(phys.org)
2 points by Jun8 4y ago|0 comments
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by Jun8 4y ago
OK, I'm finally back at home in my library and able to consult my books. I'd like to add a lengthy comment so rather than edit my comment above I'm creating another one. First, I misplaced where I read the thought I summarize
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I wasn’t clear in my comment: note that the Dutch India Company was a precursor to the EIC and there was a lot of competition between the two( among other powers). The concept of LLC was mainly invented there. The book covers these points e
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If you want to delve into the history of EIC (and you should, esp. if you’re interested in how Northern Europe’s tremendous growth was fueled) I suggest reading The Anarchy by Dalrymple. It has great detail but also vey well written and e
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For a more realistically gory version of the Judith Beheading Holofernes theme, see Artemisia Gentileschi‘s painting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Slaying_Holofernes_(A... . She was raped when she was 18 and t
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by Jun8 4y ago
Ginkgo trees are either male or female and the horrible smell is only produced by female trees, when ripe seeds fall to the ground, i.e. not all ginkgos smell. Unfortunately, it's impossible to tell if a young individual is male or fem
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by Jun8 4y ago
Recently I randomly came across the book Dear Prof Dyson ( https://www.amazon.com/Dear-Professor-Dyson-Correspondence-U... ) in Half Price Books. I had loved Dyson’s literary-scientific style from Disturbing the Universe
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Great to see you here and you're absolutely right: I got carried away with a comment (which, I now see, is yours, too :-) about Fibonacci numbers being a "strong divisibility sequence", this was the first time I've heard
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I tried reading it but could not understand the article (amazing, given its Quanta magazine). But I’m fascinated by the Fibonacci series so was compelled to add some comment. Here’s a cool fact that I recently learned F_gcd(m,n) = gcd(F_m,
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Transient cell-in-cell formation underlies tumor resistance to immunotherapy(elifesciences.org)
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