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by Jun8 5y ago
A fictional form of Chöd (not to be confused by chod which is a swear word in India and Pakistan) ritual ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%B6d ) will be familiar to readers of Stephen's King's It ( ht
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by Jun8 5y ago
To supplement the material mentioned here I’d suggest the excellent Philosophy Bites podcast (also available as books). Each episode is an interview with an eminent philosopher on an interesting topic and the level of discussion is very und
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by Jun8 5y ago
The solution proposed uses the fact that oil attracts plastics in water: vegetable oil is mixed with iron oxide to create a ferroliquid, which then attracts plastics and is easy to remove using magnets. Why does oil attract plastics, though
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by Jun8 5y ago
Yep, my son did buy his first colony from a local college kid, through the GAN Project: https://www.antscanada.com/queen-ants-for-sale/ . Since he was away, his mom brought the colony to us, we met discreetly at a libra
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by Jun8 5y ago
The main building was known as IL02, this is where I had my first job interview (the Blue Conference Room!) and afterwards joined Motorola Labs in 2004. The tall building shown was called the Sector Tower, a lot of money was spent renovatin
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by Jun8 5y ago
HN continues to amaze me, seeing this fascinating but obscure topic on the main page was a Sunday morning surprise. There are many sources on these tunnels and passages, unfortunately not many of them in English. Here’s a video of one of th
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by Jun8 5y ago
Judge for yourself: Here's "Nausicaa" : http://web.uvic.ca/~mvp1922/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Episo... I personally found that calling this indecent is really pushing it. Maybe beca
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by Jun8 5y ago
Submissions by dang are relatively rare so that was the thing that piqued my interest as I was skimming the front page. I loved the article, it’s a true character sketch done in 3D, so to speak, and not reduced to how the person has passed
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by Jun8 5y ago
Responses and reminiscences from several writers on her passing: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/books/page-tu... When I first came across it I loved her article “Forty One False Starts”
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by Jun8 5y ago
Awesome, it’s a small world. I was his teaching assistant during the times he taught EE301 (Signals & Systems) so chances are I’ve corrected your exams!
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by Jun8 5y ago
Made me remember an interesting anecdote: During my PhD at Purdue I had the good luck to take the Pattern Recognition (nowadays would be called ML) course from Prof. Fukunaga, one of the pioneers in the field ( https://en.m.wikipe
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by Jun8 5y ago
If you like this sort of thing there’s a whole book on them that I found really enjoyable: Dubious Doublets by Stewart Edelstein. Some pairs I found interesting from that book: * Aardvark - Porcelain * Brassiere - Pretzel (bonus: br
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by Jun8 5y ago
I hear you; however, one rarely gets a literary piece, let alone poetry, created specifically for them. To His Coy Mistress may sound formulaic and drab, but what if you are Mary Villiers, who Marvell was tutoring at the time and probably
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by Jun8 5y ago
I did (I thought my subtle reference of dodging the bullet to a comment to the piece his ex wrote was clever ;-), I was just going on tangentially about an idea similar to the one that he had, which, in retrospect, is more ridicule-worthy.
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by Jun8 5y ago
Ohboyohboyohboy, it seems I dodged bullet with an idea that I had 5-6 years ago that was very similar to this guy's: My idea was to sit beside a sign that said something along the lines of "Celebrate yourself Through Poetry"
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by Jun8 5y ago
Plato's classic quote of Socrates: τούτου μὲν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐγὼ σοφώτερός εἰμι· κινδυνεύει μὲν γὰρ ἡμῶν οὐδέτερος οὐδὲν καλὸν κἀγαθὸν εἰδέναι, ἀλλ᾽ οὗτος μὲν οἴεταί τι εἰδέναι οὐκ εἰδώς, ἐγὼ δέ, ὥσπερ οὖν οὐκ οἶδα, οὐδὲ οἴομαι· ἔοικα γο
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by Jun8 5y ago
Teknon literal translation is child , but you’re right, here it’s used in the sense of son . Three different interpretations of these last words are mentioned in this Quarantine answer: https://www.quora.com/If-you-acce
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by Jun8 5y ago
Talk about a family who was familiar with the fourth dimension! Charles Hinton, author of this interesting essay, married Mary Ellen, daughter of Mary Everest Boole and George Boole. Mary Ellen's sister, Alicia Boole Stott ( http:&#x2F
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by Jun8 5y ago
Exactly your question is answered here: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/937/how-does-gra... Quick summary: gravitational field is different from gravitational radiation.
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by Jun8 5y ago
The Screwfly Solution ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwfly_Solution ) comes to mind, great story by Alice Sheldon.
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Here’s the SFPD crime dashboard: https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim... where you can compare which crimes have gone up
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"At 15, she decided engineering was the career for her. The problem was that it was 1924. “The average woman does not possess the same engineering instinct as the average man,” was one opinion recorded in the Daily News at around that
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Aaronson's blog is one of the (increasingly rare) places on the Internet where I value the discussion on submissions almost on par with the post itself. This post is no exception: he posted an idea nugget that is critiqued and expanded
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What I told my kids(scottaaronson.com)
5 points by Jun8 5y ago|1 comments
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by Jun8 5y ago
NYT article from less than two months ago still underlining that the lab leak hypothesis has been thoroughly dismissed by scientists and it was an idea pushed by Pompeo and Trump: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26
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by Jun8 5y ago
AFAIK, water from the aqueducts were distributed to districts using water columns, which are fascinating. There are still quite a few of these, but very few (none?) are functional. Some photos and information (in Turkish): https:/&#x2
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by Jun8 5y ago
You might also want to read Scott Aaronson's excellent analysis on an adjacent but related topic: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3766
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by Jun8 5y ago
I have a note in my calendar with a link to this article for the past two years, so that I can read it and renormalize, degauss your rain, if you will, of the incessant worries, todos, Internet posts, etc.
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The Last Post (2011)(penmachine.com)
2 points by Jun8 5y ago|1 comments
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"Mr. Kallos, ...[said] the device’s presence in New York underscored what he called the “militarization of the police.” He said the robotic dogs resembled those featured in the 2017 “Metalhead” episode of the television show “Black Mir

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