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by Jun8 7y ago
Jews were also historically discriminated against, e.g. "Dean Milton Winternitz's instructions were remarkably precise: 'Never admit more than five Jews, take only two Italian Catholics, and take no blacks at all.'"
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by Jun8 7y ago
Our building has 7 condos so this solution is an overkill. Yet, every day we have 4-5 boxes from Amazon laying around in the entrance of the building. Rarely, neighbors pick up the wrong package.
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Interesting bit: "In its testing, though, [Amazon] sent out 700 gateway devices to Amazon employees in the Los Angeles basin, and because each one has a range of between 500m and up to a mile, Amazon was able to "basically cover w
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by Jun8 7y ago
Serendipity, after this morning's discussion on HN about the debacle at Stack Exchange ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21113344 ): "...80 percent of Americans think this politically correct BS has gone too fa
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Bill Maher on the perils of political correctness(nytimes.com)
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by Jun8 7y ago
Recent change in management discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21062191 was widely interpreted as getting ready for SE to be sold. At this point any sort of bad publicity would be shunned, especially. of t
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by Jun8 7y ago
My understanding is that the train of events that resulted in mod Monica Cellio’s demodding from SE started with a gender-related complaint tweet ( https://medium.com/@cellio/dear-stack-overflow-we-need-to-ta... ). Compa
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by Jun8 7y ago
Good point! My understanding is that the horrific situation depicted in The Handmaid’s Tale started by well-educated women pushing on women’s rights! Also suggest reading Houellebecq’s Submission for a related view about pushing legitim
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by Jun8 7y ago
tl;dr: The InSight lander, which touched down in Nov'18 has found that the planet's magnetic field sometimes starts to pulsate in ways that have never before been observed, e.g usually at local midnight. The cause is currently unk
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by Jun8 7y ago
This was mentioned in Matt Levine's latest Money Stuff ( https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-20/it-s-h... ). He thinks that "If there were a robot trained to spot subtle changes in bond
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Morgan Stanley Robot Learns by Reading Unreadable MUNI Documents(bloomberg.com)
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It's a pity this submission was flagged very quickly. Agree or disagree, the main idea underlined by the article is something that needs to be very much discussed in the US. Sadly, platforms for this discussion have decreased greatly t
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Link to Nature paper ( http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature25476 ) with some nice photos. This could be an interesting Science Fair experiment: 1. Get the following from Amazon (or your favorite online st
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“A bookshop owner is unqualified to be a literary critic. It’s more useful to know the distinguishing features of the first edition of The Pickwick Papers than to have read the bloody thing, and it’s always best not to bandy lit crit across
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by Jun8 7y ago
Good summary. I would add the bandwidth equality, which is akin to the Uncertainty Principle in physics, that shows a function cannot be be both time and frequency bounded.
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Applied Ethics is a great book, though a bit pricey: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0198750676 Ethics In The Real World is good, too: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30272030-ethics-in-the-
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by Jun8 7y ago
Heartbreaking post! Made me remember one of pg's essays that I like but haven't really gotten into practice: Life Is Short ( http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html ): "Having kids showed me how to convert a contin
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by Jun8 7y ago
Negroponte also defends taking the money in a meeting at MIT on Wednesday ( https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614264/mit-media-lab-jeff... ): "Throughout, the meeting had proceeded calmly. But as one of the or
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by Jun8 7y ago
(from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/characters/nm0000323 ) one of my favorite movie quotes: Bruce Wayne : Criminals aren't complicated, Alfred. Just have to figure out what he's after. Alfred
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TIL about Lesley Blanch, quite an interesting travel writer, her obit in NYT sums her life well ( https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/arts/11blanch.html ), also see this article ( https://www.tele
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by Jun8 7y ago
It’s interesting that the widely used units gallon and barrel (as in oil measurement) are both of uncertain etymological origin.
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If you’re into general wordplay I highly recommend Making the Alphabet Dance .
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Here’s information from NHS on how long some viruses can live outside the body: https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/infections/how-lo... , I think this indicates that (1) yes, viruses can, in principle, be t
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Obligatory link of Feynman expressing the same thought: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbFM3rn4ldo
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For additional information: LS entry for μῆλον http://perseus.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?... and μελῐμηλον http://perseus.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.p
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by Jun8 7y ago
Seconded, in fact this is one of my mom's favorite fruit and I ate a lot of it (raw) growing up. We also have a curious way of eating it, using a spoon to tear off bite-sized pieces, since its flesh is quite hard.
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"I’ve been working since the 90s and I never attempted to do FizzBuzz. Is it really relevant?" So, when stating "can't do FizzBuzz in interview" I think there are two meanings: (1) Candidate attempts to do it, write
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How do we save this f***ing planet(reddit.com)
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“New Theory of the Universe,” a headline in the London Times crowed. “Newtonian Ideas Overthrown.” For a introductory but fascinating treatment of why this is wrong you should read Asimov's The Relativity of Wrong ( https:/&#x2F
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Man, beef up this content marginally and it would be a great script for Netflix series pilot: Sex in the City for the thinking man! I, for one, would watch that. Or you can take 1-2 people (men and women) each episode, beef up their profile

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