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by Jun8 7y ago
It should not be an either-or proposition when the stakes are so high. We should work full time to have governments work on breaking climate change speed (reduce/limit emissions, alternative energy, carbon tax, etc.) while at the same
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by Jun8 7y ago
Wow, the two founders started awesome guides that I consulted in the past, from https://www.holloway.com/about?section=story : - Josh Levy: The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services (AWS) ( https://github.com/op
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by Jun8 7y ago
Your comment brought back a memory: My wife was interning at Eli Lilly in their HQ in Indy in the summer of 1999 and they had an office mail robot that fits the exact description you gave. I think it followed markings on the floor. Zero com
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by Jun8 7y ago
On an irrelevant point: do bloggers who use Medium honestly expect people to pay $5/mo to see their content? By comparison NY Times is $1/mo for unlimited articles.
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by Jun8 7y ago
Here's the wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomitorium ), vomitorium meant exit in amphitheaters. Interestingly, this misconception is perpetuated in Hunger Games , in volume 2 Katniss and Peeta
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by Jun8 7y ago
I’ve never heard of Hay’s theory but it’s extremely alluring and interesting on first look. The proposition that generation of the “beauty” sensation in the brain should be the same for different types of stimuli, e.g. auditory and visual a
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by Jun8 7y ago
“Turkish devil”, indeed; note the irony, the title of the person who wrote the purported letter is “Kosh otaman”, a title with a Turkic word:-) There’s confusion between “Kazakh” and “Cossack”, much was at stake on definitions like this, es
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by Jun8 7y ago
In most supermarkets in the US you just leave your cart in the parking lot after you load up your trunk. They have people who then come and collect the carts.
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by Jun8 7y ago
Here’s the etymology given in Nisanyan’s etymology dictionary for Turkish: from Persian which in turn is from Sans pulāka पुलाक rice bowl < Sans pul पुल् a group
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by Jun8 7y ago
This was absolutely marvelous! Apart from it being the best wedding present ever, the write up is superb: generally with build projects the focus is on HW, however, the most intriguing aspect of this one was the design of the cards and fort
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Gil Strang is still going strong, online and in print(news.mit.edu)
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by Jun8 7y ago
Chip was designed by Vivien Sze's Energy-Efficient Multimedia Systems Group at MIT ( http://www.rle.mit.edu/eems/ ). Key takeaway: "Sze’s chip is called Eyeriss. Developed in collaboration with Joel Emer, a res
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This chip could be key to the future of AI.(technologyreview.com)
3 points by Jun8 7y ago|1 comments
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by Jun8 7y ago
This is a reference to the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_of_Caerbannog ) in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail , in case you're unfamiliar with this very well-known meme
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The push to break up Big Tech, explained(vox.com)
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by Jun8 7y ago
It's not meaningless, it's precisely how it was/is used in law, e.g. see https://english.stackexchange.com/a/14213 , also see the Snopes answer: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/exce
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by Jun8 7y ago
I thought about the same thing when I read that part. The formula "exception proves the rule" is generally misused (people not knowing that it's based on the archaic usage of prove which was "to test") in daily us
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by Jun8 7y ago
"Interestingly, Octopuses have very similar eyes but do not have a blind-spot. This is because our optic nerve comes out of the retina into the eye and then back out, whereas optic nerves in an octopus come out in the opposite directio
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by Jun8 7y ago
Henry Ford also admired Nazis and the feeling was quite mutual. For an in-depth analysis you can read "Rethinking the Ford-Nazi Connection" ( https://www.ghi-dc.org/fileadmin/user_upload/GHI_Washington&#x2
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by Jun8 8y ago
This news totally made my day! Read the owner's (Noëlle Santos) poem "The Bronx is Burning with a Desire to Read": http://www.thelitbar.com/odetolitbar . How can the HN crowd help independent bookshops like th
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by Jun8 8y ago
Good discussion about the sourcing of that quote: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5hcclh/did_s... , it's from a Socratic dialogue by Xenophon in his Memorabilia . Here's one rel
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by Jun8 8y ago
It's rare to see public accolades to Alice Sheldon, especially, as this article notes, when gender politics are so mainstream. Almost all her fiction was devoted to analyzing gender-related issues but in a widely innovative way. Her st
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The most prescient science fiction author you aren’t reading(vox.com)
2 points by Jun8 8y ago|1 comments
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by Jun8 8y ago
Good, intuitive introduction to matrices. Next steps could be showing that there are infinitely many different matrix representations of a linear map (different from the polynomials) and they can be used for function spaces, too. One questi
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by Jun8 8y ago
This was the takeaway for me from this interesting interview: "Q: Is there a battle between actual scientists and science journalists who may be in thrall to a progressive or woke ideology? A: No, because most scientists are blissfully
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by Jun8 8y ago
This as a fascinating article. It mentions Tyrian purple, in fact the word purple is derived from the ancient greek word, πορφύρα (porphura), for the Tyrian dye ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple#Etymology_and_defi
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by Jun8 8y ago
Despite what many people say, usage of you guys as non-gendered address, similar to the regional y'all , is rather well-established: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11816/is-guy-gen... . Howeve
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by Jun8 8y ago
The following essay by pg's explains how wealth is not conserved in simple terms: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
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by Jun8 8y ago
The Académie earlier this month "voted by an overwhelming majority to approve a report compiled by three of its five female members that recommended ending its centuries-old official ban on feminizing the names of professions and trade
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The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked(nytimes.com)
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