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(Among many others) I didn’t know what a lace card was so I had to look up: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_card . How would you even make one? And it had to be cleared with a “card knife”!
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Other than sci-hub they seem to be almost wholly sports and movie sharing sites (one site I saw had Nintendo switch games). Surprised that libgen is not on the list.
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From the NYT article on this topic( https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/us/mit-black-latino-enrol... ): “M.I.T. officials took pains to make the point that the enrollment decline in historically underrepres
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If you know a child in middle school, this is a great way to get them started on "cool mathematical thinking", which I called "Mathematia" when I discussed with my son when he was young (to distinguish from the horrible
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What would be an example of a “non-harmful” non-compete? In the game of employer vs employee, any non-compete is undesirable for the former and desirable for the latter.
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If you have not read his X thread on Things Many People Find Too Obvious to Have Told You Already, drop everything right now and read it. If, like me, you have read it many times, read it again every now and then to ponder on a few items
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by Jun8 2y ago
“ the gigantic iceberg got caught in what’s known as a Taylor column, a current that forms around seamounts.” I don’t think this is a good way to describe a Taylor column. Here ( https://youtu.be/7GGfsW7gOLI?si=Do5_CvAXYSYRu5
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Somewhat related: resonance figures formed by a vibrating plate, https://americanhistory.si.edu/science/chladni.htm
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Chien-Shiung Wu, who conducted the experiment that proved Lee’s (and Yang’s) theory didn’t share the Nobel Prize with them in 1956. When I read people lamenting the fact that Rosalind Franklin didn’t get the Nobel due to sexism I wonder why
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The amount of work that went into this is amazing. Brought to mind Henry Darger’s 15,545-page magnum opus The Story of the Vivian Girls ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger ).
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This was a super interesting read. Serendipitously, I’m reading the book Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World which mentions that when Austrians captured a scouting Mongolian party outside Vienna during the largest extension of
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by Jun8 2y ago
Desktop book carousels look great but Capitano Agostino Ramelli's book wheel is a tour de force! These are still useful for heavy book such as unabridged dictionaries, the use of which has declined massively but are a joy to consult, w
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Information below is about the system used in Library of Alexandria but other libraries of that time, e.g. the one in Pergamum, was probably organized similarly: Each roll had a tab on the end (the circular end of the scroll) that gave the
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Some thoughts inspired by the article and other similar discussions on privilege: * Feelings of guilt about the economic circumstances one is born into is often mentioned. What are the limits of feeling“privilege”? Family finances, race, an
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Tangentially: I found it fascinating to follow along the solution to Problem 6: https://youtu.be/7h3gJfWnDoc (aquaesulian is a node to ancient name of Bath). There’s no advanced math and each step is quite simple, I’d guess
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Having experienced healthcare in multiple countries I can say most of the items on your list are pretty much universal, unfortunately. Skipping over the capitalistic and legal issues, which people more or less expect, I'd like to zoom
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This type of usage is archaic. AFAIK the "have you any wool" formation sounds quite natural in German ("Hast du Wolle?"), though.
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This is a type of English usage that bristles my sensibilities when I read it (my sentence parser gives high level warnings, not errors); its most well known example is "Baa baa black sheep have you any wool?" The second part of t
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A well known anecdote reported by Shannon: "My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it 'information,' but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it 'uncertainty.' When I discussed it wi
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I’ll provide the links for the two suras cited above for the curious: An Nisa (the women) - https://quran.com/4 , https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/An-Nisa . In dowry and inheritance matters it’s actually
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Say you want to burn about $500 as a curiosity project for 8 nodes for a day. Any suggestions for what job to run?
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Speaking of Ladino, here’s the Sephardic Jewish French singer Francoise Atlan singing a famous song in that language: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YHLr9d_db0g . If you speak Spanish you can check how much of it you can unde
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In the HN discussion of another recent SCOTUS ruling ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40813369 ) somebody mentioned how clearly written these decisions are and this one is no exception. Additionally, I found the detaile
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What "otherwise" means: SCOTUS verdict on Fisher vs. US [pdf](supremecourt.gov)
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I had one and in a moment of greed sold it :-( What I loved about it was: * Used regular batteries, no charging, easily obtainable, lasts quite a bit * Keyboard was awesome * Retro look & feel * Size What I didn't like: * 8 line
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I would plunk down $199 right now for a basic version of this (more with extra features, e.g. WiFi, expansion lot, etc). My key use case would be using in on planes, esp. when the jerk in the from title their seat all the way back.
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Here’s a good answer from SE: https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/56476/why-are-so... (spoiler: we don’t know). But the second answer speculates that blue light was the most available to the ancestors of c
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Here’s Sotheby’s listing for the book: https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/the-library-of-...
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The rarest book in American literature: Poe's Tamerlane(lithub.com)
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The entry in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a good summary of the Language of Thought Hypothesis. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/ Jerry Fodor, who advocated an internal mental languag

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