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by ableal 7y ago
A few days ago I looked up the numbers for the 1918 flu - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu - world population: 1800 million - infected: 500 million - dead: 50 million I did not know it had been that bad.
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by ableal 7y ago
Many thanks to the persons at U. Adelaide who shouldered this burden for over twenty years. It was gratefully appreciated.
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by ableal 7y ago
For those interested, there's a book (which I haven't read yet) by Larry Witham titled Picasso and the Chess Player: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and the Battle for the Soul of Modern Art. Editorial blurb: """ In
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by ableal 7y ago
That's been thought out a while ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
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by ableal 7y ago
"I did a quick search in Alta Vista on Netscape" (footnote, page 2) Sounds more like 1998 than 2013 ... P.S. Actually 1994: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=E6aqGvYAAAAJ&hl=en
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by ableal 7y ago
Tripped over the CSR acronym in the second paragraph ("Austria was weak, Poland cool toward the CSR, and Hungary antagonistic.") From the context, must be Czecho-Slovak Republic. Wiki agrees https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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The Selden Map of China(seldenmap.bodleian.ox.ac.uk)
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HTTPS: //Seldenmap.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
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by ableal 7y ago
One thing I noticed is the "this is the way I see it" manner of a reader who digested the works he mentions, but not citing chapter and verse the way we tend to do now since it became so easy ...
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by ableal 7y ago
(From that article, thanks) > port the compiler to an early 640MB Windows machine. Probably meaning a 640 kB MS-DOS machine - the first C++ 'cfront' tapes were going out by 1986, if memory serves.
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by ableal 7y ago
A good summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwashing
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by ableal 7y ago
Giving a talk at MS Research, it says in French in the piece. Looks like the standard Free Software presentation. The article says RMS requested no video taken using Javascript.
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by ableal 7y ago
"The newly predicted superconductor — a compound of hydrogen, magnesium and lithium — [...] must be squeezed to extremely high pressure, nearly 2.5 million times the pressure of Earth’s atmosphere [...]" Sounds risky ...
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by ableal 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Absolute_at_Large (The pantheists were right, and the new matter to energy conversion plants liberate "The Absolute". Hilarity ensues.)
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by ableal 7y ago
> Less sugar Probably would not keep. The original idea is that you could store blocks like cheese or ham, without special packaging or refrigeration. I believe the reason for all the sugar is that bacteria don't "work" ab
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by ableal 7y ago
Content of PDF (12 MB): Scan of K.E. Iverson's Elementary Algebra, 178 pp., published by IBM in 1971 (Technical Report 320-3001, Philadelphia Scientific Center) P.S. Uncorrected (mostly) OCR of Preface: PREFACE The present text treats
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by ableal 7y ago
Such a stylus was featured in a short story set in Cicero's time (he even shows up at the end). [spoilers] It's "Mightier than the Sword", by John Maddox Roberts, a historical mystery tale. The triangular shape of the cr
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Humans may be able to live on Mars within halls of aerogel(theregister.co.uk)
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by ableal 7y ago
"It is worse than a crime,—it is a blunder" ( https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Fouch%C3%A9 and https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Maurice_de_Talleyrand-... )
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by ableal 7y ago
The Stanford campus is worth a visit.
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by ableal 7y ago
> the climate data I looked up on Wikipedia For travel abroad, I got into the habit of checking https://weatherspark.com . They have very well done charts that give a really good idea of how it's like "over there&quo
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A bug so cool that the development team was reluctant to fix it(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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SFF Equines Looks at the Friesian Horse(tor.com)
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by ableal 7y ago
Thanks for the heads up. Clicky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_K2
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by ableal 7y ago
Nevertheless, there's a short story from the SF golden age exactly featuring a satellite orbiting a few feet off the ground. Including perfectly drilled tunnels in the elevations ... Ah, here we go - "The Holes Around Mars" b
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by ableal 7y ago
I think this was partly spoofed in a Charles Stross book - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14150.The_Jennifer_Morgu...
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by ableal 7y ago
I wondered about the asterisks on the 'vivo' and 'OPPO' brands, and looked up the second name - turns out both (and OnePlus) are owned by the same company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBK_Electroni
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by ableal 8y ago
Sometimes I go to google translate to hear words pronounced, e.g. https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=de&t... (I hear "kvasar" and "cantoom" for quasar and quantum)
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by ableal 8y ago
They're about the same size: the UK map blocks are 1 km x 1 km US: "the United States consists of 11,078,300 Census Blocks." The USA area is 9.834 million km², according to a well-known search engine. So about .9 km² in ave
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by ableal 8y ago
"As far as the business goes, I make a lot more in royalties on my beginner C# videos that O’Reilly distributes than I do on all my book royalties and editing fees." (E.L., in the comment section apropos wishes for a book)

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