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by adamjb 5y ago
FWIW the one opportunity he got to execute on his ideas on a city scale (Chandigarh), it turned out fine. > Le Corbusier dreamed of "cleaning and purging cities of disorder" with "calm and powerful architecture." (his
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by adamjb 5y ago
You have a weird view of academia
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by adamjb 6y ago
Tired: the government is like the mafia Wired: the mafia is like the government
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by adamjb 6y ago
While you might need an account to access the underlying data, you don't need an account to view the imagery https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel-playground/ https://www.sentinel-hub.com/explore&
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by adamjb 6y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26760891
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by adamjb 6y ago
The mention of looted columns reminded me of the Great Mosque of Cordoba. Its famous double tiered arcades were purely pragmatic height creating compromise as a result of the local Roman and Visigothic columns not being tall enough for the
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by adamjb 6y ago
This is a rather textbook example of survivorship bias
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The First Casualty of Tok Pisin(faroutliers.wordpress.com)
4 points by adamjb 6y ago|0 comments
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by adamjb 6y ago
He is so important in western thought that his name became an adjective. (Though one can quite easily argue that the meaning of the adjective does not really line up with his thinking)
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The First Casualty of Tok Pisin(faroutliers.wordpress.com)
1 points by adamjb 6y ago|0 comments
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by adamjb 6y ago
Here's a twitter thread by the historian summarising her paper. I mainly link it because it has a very clarifying diagram of the polytomy which would otherwise be hidden in the paywalled paper. https://twitter.com/monic
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by adamjb 6y ago
Not an expert either but I found this: >Thus, if the ship was not a under command, unable to navigate or to reach port unaided, the service will be considered salvage even though the ship was not in imminent danger of de
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We Feel ‘Alonely’ When We Don’t Get Enough Time by Ourselves(vice.com)
1 points by adamjb 6y ago|0 comments
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by adamjb 6y ago
Nit against tfa: 1. f3 ... 2. Kf2 is the Hammerschlag or the Fried Fox Attack, not the Bongcloud.
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by adamjb 6y ago
>Why is this post being penalized? HN has an anti-flamewar mechanism that kicks in when posts get too active.
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by adamjb 6y ago
Having a low nose is way more survival for people getting hit than a flat front.
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by adamjb 6y ago
>The Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area (APWRA) began operations during the 1980s and by 1998 included about 5,400 wind turbines of various models, each rated to generate between 40 kW and 400 kW of electric power, or 580 MW total >Usin
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Stimulating Innovation with Money(berthub.eu)
2 points by adamjb 6y ago|0 comments
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by adamjb 6y ago
Classic example of countersignalling
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by adamjb 6y ago
>In almost all cases the rental income will be higher than the mortgage payment 60% of Australian landlords claimed a rental loss in FY17/18 and that's not an outlier. [0] In jurisdictions where rental losses can be written off
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Misleading standard deviation(aakinshin.net)
2 points by adamjb 6y ago|1 comments
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by adamjb 6y ago
Almost definitely not, but it still shows that pilots aren't too concerned about engine outs to the point where it's an automatic mayday, especially on a four engined planes. I wouldn't have shared the anecdote if it hadn&#x2
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by adamjb 6y ago
PDF of the legal opinion https://14ee1ae3-14ee-4012-91cf-a6a3b7dc3d8b.usrfiles.com/ug... from https://www.glanlaw.org/single-post/legal-opinion-concludes-... This is the single most dodgy looking url I
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by adamjb 6y ago
Funnily enough I was searching about for info on B772 single engine range and found this anecdote that contradicts you. >Just as a practical example of reduced range with an engine out, We departed Santiago, Chile in a 747 freighter with
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by adamjb 6y ago
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26188649
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by adamjb 6y ago
So they either called themselves Angles or Saxons or not-Jutes until they started to call themselves English (Angelcynn)?
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by adamjb 6y ago
The BOM provides vitally important information in disasters too. This will kill people.
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by adamjb 6y ago
When you've got a culture where all research must be "relevant" don't be surprised when tenuous connections are made in order to sustain the grants.
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Python Pattern Matching Tutorial(github.com)
5 points by adamjb 6y ago|1 comments
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Critical Thinking Isn't Just a Process(zeynep.substack.com)
4 points by adamjb 6y ago|0 comments

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