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by adamjb 6y ago
Never in my life did I imagine I'd come across a Daily Mail article labelled as a "thorough and believable report". It's half banned as a source on Wikipedia for crying out loud
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> The progression increases to generate values like 66, 660, 5280 7920, all values that form the "11" navigational system with a mile of 5280'. Flawed premise: the modern mile being 5280' is more or less an historical
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by adamjb 6y ago
In Australia zebra crossings are a type of pedestrian crossing where pedestrians always have right of way.
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He tells the BBC a very different story. >"Saya jual Rp200 juta, ternyata harganya Rp26 miliar" > "I sold it for 200 million rupiah (~$16k USD), it turned out to be worth 26 billion rupiah (~$1.8M USD)" >Uang i
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The machine in the story doesn't read minds. >The heart of each Predictor is a circuit with a negative time delay — it sends a signal back in time. If a Predictor was hooked up to a geiger counter instead of a button, the light woul
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by adamjb 6y ago
Veloviewer's good for that.
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Sounds like we've got a volunteer!
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The 1976 Swine Flu outbreak and subsequent bungled vaccination campaign comes to mind
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> An account published in 1665 by Lemaire estimated that there were 23,000 houses in Paris, each inhabited by an average of twenty persons From [0] citing Alfred Fierro's 1996 Histoire et dictionnaire de Paris , p. 278 [0] https:&
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by adamjb 6y ago
I wonder if this is an echo of (pre-industrial? pre-Reformation?) historical norms?
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"Cognition all the way down: Biology’s next great horizon is to understand cells, tissues and organisms as agents with agendas (even if unthinking ones)" https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-understand-cells-tissues-
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We don't know for certain because we've never seen them reproduce. But we do know that their digestive system dissolves as they gain their reproductive organs, meaning that they lose the ability to eat once they have gonads so it
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Here's the study https://www.britainschoice.uk/
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The decomposition of the self into competing voices is a fairly common idea. It's present in phrases like "part of me thinks/wants X" or "I am of two minds about X". It's a key part of the whole Freudian i
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Could this be it? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/the-end...
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Should it? >>> import numpy as np >>> np.array("asdgh")**2 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: ufunc 'square' not suppor
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The "proper" way to annotate this function would be to use the numbers abstract base classes. https://docs.python.org/3/library/numbers.html
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One can oppose the existence of something on the basis of its location while not being opposed to its existence generally. See: NIMBYs.
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Not really. That implies that a) there's some kind of objective end state for a country and b) they've reached it.
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If you click through the headline for that first claim is "The 12 countries where poor children are more likely to get rich and actually achieve the American Dream than in the US". It's a claim about social mobility, not ineq
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It's a maritime term, as used in the idiom "port of call".
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Associated blog post https://mango.pdf.zone/operation-luigi-how-i-hacked-my-frien... and salty hacker news comments (his words) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14919845
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by adamjb 6y ago
"The Economics of Professional Road Cycling" which they cite about halfway through is absolutely worth the read if you're the kind of cycling fan who enjoys a good academic paper.
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What are Education KTs?
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The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation(vice.com)
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Reminds me of the "meanwhile back at the ranch" school of screenwriting: switch to your B story when your A story is at its peak of interest, and switch to your A story when your B story is at its peak. That way when you do switch
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by adamjb 6y ago
And the humble layman knows that this is resolved by radiological techniques being able to date things on the scale of billions of years.
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I think I found the Anthony Bourdain quote: Like most other chefs I know, I’m amused when I hear people object to pork on nonreligious grounds. “Swine are filthy animals,” they say. These people have obviously never visited a poultry farm.
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If it was on Amazon it would at least have a blurb
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The mention of _l functions reminded me of this gloriously over the top git message/rant. "Those not comfortable with toxic language should pretend this is a religious text." https://github.com/mpv-player&#x2F

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