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Roud Folk Song Index(en.wikipedia.org)
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Clotaire Rapaille got Japan to drink coffee(pbs.org)
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Silicone–Epoxy-Based Hybrid Photopolymers for 3D Printing(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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The Making of Future Man(nybooks.com)
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by areoform 1y ago
It does. Because a child is a sentient being. Not an accessory for a parent. If you respect the autonomy of someone who is sentient, even when they're dependent on someone else, it's important they're given the ability to for
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by areoform 2y ago
American prosperity and American corporations exist on the basis of the rule of law. It's not just a human issue - it's a fundamental stability issue. If the POTUS and his associates can point to someone and just disappear them wi
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The "Indomitable" MRI(smithsonianmag.com)
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by areoform 2y ago
That judge was against the interment of Japanese Americans. He took a stand against anyone deprived of due process throughout his life. The US came close to losing its democracy status with FDR, which is why after he died, the 22nd Amendmen
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by areoform 2y ago
How do you exercise due process on the 10 million people imported into the country over the last 4-5 years? The court system simply isn't built for it, nor the detainment facilities to house them while the courts take month
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by areoform 2y ago
Precisely. If only the people who worship the Declaration of Independence and recite it like parrots singing a psalm, actually understood what the document was saying.
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by areoform 2y ago
It's not. The rubicon has already been crossed. If you asked some of the framers of the US constitution - beyond all other factors, unelected powers etc - what was the one defining trait of the government structure they wished to avo
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by areoform 2y ago
If you've read history, this rhymes with certain acts that have happened before under certain regimes. Under a non-authoritarian Government, this type of showboating can be dismissed, but when habeas corpus and the right to due process
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by areoform 2y ago
Theft from whom and how? Are you telling me that our culture should be deprived of the idea of Indiana Jones and the feelings that character inspires in all of us forever just because a corporation owns the asset? Indiana Jones is 44 years
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by areoform 2y ago
I'm sorry to hear that. That's genuinely painful to read, but it's a reality that I've seen reflected elsewhere. I tend to think about Feynman's Challenger commission report whenever I come across stories like yours
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by areoform 2y ago
> To be blunt, the current economic value of the humanities is pretty low, Oh it's pretty high, especially when people fail to realize the meaning of tariffs, what's inflation, how the government works and the role of
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by areoform 2y ago
The Haitian response to the circumstances would rightly be called a genocide today. Perhaps a bit more than simply “fighting back” led to the reaction. Absolutely. Let's not shy away from the fact either. They killed 3,000 to
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by areoform 2y ago
There are uncomfortable truths in the world, and Haiti's story is one of them. After the slaves revolted and gained independence in 1804, the state was embargoed. Haiti's first president, Alexandre Pétion, offered paying the value
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by areoform 2y ago
I would defend this submission to dang. I think that the suspension of due process in the home of Hacker News, the US, which was designed by its founders as a bastion of freedom from kings where people could pursue whatever their intellect
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Trump's Police Are Now Disappearing Students for Their Op-Eds(techdirt.com)
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I was talking to someone who worked at McKinsey and they told me about the pains that the consulting group took to assure everyone that they were the "best and the brightest." That everyone working there was brilliant — assuredly.
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Physicists show how Vikings could have used calcite to navigate to North America(science.org)
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by areoform 2y ago
Which ones? Could you link to them?
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by areoform 2y ago
This comment isn't directed at you jjmarr, I appreciate your take, but I think it's important to point out that, > constrained optimization to meet customer needs is MBA-capture in action. For most of its existence as
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by areoform 2y ago
If you take the time to study the documentation from the 1950s & 1960s, the engineering culture of that era appears to be markedly different from the engineering culture prevalent today. And I think it's deeply rooted in the symb
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vs. Outside Context Problems. Or, why smart people make bad predictions(1517.substack.com)
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Roald Dahl on the death of his daughter (2015)(telegraph.co.uk)
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The Imaginary Engineer – Karl Hans Janke's Flights of Fancy(cabinetmagazine.org)
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The quest to find and save the Vasa (2019)(mentalfloss.com)
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Only bad poems go viral(donotresearch.substack.com)
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Glow in the Dark Bunnies Coming to a Pet Store Near You... Finally.(corememory.com)
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