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by arjn 11y ago
Somewhat of a tangent but its very annoying to me the word "sharing" has been misappropriated by companies like AirBnB and Uber. Nobody is sharing anything, they're renting out their homes or giving people rides for money. St
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by arjn 11y ago
I feel Egypt's "Zabbaleen" should be mentioned here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabbaleen There was an excellent documentary on them a few years ago : http://www.garbagedreams.com/
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by arjn 11y ago
This makes me sad. It feels like the slow passing of a loved age. I had the same feeling when an old bookstore called "Premier" closed in Bangalore may years ago. I doubt algorithms and AI can replace the feel of a quiet bookstore
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by arjn 11y ago
Hi Mehr, I'll be happy to sign up. I hope you find a match soon.
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by arjn 11y ago
How does such a site generate money ?
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by arjn 11y ago
Could you elaborate a bit ? what does "republish email content" mean ?
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by arjn 11y ago
Very nice, thanks for posting.
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by arjn 11y ago
A list of Birch Bark texts : http://gramoty.ru/index.php?key=bb&date%5B%5D=all&city%5B%5D...
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Novgorod: The Archaeology of Medieval Russia(benedante.blogspot.com)
12 points by arjn 11y ago|1 comments
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by arjn 11y ago
Part of the problem is how easily antibiotics are available over the counter in India. No prescription required. A large number of people self-prescribe or take the advice of non-medical people when looking for a cure. I've seen folk t
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by arjn 11y ago
I wonder if anyone has done a study of the health positive/negative effects of fasting on observant Copts and Ethiopian Orthodox Christians. Respectively their fasting days are approx. 220 and 250 days per year :- https://en
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by arjn 11y ago
Thank you for posting those resources. Yes,it would be very interesting to see changing countries and borders during the Atlantic slave-trade era. we may learn or understand something new from that.
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by arjn 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade
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by arjn 11y ago
No pay/salary ?
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by arjn 11y ago
Thanks for posting. Some good books here including some very new ones. Note that some of these are pay-what-you-want.
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by arjn 11y ago
Yeah, I love his channel. Many hours of fun, interesting information and techniques.
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by arjn 11y ago
Its brilliant. I wonder if we can use this effect to power a small (very low power) microchip for an indefinite period of time.
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by arjn 11y ago
Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant. Thats usually how. (its not really for free)
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by arjn 11y ago
Surely this can be "open sourced". Release all data including texts, images etc and turn it into something like a software project. It may be a good experiment instead of shutting it down.
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by arjn 11y ago
I'm skeptical of the Hans Rosling talk that many people will bring up. For one, there is no indication that the poorer countries with higher birthrates will be educated in time. Secondly, just because we can calculate the world can sup
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by arjn 11y ago
You haven't travelled to India, China or Bangladesh have you ? The world is already heavily overpopulated. If we estimate the amount of people the world can support and that's higher than the current number, it does not mean we s
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by arjn 11y ago
Waaa! ... I just did that using 2.7 idle and it worked. This is new for me. I got stuck for a while trying to back out. Finally figured the way to reverse is to use del(): del(True) del(False).
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by arjn 11y ago
This is both fantastic and frightening. Imagine what capabilities the US military has for finding people.
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by arjn 12y ago
Interesting history, somewhat sad that the inhabitants were expelled (according to the wiki article).
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by arjn 12y ago
I dont understand how that GIF represents "no comment". To me it looks more like an "I don't know" or "I've no idea" statement. Also, I don't see why this is news. GIFs have been used like this f
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by arjn 12y ago
>> Please don't judge a tradition that's thousands of years old Somewhat off topic question but I'd like to ask anyway - How exactly do you know its thousands of years old ? I'm not saying it isn't, but how do
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by arjn 12y ago
Wow! I had no idea all this was going on behind the scenes. Hate to see such a good thing be spoiled by greed and deceit.
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by arjn 12y ago
Direct link to the VLDB paper : http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p209-yu.pdf
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An Evaluation of Concurrency Control with One Thousand Cores [pdf](vldb.org)
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by arjn 12y ago
I recall reading about some Buddhist artefacts found at Viking sites. That could put their travels much older than whats mentioned here. http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/12/the-helgo-treasure-a-viki... The Vikings

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