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by aslfjiasf 3y ago
It means a publisher ranked possibility of a positive return on investment for that book to be higher than the books they decided not to publish.
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by aslfjiasf 3y ago
Humor imitates life: Russia arrested anti-war protesters holding blank signs: https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-invasion-protest... But apparently this a thing in many countries, and there's even a Wikipedia
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by aslfjiasf 3y ago
What do you mean by "forced to do it"?
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by aslfjiasf 3y ago
The definition does not change from quarter to quarter or year to year. It is perfectly valid to compare this month's value with the past, but not with other countries who use different definition of "working population".
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Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu(printingfilms.com)
3 points by aslfjiasf 3y ago|1 comments
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by aslfjiasf 3y ago
I'm not sure about that. So many people had hard time synthesizing LK-99, and the original researchers said that even for themselves only 1 out of 10 attempts to create a material succeeded. The pure LK-99 crystals pictured in the arti
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by aslfjiasf 3y ago
"F# is designed as a hybrid functional/OO language, so it can do virtually everything that C# can do." https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/why-use-fsharp/
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by aslfjiasf 3y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-...
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by aslfjiasf 3y ago
It's still there! You can use the banner.
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by aslfjiasf 3y ago
Ha! Typical Scorpio thinking.
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by aslfjiasf 3y ago
Also see recommendations for "Ask HN: Books Similar to Code by Charles Petzold?": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29522588
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by aslfjiasf 3y ago
This review suggests that the game is now called "Tribes": https://amzn.com/dp/1556343558 , but the author is not Jared Diamond. Is this the game you remember?
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by aslfjiasf 3y ago
Our cat does this on soft blankets, but unlike the other cats mentioned in the comments, she doesn't look like she's enjoying it. Her ears are back and her brow is furrowed and she looks like she is unsure why she's doing it.
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by aslfjiasf 3y ago
This has changed from early Soviet Union to late Soviet Union. Early Soviet Union was much more radical and utopian, with ideas almost like in Plato's republic with the goal to getting to the point where the state rather than the paren
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by aslfjiasf 4y ago
I clicked on the May Fourth movement because I thought it was odd that BBC would make a documentary about the origins of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day .
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by aslfjiasf 4y ago
I wonder if this can be used for automatically generating mnemonics for people learning Chinese characters.
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by aslfjiasf 4y ago
44/55. I had zero information about what poison ivy looks like before playing this game. This game is very good at teaching (or I got lucky).