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   by christudor 8y ago

   Where is it?
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   by christudor 8y ago

   (Is this a serious question?) IG influencers might be most cost-effective way of getting your product in front of potential customers. Example: If you sell novelty beer mats and there's someone on IG with 500,000 followers who posts im
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   by christudor 8y ago

   Exactly. Everyone in the UK gets free healthcare, for example, which is worth a substantial amount of money.
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   by christudor 8y ago

   I don't think this is about "protect[ing] language from being captured by formal analysis", it's about calling out bogus analysis when you see it. This "vividness" analysis is bogus for two reasons: (1) The ide
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   by christudor 8y ago

   This will come across as very mean-spirited but I find the idea of measuring a novel’s “vividness” based on the kind of vocabulary it uses (or the voice of the verb, etc.) to be completely bogus.
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   by christudor 8y ago

   Sorry, thought I’d included a quote in my original post. Disagreeing with this: > History is about what happened, not what could have happened.
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   by christudor 8y ago

   This is not true. Ged Martin’s (critically acclaimed) ‘Past Futures’ is all about the importance of what might have happened when studying history. https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/471921
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   by christudor 8y ago

   I’m sorry to say this all felt a bit clickbaity/scammy to me.
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   by christudor 8y ago

   I also type Morrowing instead of Morrowind nine times out of ten.
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    by christudor 9y ago

    I suspect most big companies will have teams set up whose only job is to respond to GDPR-related requests.
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    by christudor 9y ago

    Completely agree. This graph is impossible to read.
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    by christudor 9y ago

    This is something I’ve been interested in for ages. I recently went to India and the first thing I Googled was “best books set in India” (answers: Shantaram, A Fine Balance, Midnight’s Children, God of Small Things). So definitely something
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    by christudor 9y ago

    Last month I was chatting to the guy who is editing the 1818 edition of Frankenstein for Penguin and he said that the consensus is that Mary wrote F., not Percy.
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    by christudor 9y ago

    Very interesting and useful. Have bookmarked!
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    by christudor 9y ago

    The average turnout across all EU nations for the 2014 European Parliament elections was 43% and no-one is questioning the legitimacy of those results.
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    by christudor 9y ago

    You might also say it contributes to social inequality by prioritising students who have parents who are willing and able to help with homework, which won't be the students from the lowest-income backgrounds.
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    by christudor 9y ago

    What subject/age-group do you teach? What's been the most useful bit of technology you've used in your job?
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    by christudor 9y ago

    Bloom & Wild ( https://www.bloomandwild.com/ ) do flower delivery and they're doing very well. They're only in the UK at the moment, but I think they have plans to expand internationally.
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    by christudor 10y ago

    I run an online education website called MASSOLIT (www.massolit.io) by myself. We make short educational videos! Unlike lots of other ed-tech companies (e.g. Khan Academy, edX, etc.) the main focus is on the liberal arts, so there's lo
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    Ask HN: What to do about key supplier TRIPLING their prices at short notice?

    6 points by christudor 10y ago|8 comments
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    by christudor 10y ago

    For those that are interested in this kind of thing, there was a fantastic radio programme on BBC Radio 4 just the other day on depression in Japan: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07cv0y4
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    by christudor 10y ago

    Note: I have friends who claim to have read an similarly extraordinary number of books, although in their case it turns out they had actually been 'speed reading' them, which I wouldn't count as reading at all.[1] Some people
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    by christudor 10y ago

    How much do you read nowadays? What kind of stuff? (And have you got any recommendations in terms of fiction!?)
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    by christudor 11y ago

    Yes. Great idea. I think you're totally right that travel websites make the mistake of assuming you know exactly where you want to go.
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    by christudor 11y ago

    I'd love a place to find great writers/writing. Are you talking about fiction/short stories or other kinds of writing (e.g. politics, business, economics, etc.?) Why would I go to /this/ site as opposed to the many
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    by christudor 11y ago

    I make educational content for a living, so am fundamentally quite interested in this. A couple of questions from me... Why would I use a platform like this when I've already got my own site which attracts lots of users/customers?
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    by christudor 11y ago

    Interesting stuff! I've bookmarked the long list of sci-fi novels.
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    by christudor 11y ago

    Relevant article from almost a year ago makes almost exactly the same point: https://pando.com/2015/07/28/homejoy-only-uber-is-uber/
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    by christudor 11y ago

    > Kuhn covered it in full. Nothing more to be said on this subject. The book was a classic when it came out, but there have been some fairly strong critiques in the past fifty years or so. In fact, the most recent edition of the book inc
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    by christudor 11y ago

    As usual with this kind of thing, I've spent about five minutes looking round the site just to get a general feel of the thing. Here are my first impressions: 1. This is a great idea. I'm /always/ looking for book recomm