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The real story behind Chevrolet's bow tie (2011)(jalopnik.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Iran's Wolf Wall, Second-Longest in the World, Is Still Shrouded in Mystery(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
219 points by curtis 8y ago|79 comments
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Dingo bones excavated in 1960s are the oldest ever found(australiangeographic.com.au)
16 points by curtis 8y ago|4 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
One reason that we should consider discounting Gatty's conclusion is that we now know stuff that Gatty did not know. Gallagher reports that the sextant box had two different numbers on it and he reports what those numbers were: 3500 a
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by curtis 8y ago
I think the best evidence supporting TIGHAR's Nikumaroro/Gardner Island Hypothesis is the sextant case discovered on the island in close proximity to the unidentified skeleton. We don't know what happened to the sextant case
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Why restaurants became so loud(vox.com)
277 points by curtis 8y ago|189 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
> The cost of the NYT's 'disinformation' about Iraq was a war that cost hundreds of billions and thousands of lives. Are you saying that had the NYT reported things differently the Iraq war wouldn't have happened?
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After Last Year's Hurricanes Caribbean Lizards Are Better at Holding on for Life(theatlantic.com)
23 points by curtis 8y ago|11 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
I think monorepos make a lot of sense when you're talking about millions of lines of code. I'm not at all sure they make sense when you're talking about billions.
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The Artist Whose Rural Dystopian Scenes Inspired an Amazon Series(slate.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
I'd like to see a similar map for Seattle.
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Whale sharks are bigger than had been thought and can live 130 years(bakersfield.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Giant Dinosaur Foot Identified 20 Years After Being Unearthed in Wyoming(gizmodo.com)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Dinosaur-era geckos and chameleons perfectly preserved in amber (2016)(newscientist.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Finally: Experts Explain the Truth About Lead and Flint(motherjones.com)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Does a Plane have a Horn?(blog.klm.com)
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by curtis 8y ago
Planks created by riving can have a triangular cross-section rather than a rectangular cross-section. The first picture at http://lumberjocks.com/MattNC/blog/37466 is a good example.
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by curtis 8y ago
> We can't build any public infrastructure in the US anymore. I know it feels that way, but it's not strictly true. Here in Seattle in the last decade we've built a new floating bridge, multiple miles of underground lig
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by curtis 8y ago
I think something similar to the original Hyperloop proposal can work, but I'm not going to actually believe it until I see at least one real world implementation.
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by curtis 8y ago
Here's my proposal for an alternative to the new page from a few years ago: http://www.almostinfinite.com/other/hacker-news-new-page-scr...
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by curtis 8y ago
The Hacker News submission page dumps you into the new page whenever you make a new submission. I usually take a look at some of the other new submissions at this point. Otherwise it's fairly rare that I check the new page.
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The Rock's 'Skyscraper' Doesn't Seem to Get Skyscrapers(citylab.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Did Neanderthals Know How to Make Fire?(theatlantic.com)
3 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
> ... nothing would have gotten rescuers onto this scene any faster. That's true in this case , but might very well not be the case in a future accident. That rescuers were able to reach the Leviathan II so quickly in this case
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The Tragedy at Tofino, B.C.: Inside the Sinking of Leviathan II(macleans.ca)
59 points by curtis 8y ago|18 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
Here's a handy link from the Quora article: https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=Elon+m... And from elsewhere: https://haselonapologizedyet.com/ (In my opinion, Musk absolutely ne
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What's the full story behind Elon Musk's involvement with the Thai cave rescue?(quora.com)
41 points by curtis 8y ago|15 comments
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Giant Satellite Fuel Tank Sets New Record for 3-D Printed Space Parts(news.lockheedmartin.com)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Nearly Two Dozen People Injured After Lava Bomb Hits Hawaii Tour Boat(gizmodo.com)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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When Mammals Ate Dinosaurs(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments

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