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by curtis 8y ago
> Claims about the relative simplicity or complexity of different languages are rarely grounded in actual linguistic evidence. I don't think that's justified in the case of Bahasa Indonesia, or indeed any language which is mo
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by curtis 8y ago
You might also find this article about "One-Hundred-Foot Wednesday" interesting: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/DESPERATE-RACE-FOR-SU...
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In 1914, a 200ft wave at Trinidad, California (2014)(briantissot.com)
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The Lighthouse Keeper, the Wave and Photographer Jean Guichard’s Iconic Image(thatlighthousephoto.com)
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British divers make contact with missing Thai football team(theguardian.com)
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by curtis 8y ago
In my experience, simply finding early stage startups is hard. Oftentimes they don't even have a web page during the earliest stages, and if they do, you likely wouldn't be able to find it, and then it might not have any contact
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by curtis 8y ago
There needs to be a corollary to Betteridge's law, to the effect of "It's a stupid question." Tesla is not trying to reinvent the way cars are made. Car manufacturing lines already rely heavily on automation. What&#x27
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OceanGate submersible hits Titanic depth of 4,000 meters(geekwire.com)
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Greek numerals(en.wikipedia.org)
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Archaeologists armed with spears demonstrate how Neanderthals hunted(arstechnica.com)
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A large streak of 'blue' was found on the Red Planet(cnn.com)
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The Real Killer in the Staircase Might Be … an Owl?(vulture.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
You don't need a single tree across the entire timespan you want to look at. You can assemble a series of overlapping samples from a number of trees that lived at different times during the timespan of interest. From Wikipedia [1]: &g
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Evidence of Ancient Solar Storms in Tree Rings Could Pinpoint Historical Events(pbs.org)
51 points by curtis 8y ago|9 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
I think it's rather likely that the vast majority of poorly-behaved women also don't make history.
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The mystery of fishing boat “Fausto”(reddit.com)
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by curtis 8y ago
I find it hard to believe that teacher quality doesn't matter at all. I'm not sure that that's what this study is telling us. Maybe it's just telling us that there is no significant (or at least measurable) difference
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by curtis 8y ago
The Aztecs may have had trouble getting enough protein for the simple reason that they were primarily a heavily agrarian culture dependent on Corn (Maize) as their primary staple. Of course it seems like most agrarian cultures, regardless
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by curtis 8y ago
The Spanish reports of the scale of human sacrifice cannot be taken at face value for the reasons you say. On the other hand there is absolutely no question that the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican civilizations were practicing human sacrifi
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Who’s Really Crossing the U.S. Border, and Why They’re Coming(lawfareblog.com)
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'No Good Alternative': On America's Love Affair with Coal(psmag.com)
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by curtis 8y ago
I can't help but feel like there's some missing information here. One piece of information that's missing from the headline but not the article is that the jogger was not a Canadian citizen, which may have complicated things
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New Study: Rewarding Good Teachers and Firing Bad Ones Accomplishes Nothing(motherjones.com)
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The sniff test of self-recognition confirmed: Dogs have self-awareness (2017)(sciencedaily.com)
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Grim look at Civil War surgery unearthed by new pit of limbs, bodies(arstechnica.com)
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Mysterious ‘Jumping Gene’ That Appears 500k Times in Human DNA(theatlantic.com)
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Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language, has died(cnn.com)
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Weapons reveal how this 5,300-year-old ice mummy lived – and died(cnn.com)
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by curtis 8y ago
Algolia's "Last 24h" view is often a nice alternative to the HN front page. It's more stable and it's also a good way to find articles/discussions that drew a lot of attention and then got flagged. https:&#x2
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Big fish are found deep not because of age, climate, or prey, but because of us(arstechnica.com)
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