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901.
by defen 8y ago
That rendering of the Templo Mayor really evokes a sense of existential dread in me...it’s one thing to see something like that in a video game or horror movie, but knowing it was real is deeply unsettling.
902.
by defen 8y ago
Not OP but that should probably render as: s ∈ A if M(s) >= c So: s (system state) is a member of A (permissible region) if M(s) (proxy measure of s since we can't directly observe it) is greater than or equal to c (threshold)
903.
by defen 8y ago
Robinhood is the dumbest of dumb retail money. I suspect that a significant number of options users on there treat it more like gambling (OTM weeklies) than investing.
904.
by defen 8y ago
It says later in the article, it's so that students can't easily share answers.
905.
by defen 8y ago
Sorry, yeah I just mean they last long enough that it's not like you're constantly buying them.
906.
by defen 8y ago
> Economic collapse or apocalypse, you'll want food, medicine, and alcohol (possibly the most barterable good, also delicious). Also: Potassium iodide in case of nuclear fallout ($9 for 2-week supply) Chlorine dioxide for water puri
907.
by defen 8y ago
> Why not build a Black Rock City where the Burn never stops? You know, that would actually be a fascinating thing to see. I doubt it will ever happen given how litigious our society is, but that seems preferable to what we're doing
908.
by defen 8y ago
Out of curiosity, are the "example scenarios" things you've actually seen in the wild?
909.
by defen 8y ago
For people who don't know, this is the most cited journal article in philosophy written after 1990.
910.
by defen 8y ago
I was more surprised that they included Tim Burton but not Robert Burton, considering he wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy
911.
by defen 8y ago
Happened to me too
912.
by defen 8y ago
> if the example calls at I/O were not staged, and real calls, I suspect the recording of them would be illegal in many jurisdictions, including California. Interesting implications there for how Google will measure / improve
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by defen 8y ago
> we've even hit upon things like exponents and logarithms (fishes and babies do the trick). Can you explain this part? A quick google search didn't reveal any relevant games/apps, so the only thing I can think of is that
914.
by defen 8y ago
All domestic horses today are descended from a tiny number of stallions (possibly even just 1 ). So maybe we just haven't gotten lucky yet in finding a super-tame male zebra from which to breed domesticates. https://www.nat
915.
by defen 8y ago
No way he shows up to accept the prize though
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by defen 9y ago
Probably too much to cover in a forum post. This DH Lawrence essay is a good place to start: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/lawrence/dhlch11.htm
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by defen 9y ago
The book has a hyphen but the white whale himself doesn't, for historical reasons. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/moby-dick-has-myst...
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by defen 9y ago
I believe it all derives from heraldry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_(heraldry) From Old English gār (spear): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gar#Old_English
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by defen 9y ago
One of my favorite quotes from Blood Meridian (which was published before Burning Man was a thing; I have no reason to believe it influenced Burning Man but the two are linked in my mind because of the setting and because this quote always
920.
by defen 9y ago
Big animals that evolved alongside us (elephants, lions, hippos, etc) have not been wiped out. Most of the North American big mammals got wiped out because they were suddenly exposed to human big-game hunters who had been hardened by thousa
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by defen 9y ago
So Nabokov read the complete works of Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Flaubert between the ages of 14 and 15. Probably each in their respective original languages. Humbling. Or he's misremembering his childhood :)
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by defen 9y ago
If anyone here lives in Portland OR...go to Kachka and have the sour cherry vareniki. Everything there is great, but those in particular are incredible.
923.
by defen 9y ago
> Microsoft intervened and said they sold refurbishers a $25 license and at most his disc should be valued at $20. So the fake logos increased the value of the discs from $0.25 to $20 or $25? If he had labeled them "Eric's Rest
924.
by defen 9y ago
I'm ok with saying that this guy violated Microsoft's copyright by redistributing Windows binaries, but the punishment seems egregious. 15 months in jail and a $50,000 fine? At most he should have been fined the $3,400 and given a
925.
by defen 9y ago
Countries that had nothing whatsoever to do with Sykes-Picot or the Middle East also feel compelled to import huge numbers of people, so that is not the most parsimonious explanation, unless you think e.g. contemporary Sweden & Norway a
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by defen 9y ago
> he was sent home from the hospital after a few days with some Cipro. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15868937
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by defen 9y ago
The patients in the Yetter paper were all being evaluated for liver disease, so their measurements might not be what you want to use as normal.
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by defen 9y ago
> 6. One of your coins forks I've been advised to report these as regular income, using the value of the asset on the day you received it. For example, if you were holding 1 Bitcoin on August 1 (and therefore received 1 Bitcoin Cash
929.
by defen 9y ago
The data is here: https://gov.oregonlive.com/pers/ (you can download a CSV). There are 2,032 people making over $100,000 per year. The sum of their pensions is $252,144,041.04 per year. If each were capped at $100,000
930.
by defen 9y ago
The browser is the only part of the web-access stack where the user has any choice. I suppose they can choose the ISP as well but that effectively only changes access speed, possibly.

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