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by escherplex 8y ago
I was curious about that as well. With the project name Penrose there was a suspicion (more like a wish) that maybe this was to be prototype work for an interactive digital rendering of the Roger Penrose Road to Reality physics tome b
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by escherplex 8y ago
Sad, but essentially this article is about benign warehousing of individuals with senile dementia in their waning years with a description of bland distraction methodologies employed by institutions. A question arises as to whether the poss
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by escherplex 8y ago
You can download the final HR302 in .pdf here: https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr302/BILLS-115hr302enr.p... (utilities that remove signature panel and permissions which restrict cropping or bookmarking can
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by escherplex 8y ago
Which of course raises the question what good will extensive financial assets be if all hell breaks loose? One possibility for that scenario was explored at HN a short time ago: The Super Rich of Silicon Valley Have a Doomsday Escape Pla
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by escherplex 8y ago
Nice to see academic researchers are now trying to utilize a more phenomenological approach in their theorizing. Ideally, What does the available data strongly suggest? should be in the forefront rather than group conformity to some condi
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by escherplex 8y ago
Anyone recommend good non-vendor GUIs for experimenting with FPGAs on your own?
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by escherplex 8y ago
The simple solution on Firefox was to simply click on the 'like' popup "X" button which resulted in no popups for the rest of the session. Also, most of the images were not of what would be called 'tree houses'
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by escherplex 8y ago
The wisdom of posting call letters online is questionable given it allows ready access to personal information
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by escherplex 8y ago
QEX 1981-2016 (1.85GB) - thanks for the magnet :) ... torr download via VPN = 7kB/s (2 days); via Furk = 35 kB/s. The Furks have it.
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by escherplex 8y ago
Exhaustive to the extent practical would be nice :)
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by escherplex 8y ago
Yeah, presumably so. But most articles of this sort tend to be more like one-sided sales pitches. Personally, I'd fall over if I saw an article which adopted a Kantian 'thesis' 'antithesis' ergo suggested 'synt
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by escherplex 8y ago
This idea was already broached at HN in Maersk installed 100-foot-tall rotating sails on one of its tankers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17885284 But a question arises as to practicality of this configuration in e
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by escherplex 8y ago
That resonates. If living in a universe of one then personal best practices are whatever suit your fancy. But in this world apps must interact with a community of apps and be maintained within that context plus without suitable protocols in
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by escherplex 8y ago
Exactly. Terse QSOs get vacuous real quick. Most onair behavior seems to be stuck in the 1950s. With all the spectrum at your disposal, personal apps like (if in FL) monitoring red algae distribution using 23cm-band FPV on drones would be m
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by escherplex 8y ago
That would be a worthwhile activity :) If successful, post URL on HN.
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by escherplex 8y ago
Min KIAS, moderate flaps on a 172 I believe is 50kts (93km/h) and they could easily "recycle" their MRE bags during refueling runs paralleling deserted highways (with subsequent collection presumably by 'this road mainta
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by escherplex 8y ago
Reloading is fun but can trigger OCD :) For some reason was a natural in archery in my teens and decided target shooting would be a interesting skill. Opportunity presented itself in the form of a Ruger .220 Swift M77V bullbarrel stamped
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by escherplex 8y ago
And not just plurals. Juxtapose the relatively sophisticated time sense expressable in English verb forms with the Japanese imperfective and perfective verb forms. With the imperfective form and without further cues you're expected to
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by escherplex 8y ago
For an introduction see: Linguistic relativity URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
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by escherplex 8y ago
Chinese of course has numerous dialects outside Mandarin. Do any dialects change tones when using that “tā” phoneme for a "he" or a "she" or an "it"?
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by escherplex 8y ago
Gender references generally disappear in the English plurals. So the above should read "Users should upload their photos". Then you can just restrict gender pronouns for reference to specifics.
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by escherplex 8y ago
True. The above was just for fun. But colloquial English these days behaves as if rules are to be made up as you go along. EG, locally I hear 'I'm going to thee Applebees Bar & Grill' as often as 'I'm going to
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by escherplex 8y ago
If referring to phonetics then thee would be for emphasis to a construed subordinate with thuh used generally. Really idiosyncratic. If referring to written words then use thee if you find yourself in Pennsylvania Dutch country trying
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by escherplex 8y ago
Seems for casual reader with no knowledge of German you may be oversimplifying a little. Including the plural form and four cases you wind up having to learn 16 forms of the equivalent of 'the' which then serves as a mnemonic for
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by escherplex 8y ago
True. German sticks auxillary verbs in the middle of a sentence and main verbs at the end. Knew a guy from Lufthansa who joked that sometimes he would attend lectures with orators delivering long sentences and sometimes wouldn't know w
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by escherplex 8y ago
Very informative. Wonder how long it took to get from Greece to India at that time? Remember seeing a reference in a book on influence of the Cynics school on the later Platonic Academy, post Roman conquest, to a letter from one wealthy ari
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by escherplex 8y ago
Well done :) Just added that comment for the fun of it but you are exactly correct concerning piracetam. From experience, it does take about two weeks to kick-in in earnest but during that time it's necessary to focus on some mentally-
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by escherplex 8y ago
Well then to hell with SUCRAM... Start a liquid stenabolics (sr 9009) / weight training regimen coupled with piracetam (1.5g), choline (.5g), and Steven Hawking's purported vinpocetine supplements, TID, and you'll be like Con
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by escherplex 8y ago
Remember thumbing through Jim Shaugnessy's The Rutland Road at NY School of Photography years back and admired his b&w composition. Sad that he left us this past August.
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by escherplex 8y ago
Oh, that was the third DDG reference. Still a funny line.

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