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by gnat 6y ago
Reminds me of Mark-Jason Dominus's teflon tape: A few months ago, I had a leaky shower head, so I went to the hardware store to get some putty or caulk or something to fix the leak. But when they found out what I wanted it for, they so
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by gnat 6y ago
The three things I thought worth noting from this: (1) The paragraph marker ¶ is called a pilcrow or alinea. (2) The names sin and cos were invented by William Oughtred, whose 1631 book Clavis Mathematicae, The Key to Mathematics was the fi
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by gnat 6y ago
Transcription is the latter -- create a paper version from a recording. Same as medical transcription is typing up dictated notes.
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by gnat 6y ago
America had an appallingly incompetent Covid response, with poor testing, tracing, and compliance. This makes it a poor benchmark for updating your priors, unless one of your previous beliefs was "America can muster a coordinated respo
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by gnat 6y ago
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/colorado-orange-apple... is a working link.
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by gnat 6y ago
Classic case of the Scunthorpe Problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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by gnat 6y ago
If you have a question about an article posted to HN, try reading the article to see if it answers your question. "A LinkedIn profile for Gelinas says he works as an information security analyst at Citigroup. Citigroup declined to comm
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by gnat 6y ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hpmmf is an interesting and accurate discussion of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.
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by gnat 6y ago
Is there much written about the architectural models that enable this kind of customisation. This is highly relevant to my life right now, and I'm struggling to find much to read about how to build a core product that's extensible
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by gnat 6y ago
Mispaste? That's an Ethiopique piano piece for me.
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by gnat 6y ago
Should link to: https://privpapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3626... The link in the post is to a download, which you can't access unless you're a logged-in SSRN user.
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by gnat 6y ago
I believe you misunderstand the post you replied to. I understand it to mean "I want control over what I see" (i.e, the author is the "someone" who should decide what they see). We had whitelists and blacklists back in U
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by gnat 6y ago
They barely let Gram Parsons make an album for them -- they fought with him during its creation, and he left before it was released. Because he immediately formed The Flying Burrito Brothers with Chris Hillman, another Byrd, I suspect Hil
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by gnat 6y ago
The three essentials: strong borders, lots of testing & tracing, and social distancing (including masks). I've read epidemiologists saying that there's kinda a CAP theorem for epidemiology. Namely, you can trade off one if you
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by gnat 6y ago
See also: https://sciblogs.co.nz/infectious-thoughts/2020/08/01/four-p...
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by gnat 6y ago
There's non-trivial community testing that hasn't found people with Covid-19 in NZ. So either (a) every case in NZ is asymptomatic, (b) there are only a few cases that somehow defy the exponential growth we saw at the start of loc
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by gnat 6y ago
No it wasn't, it's clickbait metaphor for digitally sharing images.
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by gnat 6y ago
Can Russian investors be far away ... ?
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by gnat 6y ago
tl;dr: Native Americans would burn the Maine grassland to stimulate blueberry production. Most of the plant is below the surface as rhizomes, and cutting or burning the above-ground part of the plant will stimulate the plant and boost harve
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by gnat 6y ago
NZ has a variety of different sized software companies, most of whom were hiring at the start of the year so will resume hiring if Covid doesn't kill their customers. Look at: xero.com, vendhq.com, asktimely.com, soulmachines.com for a
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by gnat 6y ago
Reopen borders (with appropriate controls) with other countries that have no cases. NZ is in talks with Australia to figure out what the right border controls will be. There are some obvious Pacific Island candidates too. And then Taiwan, S
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by gnat 6y ago
Abstract: Highly sensitive laser light scattering observations have revealed that loud speech can emit thousands of oral fluid droplets per second. In a closed, stagnant air environment, they disappear from the window of view with time cons
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by gnat 6y ago
The novel "How to Stop Time" by Matt Haig is a recent addition to this genre, and is built on this very premise. It is a fun read. (And, unlike most "eternal life!" type books, has no vampires)
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by gnat 7y ago
This links to a comedy video, not a historic video.
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by gnat 7y ago
Great hustle story ... He began writing fiction at home in the late 60s, but his first two books, “Pacific Vortex” and “The Mediterranean Caper,” were repeatedly rejected. Unable even to get an agent, he staged a hoax. Using the letterhead
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by gnat 7y ago
Evidence-based dive into the idea that agriculture wasn't necessarily good for the people who adopted it -- worked more for fewer and less-diverse calories, and there are signs their health suffered for it. I first encountered this arg
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by gnat 7y ago
This is a great article. The original paper was in my head as a truth, and I've revised that since reading this post. Thanks!
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by gnat 7y ago
Could you provide a link to an example of the kind of "pad" you're talking about? We are mattress-shopping now, so this is a timely discussion :)
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by gnat 7y ago
The science ones are often the weakest, though. Melvyn Bragg is well out of his depth on those topics. My favourite episodes were The Calendar < https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548m9> , The Great Fire of London
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by gnat 7y ago
That's not the title of the article ... the OP has editorialised in parens.

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