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> When the rule of law degrades into pay-to-play politics, the inevitable result is a mass exodus of both capital and top-tier talent. No, it's not inevitable. What you've described is the way a lot of authoritarian states work
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Hazard Cascade(outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org)
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Massachusetts State Police are on a drone surveillance shopping spree(binj.news)
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TSMC's N2 Node Is Almost Booked Out for the Next Two Years(culpium.com)
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Settlement reached in harassment case tied to eBay executives(wbur.org)
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Zimbabwe bans all raw mineral exports(semafor.com)
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Meta's AI sending 'junk' CSAM tips to DOJ(theguardian.com)
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> My McCarthy readlist is structured so: Suttree (current); Blood Meridian; The Road — is this advisable? If you've read Suttree you could do either one next. If you were coming new to McCarthy, I would start with Blood Meridian, as
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by ilamont 8mo ago
Wait til you read Blood Meridian . The imagery he created with words, some of them his own creations, is just ... beyond compare. I'm reading The Road now, which comes from the same place. I can only read either in small doses. It&#
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Another defunct site is Deletionpedia, which compiled articles that had been removed from Wikipedia for not meeting various criteria (usually relating to notability IIRC). The site is dead but the HN discussion lives on: "Deletionpedia
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A developer in my hometown tried to build a manufactured/modular housing development. He got the approvals, demolished most of the existing structure that was on the parcel, purchased the modules from a supplier in Quebec and began to
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Would be curious to know from other HN readers: how far back can you understand written prose of your own language, assuming the writing system uses mostly the same letter or characters? Medieval French, Middle High German, Ancient Greek, C
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That time the US military burned down one of its own bases with a 'bat bomb'(taskandpurpose.com)
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Stock Slide and Slow Sales: What's Happening in China's E.V. Market?(nytimes.com)
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They don't contain the publisher name, but ISBNs are usually purchased in blocks of 10 or 100 or 1000 or whatever by a single entity, which is often a single publisher or corporation. However, within the block publishers can assign ISB
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My view of Amazon's decline comes from being a "partner" in their seller and publisher ecosystems for years. The seller platforms in particular (Brand Registry, Vendor Central, Seller Central, Transparency, etc.) have crippli
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Former technology journalist here. If you want to experiment with reported news using untested tools that have known quality problems, do it in a strictly controlled environment where the output can be carefully vetted. Senior editor(s) nee
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Pulp Fiction Writer: 'Impossible' to Get Movies Made Without 'AI' Company(variety.com)
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I have a copy of Greens printed in the 1990s. It's very extensive and frankly seems like a hopeless exercise to gather them considering how fast language evolves, as well as hyperlocal terms.
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Alternatives to Amazon, and who has stopped using it entirely?(bogleheads.org)
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The breakthrough realization for me was that all businesses are fundamentally similar. They have the same knobs just configured differently. The knobs are things like product, sales channels, marketing, PR, and brand. A jeweler might have
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Estée Lauder sues Walmart over counterfeit products from 3rd party sellers(cnbc.com)
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Polymarket sues Massachusetts in federal court over state betting law(universalhub.com)
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What They Copied(prndlcars.com)
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I grew up reading Earthsea but later discovered Threshold/The Beginning Place. Some of her short stories are very good, too.
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> He recognized how she transcended genre and belongs alongside (or perhaps, above) writers of highbrow literary fiction. In the 70s and 80s, Le Guin and other SFF authors were very aware of the literary divide that often regarded most s
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I encountered such discussions living overseas. For people who come from traditions from outside the Christian world, few know the differences between the various branches or the complex history or rites or terminology, and tend to lump the
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IRS taps HR, IT staff to handle returns amidst hiring crunch(govexec.com)
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> The Times is thriving because they've pivoted from being a newspaper to being a media business. The games vertical is the first thing people talk about, but cooking is arguably a better example. The verticals have dedicated users,
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Communiqué 102: Substack lost its way(readcommunique.com)
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