kalimanzaro

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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Overlooked in the article: the Yuan/Song invention of movable types made of tin, which melts at low temperatures similar to that of Gutenberg's type metals. But they didnt catch on due to the poor ink adsorption. Source: https:&#
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
They should make a new page specializing in Russian hospital defenestrations: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/europe/russia-medical-workers...
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The AI Researcher Giving Her Field Its Bitter Medicine(quantamagazine.org)
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Lab leaders wrestle with paucity of postdocs(nature.com)
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
not to be less pessimistic, but is it 27cm this century or 27cm this millennium? I didnt find any timescale after a cursory glance at the paper but perhaps it doesnt matter in the scientific or wider view? As a human being though.. https:&
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
I said in another HN thread that the Romans didnt innovate in energy. Someone replied that they did. Looks like you put a definite coda to that-- the Romans too were let down by their geography. https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
From a related HN thread: "Italy never got as large number of mills as Britain as the rivers flowing into Northern Italy have too large variation in water flow. That is part of the reason Romans could never utilize waterwheels to a gre
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
In particular, they didn't innovate in general technologies, like energy/information production/transmission, or metallurgy. Hard to beat slaves as a general technology， even concrete is no match.
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Analogous to the British industrial revolution I suppose, where the relative cheapness of coal and iron versus labour is considered critical.
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
That the high school teaching experience is vastly different from your wife's experiences teaching primary school children... seems to make sense?
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
If your unit is "Soul", like in the airline or Buddhist industry(0), things might simplify, though it still kills Wilsons intention, for all social predators, including humans, are become parasites.. To your second consideration,
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
"Nvidia" is already punning on a deadly sin, Envy. ("Invidia" in Latin.) Ever wonder why they chose that obnoxious shade of green for their logo? Now you know:)
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
A hackergroup inspired by Eudaimonism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaemons
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
If cats are a good thinking aid for you, this seems very similar to the Falling Cat Problem: From wikipedia: "The apparent contradiction with the law of conservation of angular momentum is resolved because the cat is not a rigid body,
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Curious as to what are some medically important examples of disordered proteins might be?
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_experience_officer
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Great points but may I suggest "C?Os"? CxO reads like "Chiefs & Officers" to me
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
An autocracy of the majority, for the majority, by the majority.
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
He'd better be close to the sea-- there's this infamous coconut-only dieter who basically starved to death: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Engelhardt
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Hire a recovering cannibal to do quality control? Like recently assimilated tribespeople? "It was still practiced in Papua New Guinea as of 2012, for cultural reasons[12][13] and in ritual as well as in war in various Melanesian tribes
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
That is another Germanic one, probably related to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_(surname) >"Europe Scandinavia Wang is also an unrelated surname in Sweden and Norway. It is a variant spelling of the nam
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Does anybody know if the East German sportsfolk doped HGH? According to a recent HN post, their lifespan got reduced by around a decade. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31591777
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
I don't know if you mean the logic notation often seen in programming language papers, but it's called sequent calculus. Wikipedia page has a good intro and links to further resources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
I used to wonder if the name Yingling was Asian, but it turns out to be the same as Yuengling the beer, which is an odd but phonetically correct rendering of Jungling with the umlaut. ("Youngling")
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
>"bias against creativity that is not necessarily overt, and which is activated when people experience a motivation to reduce uncertainty." Would this imply that inhabitants of countries that rank high on the Hofstede ambiguity
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Wow, the polyamorous people I hang out with were all kind of on the Asp-ectrum.. I kinda wondered but never made sense of that, until this article.. (I also ocasionally hang out with nontech people)
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
for those willing to Google translate, here is the Baidu page about the marque on the bottom https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%A4%A7%E6%B8%85%E4%B9%BE%E9%...
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Classic! Looks just at home in a cold war sci-fi (Solaris[0], 2001 A Space Odyssey) Are UK public agencies suffering from coldwar nostalgia? [0] https://archive.ph/M4n6x/eae85b20295ef0ab969dcbff42b8f6f54d9...
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Or maybe they are a continental European, who, of American writings, appreciate mostly the rustic type-- and be stranger to usages of "kontrapunkt" outside of a high art context
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
It's just like "The" Mafia, even though we know there are multiple Families.

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