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A refugee, a Marxist and an ultra-right-wing modernist walk into a cafe(westcoastrxers.com)
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TLDR: "Bryan Cantrill is not a racist or a sexist. But he's still an asshole, so can't we purge him anyway?" "Have you ever kissed a girl?" was a jerk move, there's no doubt. He's apologized for tha
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Mass effects in modern life (1925)(nationalchurchillmuseum.org)
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Every time I see the word "diversity" used in this tone, I'm reminded of Vaclav Havel's brilliant essay, The Power of the Powerless : http://www.vaclavhavel.cz/showtrans.php?cat=eseje&val=2_aj_e...
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The Art of Fiction: Kurt Vonnegut(theparisreview.org)
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Georgia O'Keefe has already contacted her attorneys...
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Here's what our current VP said in 1979, in a secret conversation with a Soviet official: > Unofficially, [Senator Joseph] Biden and [Senator Richard] Lugar said that, in the end of the day, they were not so much concerned with havi
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Irritatingly, a lot of the docs on the Milagro site are stubs. For the user experience I found this most explanatory: http://docs.milagro.io/en/mfa/getting-started/milagro-mfa-ov...
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> That's not how things are done in this country. Tocqueville, almost 200 years ago, begs to differ: "I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.... in Ame
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A more accurate title might have been "before NSF." The practical effect of the shift from patronage to grants is a transition from multipolar to unipolar science. Any one rich patron may or may not have an instinct for what rese
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You will never win a war on vice That would come as news to Singapore: https://www.mfa.gov.sg/content/mfa/media_centre/press_room/p...
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There's a great anecdote in Victor Klemperer's diary of life as a Jew in Nazi Germany. He was a longtime subscriber to a cat magazine. In 1932 his cat magazine was all about cats. By 1935 it couldn't shut up about the virt
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The thermal forcing is just the input to the model. What we'd really like to know is the climate sensitivity -- how does a given forcing affect Earth's temperature? All questions about the legitimacy of climate science are questi
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Whenever I see this figure reported on a numerically literate site like HN, I always wonder how many readers know whether the thermal forcing due to CO2 is (a) exponential, (b) logarithmic, or (c) linear as a function of the ppm. Upvote if
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Three Years of Nights(chicagomag.com)
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If anything, Zika and Planned Parenthood (ie, the US's quasi-governmental abortion agency) seem like two great tastes that go great together.
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Robert Putnam's research on trust and diversity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Putnam#Diversity_and... Japan's backward immigration policies may change: http://www.japantoday.com/cat
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Some of them, I assume, are good mosquitoes. But who's doing the biting? Somebody's doing the biting! We need to build a net. They have to go back!
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No mention of the J1 visa, which employs hundreds of thousands of immigrant students in US summer jobs: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/opinion/americas-sweatshop...
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The dating of the Shakespeare plays is incredibly arbitrary and unknowable. Are you aware how thin an evidentiary foundation our knowledge of these issues rests on? By "no one questioned" you mean "no one even referred to.&q
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See below. By "all" you mean "one," I think. It's not even clear that the "Heminges and Condell" text was written by Heminges and Condell. More likely it was just written by Jonson. Your priors need to b
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So far as I know, the only historical document that even suggests a link between the playwright and the actor is the preface to the First Folio, by Ben Jonson and (purportedly) Hemings and Condell: http://www.shakespeare-online.c
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These documents sound legit, but methinks Alan Nelson doth protest too much. All Oxfordians (people who believe "Shakespeare" was a beard/pen name for Edward de Vere) agree that Shakespeare was an actor, ie, "player.&quo
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Fascism and the birth of stovetop espresso(ineedcoffee.com)
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Actually, the real history of the world is the hidden struggle between YC and the so-called "Paypal Mafia" -- in fact the continuity organization of the Nazi Abwehr. Both these groups have full access to the alien records and have
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I thought this wasn't a "libertarian utopia for techies?" When you look at how ordinary people choose a city to live in, the most important variable is who else gets to live there . Everything else is a rounding error. Boul
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What I find most interesting about this piece is the awesome lifestyle of flitting from grant to grant as a semi-celebrity in the international jet-set art world. Also lets you feel good about "leaking" your employer's infor