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by khrbrt 6y ago
These recent articles around the Thanksgiving holiday are making me realize just how little I know about the early colonial period of the Americas. Are there any books on the period yall would recommend?
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by khrbrt 6y ago
I play AoE2 (non-DE) on Linux with Steam and its compatibility tool.
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by khrbrt 6y ago
First I've heard of Sandstorm[0]. Very interesting, I need to give this a try soon. 0: sandstorm.io
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by khrbrt 6y ago
Los Angeles is spread out because it had functional mass transit at the turn of the last century. The Red Car interurban line sprawled out from downtown into the county and housing popped up six blocks on the side from every stop. Later m
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by khrbrt 6y ago
Yes, Nagasawa isn't the sort of character one should want to emulate in real life.
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by khrbrt 6y ago
Evolutionarily, it'd be the other way around. If members of a high caste are guaranteed wealth and many children, then there is no selective pressure for intelligence. Likewise, if lower caste members struggle to survive, then there is
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by khrbrt 6y ago
OP's comment wasn't about Woz specifically but the population of potential Wozs who, but for a few hundred dollars, could have contributed something great to the world but didn't. Right now a generation of young people in the
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by khrbrt 6y ago
Another good point from Kim Stanely Robinson is 2312 's constructing habitats from hollowed out asteroids. Way easier than refining and moving so many tons for steel to build a habitat from scratch. I also love the ecological designin
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by khrbrt 6y ago
The YouTube alt-right pipeline is well documented. ACM study: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3351095.3372879 MIT Technology Review summary of the study: https://www.technologyreview.com/20
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by khrbrt 6y ago
For those interested, check out this training film for B-17 gunners voiced by Mel Blanc, better known for his role as Bugs Bunny. https://youtu.be/vtgAyGa79F8 I wonder how accurate they'll keep the shooting mechanics.
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by khrbrt 6y ago
An any other forum I'd reply to this with a gif of the mayor from Jaws.
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by khrbrt 6y ago
Downvoting is for cowards.
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by khrbrt 7y ago
That article has very thin gruel for "taking marching orders from Pelosi": not endorsing some people and asking for civility in Twitter feuds. Be skeptical of anything written by the National Review about progressives.
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by khrbrt 7y ago
It's infuriating how many articles on niche software were (still are?) deleted. It's a modern day burning of the Library of Alexandria!
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by khrbrt 7y ago
Set theory and graph theory came up often in my undergraduate operating systems and computer organization classes. I imagine it'd be even more so for graduate level classes.
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by khrbrt 7y ago
That's honestly more impressive for creativity sake! FizzBuzz is just an example of the general problem of "given a set of things, do something to a subset of those things" which comes up often in real world settings. If you
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by khrbrt 7y ago
Nuclear weapons made military sense in the days when hundreds of bombers would fly to hit a specific factory or base and have a slightly better than even chance of doing real damage to the objective. Is there still a need for this weapon wh
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by khrbrt 7y ago
Many drivers are commuters from the suburbs who drive in the morning, park inside or very near their office building, and drive home in the evening. The downtowns of many US cities are completely dead after "working" hours.
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by khrbrt 7y ago
Fossil fuels are much more subsidized than nuclear power.
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by khrbrt 7y ago
Malcom Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast did an episode[0] awhile back on how much better McDonalds fries tasted when they were cooked in beef tallow. Now that the "fat scare" of the 90s is over, would this be a good tim
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by khrbrt 7y ago
People are downvoting but I appreciate this request because the transcript is very disorienting to read. Planet Money used to be a great source for learning about the economy but has recently become unlistenable. For example, I tried listen
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by khrbrt 7y ago
The bit about adblockers provides context on why this article is worth my attention. I'm not an extension developer, so "Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary" means nothing to me. But this: >The most controversial aspect
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by khrbrt 7y ago
ok boomer This may seem fine on the micro level -- an individual working into their 70s, but is a disaster at the macro level -- a significant part of a workforce suddenly in their 80s. Senior workers tend to hold senior positions. A 65-er
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by khrbrt 7y ago
They would be making closer to 3000 every two months instead of 300. It wouldn't be a utopia, but it'd be a lot better than if we hadn't bled Latin America dry for our benefit. My point is that a factory moving overseas isn&
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by khrbrt 7y ago
The CIA under Eisenhower overthrew the government of Guatemala when trade unionists were elected on the promise of eight hour workdays and better conditions for field workers. What do you think the country would be like today if we hadn&#x2
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by khrbrt 7y ago
Rule of thumb I head somewhere is that union dues should be around half hour of wage per week, assuming full time employment. Not sure what it would be for part timers.
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by khrbrt 7y ago
They may have been referring to "tilt and turn" style windows ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT8eBjlcT8s ) which I saw everywhere in Germany but I've never seen in the US. Too bad, they're pretty great.
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by khrbrt 7y ago
Those are much fewer than cars and without them blocking the road emergency vehicles can move much faster and without a thick layer of parking lining every street, commercial vehicles can have designated spots.
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by khrbrt 7y ago
We need free medical school.
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by khrbrt 7y ago
It's a tournament time format, typically 90 minutes per player with some amount of seconds added per move. Other tournament time formats are "rapid" with 10 to 15 minutes per player, "blitz" of 3 to 5 minutes and &q

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