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by kwoff 9y ago
maybe interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_influence_in_English
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by kwoff 9y ago
Yet another HN article leading to an evening of reading wikipedia articles, etc. I see a lot of "developing country" comments. Trying to reconcile Madagascar with Iceland, another island nation. Iceland has 300K people in 100K sq
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by kwoff 9y ago
Heh, what a day on Hacker News. I read comments about bidets, where people go into intimate detail about how they poop -- and now comments about diapers, where parents go into intimate detail about how their babies poop and pee. :)
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by kwoff 9y ago
Isn't this just blatantly violating copyright?
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by kwoff 9y ago
The web page links to a journal article that you have to pay for, but you can find the freely-readable version of the full article at https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08257 . Section 4.2 discusses dust emission. The original
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by kwoff 9y ago
I don't mean to imply anything wrong with the article, but I totally agree that bringing this up is relevant. The potential motivations of who is telling you something is very important. One of the first things I did was google "w
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by kwoff 9y ago
Planets orbit around the center of mass. It's coincidental that the center of mass is (at least in our case) at the sun's location, because the sun has most of the mass.
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by kwoff 9y ago
I thought that was weird too (several other things on the site seem that way at first, until they explain something like "oh by the way, we filtered only for murders, terrorist acts, etc., not naively by number of deaths"), but it
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by kwoff 9y ago
troll or propaganda?
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by kwoff 9y ago
Probably valueable to consider who will be remembering at that time, since that impacts who is remembered.
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by kwoff 9y ago
They're childish cowards. Childish because like young children they're not able to express themselves reasonably, so they resort to throwing tantrums. Cowards because they do it anonymously. Instead of opposing "systemic stab
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by kwoff 9y ago
I already in v57 had to set privacy.firstparty.isolate.restrict_opener_access to false in about:config because every site is wanting me to login all the time... (At least I assume that was the reason.) I did toggle privacy.firstparty.isolat
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by kwoff 9y ago
Sorry, but this seems dubious. (I'm not a doctor, though.) It also seems like a bad product name for googling. :) The reason it would taste like nail-polish remover is because acetone, the main ingredient of nail-polish remover, is a k
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by kwoff 9y ago
I wouldn't have expected North Dakota, West Virginia, Idaho, or South Dakota.. “At The Pew Charitable Trusts, return on investment is not measured in profits but in long-lasting, positive, powerful change.” Is this one of those "p
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by kwoff 9y ago
Are airlines or landlords worse nowadays...?
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by kwoff 9y ago
[citation needed] There are, of course, many people "at the level" of Elon Musk. (I don't mean that flippantly, either.)
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by kwoff 9y ago
Why "unadulterated honey"?
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by kwoff 9y ago
(as a Perl programmer, FWIW) I think Python is beating Perl due to better support for integrating with C++, or at least more modern C/C++ libraries have bindings for Python. Otherwise, if you argue for syntactic simplicity, you at leas
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by kwoff 9y ago
A similar idea is the muon g-2 magnetic moment measurement: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-muon-g-begun-phantom-particles... It goes back to 1959, with ever more accurate measurements: http://library.cern&#x
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by kwoff 9y ago
Yeah the NBC News article, from June 2017, someone "recently published a paper" -- in July 2016 (I suppose on a cosmic scale...). At the risk of...ad-hominism, the site they linked doesn't inspire confidence. For one thing, t
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by kwoff 9y ago
Seems like a "false quachotomy" to me.
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by kwoff 9y ago
Amazing story. He mentioned that that doctor was "high-lined" over from another ship. Am I right that that's a "zip-line"? (TIL also that High Line is a "park" in Manhattan.)
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by kwoff 9y ago
I'm learning Dutch on Duolingo, and they recently updated the "Tree". Basically whenever they do that, you lose a lot of your "progress", and have to revisit (months of) previous sections that you'd already com
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by kwoff 9y ago
thank you - probably not coincidentally, I'm interested in synthesizers and electronic music history :)
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by kwoff 9y ago
"I read somewhere that" I can justify anything by that, especially anectodally.
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by kwoff 9y ago
I don't know much about hip-hop or rap, but that was a damn gripping story.
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by kwoff 9y ago
(I'll get downvoted as usual..) You seem to consider it "worthy" to get a high school education. That would make you someone who wants to "govern" the "citizens", right? What would be the basis/author
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by kwoff 9y ago
and The Atlantic, right? Usually insightful, though
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by kwoff 9y ago
I put out a syscall table back in the day for Linux 2.2 (up to %eax 190). Someone copied it (I'm glad.): https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bismith/test/syscalls/syscalls32.... They didn't attribute it to m
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by kwoff 9y ago
I don't know much about NYC, but I've read "The Bonfire of the Vanities" (1987 novel; heard the movie sucked...). Anyone plot key points in that? (for example: the car scene of Sherman and Maria, the court house in the B

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