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by lordleft 7y ago
Cold War Espionage is endlessly fascinating. I recommend looking into the story of the Cambridge Five, some of the most notorious Soviet spies in British History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Five
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by lordleft 7y ago
One of my favorite facts about Bertrand Russell is that he invented type theory in the context of math, and in that way contributed indirectly to computer science.
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by lordleft 7y ago
As a Malayalee/Indian American, I was not familiar with Janayugom but had a sneaking suspicion that it was a Malayalee paper — this tiny Indian state has several newspapers with circulations that rival that of Japanese and European pap
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by lordleft 7y ago
It's so interesting to consider the deep, Norman French character of the British Monarchy. From the immense impact of French on English vocabulary, to the French mottos of the British Crown ("Dieu et Mon Droit") and the Order
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by lordleft 7y ago
Doesn't 'for fun' clearly indicate that this isn't designed to replace a professional-grade solution though?
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When Apple used to licence out macOS(youtube.com)
2 points by lordleft 7y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 7y ago
I've recently gotten back into MTG, and Commander in particular. If you think you know magic, check out the Commander format -- it feels so political, so dynamic, so buck wild. D&D is still my favorite game, but man is magic up the
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by lordleft 7y ago
A powerful and provocative article. I love the quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes: "The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which th
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by lordleft 7y ago
It is a dream of mine to go to a Waffle House, ever since that Anthony Bourdain episode -- the food looked delicious.
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by lordleft 7y ago
Read — anything by Tolstoy, or George Eliot
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Ask HN: Parents of HN – have you ever had to outwit your tech-savvy kid?
5 points by lordleft 7y ago|2 comments
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by lordleft 7y ago
Paying for various expenses with apple pay feels downright magical. I love it and use it constantly. But I don't want currency to go away outright. There are definite perks. The biggest one for me is that I'm much more cognizant o
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by lordleft 7y ago
Something I've been wrestling with is the perceived 'unsexiness' of certain technologies, like C#. When I joined this industry, I thought that anything that wasn't powered by Rust or Python or Haskell was irredeemable, t
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by lordleft 7y ago
'Gilgamesh, where are you hurrying to? You will never find the life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they alloted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh, fill your belly wit
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by lordleft 7y ago
Bach is my favorite artist & composer. There are times when I listen to a cantata of his and I feel as if I am in possession of a total understanding of life that departs me as soon as the music ends. It's a mystical and intellectu
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by lordleft 7y ago
IIRC, Ada Lovelace remarked that she was torn between two natures, one 'mathematical' and the other 'poetical.'
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by lordleft 7y ago
Current Columbia Student. Columbia's administration is absolutely terrible at cultivating any sense of school spirit. Some of this is a function of the fact that we're in NYC, but some of this can be laid at the hands of decisions
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by lordleft 7y ago
The Gita is a triumph of Indian literature. Intriguingly, Gandhi held the Gita in great esteem and interpreted the warfare it depicts as fundamentally spiritual.
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Ask HN: Best Books on the DotCom Bubble?
18 points by lordleft 7y ago|5 comments
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California Governor Signs Plan to Let N.C.A.A. Athletes Be Paid(nytimes.com)
2 points by lordleft 7y ago|0 comments
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Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists(youtube.com)
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by lordleft 7y ago
I have to admit that I instantly recoil at any system that tracks what a child does and potentially penalizes them with such granularity. I suppose it's not that far removed from getting a gold star for behaving well...but pair that
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How workers are using vacations to catch up on work(bbc.com)
1 points by lordleft 7y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 7y ago
Seeing it draw out a curve was pretty astonishing. What a cool slice of history!
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Socialist Rifle Association(socialistra.org)
35 points by lordleft 7y ago|32 comments
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by lordleft 7y ago
Why does there need to be a downvote system at all? Why not just flag a question if you think it's a poor fit for SO? I don't get why anyone would want to pile onto a poorly expressed question.
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by lordleft 7y ago
I’m a massive fan of the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation (they’re a husband and wife duo)
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by lordleft 7y ago
Awesome article, never heard of Kitty but will check it out!
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by lordleft 7y ago
I became intimately acquainted with Levenshtein's distance for my summer internship project, and have implemented it myself a few times for interviews. It was central to an event de-duplication system I built. Amazing how such a seemin
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by lordleft 7y ago
Hi - so I totally agree with you, he's a titan of linguistics. I meant well known beyond the academy; I'd wager he's more of a household name because of his politics than his contributions to linguistics.

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