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by mherdeg 5y ago
Were any of the recently withdrawn-by-publisher Seuss books, like "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street", widely removed from school libraries? Or is this a purely "Beloved" phenomenon? The closest I could find
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I found this interesting article from someone who argues that Elgin took the sculptures as a public-relations move designed to refocus public attention away from his wounded nose and strained marriage: https://www.journals.uchica
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Two of my favorite artifacts in the British Museum are the Young letter and the Champollion publication, where Young in 1818 explains his theory that hieroglyphic pictograms sometimes represent sounds, and Champollion in 1822 gives a detail
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Wonder if I can get my credit-card warranty to cover the cost of self-service repair. I'd love to run a small diagnostic app which generates a PDF file saying * this device's battery is failing sooner than designed and should be r
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by mherdeg 5y ago
I wonder how much overlap there is in fan base between Flint and his occasional collaborator David Weber? I've read all the Honor Harrington books/stories and basically nothing else by either of them. Every now and then I read the
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It's not just overdraft fees right? It's overdraft fees plus transaction reordering which makes the magic happen. I'm still kind of mesmerized on this one, it felt like regulatory action almost happened, the most lucrative
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There was some prior discussion about a generational shift here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28615884 -- there's an idea that people no longer need to know what files or folders are in order to get things d
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I think this is the premise of 1995 Sci-Fi channel classic CARVER'S GATE -- in a grim future where the planet's ecosystem is ruined and its remaining inhabitants struggle to survive, anybody who can afford spends all their time in
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by mherdeg 5y ago
I saw something like this described here: https://twitter.com/eevee/status/1455325800291397633 My personal view here is that your continued ability to own an NFT depends on your ability to tell an interesting stor
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> which is the main remaining threat to rational society What is a "rational society" and what threatens it? My default view is Rawlsian: I'd like to live in a society which maximizes the well-being of the least well-off p
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It's true when I was routinely repatriating income with a forex trading desk the experience was not totally streamlined and paying attention to the spread and rates pretty closely. But also I got out "lucky" by exiting at 1 G
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How does the best price you give for JPY->USD ($10 for $1,000 with Wise) compare with OANDA fxTrade? I think their current posted fees are 1.4% spread-only ($14 for $1000) or 0.3% spread plus core fees. I can't quite tell from the r
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Owen Ashworth's "Tom Justice, The Choir Boy Robber, Apprehended at Ace Hardware" is great for this.
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Hmm like https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/oversight-su... or https://www.reuters.com/article/us-johnson-johnson-talc-cong... ?
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There's a new ticker symbol for this one: FB->MVRS. (There's already an ETF called "META"; 6% of its holdings are FB.) I'm kind of curious about what will happen as either: (1) confused investors buy into META in
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Oh yeah I can totally see Lob adding this to their API as an April Fools thing.
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Ten years back I looked into drafting a RESTful API for a mature software server that didn't expose yet a public API. What I did was read Roy Fielding's thesis then try to apply REST from first principles to our services, sketchin
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I'd like to see the getting into/paying for college trade press cover the modern state of the "surrender custody of your child so they can declare financial independence and qualify for a full tuition waiver based on their ne
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I never quite understood why they didn't just send the big goat first.
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Wow is that a PDF of a Microsoft Word document with inline comments written by the judge? I don't think I've ever seen a document in that style in PACER before (linked in the blog post at https://cdn.sparkfun.com/a
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The author writes about a "congressional candidate who body-slammed a reporter", which is fair enough, but not the whole story -- that congressional candidate won their race and served in Congress and is now a Governor who body-sl
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How do you measure whether these investment vehicles are having the desired effect? I think folks were generally not thrilled about driving a train full of biofuel back and forth between the US and Canadian border even though it apparently
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> We cannot just allow all resources to be owned by organizations or people with no willingness to use them. Should we allow people to use resources really, really slowly? Like can you buy natural gas wells and instead of capping them (a
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Reminds me of Steve Black's story about using scaffolding for adverts: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-so-much-scaffolding-up-in...
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Hmm, why charge $750 instead of billing $20/month forever and giving new hardware every 3 years?
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It's been disappointing to see that Beto O'Rourke doesn't get asked more questions about his present-day commitment to the Cult of the Dead Cow's agenda.
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We'll be vaccinating our young kids as soon as FDA provides EUA. If it's approved then it's safer than doing nothing in their age group. The risks of infection with no vax, vaccinated infection, or reinfection ("natural
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Yeah the fact that it took us years to identify issues with like, BPA or trans fats -- and the constant churn on stuff like glyphosate where it feels like regulators continue to be slower than data -- have me worried. Maybe we should be buy
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This is an area where I'm torn. Should I be buying only organic produce or should I be spending the same money and energy on eating less sugar and more of any kind of produce? There is a tradeoff... with young kids and a full-time job
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Something I learned the hard way at the student newspaper is that the word "Fired" has some very strong psychological implications in US English -- it implies someone no longer has a job because of something bad they did. We got s

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