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by mif 4y ago
My favorite is 10^10^50: “Estimated time for a Boltzmann brain to appear in the vacuum via a spontaneous entropy decrease.” Didn’t even know about the Boltzmann brain.
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by mif 4y ago
Definitely useful.
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by mif 4y ago
The Earth System can be described as a chaotic system. That is is what climate (and weather prediction) models are all about. It has been great recognized a long time ago (and recently, a Nobel Prize has been awarded because of this).
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by mif 4y ago
„Be not content - A subterranean journal“ is pretty eternal for me. So is „On the road“. Or take „Middlesex“. Why, they tell the story about a different life. If you want to spend the rest of your life miserable then „Im Westen nichts Neues
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by mif 4y ago
https://archive.org/details/EconomistBooksTheEconomistStyleG...
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by mif 5y ago
I have started gymnastics over a year ago and I feel that I have fewer problems with my neck. My lower upper body feels stronger and has better support for sitting through long stretches. As a start try hand-stands (against a wall) and cart
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by mif 5y ago
Reading books and having meaningful conversations is a good start.
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by mif 5y ago
If cutting down forests results in higher CO2 emissions why shouldn’t planting forests reverse it? It is thought to reverse the effect of deforestation and naturally, it is a slow process.
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by mif 5y ago
Jane Jacobs‘ book mentioned in the article is one that I highly recommend („The Death and Life of Great American Cities“; another one is „Cities and the Wealth of Nations“, here, if I remember correctly the theory is That cities are the dri
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by mif 5y ago
From the title, I thought it’s about mountain photography. Oh boy, those title words sometimes become too unrecognizable.
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by mif 6y ago
https://hackernewsletter.com/ is a weekly newsletter and pretty much gives all categories and covers the most interesting submissions.
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Ask HN: Fast Non-Cryptographic Random Number Generator
1 points by mif 8y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Console-based time tracker written in Go(github.com)
4 points by mif 11y ago|0 comments
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by mif 12y ago
Last and First Men is incredible and one of my favourites. Also because of it's unprecedented time scale.
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Show HN: Pystable – a simple static blog engine written in Python(github.com)
1 points by mif 12y ago|0 comments
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Watch as the Ackerman function gets calculated(gfredericks.com)
1 points by mif 13y ago|0 comments