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The Book of Thel(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
> Even after their departure, the Norse continued to return to the Americas, most likely to pick up lumber since no trees grew on Greenland and Iceland. This actually never occurred to me, and it’s interesting that these famous seafarers
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
This article has a real nauseating “I went to document the primitive natives” feel to it. Lines like: > But when he was out on the street with his camera, something struck him about the way people reacted. Make it sound like they’ve neve
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China, Russia ahead in the vaccine race, bending long-standing rules as they go(washingtonpost.com)
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Australian air carrier’s seven-hour scenic ‘flight to nowhere’ sells out(washingtonpost.com)
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
It seems to me that if Apple felt that Nvidia would limit them, they could have outbid them for ARM! So I think you are correct.
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
> I think that's a better metric because it puts it in perspective. It’s interesting that you see it this way. Personally if someone said to me I have a 50% increased chance of death, I’d really struggle to make a proper risk assess
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
Arxiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04174
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The Unlikely Alliance That Ended Sunday Mail Delivery in 1912 (2013)(theatlantic.com)
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EPA approves coronavirus cleanser for emergency use in Texas(washingtonpost.com)
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
That works fine until GPT-3 generates inadvertently generates a bunch of incriminating evidence!
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I think this must be why they require you to register an account to read reddit now.
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This just points to the absurdity of the whole situation. I mean in what world should bars be open and universities closed? It’s a complete failure of priorities.
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I strongly agree with you. I know many people whose whole views on religion, politics, society were changed through their humanities courses at university. Personally I gained a deeper knowledge of history, a love of art, and a real interes
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I was confused by this too. I wonder if it means that the spacecraft was able to enter into its orbit and circle around taking pictures, as opposed to one pass by
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
Since Silicon Valley interviews are a hot topic here, I thought Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast episode on hiring nihilism might be of interest. It was slightly strange to hear Gladwell talk about our inability to judge candidates while adverti
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Hamlet Was Wrong – Hiring Nihilism in Actiom(revisionisthistory.com)
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Boycotts Can’t Be a Test of Moral Purity(theatlantic.com)
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> So when bying a laptop to go along with your smartphone, the Mac running Apple Silicon has a huge benefit, as it integrates more seamless than ever with your smartphone. I don’t really think the connection here is so strong. Having the
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
Especially when Spotify is telling you this because they pay you so little for streaming rights.
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What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?(link.aps.org)
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
In the future, when looking at github becomes a standard hiring practice, companies will start going full closed source so that their talent can’t jump ship.
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
So you find it more convenient to switch to a totally different money sending service than to just download a separate app?
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
For the way the article is worded, it sounds like a lot of noise is being made about some select reinterpretations of a law by bureaucrats. I would be shocked if the situation hadn’t changed.
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Retraction Note: Exploring the quantum speed limit with computer games(nature.com)
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Yeah what we really need is a glassdoor equivalent.
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Are you sure it’s not the opposite? Plenty of students can solve a set of equations. But when you start asking them about trains speeding in the night...
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A physics paper claimed the Koran had predicted the discovery of the Higgs Boson(retractionwatch.com)
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
Obviously the federal government should’ve paid the stimulus money in dimes
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
> The original idea that the bitcoin scam was a diversion starts to look more plausible in this light, This is still absurd to me. What diversion? Twitter knows exactly what was downloaded, and in fact they’re looking at this even closer

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