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by nkurz 3y ago
What makes you believe Dan has a team? And what do you mean by "team"? My presumption is that there are a number of unpaid volunteers who have been delegated small pieces of the moderation effort, but that there are no employees
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by nkurz 3y ago
I vouched for this comment since the irony of having it on this thread was too great. How can we give recoverydarek@gmail.com a little more legal attention? So long as people feel secure publicly advertising obvious scams like this, it se
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by nkurz 3y ago
Your comment is ambiguous. Could you clarify? Are they negative toward the behavior that is being condemned, or negative toward the condemnation? Are they pro- or anti-Shewchuk?
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by nkurz 3y ago
No, as 'chownie' says, I was using it in it's original technical sense of a word that is created for the occasion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_word Nonce is also used in cryptography for a number
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by nkurz 3y ago
I don't know it, and searching got me nowhere. Could you expand?
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by nkurz 3y ago
This seems reasonable to me: if you do things that statistically correlate to being more likely to cause an accident, why shouldn't the insurance company charge you more? And since it's a relatively small group of drivers who ca
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by nkurz 3y ago
For those wondering about the word "quooke", which is listed at the bottom as one of the 6 official solutions, it is the "(obsolete, nonce word) simple past and past participle of quake": https://en.wiktionary
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by nkurz 3y ago
https://archive.ph/GAsxc
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You're Métis? So which of your parents is an Indian? (2011)(apihtawikosisan.com)
3 points by nkurz 3y ago|0 comments
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by nkurz 3y ago
What exactly are you saying is equal to "about one air passenger trip to Europe"? OP says 85 kg/year of Carbon per really big tree. The first calculator I tried said a one way trip from NYC to London on a 787 is over 1000 kg
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by nkurz 3y ago
> I don't have access to the study Full study is here: https://osf.io/s2zv8/download/?format=pdf
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Mainstream Climate Science: The New Denialism?(jonathonporritt.com)
5 points by nkurz 3y ago|0 comments
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by nkurz 3y ago
A version of the full paper seems to be available here: https://osf.io/s2zv8/download/?format=pdf
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by nkurz 3y ago
You are right. In my defense, I meant to say "about 4 cycles per byte of input" but in my editing I messed this up. I'd just deleted a sentence talking about the number of bytes per cycle we could bring in from RAM, but was
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by nkurz 3y ago
Not clear what happened there. Either it was flagged by a couple users (fat fingers on mobile is a problem) or it was the "flamewar detector" gone awry. This "feature" demotes stories when the number of comments exceed
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by nkurz 3y ago
I haven't looked at the problem closely enough to answer, but could we start from the other direction: what makes you think that memory I/O would be the bottleneck? From my limited understanding, we sequentially bring a large tex
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by nkurz 3y ago
The title of this article is correct but seems to be misleading some readers. Their goal is not to produce hydrogen, but to produce synthetic natural gas. Using solar to produce hydrogen as a precursor is just the particular approach they
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Google's sad ideological capture was what we were trying to avoid(world.hey.com)
21 points by nkurz 3y ago|1 comments
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The 160-year mystery of Europe's Ice Age 'queens'(bbc.com)
93 points by nkurz 3y ago|55 comments
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by nkurz 3y ago
The update to the story is that the officials penalized Seavey "for ‘not sufficiently’ gutting moose": https://www.adn.com/outdoors-adventure/iditarod/2024/03/06/i... In better news, the i
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by nkurz 3y ago
I think they publish their research here: https://www.inkandswitch.com
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by nkurz 3y ago
For the second half of your question, here's the editor of Road and Track trying to explain why he pulled the article: The story was taken down because I felt it was the wrong story for our publication. No one from the brands or organ
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by nkurz 3y ago
"According to Iditarod Rule 34, if an edible big game animal — like a moose, caribou or buffalo — is killed in defense of life or property, the musher is required to gut the animal and report it to race officials at the next checkpoint
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Iditarod musher Dallas Seavey kills moose to protect his dogs during race(theathletic.com)
34 points by nkurz 3y ago|77 comments
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by nkurz 3y ago
An archived version of the "vanished" article is linked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39616465
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by nkurz 3y ago
Background: Road and Track magazine sent reporter Kate Wagner (better known for her McMansion Hell blog) to report on a Formula 1 race in Austin. They published her article last Friday, and then immediately pulled it off their site. This
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by nkurz 3y ago
Thanks, this confirms that the pronunciation isn't the same at all. "Seoighe" sounds somewhere close to the two syllables "Shoy-Ga", while "Joyce" only has one syllable and a different starting sound. Wh
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by nkurz 3y ago
I think the article is saying that the last name "Joyce" is the anglicized version of Irish name "Seoighe". Could someone with more knowledge explain in what way this is true? Is it a phonetic translation? Are they pr
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Would a £150k wage tempt you to a Scottish island?(bbc.com)
3 points by nkurz 3y ago|1 comments
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by nkurz 3y ago
Nice article, worth reading. At first I thought the site was broken, because I got nothing but the top line header. I loaded it several times, tried chopping off the end of the URL, and then gave up. I tried again later, and it worked. I

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