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by nkurz 3y ago
Probably not. Frantz Fanon is a really big name in some circles. I started the article thinking it was going to be about him too, and scanned the comments to find someone else who had the same false impression.
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by nkurz 3y ago
Along these lines, in a recent interview with the First Lady of Iceland, she recommends that tourists who want to meet real Icelanders should visit a swimming pool: "They say if you want to meet a Brit, go to a pub; if you want to meet
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by nkurz 3y ago
I've been here a while, and I haven't noticed any sudden recent changes. There have always been such posts, and while I do think it's getting a little worse over time, it's changing very slowly: the good posts and comme
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by nkurz 3y ago
Are you referring to the explanation of how the First Amendment allows for rules regulating speech that "substantially impairs the effective conduct of a meeting" or something else? I thought it was a pretty good article. Here&#
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by nkurz 3y ago
I don't think it's reasonable to quit a site because a post you feel is important suddenly drops in ranking. There are all sorts of reasons this could happen, with user flagging by a tiny number of individuals probably being the
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by nkurz 3y ago
Explaining jokes rarely works well, but I have to ask: is calling a bushel a "unit of weight" part of the joke? Traditionally a bushel is typically a unit of volume, not of weight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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Rational Magic(thenewatlantis.com)
64 points by nkurz 3y ago|55 comments
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Vouched for and upvoted because I think it's important for readers here to see how much effort goes into creating posts that game the system. I think it's better for these strategies to be known than hidden. It will be interesti
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by nkurz 3y ago
I see this is your video. Could you offer some context?
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by nkurz 3y ago
Lots of discussion from a couple years ago on the Ć Programming Language (although most of it is about the name): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28805825
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by nkurz 3y ago
I view it differently. It's not that papercuts don't matter, it's that people tolerate papercuts when there is no viable alternative. Glitchy software with maddening defects is evidence of lack of competition. If a competi
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The “myth of left and right” (2022)(readtangle.com)
4 points by nkurz 4y ago|0 comments
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by nkurz 4y ago
> That's what causes extra warming of the surface compared to the situation without air. While this effect may be real, it's not what people are referring to as the "greenhouse effect". This requires the absorption a
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by nkurz 4y ago
At the bottom of the page: > Don’t forget to update your copyright date on New Year’s Day. Is this intended as a joke? Or does updating a copyright notice on a webpage actually serve some legal purpose?
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by nkurz 4y ago
I think this is the right link. It's the initial story from the point of view of the person whose work was plagiarized. The evidence of plagiarism provided there eventually led to the story that I submitted.
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ReceptioGate and the (Absolute) State of Academia(thecritic.co.uk)
77 points by nkurz 4y ago|23 comments
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by nkurz 4y ago
I agree it's still a somewhat open question, but I think the data is that Massachusetts is probably on the side where it can make sense with the right equipment. Here's a real world analysis of a heat pump in Connecticut that ave
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by nkurz 4y ago
Elsewhere he says that his heat pumps are two Daikin RJQ18TAVJUA: https://ashp.neep.org/#!/product/56878/7/25000///0 . Much of the other information is probably available elsewhere on his si
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by nkurz 4y ago
> I do not fault the particular pump that we bought or our installers who were careful and professional. I feel like the author may be letting the installers off too easily here. It seems like there are two main possibilities: either
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by nkurz 4y ago
Hmm, if this is right then some of the illustrations might not be showing quite what is intended. We assumed that the rectangular gray structure in the upper left of each square chip was the laser. All the other illustrations (lower in th
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by nkurz 4y ago
Does someone have the background to describe what's happening in the top banner illustration on that page? ( https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/an-array-of-gray-and... ) There's a repeated grid of chips,
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by nkurz 4y ago
Doesn't explain the AC, which I agree is really rare, but in some parts of the US (North East) fuel oil is commonly used for winter heating. Depending on grade, fuel oil is sometimes synonymous with diesel, with the two are being serv
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by nkurz 4y ago
You're not wrong. What people think will depend on context, and probably on region. In US English, jacket is a wide ranging term that could easily include a zip up sweater. If you wanted to be extra clear, you could saw "sweate
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by nkurz 4y ago
Whereas I didn't realize they were links, and never thought to click on the oddly worded text below the examples. For others like me, the plain text label in a square box below the listings that says stilted things like "The one
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by nkurz 4y ago
I'm still not following. You seem to have said above that the 8086 was an iteration of the 8088, whereas Wikipedia claims that the 8088 is instead a variant of the 8086. It also says that the 8088 came out after the 8086. Can you re
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by nkurz 4y ago
They aren't real common, but there do exist air-to-water heat pumps that can be used for radiant floors. They usually aren't hot enough for pre-existing baseboard, but hydronic flooring runs cooler. Not sure about availability,
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by nkurz 4y ago
Good points, but in case anyone is still reading, I feel compelled to stick to my guns: I think it matters where you are. Figures 7 and 8 in this 2022 paper from Lawrence Berkeley Lab give maps of the seasonal minimum heat pump COPs necess
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by nkurz 4y ago
The land records are held by a local authority who charges a taxes on the land. If the taxes aren't being paid, the land is sold at auction, and the new owner is responsible for the back taxes. Even if you don't always know exa
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by nkurz 4y ago
For those like me who were confused by this paragraph as I was, Bengalis are a single ethnicity that is split between the countries of India and Bangladesh. Practically all Bangladeshis are Bengalis, and 80% of them are Muslim. Most India
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by nkurz 4y ago
Alternatively said, "fain" is a mostly archaic way of saying "gladly". Whereas "feign" is more common and means "to give a false impression". More details: https://www.grammarphobia.com&#

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