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by nkurz 4y ago
An acquaintance on another forum suggested this relevant passage from Friedman's "Machinery of Freedom" [1]: There is a scene in Njal's Saga that provides striking evidence of this stability. Conflict between two groups
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by nkurz 4y ago
OP probably meant to say that he uses pre-made Lidar maps to scout locations where he is likely to find lost human artifacts. He's not looking for underground deposits, but trying to find things like long lost outlines of house founda
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Life on the Infinite Farm [pdf](math.brown.edu)
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by nkurz 4y ago
The linked article says "Chamberlin first acknowledged to town officials on September 19 that he had long been lowering the town's fluoride to roughly half the state's standard". His resignation letter [1] is more specif
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by nkurz 4y ago
One question I had was whether fluoridated water provides additional benefit if you are already using a fluoridated toothpaste. Obviously, having it in the water would benefit people who don't regularly brush their teeth, but it'
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by nkurz 4y ago
Maybe I can use this thread to find out something interesting, or at least to get a rant off my chest. Does anyone have inside information on why news.google.com is so bad? Years ago it was a decent news feed, but more recently I find the q
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The Last of Taiwan's 'Blind Masseurs' (2017)(international.thenewslens.com)
5 points by nkurz 4y ago|0 comments
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We are on a path to nuclear war(warontherocks.com)
2 points by nkurz 4y ago|5 comments
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by nkurz 4y ago
Since no one has done it yet, I'll ask the obvious question about the FDA: how many people die or need a liver transplant each year because the FDA is being unreasonable here? Here's some quotes from the article: Approximately 4
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by nkurz 4y ago
Here's the actual brief that was filed, which is indeed a fun and worthwhile read: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/2022...
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by nkurz 4y ago
> No one in this world is training to fire a "warning shot". I'm not sure if you are correct. See this Wikipedia article and search for "warning": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_firear
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by nkurz 4y ago
It took me several re-readings to conclude that "them" and "they" at the end of this sentence are referring to different people! I think what vkou is saying (and I agree) is that while there currently are some police in
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by nkurz 4y ago
Apparently this isn't the case in actuality. Here are a couple threads about it where Dan confirms that not all upvotes count toward karma: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23459769 https://news.ycombin
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by nkurz 4y ago
1) The filter only exists for the initial submission. You can manually edit the leading word back in after that if you want. 2) I'm not certain, but I presume the idea is that many clickbait article titles are improved by removing the
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by nkurz 4y ago
Perhaps better to use the non-paywalled original source: https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/the-two-fiduciary-duties-o...
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by nkurz 4y ago
I'm reminded of the brilliant confessional opening song for the television series Patriot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZJbwkYa4pk I didn't find the rest of the series to live up to the brilliance of that song
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by nkurz 4y ago
https://archive.ph/xYxbL
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The Raw Truth About Lox (2003)(forward.com)
102 points by nkurz 4y ago|62 comments
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2022 Fall Foliage Prediction Map(smokymountains.com)
59 points by nkurz 4y ago|28 comments
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by nkurz 4y ago
It apparently was chosen because it's the starting sound of "turn": Hartl chose tau to represent 2pi because it nicely ties in with the Greek word “tornos,” meaning “turn,” and “looks like a pi with one leg instead of two.”
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by nkurz 4y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32952814
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by nkurz 4y ago
I think your current efficiency is pretty good. I'm sure I miss some, but there's no longer much that I see in "new" that seems great but disappears forever. Your "second chance" pool ( https://news
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by nkurz 4y ago
> many times I happen upon posts in the 100+ votes from the past day or two that somehow I didn't even see If the issue is posts that drop off the front page before they are seen, you might like using Wayne Larsen's https:&#x2
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by nkurz 4y ago
> The title of the present essay is of course a riff on the late Mark Fisher’s notable 2013 cri-de-coeur, “Exiting the Vampire Castle,” but other than that the two pieces of writing have nothing in common. I feel tricked, particularly si
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by nkurz 4y ago
Seems like a fair question. At a glance, it produces the same code as Travis's preferred solution: https://godbolt.org/z/7oPhxEs5E . Anyone with more taste in C++ code able to answer? I'm more comfortable w
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by nkurz 4y ago
What are the ways in which you think they tried to "destroy his reputation"? By banning him and accusing him of making sockpuppets, or something else? Or by failing to delete posts by individuals who made other accusations? Lin
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by nkurz 4y ago
While my memory is fuzzy, I'm making a stronger argument than "he must have done something". Searching now for reasons of the actual ban, I find this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10017538 . In summa
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by nkurz 4y ago
I think you are begging the question that he was wrongly banned. It's long enough that I forgot the details (or never knew them) but I doubt he was banned for simply being argumentative. If his presence is bad for the site, then no,
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by nkurz 4y ago
Remember, we're trying to freeze the ice cream (not just cool it down), which is proportionally just as thermodynamically expensive as melting ice. Is it just proportional, or is it actually pretty close to 1:1? That is, how accurat
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by nkurz 4y ago
The description is used in English as well, particularly for musical vocals. Here's a Vice article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkyqkv/cursive-singing-tikto... . And here's a linguist explaining

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