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by nkurz 5y ago
I applaud the New York Times for prominently linking to the full paper from the article. In case anyone missed the link: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2021062pap...
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by nkurz 5y ago
Coincidentally, the original source has a longer version of the interview where he goes on to talk about railroads and airplanes immediately after the segment about the sailing vessels: "Now the railroad is slow. Just now, this aftern
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by nkurz 5y ago
Resubmitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28605813
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Why I Left Academia(jpehs.co.uk)
7 points by nkurz 5y ago|1 comments
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by nkurz 5y ago
Could you go beyond a one word dismissal? Who is being puerile? The author, the reader, the women selling themselves, or the men buying them? Is it better or worse than straight forward prostitution? (I vouched for the article to bring i
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A Detailed Guide to Using Feathers and Wedges (2020)(thestonetrust.org)
5 points by nkurz 5y ago|3 comments
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by nkurz 5y ago
Google, as I'm pretty sure you guessed. The main context of Colin's question was that Google is no longer giving him the results that he wants. I responded within that context, although perhaps I should have been more explicit.
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by nkurz 5y ago
I tried your example, and got what seem to be non-deterministic results. The first time I searched for "I'm not a mathematician or a puzzler", I got "No results", plus a long list of results for the same search with
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by nkurz 5y ago
I don't know if it still forces the behavior you want, but it's possible that "Verbatim" mode will meet your needs. To activate it, look under the search bar after you have results for the button marked "Tools&quo
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by nkurz 5y ago
I've often been intrigued by cases where erroneous logic coincidentally leads to a correct conclusion. In philosophy, these are known as "Gettier Problems": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem
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In Memoriam: Edmund L. Gettier III(umass.edu)
22 points by nkurz 5y ago|21 comments
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by nkurz 5y ago
I don't know if it disproves your "right mind" argument, but here's Overdrive's CEO explaining the advantages of their new "Cost per Circ" model whereby libraries pay a smaller cost for each checkout rathe
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Quantum computing hype is bad for science(linkedin.com)
136 points by nkurz 5y ago|126 comments
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by nkurz 5y ago
I thought this was an interesting article. Summarizing from my very-non-expert POV, he's dividing the world into three groups: a small number (less than 1 million) original African inhabitants; a larger number (about a billion) sub-S
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Out of Africa's midlife crisis(razib.substack.com)
100 points by nkurz 5y ago|59 comments
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by nkurz 5y ago
> 1,000 sq mi is about 640,000 acres, so that's .0000015 tornadoes per year per acre. If I've got my math right, that's about a 99.9% chance that your 1 acre plot will not be hit by a tornado in 1000 years I appreciate you
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by nkurz 5y ago
I have no idea about their politics or reliability, but this seems to be one of the source articles: https://southfront.org/the-end-of-global-internet-u-s-seized... They say that the affected sites include: PressTV (Ira
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by nkurz 5y ago
Yes, at least for the example of "apple" it does restrict to just books if you choose "Books" from the pulldown next to the search field: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=apple&i=stripbooks
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by nkurz 5y ago
I sent email asking him to change it.
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by nkurz 5y ago
I'm confused by the notion that "double taxation" is something this is obviously to be avoided. Let's say that a billionaire sells $1 billon of appreciated stock a year before their death, and pays the full capital gains
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by nkurz 5y ago
Hi there! I temporarily revived this from the dead just to respond. I have a friend who used to work with you, and rather than letting your post be silently killed, I thought it was more polite to tell you in person that posts of this sor
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by nkurz 5y ago
https://archive.is/UxZlu
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by nkurz 5y ago
Upvoted because it's a good summary, but could you offer a source for your claim that "most of this timber came from public lands"? This is surprising to me, and I'm wondering if this is a local phenomenon rather than a
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by nkurz 5y ago
For those looking for a longer form than Twitter, his first book is great: The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape ( https://www.amazon.com/Shepherds-Life-Dispatches-Ancient-Lan... ). Rebanks als
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by nkurz 6y ago
I appreciate the attempt, but your link unfortunately already gives an error message: "Your session has timed out. Please go back to the article page and click the PDF link again."
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by nkurz 6y ago
> The IRB of University of Minnesota reviewed the procedures of the experiment and determined that this is not human research. I'm not sure how it affects things, but I think it's important to clarify that they did not obtain t
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by nkurz 6y ago
You make some excellent points, but your comment would be much better without the first line. The article isn't "completely ignorant". It may have parts that are wrong, it might be misguided, or the conclusion may be unjust
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by nkurz 6y ago
Maybe one of these two will work: https://outline.com/SeEEHt https://archive.is/D05nu For the future, you can usually create these for yourself by going to top of the sites that I linked.
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by nkurz 6y ago
Don't be ridiculous! It would be absurd for the Coca Cola company to be allowed to directly import coca leaves for use in their "secret" recipe. Instead, it's an intermediary (the "Stepan Company") who impo
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by nkurz 6y ago
Sure, possibly that means the article should viewed a bit skeptically, but ideally that would be done with any source. Here's a parallel article from the BBC a day earlier: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56

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