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The Rise and Fall of Hooters Air [video](twitter.com)
1 points by porpoise 6y ago|0 comments
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by porpoise 6y ago
Very cool. In a similar vein (but much less techinically sophistcated), I recently realized that making "cloze" cards (esp. ones w/ a large number of deletions and/or incremental-reveal cards) in Anki can be made a much
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by porpoise 6y ago
HN has a ton of emotional content. But it really depends on the topic/thread. For example, I clicked into a thread recently where I found that at least 80% of users commenting have been blocked by myself for posting that type of conten
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Byford Dolphin Exposive Decompression Accident(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by porpoise 6y ago|0 comments
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by porpoise 6y ago
I do this all the time, but mostly outside. A nice bonus of doing this outside (besides the fresh air, etc) is you can often recall precisely where you were and what was on your visual field (since it's constantly changing unlike at ho
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by porpoise 6y ago
It's become increasingly common to refer to this vaccine as the AstraZeneca vaccine or simply the AZ vaccine even though before concerns were raised I only saw it refered to as the Oxford vs vaccine. Does this mean that the alleged iss
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by porpoise 6y ago
“We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half finished sentences, that we may hope with the gr
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by porpoise 6y ago
The reports I linked to argue that (i) demand has been significantly reduced. The paper I replied to argues that (ii) a reduction of demand is significantly correlated with a reduction of poaching. Not only is there no "outweighing&quo
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by porpoise 6y ago
China banned all ivory trade at the end of 2017 and by all accounts (see WWF and NG sources cited in the tweet) it's been working quite well. https://www.twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/13397828106309...
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Did China suppress information about H2H transmission?(quillette.com)
3 points by porpoise 6y ago|0 comments
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China helps evacuate sick Australian from Antarctica in five-day mission(theguardian.com)
1 points by porpoise 6y ago|0 comments
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by porpoise 6y ago
Dexpot still works fine even though it hasn't been updated for years. And I love being able to have 9 virtual desktops arranged in a 3x3 grid and a semi-permanent transparent "minimap" of what's on each desktop as well a
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by porpoise 6y ago
Interesting link about TouchCursor. Personally I prefer to use left alt key instead of space key, as I can hold down the left alt with minimal effort (right alt takes over the duty of left). For this to cause minimal conflict, I use Sharpke
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by porpoise 6y ago
This came out a while ago and I remember thinking it'd make the single file approach to TiddlyWiki effectively frictionless if you are Chrome user ... https://web.dev/file-system-access/
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The growing peril of war with China over Taiwan(responsiblestatecraft.org)
36 points by porpoise 6y ago|21 comments
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by porpoise 6y ago
When writing my dissertation, I found that changing the font to Comic Sans or Papyrus is an effective way of forcing myself to be self-critical and preventing myself from, for lack of a better phrase, "falling in love" with what I
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The Race for a Covid Vaccine Was More About Luck Than Tech(wired.com)
1 points by porpoise 6y ago|0 comments
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by porpoise 6y ago
I can never bring myself to throwing away food where the labor of other people has been involved (cooking or growing) . I can justify myself by various consequentialist arguments, but deep down I know that I have a moral duty to eat it.
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by porpoise 6y ago
> I find it interesting that we never list other country origins when discussing their issues I don't remember ever reading a headline, clicking into it, and discovering that it's about something happening in China. The cou
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by porpoise 6y ago
> was because it showed initial promise - first in China and then outside of China This is incorrect. The idea of using HCQ didn't come from China but from a French doctor, nor did China ever promote using HCQ as a treatment. See th
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10 years after Arab spring, many Tunisians are miserable and disillusioned(theguardian.com)
2 points by porpoise 6y ago|0 comments
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by porpoise 6y ago
Not sure if this is unintended behavior, but after clicking from this thread to the site and doing a few searches (all while remaining on the same page), I wanted to history back to this thread but it took me 7-8 clicks to do so.
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by porpoise 6y ago
Is the idea behind the 33 yes-no questions thing a combinatorial point, though? World population is 7.5 billion, the smallest natural number n such that 2^n exceeds that number is 33. So it shows you can uniquely identify any human with 33
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by porpoise 6y ago
One of the my favorite apps, Scapple (from the same company that produces Scrivener), stores their data using just this approach (plaintext + character ranges), but in XML. It does make the data file much more readable, and it makes it poss
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by porpoise 6y ago
I wasn't saying physics has been completely already, only that it seems fairly easy to imagine a future point at which it becomes completed. Physics becomes "solved" as it were, much like checkers, and there's no more ph
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Otto Weininger(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by porpoise 6y ago|0 comments
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by porpoise 6y ago
> and it feels to me that page loads are much faster, and in some case more readable (pages feel 'cleaner'?) More readable, and also helps one focus on the content. A lot of web publications with literary pretensions (New Yorke
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by porpoise 6y ago
1. The document you linked to is about domestic, not foreign policy. If that isn't clear from the nature of the document itself, see in particular these quotes: > The document is critical of "extremely malicious" ideals sp
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by porpoise 6y ago
"a country that has explicitly set out to usurp the US is useful" Can you provide some evidence for saying that China "explicitly" set out to do this? The Chinese government has been consistently "explicit" tha
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by porpoise 6y ago
I wish IMEs were a thing for English input on desktops - the keyboard app you use on your smartphone is effectively an IME for all practical purposes. I rarely need any spellchecking on smartphone because most spelling errors have been elim

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