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A nation is a body of people that believe they are similar (usually ethnicity or language.) "An imagined community". A state is the entity that taxes people, builds roads, maintains a military. It has a "monopoly on violence&
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I wish governments of the past had taken efforts to copy manuscripts and put them in multiple failure domains.
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It was his family office, not a public-ish hedge fund.
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Another scenario is putting an AirTag on the bottom of someone's car, waiting for them to go home, going to their home, and taking the AirTag off. There's more risk here, but it's impossible to do. Or to remove the risk, you
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An endowment for history and translation. A 2003 gift of $200 million from philanthropist Ruth Lilly helped bolster the Poetry Foundation, which not only runs an an important poetry magazine but also funds a great number of poets and projec
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"exercise to the reader" https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=%22...
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The game has seen a resurgence because of 1) the release of the HD and Definitive Editions of the game, with graphics and gameplay that still hold up 2) availability on popular game stores like Steam (though it's a Microsoft game) 3) c
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It's incredible that a "remaster" could destroy a game like that. I can't even go play a game that I love, a game from my childhood, with an art style and gameplay that still holds up unless I torrent the old client and
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I'm unsure if the RTS genre is in a waning phase. AoE2 is still a top-20 game every day on Steam. Granted, it's a 20-year-old game. Maybe that shows new entrants can't make it; or maybe it shows there aren't enough good
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Yes, but supply and demand can be further broken down into these and other factors.
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Thanks for this succinct and useful list. :)
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This is still a practice at the Bolshoi, for example. The applauders get the dancers' tickets to sell or give away. In return, they get well-timed, enthusiastic applause that can make or break a dancer's career. Bolshoi tickets ar
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I think it's more that people don't have the capital to make a second floor as they're building the first floor. I'm sure regulatory hurdles occur as well. It's common to eventually add a floor or two for rental inc
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There is an issue with quality, if that matters to you. I might be the only person who cares about Dolby Vision/Atmos, but it's supported only by a limited cross section of streaming service x device x app version.
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> HN is heavily-populated or at least influenced by subcultures (Bay Area, tech) that have been religiously adherent to the appearance of compliance and performative self-abnegation as a response to the pandemic (like a milder version of
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Proof-of-work crypto prices are based on 1) mind-share 2) sentiment/momentum 3) institutional backing (hedge funds and companies legitimizing them) 4) price of electricity 5) cost per hash 6) hardware supply 7) legality/illegality
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Ultramarine was a huge success in Renaissance art. The blue is still mesmerizing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarine See Sassoferrato's Madonna: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:
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The original harm was caused by tobacco corps targeting a particular demographic. Rectifying this wrong requires targeting that demographic, but it's not unsettling. Moreover, they have banned all the other flavors, so might as well fi
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Ownership in a "good enough to dictate the value of the object through its exclusivity." If the player base sees Fortnite renege on its promise of uniqueness, they'll revolt, or at least the price of these unique items will d
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The LRB is greatly bankrolled by the family fund of one of the founding editors, so I doubt they would ever care to take money for an article.
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Ownership of a Fortnite skin guarantees that only the owner can wear the skin. Owning an NFT doesn't guarantee exclusive use, as anyone can view the digital image/video/etc that the NFT has wrapped. I'm interested to kno
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Amazon's Silk browser for its Fire devices also offload processing to remote machines. I'm unsure if they are still doing that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Silk
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Also remember how the CDC didn't advise wearing a mask for the first month or two of the pandemic? We came around to that, too.
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The more general problem is the same words can be interpreted differently by different people. On the internet, given a large enough audience, every interpretation with every possible emphasis will be brought out.
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Your bizarre cheeriness in the face of "Agreeing to End Deceptive Educational Financing Practices" is offputting, especially when coupled with the way college financing has led to generational deadweight, anxiety, and hopelessness
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The crypto/wallstreetbets world shows there is some extreme risk-taking at the margins. But this is not the sort that's important, I think. The rate of entrepreneurship is declining in the US, perhaps due to higher corporate conce
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Money transfers are highly regulated for a reason. Money can be used to do all sorts of negative things. Advanced democracies all put heavy restrictions on such activity to prevent tax evasion, prevent money laundering, and control capital
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I think the article is implying that they moved away from a "pure" JIT model, to somewhat of a hybrid model. Their in-depth knowledge of their suppliers is orthogonal to their stockpiling, but it still helps them plan better.
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"Chilean-soapbark"! Happy to see an ingredient such as this. One more reason to conserve biodiversity is for useful ingredients like this one.
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Toyota was one of the leaders in just-in-time manufacturing, yet they're doing just fine with the chip shortage. They stockpile parts, and try to understand how they work in depth. > After the [Fukushima] catastrophe severed Toyota’

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