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The politics behind pad thai(1843magazine.com)
3 points by privong 8y ago|0 comments
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Fonts for Complex Data(typography.com)
323 points by privong 8y ago|63 comments
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by privong 8y ago
Lots of discussion here already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014807
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by privong 8y ago
There was a fair amount of discussion on this a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16806657
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Block 5 rocket launch marks the end of the beginning for SpaceX(arstechnica.com)
1 points by privong 8y ago|0 comments
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by privong 8y ago
I wonder if there's a Kubrick biography or documentary coming out soon. There have been several other articles about him recently, including some focusing on his photography: https://www.wsj.com/articles/space-odys
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by privong 9y ago
> because why the hell would I ever give someone money to spy on my personal life? I think the idea is that if you were paying them, they wouldn't be spying on you because you've become the customer and not the product.
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by privong 9y ago
I suspect there are more people who start lifestyle companies than aim for VC-funded companies. But they probably don't get as much press coverage and so seem less common.
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by privong 9y ago
> As someone who's currently looking to purchase a first home in Boise after living here for the last 9 years, all I can say is "meep". There's nothing like the crazy stupid money that Californians are brining in to t
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IBM 7950 Harvest(en.wikipedia.org)
81 points by privong 9y ago|6 comments
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by privong 9y ago
> Unfortunately, Gnome Maps does not provide distances in miles. Yes, I could do the math to convert these, but graphhopper already does that for me. So, it's a nice app, but one missing feature makes it practically useless for me.
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The Woman Who Knows Everything About the Universe(wired.com)
1 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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A drop of love in the cloud(thecreativeindependent.com)
1 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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The wall of sound(1843magazine.com)
2 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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NASA’s Webb Observatory Requires More Time for Testing and Evaluation(nasa.gov)
3 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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by privong 9y ago
> I also assume the content of the messages you send and receive can be read and monitored. Whatsapp uses the Signal protocol for message encryption[0], so they ostensibly cannot read your messages. They probably have a good handle on w
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by privong 9y ago
I am working on testing ("ground truthing") common observational astronomy modeling techniques against hydrodynamic simulations. The basic approach is to generate synthetic/mock observations from the simulations, apply typica
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Chaos and Variance in Galaxy Formation(arxiv.org)
25 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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A linter for prose(proselint.com)
2 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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US officials: Kaspersky “Slingshot” report burned anti-terror operation(arstechnica.com)
60 points by privong 9y ago|33 comments
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X-rayed baseballs suggests changes that allow them to fly farther(fivethirtyeight.com)
3 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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by privong 9y ago
The haskell library is here: https://github.com/walck/learn-physics https://hackage.haskell.org/package/learn-physics
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by privong 9y ago
There's also this one, "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics" (by the same authors): https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-...
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The most beautiful libraries you’ve never seen(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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Darpa Launch Challenge(darpalaunchchallenge.org)
2 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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by privong 9y ago
> Most of the teachers are also more occupied with doing research than actual teaching. This varies wildly across colleges/universities, faculty position, and department. There's enough variation that it's much more nuanc
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Evolutionary patterns emerge in the universe of GNU/Linux operating systems(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
2 points by privong 9y ago|0 comments
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by privong 9y ago
I think that depends on what you mean by "desirable design". Default appearance of the GUI, design of the packages and release schedule, choices in the filesystem structure, configuration in a default install?
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by privong 9y ago
> Except that antibiotic resistance also goes away very quickly unless the bacteria are kept in an environment conducive to it. Antibiotic resistance is expensive evolutionarily. This is the first time I've heard this. Can you reco
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by privong 9y ago
> "Savings account" however is commonly interpreted as including things like a stock market account, and therefore include most investments. It is? If posed that question I would've responded like the GP suggested and only

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