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by qqn 6y ago
Interestingly tied to Pulitzer, for anyone who likes trivia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism#Origins:_P...
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by qqn 6y ago
Lol exactly. So I come to the comments in hopes of the tl;dr, which is usually just a sentence.
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by qqn 6y ago
"When one teaches, two learn."
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by qqn 6y ago
The oldest joke on Wall Street, or so they say.
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by qqn 6y ago
Yes, from Dan Carlin's podcasts I learned of the book The Great Illusion (1909), the illusion being that nations gained through war. In it, the author wrote that "the economic cost of war was so great that no one could possibly
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by qqn 6y ago
Thank you. Great handle, by the way.
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Ask HN: Is there an ISO code for “gibberish”?
6 points by qqn 6y ago|3 comments
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by qqn 6y ago
Looking forward, life's a zigzag; looking back, I see it was a straight line.
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by qqn 6y ago
On the other hand, I used to use both "play" and "link" symbols in past resumes, where I could have really used a proper link symbol. Ideally I wanted something universally known, but the box with an arrow that Wikipedia
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by qqn 6y ago
And let's not forget sex tapes. "Attention is the new currency."
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by qqn 6y ago
Thank you : )
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by qqn 6y ago
Yes! Same takeaway, and the main reason I published my thesis online first, turning it into a video tutorial to boot: https://spmx.ca/trp . Specifically I was frustrated at all the sources I had to get behind various kinds o
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by qqn 6y ago
I thought this about the Tesla truck with broken windows too. I'm unsure about the intention, but I definitely paid more attention to it and shared it more because of this.
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by qqn 6y ago
So that's the fabled land of "lions and tigers and bears, oh my!"
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by qqn 6y ago
Where are you that you have all these top level predators? Edit: Wait, nvm. This is probably the west coast of North America, and by lions you mean mountain lions. I was thinking the ones with the manes right away.
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by qqn 7y ago
Agreed. http://gen.lib.rus.ec is my go-to. If it ever goes down then a quick web search or a visit to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis and the new mirror appears. Also, literally everyone alrea
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by qqn 7y ago
FWIW I was quoted $500 CAD to ship a hydraulic massage table from Vancouver to Toronto with WestJet Cargo a month ago (two packages: 30kg, 104×63×24cm; 27kg, 79×100×29cm)~. My sister brought the table the other way with the cheapest land-ba
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by qqn 7y ago
Agreed, I lived in Trikala and Athens for close to a year and never heard of this "pick your own fish" option. In fact, I was surprised by how unpopular fish seemed to be. In Thessaloniki all we ate were gyros and pizzas (poor stu
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Ask HN: Cleaning 3D-printed PLA/polytherane/acetate face shields of SARS-CoV-2?
3 points by qqn 7y ago|0 comments
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by qqn 7y ago
> People voted, had spring break, celebrated st. Patrick’s day Sounds a lot like Philly' Spanish flu parade,[1] as compared to St. Louis' lockdown during the same.[2] [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ch
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by qqn 7y ago
Yes, captioned an avalanche video to show this: https://twitter.com/theandrewglover/status/12389377584684646...
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by qqn 7y ago
Current face mask challenge: https://facebook.com/groups/opensourcecovid19medicalsupplies... Current face mask database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e81ceSrVT6Bl4UaS1SxI...
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OpenCovid19 Initiative: develop cheap, open-source tools to fight the pandemic(app.jogl.io)
4 points by qqn 7y ago|1 comments
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by qqn 7y ago
Speak of the devil, look what I found: "OpenCovid19 Initiative, we are currently running an open-source face mask challenge to identify all existing designs out there and have them evaluated by the global community and experts. The goa
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by qqn 7y ago
Thanks!
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by qqn 7y ago
What are SSC, LW, IDW? Wait, Slate Star Codex, but the other two?
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by qqn 7y ago
These greener pastures do exist, only they require a bit of knowledge to find and then operate. Places like Diaspora, Friendica, and Mastodon, just to name a few. Interestingly, the same barrier to entry serves as a filter to everyone looki
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by qqn 7y ago
Here's a comprehensive analysis of coffee as a product: https://bridgeit.me/coffee . The value chain section is interesting, but the tie-in to the refugee crisis is what got me: "I became friends with an Oromo fami
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North Italian town of 3,300 tested everybody, stopping COVID-19 transmission(promarket.org)
2 points by qqn 7y ago|1 comments
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by qqn 7y ago
"The crematorium of Bergamo, working at full capacity, 24 hours a day, can cremate 25 dead." Chilling.

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