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Strictly, a museum dedicated to bookstaffing! https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bookstaff#English
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Is there also a Museum der Tatsachen somewhere? https://people.umass.edu/klement/tlp/tlp.html
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> Remeber, we're talking about "EURion constellation" that was in use at least since 1996. That's a different measure! It's detected by some software in photocopiers or software used in conjunction with scanners,
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Well, I suspect the notes larger than $100 (which are no longer being printed!) are even rarer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_five-hundred-dol... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_
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Huh, the Wells Fargo ATMs here in San Francisco actively offer me $50 bills on a regular basis! I wonder how much this various by bank, by region, or by ATM manufacturer.
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Not once in their entire lives?
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In my research on tracking dots, we only ever saw them produced by laser printers (and some more obscure professional processes), not inkjet printers. It appears that the governments' pressure on printer manufacturers over this was foc
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What features of modern construction create tensile stresses where the Roman designs only produced compressive stresses?
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HTTP 451 might be more specifically correct here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451
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Philosophers have worried for a long time about whether we can actually observe causation. David Hume was famous for arguing in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding that we can't observe it and we instead have a "custom&quo
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Linus has a joke that he named both Linux and git after himself, so presumably he ought to follow the pattern and name his circuit design tool after himself somehow too!
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They may have expected that the photo techs wouldn't make extra copies, though -- that they'd do what was necessary for the job but no more. (That expectation is even compatible with exhibitionism! "The photo tech will see my
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Yes, we know the U.S. has done this since 2004 (and so have several other countries, especially in Asia). There's nowhere that I know of that has an organized lobby for foreigners' rights. If there were, I would join it. (I mean,
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I wish (and have wished since US-VISIT started) that Europeans would instead have persuaded the U.S. to stop doing it, instead of copying the U.S. or reciprocating.
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I see it as a great sign of maturity and civilization that we can make a firm distinction between words and violence. To me, the judge's "job" you mention is part of that. This distinction could be something that has to be ac
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Using speech to call for violence against someone is intermediated by the minds and bodies of listeners, who have their own free will, their own intelligence, and their own responsibility. In U.S. law we have the "imminent lawless acti
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But its formal syntax and formal semantics are underspecified. People might not be able to agree on the interpretation of natural language sentences in general, or grammaticality judgments, or how to handle sentences that stop in
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You should openly publish your discovery in a normal academic venue using standard terminology, notation, references, and constructions. No one has time for secret proofs or secret methods or weird non-standard jargon. I looked at your vide
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Hey infognu, job postings should go in the "Who is hiring?" HN thread at the beginning of every month rather than in their own threads. Happy hacking!
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Do you have data, or a theory, about why they would produce more statistically valid estimates of people's romantic compatibility than prior algorithmic matching methods? I agree that they do better on explainability issues in the se
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I don't remember the context in the book very well, but I remember thinking that the premise was that the speaker here (Lia) was somehow well-grounded in concrete reality, by contrast to the other super-mystical characters in the book
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So again, even more literally, it's "of the midday, of the noon", so "toward the noon, noonwards". And in the northern hemisphere, the noon happens in the direction of the equator, so southward.
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> Also, I was quite old by the time I learned that "Oriental" literally just means "direction of the sunrise". Even more literally "of the rising" ("occidental" meaning "of the falling").
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At one point a character in Eco's Foucault's Pendulum says "archetypes don't exist, the body exists" and then gives some sexual and reproductive examples, followed by > And high is better than low, because if y
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I was also excited about those projects and ran DESchall as well as distributed.net clients. Later on I was running the EFF Cooperative Computing Award ( https://www.eff.org/awards/coop ), as in administering the contest
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I guess the meaning of "essentially different" essentially depends on the strength of the mathematical theory that you used to classify them! When I first heard it I thought about using some kind of similar symmetry arguments (e.g
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The Busy Beaver problem is one of the most theoretical, one of the most purely mathematical, of all theoretical computer science questions. It is really about what is possible in a very abstract sense. Working on it did make people cleverer
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In this perspective, couldn't you equally say that all formalized mathematics has been brute forced, because you found working programs that prove your desired results and that are short enough that a human being could actually discove
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The pilots would get an extra "Woop! Woop! Terrain! Terrain! Pull up! Pull up!" redundant alarm clock, although it's terrifying to rely on it.
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It's supposed to be the latter (approval as part of the GNU Project).

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