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by sn41 4y ago
Small Gods
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by sn41 4y ago
From what I recall, many were hunted to extinction by domestic cats, post 1850s. So maybe even the larger ones may have survived if there was no drastic disturbance.
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by sn41 4y ago
Wasn't that Christopher Tolkien, JRR Tolkien's son? I think he was instrumental in even other works, including the maps in the original Lord of the Rings by his father.
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by sn41 4y ago
Oh dear, yes. I read the biography of Jennifer Doudna by Walter Isaacson. It's a great book, but I really felt sad for Siksnys. Just because their paper got rejected by Cell does not mean that the paper came after Doudna and Charpentie
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by sn41 4y ago
neither a borrower nor a lender be.
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by sn41 4y ago
days? Surely, you jest, dear Sir. Proud emacs user for 21 years, still have to get some overlay function going just the way I like it. One of these days, I am going to get it just right.
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by sn41 4y ago
I see you haven't lost your touch.
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by sn41 4y ago
Flags are a universally understood programming idiom. It is not the best way, but it is well-understood. And that counts for a lot in programming practice.
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by sn41 4y ago
Must be from the school that believes that a "Tabula Rasa" is sufficient as the basics.
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by sn41 4y ago
Jon Batiste is a ray of light in an increasingly bleak world, what with wars and economic hardship ahead. May his light shine brighter.
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by sn41 4y ago
This is very plausible. It seems, for example, in India, the ideal time for morning prayer and meditation was the Brahma Muhurta, which is variously said to be between 3:30 - 6:30 am (probably dependent on the seasons and sunrise). This imp
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by sn41 4y ago
What a bunch of threatening gobbledygook. I'd be truly frightened if this was the tone of all the emails I get from my boss.
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by sn41 4y ago
Her PhD work on reflection and Smalltalk is one of the most insightful papers I have read.
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by sn41 4y ago
> It’s been argued before that this is the only reason that DK gained any notoriety I'm sorry, but I have to comment on a word in this line: I feel that increasingly, "notoriety" is used when "notability" might b
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by sn41 4y ago
definitely not GQ.
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by sn41 4y ago
Dinosaurs never died. They just became the world government. (/s)
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by sn41 5y ago
Oh, I can guess :) which is why I mentioned "richer" in quotes.
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by sn41 5y ago
Ambedkar was also an economist. He studied alternatives to the gold standard in his phd thesis. http://drambedkar.co.in/wp-content/uploads/books/category1/1...
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by sn41 5y ago
Just so you know: the prevalence of non-Brahmin castes among toppers is discussed rather in hushed tones. The supposed explanation is that "richer" families have better access to coaching. I have been involved in public exams in I
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by sn41 5y ago
Any idea on how to do this without the device? Probably someone with Pranayama can comment - to me this seems a modification of anuloma-viloma (alternate nostril breathing).
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by sn41 5y ago
Your stance on ethics is correct. However, in practical terms, not all co-authors of a paper even read the whole paper. Most often, they contribute sections of the paper. I don't think all co-authors are equally culpable in this. The p
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by sn41 5y ago
I am not necessarily sure I agree with this analysis. Will fleshing out the long term vision necessarily win you more customers? I just think that this was a sad case of a very good company that made a wrong guess - efficiency tools instead
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by sn41 5y ago
Your take is very strange, and does not correspond to the Indian immigrant experience from what I have seen. I spent 10 years in the US, and the really weird part is how stridently Indian parents would push their kids to train in Indian cul
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by sn41 5y ago
Time to consider becoming a lion tamer [1]. [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LqQlCOmXuHM
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by sn41 5y ago
I still often use Lynx, and eww when I am in Emacs.
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by sn41 5y ago
"His Master's Voice" - the best SF I have read, bar none. It's the closest that fiction gets to the actual feel of academic research.
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by sn41 5y ago
Just a minor gripe, perhaps. Where does it say that Haverty is an original person behind FTP? RFC 959 seems to give most of the credit to Abhay Bhushan [1] from one of the older RFCs, 114 [2]. [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org&#x2
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by sn41 5y ago
If you want a completely underplayed side of Smith, you can also read "The theory of moral sentiments".
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by sn41 5y ago
hmmm... never made this connection. I thought it was an independent portrait. Thanks, I will read Hadji Murad again.
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by sn41 5y ago
1. That was a pleasure to read. The limited width of the text columns was really a refreshing change. The link [3] in the page recommends a text width of 4 inches for easy readability. This is quite a useful thing to know, and hardly follow

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