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by thefringthing 4y ago
Rudy Rucker recently released Mirrorshades for free on his website: https://www.rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades/ I have a work-in-progress PDF edition of it on GitHub here: https://github.com/jdonland/
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by thefringthing 4y ago
This article from about ten years ago asserts that "a highly cohesive story [was] emerging regarding the etiology and treatment of ADHD": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894421/ and gi
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by thefringthing 4y ago
My experience was otherwise, but you might be right in general.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
I think you probably have a different idea about what constitutes success in higher education than the commenter to whom you're replying, and possibly also to admissions officers at prestigious universities. It can be true that the SAT
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by thefringthing 4y ago
Surely that kind of play would indicate a rating considerably above 1200.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
> the theatrical editions made it onto DVD one time Even then, it wasn't really what was being asked for by fans. The goal at that time was to get LucasFilm to release the pre-Special Edition versions of the movies, which were avail
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by thefringthing 4y ago
Icelandic and English are cousins, but the former has retained a fairly extensive inflectional system that requires a lot of memorization to learn.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
A lot of professional models are kind of odd-looking; it makes their appearance striking.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
I think the TV mini-series is very good.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
One reason to have state-run lotteries is as a harm reduction tactic to keep organized crime out of it.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
Fun fact: Ukrainian anarchist general Nestor Makhno is credited with the invention of the technical during the Russian Civil War, in the form of a machine gun mounted on a horse-drawn wagon.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
What are bystanders going to do? If you call the cops about someone stealing a bike they'll show up three hours later and shrug, if they show up at all.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
I think the edition I read mentioned that the Norse society in Greenland dwindled to nothing because of an inability to adapt to the conditions created by the Little Ice Age; sounds like this podcast has the same idea.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
Nope; I used the Wikipedia article I mentioned. This is a different, more detailed, table of temperature data.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
I didn't think anyone would post this to HN when I wrote it, so I certainly wasn't baiting clicks, except perhaps from the friends with whom I shared it directly.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
It's a recreation of the style used by Edward Tufte, who wrote an influential book on data visualization.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
My takeaway from reading Grænlendinga saga and Eiríks saga rauða was that Iceland is where you went when you got kicked out of Norway for killing too many people, and Greenland is where you went when you got kicked out of Iceland for killin
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by thefringthing 4y ago
It's Stanley, Falkland Islands.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
> I take it the person writing the article prefers anything, including a constant drab rain, to ever having -15C or +30C. That's about right. I don't mind -15C so much but don't care for anything below about -20C or above
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by thefringthing 4y ago
Depends what you think is nice!
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by thefringthing 4y ago
I'll tolerate any amount of rain if I never have to sweat through another shirt.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
My personal preference is definitely for colder temperatures than most other people would like. I didn't include humidity, precipitation, wind, etc., mostly because I threw this together in an hour or so and didn't intend for it t
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by thefringthing 4y ago
This is a neat tool/visualization!
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by thefringthing 4y ago
I'd prefer if the `tufte` theme would render the "|>" pipes as "▷" but I wasn't prepared to do that level of tinkering.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
I will consider adding a section mentioning the tools! (I'm the author of this page.)
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by thefringthing 4y ago
It's still possible to use the version of YNAB from before they switched to a subscription model.
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by thefringthing 5y ago
The 6th century Indian Buddhist logician Dignāga's ideas about evidence and deductive reasoning remind me a lot of the analytic philosophy of the early 20th century.
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by thefringthing 5y ago
The standard mortgage in Canada has a five-year term, amortized over 25 years. You generally cannot lock in a low rate for 30 years the way you can in the United States.
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by thefringthing 5y ago
What is it like to be a bat?
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by thefringthing 5y ago
95 years is not even the longest copyright period in the United States: some sound recordings will not enter the public domain until 110 years after their first publication.

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