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by theoh 8y ago
Try this: http://web.archive.org/web/20181220194510/http://www.spacesa...
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by theoh 8y ago
I get the impression that US English pronunciation runs the words "peanut butter" together much more that "international" English does.
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by theoh 8y ago
I don't know about "market rate", but I believe that items are typically insured for their replacement value. There may not be a requirement to insure a protected structure at all, but it's plausible that such a measure
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by theoh 8y ago
The typography is definitely competitive. It's unfortunate that TeX and Metafont are so dated and so austere in terms of what they offer the programmer. It's a big barrier to figuring out what is going on. The author of the c82.ne
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by theoh 8y ago
How does that get around the problem of mandated reconstruction with the insurance payout?
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by theoh 8y ago
It's a matter of taste, obviously. But the big difference between a machine shop in Indiana and a French fashion house is that the people running the fashion business need to have an eye for style, or their business would fail. I have
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by theoh 8y ago
I'm not sure. In each case it's a transition from slightly pretentious and kitschy lettering to more-or-less carefully calibrated typography. More people have the visual literacy to appreciate typography now than did 20 years ago.
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by theoh 8y ago
The reason is that a bcc'd message doesn't stop people from replying to earlier messages in the thread, whether or not they are using a threading email client. Threaded email reading interfaces probably make your strategy more eff
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by theoh 8y ago
Luaka Bop gives musicians a platform/wider audience, and in the case of someone like Brazilian musician Tom Ze, he toured on the basis of that wider exposure. He didn't need to take that money. One thing that's admirable abou
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by theoh 8y ago
> I think it would have ended there. But some grumpy programmer in NYC of course decided to reply "People. Stop replying-all!" One would think being a programmer he'd be smart enough to reply to just the people who had uni
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by theoh 8y ago
Here is an impressive review of a huge number of scholarly critiques of Christopher Alexander's work: https://cityterritoryarchitecture.springeropen.com/articles/... Personally, I've never been able to take h
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by theoh 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy#Guilt_by_a... The comment effectively accused the doctors of charlatanism.
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by theoh 8y ago
"it's related to this". It sounds similar, maybe, but that doesn't mean that it's the same thing. To glibly conflate this with Scientology is very sloppy thinking. Scientific progress calls for ideas and evidence to
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by theoh 8y ago
It's the biggest newspaper in Canada. What is the problem?
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The singular of (anec)data is surely (anec)datum.
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by theoh 8y ago
I could be jumping to an incorrect conclusion, but I think you are misreading the description of Ko's genericity. It doesn't mean that inputs and outputs are not distinguished. It just means that arguments and return values aren&#
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by theoh 8y ago
See Tom Duff's solution here: http://iq0.com/notes/normal.html
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by theoh 8y ago
"wtf is wrong with hn" One thing that's wrong with HN is that perceived "negativity" often gets condemned in exactly the way you have done here. It seems as if a significant number of HN readers have never really pa
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by theoh 8y ago
What about a disability, though?
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If you are designing for someone, you have to base your design decisions on what you have observed that person doing or saying. By your logic, generalizing from past observations of other people is never going to be enough to make an adequa
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by theoh 8y ago
Blockchain can't fix the problem of lack of trust, where it is trust that is desired. The trustless consensus idea is inherently abstract and paranoid, for better or worse. But life in human society requires constant acts of concrete t
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by theoh 8y ago
What makes your proposed system immune from abuse? "reviewers could receive currency directly for the information they provide, provided by the potential customers who benefit directly" The greatest benefit goes to restaurants wit
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by theoh 8y ago
To clarify: that's the Plan 9 situation. I'm talking about the merits of the Fuchsia situation (".. is no longer available"). References to a forbidden parent directory from a chroot can just return ENOENT, because it do
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by theoh 8y ago
This paper, depending on how you look at it, either justifies the existence of dot dot, or makes it seem like a wart. IMO dot dot is too well-established and essentially sensible (in a minimal UNIX fashion) for it to be removed on a whim. C
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by theoh 8y ago
The buildings have fine architectural values, just not necessarily fine use values. There's no paradox here. It's building as art. Any human aesthetic judgment is human by definition.
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by theoh 8y ago
Who allocates the credentials that each citizen needs to vote? There's no way around the need for trusted institutions in this case.
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by theoh 8y ago
This isn't really about some kind of caricature of functionalism that HN commenters subscribe to. It's clear that many tech companies have been commissioning fonts they don't really need, and those fonts are often very simila
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by theoh 8y ago
See extensive discussion here: https://thenewinquiry.com/dead-and-going-to-die/
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Well, I've never heard of Lacanian economics, but there are plenty of fields in which understanding a bit about Lacan is essential if you want to appreciate the canon. Lacan as a person/analyst doesn't seem appealing to me, b
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by theoh 8y ago
If you read the article, it's clear that "leaving the train of history" refers both to abandoning communism and to not subsequently "changing train" to another 20th C ideology (capitalism/Freudianism/refin

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