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by twirlip 6y ago
Vernor Vinge is 76 years old and outlined the issue of identity in the online world in his short story "True Names" waaay back in 1981.
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by twirlip 6y ago
"Civil unrest".
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by twirlip 6y ago
In Brent Staples's Parallel Time , the author documents Rupert Murdoch after he bought the Chicago Sun-Times. Murdoch points at people and tells them, "I own you and you and you ." Conversely, there's the Alex Bald
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by twirlip 6y ago
The Pixel Qi transreflective LCD. By Mary Lou Jepsen. I recall being able to easily read websites in direct noonday sun.
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by twirlip 6y ago
Just spitballing, but how about just tentatively titling a book "Common Rust Mistakes". Then take those 4000 posts (congratulations and thank you, by the way) and group/fishbone them according to elements that you feel are ap
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by twirlip 6y ago
That reminds me of POVray which also rendered 3d objects by compiling a script.
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by twirlip 6y ago
Not very long ago, as time is reckoned, one needed to read Greek and Latin to be considered educated. One was expected to be familiar with certain cultural idioms of Western Civilization relearned from antiquity during the Renaissance. The
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by twirlip 6y ago
For a broad value of soon.
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by twirlip 6y ago
What a marvelous Nabokov quote! The epigraph is a lens for the article--a book review of photographs of Sun Ra, but actually about Sun Ra's extra-terrestrial vision of himself and Black America--and serves as a good introduction of Sun
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by twirlip 6y ago
Thank you for posting the link to Nature. From the paper, the FMD decreases the ferritin available to tumor cells which makes them more vulnerable to the hydrogen peroxide produced by the metabolism of vitamin C. Do I have that right?
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by twirlip 6y ago
They can keep their tuition rates high, but online only schools should be allowed regional accreditation. Massive open online courses (MOOC) and other disruptive EdTech can offer equivalent educational instruction for a lot less money than
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by twirlip 6y ago
The Caselaw link posted by masklinn provides a legal summary of the kidnapping and torture of Green by Skinner and Cole. However, in contrast, I found the This Land article "Subterranean Psychonaut" by Mason, Sandel, and Chapman t
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by twirlip 6y ago
Blackball? Do you mean blackmail?
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by twirlip 6y ago
It was also an inside joke in Mad Magazine. I had initially thought it was Yiddish or a Don Martinism.
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by twirlip 6y ago
Oh, I've only read about pneumatic logic in Ted Chiang's "Exhalation" and Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon . How neat to read about actual gates and their functioning.
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by twirlip 6y ago
I don't think people hate police just to hate police. Here is Dave Chapelle's "8:46" video: https://youtu.be/3tR6mKcBbT4
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by twirlip 6y ago
Has your friend gone to witness it themselves? I had gone to the local protest in our city. My next door neighbor, unaware that I had marched, told me that it was a violent mob. She didn't believe me when I contradicted her until I sho
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by twirlip 6y ago
Going Godwin? You are the first; something to mull over, I suppose. (I separate your "Nazi" from the "neonazi" used in an adjacent post). However, as Antifa is decidedly Anti-Fascist and without the paramilitary aspect o
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by twirlip 6y ago
From https://www.foxnews.com/media/highest-viewership-network-his... "[Fox News] has been celebrating a 44-month consecutive streak as the most-watched network on basic cable and a 218-month streak as the most-wat
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by twirlip 6y ago
Non-compete clauses are void in California.
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by twirlip 6y ago
Try IFTTT or Automate.
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by twirlip 6y ago
Yes! Freem-form WFMU is an incredible station. Though based in NJ, it has a worldwide listener base. It is entirely listener supported, without even corporate underwriting, unlike other public radio stations in the US. It also has internet
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by twirlip 6y ago
The Crew Dragon touchscreen monitors compensate for vibration by oscillating the image, enhancing readability especially during reentry. Analog gauges are unable to do that. To say 'sci-fi aesthetic is the cancer of our society' i
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by twirlip 6y ago
I believe it's the same phenomenon that we saw with the stock market crash after Trump gave his first coronavirus address.
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by twirlip 6y ago
defyccc spews climate change denialist propaganda. Why should I put more weight on an article from them than in The Lancet?
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by twirlip 7y ago
Same here. I put in Carsick Cars, Spacemen 3 (Gnod didn't have The Men), and Sun City Girls. What I got was Moonbell, Water Fai, etc. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 was close to what I was looking for, but only in the way a Hot Pocke
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by twirlip 7y ago
That was the Free Music Archive which was started under the auspices of the storied freeform radio station WFMU. Costs for hosting and bandwidth eventually killed it, but it's been limping along under KitSplit, and now Tribe of Noise.
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by twirlip 7y ago
Au 'voir ma bien-aimée Slashdot.
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by twirlip 7y ago
Xerox PARC alum, main designer of the sequel to the Xerox Alto computer, the Xerox Star, which is the the first modern personal computer (GUI, mouse, Ethernet, print & file servers, etc).
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by twirlip 7y ago
Er, the Romans spoke Latin, as well as read it and wrote it. It was their vulgar language (from "vulgus", Latin for "common people"). The first Latin Bible was called The Vulgate because it was written in then common t

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