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Three Stanford professors on the sensible regulation of Big Tech(thebrowser.com)
70 points by ubac 5y ago|75 comments
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On solving crosswords in four minutes and deadlifting 325lbs(thebrowser.com)
1 points by ubac 5y ago|0 comments
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Dan Wang on Avalon, Xi Jinping Thought and Cosi Fan Tutte(thebrowser.com)
4 points by ubac 5y ago|0 comments
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Intuitive Guide to Hyperbolic Functions(betterexplained.com)
3 points by ubac 5y ago|0 comments
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The Browser on Love(thebrowser.com)
1 points by ubac 6y ago|0 comments
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by ubac 6y ago
huh. I've seen this around a lot but never really put it together until now
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by ubac 6y ago
a great product, have been delighted with it. It just... does all the things you want it to, and not the things you don't want it to, always lovely when services work like that
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The Browser on Dogs(thebrowser.com)
1 points by ubac 6y ago|0 comments
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by ubac 6y ago
this story is... wow > The last time I talked to John, I knew the secret service had been investigating him for months and that he had already left for Syria. Our last chat is surreal to read in hindsight; I come off as extremely nonchal
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Is there any point to deliberately setting your watch fast?(thebrowser.com)
2 points by ubac 6y ago|0 comments
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Timebox Your Existential Issues(pamelajhobart.com)
1 points by ubac 6y ago|0 comments
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Convolution Is Fancy Multiplication(betterexplained.com)
397 points by ubac 6y ago|127 comments
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by ubac 6y ago
On a similar note, philosophical life coaching: https://www.pamelajhobart.com/ Read her site, you'll either immediately say "that's for me" or "absolutely not," and either way you'll be ri
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by ubac 6y ago
"Client enters therapist's office. Therapist asks them how they're doing. Client describes various issues from the past 1-2 weeks, many of which are recurring (e.g. procrastination, indecision, etc). Therapist validates clien
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The problem with therapy's Perpetual Present(pamelajhobart.com)
2 points by ubac 6y ago|1 comments
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by ubac 6y ago
"One is a citizen purely on the strength of having been assigned to a particular citizenship by an authority — an authority that brooks no dissent, should you claim to not belong. Your agreement is not necessary and your protests are o
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Citizenship: Hypocritical and Random(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
1 points by ubac 6y ago|1 comments
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Fatness and Thinness in the Middle Ages(medievalists.net)
76 points by ubac 6y ago|61 comments
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I fed avocado toast to an AI(theartofresearch.org)
1 points by ubac 6y ago|0 comments
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Wargaming works better when forced into remote mode(warontherocks.com)
2 points by ubac 6y ago|0 comments
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How to pitch a non-fiction book to a literary agent(katemckean.substack.com)
1 points by ubac 6y ago|0 comments
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by ubac 6y ago
A question for you (and everyone): how important do you think it is that the algorithmic discoverability be married to a single platform/aggregator? What if you just had better algorithmic discoverability across all writing on the inte
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by ubac 6y ago
oh interesting! Yeah I actually hadn't been to their landing page in a long time, totally agree with your there (and feel like it doesn't do their actual blog product justice - to my tastes at least their blogs are perfect, low-ke
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by ubac 6y ago
I really recommend https://write.as/ for those looking for minimalism with a bit more styling
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by ubac 6y ago
> What shape is the Universe? Or, to put it another way, If you get into a starship, set off in one direction, and keep going, will you eventually return to your starting point, as you would if you set off around the Earth? The jury is s
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Would a Long Journey Through the Universe Bring Us Back to Our Starting Point?(forbes.com)
4 points by ubac 6y ago|2 comments
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1900s Science Fiction and the plan to flood the Sahara(vintagegeekculture.tumblr.com)
1 points by ubac 6y ago|0 comments
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by ubac 6y ago
> Typography is about the spaces between the letters as much as it is about the letters; to optimise the spaces you need more and better-fitted “pangrams”, which is what typographers call the test sentences, frequently invoking foxes and
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Why “The Quick Brown Fox” is no good for modelling a typeface(typography.com)
2 points by ubac 6y ago|1 comments
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by ubac 6y ago
'We may think we know what “life” is, or means, at a literal level. But, in general, definitions of “life” boil down to oppositions between “life” and “non-life” — circular arguments that never seek to specify the boundary between the

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