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by vijayr02 3y ago
Unfortunately, I only read her articles in the FT. Out of interest, what do you not like about that newspaper?
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by vijayr02 3y ago
RIP Arno. Here's the video and write up of the gag Dennis Ritchie and Rob Pike pulled on him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxMKuv0A6z4 https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/labscam.htm
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by vijayr02 3y ago
Anjana Ahuja (the author) is one of the best science writers I've come across - expressing technical ideas in a very simple expressive way, so that even simple financial minds can grok the concepts :). One of the highlights of the FT f
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The Last Spin – Evan Hunter (1960)(classicshorts.com)
1 points by vijayr02 3y ago|0 comments
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Painted into a Corner: The crash of XL Airways Germany flight 888T(admiralcloudberg.medium.com)
4 points by vijayr02 3y ago|0 comments
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by vijayr02 3y ago
And for the UK: https://grid.iamkate.com/
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by vijayr02 3y ago
Non paywall link: https://archive.is/9nT7e This is the Charlie Goodhart of Gooodhart's Law fame.
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Charles Goodhart: 'We're in for a fiscal crisis down the road'(ft.com)
1 points by vijayr02 3y ago|1 comments
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by vijayr02 3y ago
> However, even with the huge price mark-up in America, the Chinese cancer drugs will still be priced significantly less than similar drugs sold in the US. So they're charging what the market can bear.
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by vijayr02 3y ago
> During a good chunk of those 30 years, criminals used the unlit, boarded up lot as a convenient place to victimize passersby from the street. So which bank had their branch here? :)
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by vijayr02 3y ago
Surely this is trivial to refute? The professor just needs to have his own text that he generated using AI. When your website says it's not AI... then it's curtains I guess?
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China's Soviet Shadow(noemamag.com)
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by vijayr02 3y ago
In Europe, this exists at scale and is called the CAP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Agricultural_Policy
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by vijayr02 3y ago
Dunning Kruger effect at organizational scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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by vijayr02 3y ago
Since we're all being pedantic: infrared is also infraviolet
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by vijayr02 3y ago
If we're lucky, the AGI will be the player and we'll be Commander Keen. If we're unlucky, we'll be the marine from Doom. God mode with 7 billion lives!
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by vijayr02 3y ago
& slash
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by vijayr02 3y ago
I think the interesting / crazy bit is that your neighbour had a sword lying around. Why?
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by vijayr02 3y ago
Gandhi was never awarded the peace prize. He was nominated in the year he was assassinated. The actual prize was not awarded that year. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/mahatma-gandhi-the-...
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Girl receives UK’s first kidney transplant without need for life-long drugs(theguardian.com)
3 points by vijayr02 3y ago|1 comments
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Battle of Palmdale(en.wikipedia.org)
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by vijayr02 3y ago
DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT A MAN IS NOT DEAD WHILE HIS NAME IS STILL SPOKEN? (I know this wasn't spoken by DEATH but it seemed appropriate) For a true DEATH quote: ‘DON’T THINK OF IT AS DYING,’ said Death. ‘JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY
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by vijayr02 3y ago
Audience reaction to an Indian movie called RRR: https://youtu.be/ExxZBNp6jy4 This is at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in LA :) so as American as it gets
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by vijayr02 3y ago
I had the same thought: .88% of today's Portugal GDP is only 2 billion USD. But in retrospect, it looks like the comparison is being done to the US economy, given the readership. 150 billion USD is approximately .8% of US GDP. Should h
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by vijayr02 3y ago
Hardly. It's just a matter of getting them to overwork, and when they collapse you call the knackers to slit their throat and boil them down. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(Animal_Farm)
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by vijayr02 3y ago
Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36889478
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The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration(royalsocietypublishing.org)
21 points by vijayr02 3y ago|2 comments
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by vijayr02 3y ago
Avatar - The Way of Water
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by vijayr02 3y ago
Not true anymore. With major tourist destinations such as St Paul's there's sufficient draw for weekend tourist traffic to keep shops and restaurants open. Some may be closed but it's not the wasteland this comment implies. A
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by vijayr02 3y ago
https://archive.is/zXX4f

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