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   Dutch scientist's mission to grow fruit without plants(nature.com)

   1 points by vinnyvichy 3y ago|0 comments
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   by vinnyvichy 3y ago

   Sad for those YouTube channels who have been going long on pretty boys, hope the study controlled for contraceptive intake
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   by vinnyvichy 3y ago

   Ecocider News = Home-killer News = HN
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   by vinnyvichy 3y ago

   Think it's Conrad in English, but yeah, my fave Polish author. Know any Polish authors as amazing in their native language? Prus, but optimistic?
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   by vinnyvichy 3y ago

   Sorry, free speech isn't really a human right, even in HN. I definitely haven't earned it. Maybe in the future.
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   by vinnyvichy 3y ago

   This is somewhat my take but I was hoping someone read his diaries in addition to the last man and have some further informed speculations to share
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   by vinnyvichy 3y ago

   TPDNKIOB, if you know what another photographer meant
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   by vinnyvichy 3y ago

   Similarly, but not quite, I often find browsing new submits on HN more useful than simply going through the front page. Just because, uh, front page is decided by statistics, that is, the community's neurotypicals
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   by vinnyvichy 3y ago

   Thanks! This clears up for me why Meursault is often said to be based on Camus himself(0). (Although, does it not convey a sense that Meursault is childlike, more than emotionally warm?) (0)As mentioned, for example, in https://w
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    by vinnyvichy 3y ago

    It's been suggested that Mersault, the antihero of The Stranger, is based on Camus himself. (See the following(0)) It doesn't make sense to me given that Mersault has kind of an autistic affect and Camus is perceived to be a extra
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    by vinnyvichy 3y ago

    This is misleading. They use (toxic) lead in place of rare earths. Lead has a reputation of being common and rare earths have a reputation of being uncommon, but the following chart shows that rare earths are actually as common as lead. ht
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    by vinnyvichy 3y ago

    Both Confucius and Aristotle discussed the stages of a man's life. Moral philosophy hasn't strayed too far from these two guys.
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    Video: Man who opened plane door in midair tells police he was ‘uncomfortable’(straitstimes.com)

    1 points by vinnyvichy 3y ago|0 comments
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    Using machine learning to predict ideology from facial photographs(nature.com)

    1 points by vinnyvichy 3y ago|0 comments
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    Prediction of political ideology based on facial characteristics(psypost.org)

    2 points by vinnyvichy 3y ago|1 comments
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    by vinnyvichy 3y ago

    Food and (lab) chemistry: 2 subjects that are better served by video than by text (alone).
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    by vinnyvichy 3y ago

    Julian Simon is an economist. He could probably channel his physics-envy & start working on his thermodynamics. Possibly we can beat entropy with all that accumulated solar goodness, or maybe we could simply go (or at least dump our was
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    People in the U.S. Think They Are Better Than They Are. Asians Don’t(scientificamerican.com)

    44 points by vinnyvichy 3y ago|66 comments
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    GPT-4's Solution of Egg Balancing Puzzle Convinced Microsoft That AGI Is Closer(businessinsider.com)

    26 points by vinnyvichy 3y ago|34 comments
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    by vinnyvichy 4y ago

    Before this article gets flagged, the original source of the dioxin concern is CMU prof Neil Donahue https://apnews.com/article/rail-accidents-evacuations-ohio-h...