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Richard Yeo (2014) Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science Ann Blair (2010) Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age
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Summary: The German court accused him of "disseminating propaganda, the contents of which are intended to further the aims of a former National Socialist organization." The point of TFA and his defense is that he was "using t
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During the Renaissance/Enlightenment, there was a lot of discussion among intellectuals on how to best keep notebooks/journals. A widely used system was to carry a small pocket notebook which was filled logbook style, with things
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Google Scholar shows this article cited by 2040, so quite a lot of attention. Scanning through the literature, the question in the title doesn't seem to have been answered to everone's satisfaction. The original article is online:
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I've read old reports on the 1918-20 flu pandemic. They all noted that mask mandates had no apparent positive effect, so shouldn't be used "next time". It was that history US public officials had in mind when they initia
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I'm an oldish guy with older friends and have dealt with this problem several times. If you have a cherished collection of something, it's very unlikely any of your heirs will be willing to put effort into finding a good home for
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Regarding just color slide film, I think Kodak had stopped all production then resumed with just Ektachrome in 2018.
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Daiso is mentioned at the end. I can attest it's a great place. They have nearly anything for the household short of appliances, and their stuff is good enough that you don't feel an urgent need to find a better replacement. In th
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Well...I've read some intellectual biographies of Tolkien, and a common complaint is that it's hard to pin down his views on much of anything outside of literature. He wasn't a systematic thinker, but tended to write what sou
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Decades ago in Eastern Europe (don't know about now), shops were set up so that all goods were behind counters. When you wanted to buy something, you paid at the register in front, then showed the receipt to the clerk at the appropriat
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I think there is something to this, as another comment mentioned the "soap/cilantro gene". I love the smell of old books, as described in TFA, but I know a guy who hates it. He describes it as you do, as the smell of dust. Hi
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If you mean a library of old books, yes, it can be if toxic books are not properly handled.
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This conflict appears to be grounded in two incommensurable philosophies. Say you are editor of a CS journal and receive a valid proof that P=NP. You also get demands that you shouldn't publish it because the author is the worst person
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It's not about the objective(?) reality, but public perception. In my Japan days (1980s-90s), American companies were having a terrible time marketing their goods in Japan, because of the Japanese (often wrong) presumption that foreign
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It's the expected inconvenience. TFA points this out rather indirectly, but I've been hearing from Japanese for years that they are dissuaded from travel by the expected hassles of going to countries that run less smoothly than Ja
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This piece is similar to (but obviously better than) the song by Nero in Quo Vadis (1951). It's nice to know the movie got that part right.
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Smoking and drinking are known to be major factors, yet I knew many members of religious communities who were very strict about having none of that and they still showed their age earlier. There was earlier and more childbirth, but that doe
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I have various electronic items from the 1970s/80s, particularly a big LED clock, that use red LEDs. Even though they look dated and may lack features, I hope to keep using them until my own EOL, because any replacement would use those
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I'll add to this...all the cases I personally knew of were in hardware development, as with the notable cases in TFA. I suppose you may evaluate a locale differently for a hardware company than for an Internet startup.
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The really big decline in popularity of bridge was in the 1950s. My wild guess is the rise of TV had something to do with it. This secondary decline described in TFA is happening within a smaller, more dedicated player community. Maybe it&#
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First, I'll say that I find this characterization of Weltman to be relevant to understanding his intended point. Second, I'll say that Weltman seriously misunderstands children's literature. The point has been made by many fa
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I've known a few American techies who have set up shop in South Korea and Thailand. The tech scene in Turkey has been, to me, surprisingly active. I've heard distant rumor of people looking at Brazil.
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I'll have a try at why some may feel that way about D&D. Gary Gygax, one of the originators of D&D, was a historical miniatures wargamer. He was also really into fantasy fiction, so he shifted from writing historical to fantasy
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Admiration for the USSR among English intellectuals predates WW2. So the answer to your question is in the social milieu of the 1920s-30s. Someone else will have to try a detailed explanation.
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Taking this as a serious question, it wouldn't be hard to make a list of topics that get instant flagging on HN. I suppose the reason why people don't bother is they expect any attempt to explain would also be downvoted to oblivio
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I suppose parent is mainly thinking of issues grouped under the term "culture wars". Another, more urgent issue, is indicated by this quote in TFA: And throughout five years of war, during two or three of which we were fighting f
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Some random bits about Japan: Litter bins were removed from public spaces after the 1995 sarin attacks. Litter has actually been a notorious problem in natural preserves. There was an account of hiking up Mount Fuji by some famous travel wr
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In the psychological research on domain expertise and performance, a common observation is that while greater expertise/performance is generally recognized to be the result of greater effort, people at lower levels vastly underestimate
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Note that James is distinguishing between having a PhD certificate and having a level of knowledge one typically gains in pursuing a PhD. His point is that one can have the second without the first. PhD-level expertise can be very useful, e
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> ...life is harder for [individuals] who are not attractive and for those who are not athletic. This has probably been the case for every society of conscious creatures in history.

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