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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
It used to be standard practice, at the end of a year, to cut all the ads out of that year's issues and bind them in a single hardback volume. Now historians realize that often the ads may be more interesting than the articles.
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
> use it as a "score" Sounds like achiever/explorer/killer/socializer?
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
Anyone know why the Russian Formalists got the sparkling repressive power of the state? I had thought they were expressly apolitical, but maybe Stalin was paranoid?
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
It's been found difficult, and left untried
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
Nearly all customer facing computing is now optimized for people who don't know how computers work, not for people who do.
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
Is private equity this century's equivalent of the LBO? https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-23-me-521-st...
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
You and your smarter friends could share bookmarks with each other and comment on them, via email. This would have an incredibly high barrier to entry, because out of 8-9b people on the planet, which hundred are going to be (and remain) a s
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
If we randomly sample individuals on earth, we're also likely to be single-celled organisms.
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
If they can make even more money on a different viable business by vampiring out this one, the NPV calculation says... (What %age of eastern european enterprises got long term investment in the 1990s?)
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
The Miss Manners approach to dating served me well: All dates have three elements: food, entertainment, and affection. A first date should have plenty of entertainment and only a hint of affection. At some point, the affection becomes the e
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
Oops, sorry for the spoiler
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
Recall that no one could reconcile billion year ages for the earth with it not having cooled far more - until the discovery of radioactivity.
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
What evidence? Do we no longer figure ~4by bp?
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
After going back through all the elephants, life started with Great A'Tuin.
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
Anyone remember the title of the short where they explore an ancient martian city and find a periodic table that serves as a Rosetta stone?
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
Is HN like a DX contest?
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
I'd thought gammon was a clear reference (in GBBO tradition) to a "swiney hiney".
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
There's a London pub nicknamed the Sloaney Pony; maybe try there?
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
What percentage of Americans even have the recommended 6 months of living expenses in liquid savings?
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
The local oldies station plays 1950-2004 (now-20) and does seem to delve a little past top 40 from time to time.
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
Are you including Tom Tom Club in Talking Heads?
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
Beatrice is a happier, more felicitous, name
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
The difference between hipsters and hobos is that a hobo spends two hours of pushing broom for their four-bit room.
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
Thus demonstrating more common sense than the indigenous who don't budge from contracting areas?
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
Look at the map: not ghost cities, ghost hinterlands.
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
More that in the 1950s other countries were recovering from bombing each other into rubble for the second time that century...
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
Did Kaczynski have an argument against comparative advantage?
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
Bruce Lee's injunction "be like water" probably means don't overcomplicate with agency and opposed consciousnesses, just evolve the lagrangian (towards victory). (Speak not of the relevant XKCD)
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
Hnrss.org and filter in your favorite way?
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by 48864w6ui 2y ago
I always liked the "Boom hierarchy" of data types.

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