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U.S.-Saudi petrodollar pact ends after 50 years(nasdaq.com)
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A flat map with the least error possible: The Gott-Goldberg-Vanderbei projection(vanderbei.princeton.edu)
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by _ddzr 3y ago
I find the resistance to understanding these models so interesting. I talk to friend about this and few people are able to get over their initial optimism bias. Some of us who have familial experience with less ideal circumstances—war, pove
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Ask HN: Assuming this 2023 LtG paper is correct, how do you prepare?(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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by _ddzr 3y ago
I once created a website to catalog all of the out of copyright books in the Library of Congress and randomized selections so one could replicate the serendipity of browsing (locserendipity.com). In the process of doing this, Jessamyn West
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by _ddzr 3y ago
Wow, this is flagged? What was wrong with it, the suggestion we should not be intolerant of others? I will remind you of the paradox of tolerance, which explains why we shouldn’t tolerate intolerance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#
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by _ddzr 3y ago
Thankfully nothing like this is in Jitsi Meet’s TOS: https://jitsi.org/meet-jit-si-terms-of-service/ It never ceases to amaze me how companies choose the worst software!
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The Case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg(en.wikipedia.org)
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by _ddzr 4y ago
It sounds like Twitter could easily shed hundreds of millions of fake followers by banning Elon Musk any account that follows Elon Musk!
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by _ddzr 4y ago
Obligatory: “I know what you did!”
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by _ddzr 4y ago
Key points from this review of The Restless Republic by Anna Keay: 1. Very few people tuck very neatly into one historical ‘age’ or another” — one only has to trace the successful early careers of Restoration figures such as Pepys and Chris
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by _ddzr 4y ago
Key takeaways: 1. One of the best ways to improve your writing is to learn how to cut out words that are not necessary 2. Stuffy writing is bad writing! It lowers the power of your brain and mine! 3. What words should you never use in writi
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by _ddzr 4y ago
My key takeaways: I spent most of my spare time either reading books or messing around on the internet - and for all you kids out there, this was the 1990s internet, when 'the internet' was mostly email, usenet and FTP, and you ac
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by _ddzr 5y ago
It is amazing that this happened in the modern day. Paraphrasing the article: Driven by a desire to be powerful and respected, and buoyed up by Stalinist ideas about gaining prestige through scientific acumen, Elena turned to the field of c
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by _ddzr 5y ago
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by _ddzr 5y ago
I had to get the MMR, varicella, Mantoux test, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and several other vaccines to work in healthcare. Children need to get a host of vaccines to go to school and that has been true for a hundred years. The only thing ne
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by _ddzr 5y ago
Got it, so more a more exclusive control of capitalism is the big distinction unshackling Japan from colonialist structures. Groundbreaking.
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by _ddzr 5y ago
Quantified by global economic productivity, I agree that China and India have seen recent ascendency, but not Russia. China has failed at even developing its own native microchip industry, thus Taiwan has become a political football. We are
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by _ddzr 5y ago
Whether or not capitalism can be classified as oligarchic or democratic, I would argue that capitalism has pervaded the world and is a stronger force at this point than any political system, ruler, or ideology. Redefining terms when it is c
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by _ddzr 5y ago
You bring up a valid point and it is interesting to hear a perspective in favor of dictators, monarchs, and rule by the divine rights of kings. But look at it another way and the entire global economy runs on money and capitalism, which is