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How the Irish ship entire pubs around the world(medium.com)
1 points by balsam 3y ago|0 comments
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by balsam 3y ago
It’s a family of North Sea words at various stages of commercialization/gentrification: koselig,gesellig,hygge,cosagach,cozy.
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by balsam 3y ago
Can always move on to Koselig, even shorter distance to ‘cozy’
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by balsam 3y ago
The essay seems to be predicated on the mistaken notion at the time that the electron has no mass (the proton had not been discovered yet). Of course today philosophers of physics might make similar arguments using gluons; see that other ho
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by balsam 3y ago
According to eternally recurring themes in myth-legend-history the next one in the sequence is: the engineer/developer/artist in the arena. From the Aesir/Vanir, the Titans/Olympians to the French & Russian revolutio
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by balsam 3y ago
Think of it as an upgrade from no bels to a single bel. The next milestone is weird, ten bels.
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by balsam 4y ago
From the banner it looks like Zhang Lennon plays the lead.
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by balsam 4y ago
https://archive.is/pH4xK
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CEO behind ChatGPT says his tech is ready to beat capitalism(forbes.com)
2 points by balsam 4y ago|1 comments
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by balsam 4y ago
https://archive.is/EbhE9
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Three Body, a review: Chinese production beats Netflix to the screen(nytimes.com)
2 points by balsam 4y ago|2 comments
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by balsam 4y ago
>He beat the nanny, Sandra Rivett, to death with a lead pipe. One wonders if the Etonians of earlier decades were hit as hard by lead poisoning as by a misplaced sense of impunity.
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by balsam 4y ago
Code: https://github.com/mosuem/knotportal
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Knot Portal to Narnia in VR, Inspired by Bill Thurston(youtube.com)
2 points by balsam 4y ago|1 comments
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by balsam 4y ago
Do YC no longer pay the mods’ salaries? That’s odd, I was under the impression that HN exists to serve the interests of YC. If you look carefully at the behavior of the largely negative _oinbas_ thread given its #upvotes and recency it shou
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by balsam 4y ago
In the comments: “Ostrich eggs are a spider repellent (this is such common knowledge that authors may not feel a need to clarify this detail) and spiders are sacred in Islam because a spider saved Mohammad's life. As a matter of fact,
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by balsam 4y ago
Sadly, he enjoyed only one year of voluntary fame before passing away, at age 23. Of what exact causes I do not know, but it is said that he was an alcoholic.
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by balsam 4y ago
Likewise, freedom (blue) is made in multiple flavours, some uniquely (Northern) Californian vintage
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by balsam 4y ago
https://reason.com/2009/02/06/a-whiff-of-grape/ https://whiff-of-grape.ca/about/ Carlyle & David Starr Jordan, pantheoners (and creative citationists) of the Californian Ideolog
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by balsam 4y ago
Now that you mention it, Christianity is Judaism stripped for export. And that’s discounting the BBC take that Jesus was a Buddhist monk.
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by balsam 4y ago
That’s the whiff of freedom (probably no grapes involved) https://web.stanford.edu/dept/pres-provost/president/speeche...
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by balsam 4y ago
>Somehow I don't think "the European artist-engineers"[0] ever did construct a cyberspace[1] which is inclusive and universal. Otlet & La Fontaine came close when they tried to get Le Corbusier (quite the artist-engine
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by balsam 4y ago
The randomized version of nerd-sniping, nerd-bombing.
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by balsam 4y ago
Physicists like to call this kind of sum “finite”, to make it sound closer to infinity, which sounds better than “nonzero”, which makes it sound too close to zero.
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by balsam 4y ago
Paradise
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by balsam 4y ago
I think WorldCoin is more popular with the Third World, who simultaneously are more willing to spam and less concerned about rights. Should have called it ThirdWorldCoin. The prophet having renown away from home etc /s
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by balsam 4y ago
Hey, you folks who are willing to pay to be part of a vetted community? Looks like Sam Altman’s WorldCoin, which is about verifiable identity, might just become a viable business. ChatGPT’s role in that strategy makes more sense now.. remem
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by balsam 4y ago
Uh yeah.. also a hint of “Ozark” in there, to make it uh .. taste like nepotism
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by balsam 4y ago
True artists ship to real artists..“Make things that people who’d like to make things people want want” (Like this Website). The unreasonable effectiveness of higher order recommendations.
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by balsam 4y ago
His roommate the successful artist Paul Gauguin? Tried to borrow Sunflowers but “Van Gogh was upset and replied that Gauguin had absolutely no right to make this request: "I am definitely keeping my sunflowers in question. He has two o

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