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by christudor 2mo ago
America's Homer is Shakespeare!
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by christudor 5mo ago
This looks nothing like BBC Ceefax! Ceefax didn't have images or moving tickers or user comments...
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What's the best book you read this year?
3 points by christudor 10mo ago|0 comments
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by christudor 11mo ago
Vaguely relevant: the biological symbol for female (the circle with a cross below it) is a stylisation of a hand holding a hand mirror.
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by christudor 1y ago
G. E. Moore (in his Principia Ethica, 1903) makes a very similar case to this relation to consequentialist ethics: "The first difficulty in the way of establishing a probability that one course of action will give a better total result
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by christudor 1y ago
I'm talking about the verb that follows 'none', not the noun. 'None of the team was [singular] prepared' and 'None of the team were [plural] prepared' are both correct.
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by christudor 1y ago
If a noun denotes a group of people – even if it's technically a singular noun – it's okay (but not compulsory) to use a plural verb. The sentences 'Real Madrid have performed well this year' and 'Real Madrid has
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by christudor 2y ago
The Making of the Atomic Bomb is in my top three non-fiction books I have ever read. Will I like The Dawn of Everything if I didn't like Harari's Sapiens? (I loved Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years)
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by christudor 2y ago
Read a few years ago and agree with this assessment. A genuine work of genius, and probably in my top five books of all time.
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by christudor 2y ago
Liftoff is already on my list, actually! Thought I'd read that one first before deciding whether to get Reentry.
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by christudor 2y ago
Read this earlier this year -– enjoyable!
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Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?
117 points by christudor 2y ago|150 comments
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by christudor 2y ago
Another problem with advice is that in lots of cases the person giving the advice has absolutely no skin in the game. If the advice is bad, it’s only the advice-taker that suffers.
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by christudor 3y ago
Sahlins’ ‘Apologies to Thucydides’ is one of THE best non-fiction books I’ve ever read.
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by christudor 3y ago
This isn't very sophisticated feedback but the image of the anime schoolgirl(?) on the front page made me leave your site immediately.
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by christudor 3y ago
Because doctor comes from the passive doctus ('having been taught', i.e. learned) rather than the active docens ('teaching, instructing').
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by christudor 3y ago
I don’t agree with the Twitter thread, but I do think there are fair criticisms to be made of Wilson’s translation, one of which is that she stretches the meaning of the Greek – up to and including just ignoring certain lines – in order to
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by christudor 3y ago
Wilson's Twitter threads on how she decided to translate certain words, lines, passages, etc. were absolutely brilliant, really getting to the heart of what makes translation so subjective. That said, I disagreed with lots of her choic
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Ask HN: Best Books on Systems Theory?
34 points by christudor 4y ago|9 comments
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by christudor 4y ago
This is exactly right.
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by christudor 4y ago
This video goes some way to explaining how they know the structures are correct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXZzftX03VY
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Why does Excel get 213,458,046,676,875 x 29 wrong?
2 points by christudor 4y ago|2 comments
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by christudor 5y ago
MASSOLIT (www.massolit.io) might be up your street. Short video lectures from university academics on a whole range of topics. Disclaimer: I run it.
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by christudor 5y ago
Hesiod in his Works and Days (c. 700 BC) talks about the behaviour of octopuses, saying that when octopuses get hungry they will eat their own tentacles. Amazingly, Hesiod was right about this behaviour (octopuses do sometimes eat their own
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Ask HN: When/how was distributed version control invented?
2 points by christudor 5y ago|1 comments
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by christudor 6y ago
It might be because yesterday was the anniversary of the first publication of On the Origin of Species (first published 24 November 1859) so people looking for Darwin-related news?
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by christudor 6y ago
Thank you!
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by christudor 6y ago
"lots of N+1s, but these are easy to avoid with things like bullet" What is bullet?
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by christudor 6y ago
This could be perfect for us. I've just scheduled a demo for later today.
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by christudor 7y ago
The reason the Mona Lisa is so famous is because Vasari waxes serious lyrical about it in his Lives of the Artists (published in 1550). Here's what he says about it: "Anyone wishing to see the degree to which art could imitate nat

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