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by ddoran 4y ago
A basement house featured on Zillow Gone Wild this week [1] . According to the same account it went sale pending after 1 day on the market. [1] - https://twitter.com/zillowgonewild/status/152662553013669478...
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by ddoran 4y ago
The Shipping news [1] (Pulitzer and National Book Award winner) featured a house being moved over ice and Oscar and Lucinda [2] (Booker Award winner) featured a glass church being moved on water, as did their respective movies. [1] - https
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by ddoran 4y ago
Rough Draft in Kingston, NY is another one. It's definitely my favorite bookshop right now. It helps to have a great coffee bar and booze bar and a cool historical building, but most of all it helps to be in a city to which hipsters ha
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by ddoran 4y ago
> Fake news is a term to describe news that is merely untrue In my experience it is more commonly used to describe news which the speaker does not like.
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by ddoran 5y ago
Or that translators are paid. But ideally a combination of paid and volunteers - just like most other roles in charity/relief work.
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by ddoran 5y ago
A driver won't just chose profitable over unprofitable, but also more profitable over less profitable, and this ends up hurting some passengers on less profitable / less desirable routes. If you wanted a cab to Brooklyn from Manha
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The Battle of Snake Island(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ddoran 5y ago
As someone who moved from Europe to the US, the pervasiveness of the military in televised professional and college football game is incredibly jarring to me yet is so normalized to Americans. Count the number of times there is a reference
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by ddoran 5y ago
Related article and discussion from 11 years ago: "The Wehrmachtkanister, a/k/a Jerrycan: Astonishingly good industrial design from the 1930s" [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2692840
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by ddoran 5y ago
On the topic of computer history museums, I strongly recommend a visit to the American Computer & Robotics Museum in Bozeman, MT if you're in the area [1]. It's a small space born from a personal collection, which Edward O. Wi
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My accidental 36 years in video games by Jeff Minter (Llamasoft) (2018)(youtube.com)
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by ddoran 5y ago
I'm sticking with the show but as a huge Foundation fan, it's bitterly disappointing so far. For me the reason comes clear in the accompanying (official) podcasts. The writers are so enamored with their own smarts, that the story
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by ddoran 5y ago
No, you misspelt forager as forger in the URL :)
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by ddoran 5y ago
Directed by David Mamet and exec produced by Joel Silver. I didn't see that coming!
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by ddoran 5y ago
I enjoyed "The Cargo Ship Diaries" [1] by Niall Doherty about his time traveling as a paid passenger on merchant ships. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21868783-the-cargo-ship-...
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by ddoran 5y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Japan does not allow dual citizenship ... rather your children are young enough that they have not had to declare their ultimate citizenship? My wife and I are naturalized US citizens. My country of origin
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by ddoran 5y ago
I wish the English (and others following their lead) would stop using the phrase "British Isles" to include Ireland. Many Irish people find it highly offensive; at best it is simply inaccurate. "In Ireland, the term "Bri
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by ddoran 5y ago
PPO = Proximal Policy Optimization [ https://openai.com/blog/openai-baselines-ppo/ ]
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by ddoran 5y ago
Same issue for me. Just emailed you. Thx
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by ddoran 5y ago
The "Troubles" in Northern Ireland may be over but there is still tension and violence in Northern Ireland between a subset of Catholics and Protestants. The sectarian violence still happens but does not get reported international
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by ddoran 6y ago
Kudos for stating your position but also presenting an opposing view. HN, heck the world, needs more of that.
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by ddoran 6y ago
I was about to post the same but both horizontal and vertical axes are different scales.
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by ddoran 6y ago
The shareholders of JP Morgan are paying the fine. Not the bad actors behind the market abuse.
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by ddoran 6y ago
For anyone looking to dig deeper into the allegations of corruption on the islands and how it may have contributed to the murder of the couple in 2014, this is a good place to start: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/
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by ddoran 6y ago
The author wrote a book "Fire Season" about his period in a tower. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9341909-fire-season
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by ddoran 6y ago
This is Manchester, UK, not Manchester, NH nor Manchester, VT.
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by ddoran 6y ago
I strongly recommend Billion Dollar Whale [1]. The relative ease with which Jho Low could get away with this, and the number of people/institutions willing to be complicit (by action or omission) was breathtaking. [1] - https:/&#
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by ddoran 7y ago
Your response refers to the mission of the CDC. That's a misdirect. No one said that the mission has changed. What the article states is that "the Trump administration axed the executive branch team responsible for coordinating a
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by ddoran 7y ago
While you're at it, take a contrasting tour at the Merchant's House Museum just a few blocks away: http://merchantshouse.org
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by ddoran 7y ago
Side note - the TLS approach to EU Cookie Directive is obnoxious. The cookie popup forces you to go through multiple tabs for each purpose (not uncommon) but you only have the option to Accept All, not Reject All. The first tab has 80 check

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