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by flubert 1y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Tom+Wolfe+%22dark+night%22&t=ffab&...
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by flubert 3y ago
Can't speak for the OP, but I can feel it. It can be disconcerting when trying to fall asleep.
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by flubert 3y ago
"Malls are dying" has been a meme for well over 20 years now. I guess it is "The Suit is Back" season. Back in the year 2000, someone created the Deadmalls.com website that was notable enough to get a Wikipedia page: h
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by flubert 4y ago
I don't have any information that's not available on the website, but it looks like the Lightyear 2 is more of a conventional a four door sedan, while the Aptera is a two passenger enclosed three-wheeled motorcycle.
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by flubert 4y ago
Is it that time of year already? "Dying malls" is like the "The suit is back" type of meme. Malls have been dying for most of my adult life (and I'm old enough to have used an 8088 processor on our home computer a
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by flubert 4y ago
Another interesting look at "turn the other cheek": https://web.archive.org/web/20160307005615/http://dharmagate...
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by flubert 4y ago
https://www.smith-wesson.com/product/sw22-victory
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by flubert 5y ago
"When the parties agreed, they could lay their dispute before the moot, whose members, much like present-day mediators, attempted to facilitate an accommodation that the disputing parties found acceptable. When reached, such accommodat
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by flubert 5y ago
>"Sorry, grandma, I know you've been sort of attached to your name for the last 80 years, but the white folks find it inconvenient for their computer systems. Don't worry, they promise they'll make something close for
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by flubert 5y ago
"This is the first of a set of papers that look at actual Einstein-Podolksy-Rosen (EPR) experiments from the point of view of a scientifically and statistically literate person who is not a specialist in quantum theory." https:&#
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by flubert 5y ago
>You haven't been hearing it twenty years either. Back in the year 2000, someone created the Deadmalls.com website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadmalls.com ...just a few random items from DDG: From 2000: &q
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by flubert 5y ago
I wonder how this has worked out: A Hedge Fund Manager Who’s Shorting America’s Malls (2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14209161 ...seems like 4 years is enough time to get a feel for things.
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by flubert 5y ago
Is there a good way to quantify? There are also endless youtube videos of all manner of abandoned structures in Detroit, but I don't know that extrapolates to things outside of Detroit for example.
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by flubert 5y ago
In our current "age of big data" is there a source of data that would show the number of malls as a function of time? It would also be interesting to know the trend of vacancy in malls over time, and things like average number of
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by flubert 5y ago
"Malls are dying" seems like a "the suit is back" sort of meme. I've literally been hearing this for 20+ years. And the mall near me seems busier than ever. Someone must be pushing this for some reason. People s
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by flubert 6y ago
>I think many comments here miss the point. Is there an area of study that looks at how people discuss things? Including, but not limited to misunderstanding/miscommunication dealing with things analogies, thought experiments, and
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by flubert 6y ago
You will not make more money because you learn Prolog. I'd approach it like a hobby. Some people like collecting stamps. Some like pondering esoteric programming languages. With things like Prolog, you are closer to Nature, so to s
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by flubert 6y ago
I liked "The Art of Prolog" for learning. And then if you dive deeper, "The Craft of Prolog". I'm curiously amused that the price for used versions on Amazon is so high. https://mitpress.mit.edu/bo
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by flubert 6y ago
I figured this was a riff on Jayes. From Chapter 10, section 8 of "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science" (starting on page 329). 10.8 Mechanics under the clouds "We are fortunate that the principles of Newtoni
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by flubert 6y ago
Is that generally preferred to the others? https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ailisp.c...
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by flubert 6y ago
Probably using something other than synchronously clocked digital gates. Analog neural networks and the like: https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/articles/consideri... ...or reversible computation...
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by flubert 6y ago
I'm apparently not a very attentive movie watcher. I've seen Contact several times, and nothing struck me as odd about this mirror scene until this article pointed out the obvious. Or maybe I become to engrossed in the story to
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by flubert 6y ago
I wonder what the complete curve looks like. At some point I'd expect the wealth number to be zero (and then head negative). So if you had $1 to your name, you might be richer than the bottom 20% combined.
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by flubert 6y ago
I've been having a lot of fun on Zillow today. How about TWO houses on 5.5 acres? $90,000 https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/300-Highland-Rd-Sturgis-K... ? $89,900 for a five bedroom https://www.zillow.
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by flubert 6y ago
Maybe you'd like a duplex instead? $89,900 - https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/130-Main-Ave-N-Fessenden-... $92,000, No basement, but 5 bedrooms, 2,730 sq ft. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails&#
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by flubert 6y ago
$85,000, 4 bedroom, 2044 sf https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/308-W-7th-Ave-Milbank-SD-... $89,000, 6 bedroom, 3,714 sf https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/801-Ogden-St-Oxford-NE-68... $82,500, 4
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by flubert 6y ago
Has anyone tried to improve upon the Dasher eye-tracking thing for text composition? Seems like there could be more ideas here that haven't really been explored. http://www.inference.org.uk/dasher/DasherSummary2.h
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by flubert 6y ago
Thanks for the reply. >there's likely more affordable ways to differentiate between plants today. Machine vision?
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by flubert 6y ago
Care to compare / contrast your keyboard to the folding keyboards on Amazon? https://www.amazon.com/Keyboard-Bluetooth-Geyes-Wireless-Sma... https://www.amazon.com/Geyes-Ultra-thin-Kickstand-Universal-.
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by flubert 6y ago
Does this make it feasible to make gardening robot that could differentiate weeds from the desirable plants? And if so, what is the cost of the DNA tricorder? If not, how many years are we away from something like that?

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