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by glompers 7mo ago
Longtime HN user morphle, who commented elsewhere in this thread, has researched and designed chips and hardware for that purpose (edit: for scaling that form of computing). He has been trying to find funds and partners to bring them to ma
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by glompers 7mo ago
The entire County of London[0] had an average population density of 60 people per acre (38,400 per square mile) in 1911 and 42 per acre in 1961. 60 per acre being averaged over nonresidential land uses meant that it was still common to find
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by glompers 8mo ago
Connections to HS1/Europe, and to Leeds, Golborne, East Midlands, Manchester and finally even Crewe have all been cancelled so now extra expenditures will focus instead on Euston Station. That's not the large section people were
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by glompers 8mo ago
The Assad dictatorships in Syria and the Hussein regime in Iraq were proponents of Baathism. The former had occupied Lebanon and invaded Israel while the latter had invaded Iran in 1980 and annexed Kuwait in 1990.
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by glompers 8mo ago
Orators learned the "palace of memory" trick for remembering long speeches. In that same vein, then, it does seem less demanding to simply be able to see where you put things. Whether that's done by walking around, or just b
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by glompers 10mo ago
Did having such a person in charge make a qualitative difference in the atmosphere of how work proceeded among people there? If so, do you think it would have played out similarly if the organization had had an equally effective "glue
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by glompers 11mo ago
Not to me. This post in question could be easily expanded into a recognizable Paul Graham essay and no one would bat an eye.
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by glompers 1y ago
Arsenal of democracy is something that Detroit specifically was called during WWII, so historically it isn't a wild phrase. Ford Motor Company itself built complete B-24 heavy bombers too. Edit: also an FDR quote https://e
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by glompers 1y ago
Without more prominent melody or harmony I could not find what is finer about it than conventional approaches to jazz. Could you please elaborate on what its quality is?
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by glompers 1y ago
Implicitly, the argument is that, when "cost and time of litigation scales like n^2 where n is the textual length of the law," justice for litigants declined when sheer access to the necessary legal funds and time began to outweig
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by glompers 1y ago
This is the revised, expanded 3rd edition of that title: https://price.dealoz.com/prod?gtin=09780963397454
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by glompers 1y ago
> There are coal seam fires that have been going on for centuries and the pollution of these is just as bad as the pollution generated by human created coal mine fires (and that's truly awful, a significant source of carbon pollutio
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by glompers 1y ago
Most of these [0] started as desktop software but some have extended to mobile devices in ways that can interact via cloud with the version on your desktop, if I'm not mistaken. [0] https://www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com&
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by glompers 1y ago
This civic control correlation can simply have more to do with the most-white-supremacist Democrats switching to the GOP en masse and also simultaneously leaving multiethnic cities and school districts en masse after the 1960s. That self-s
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by glompers 1y ago
US Senator was an office initially designed to be selected by state legislatures rather than by direct popular election like the representatives. To a populist or a party boss, that might count as a spoiler to the will of the people or to
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by glompers 1y ago
Provided the goal is solid internal culture at the company, the company would have an automatic dart thrower that reliably hits a target that is the wrong target altogether. Supposing you hired a consultant to be "culture keeper"
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by glompers 1y ago
Crabs may not always face each other to fight, since they walk sideways, so there are still opportunities for large claw facing either claw.
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by glompers 1y ago
The 2004 Wii port had no land strategy but made some other compromises
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by glompers 1y ago
It seems to an outsider like California involves exceptional biodiversity, and exceptional habitat protection laws, coupled with the electorate's vocal idealism about the possibility of preventing preventable animal suffering, plus the
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by glompers 1y ago
Could his new variety of vocalizations be imitating what he sees on his tablet?
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by glompers 1y ago
> ... the twentieth century may have widened the subject matter of the novel, but it has failed to deepen it Even if we were to deny artistically creative 20C novelists their depth as a mere retread of the nineteenth century's, what
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by glompers 1y ago
People already paid their taxes on all of the principal before they donated it to fund education. You and I are not chartered as an educational endowment; things like Roth IRAs exist for us.
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by glompers 2y ago
glycyrrhizic acid in licorice can drop your blood potassium level and cause cardiac arrhythmia, however, as well as commonly raising blood pressure [1] [1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6836258/
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by glompers 2y ago
The article says that renting residential units for short terms (of less than 32 days) is already banned citywide in Barcelona. Tourists can stay in hotels.
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by glompers 2y ago
The OIG most recently did the job in 2023, as multiple HN members have posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083362
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by glompers 2y ago
I would think this is creating discovery effects specific to indie filmmakers who are doing "a very indie thing that doesn't fit anywhere else" like GP comment said
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by glompers 2y ago
I do regret the jump from desktop computing to mobile, but mIRC for example didn't jump while Discord, Meta, and the other advertiser-pleasers went in mobile-first. mIRC for instance: Linux - use Wine MacOS - run mIRC inside a Window
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by glompers 2y ago
Vimeo has tried to prioritize indie feature discovery from what I can tell. Not sure what its ownership or business is. Also not sure how it compares to (in music) soundcloud's or bandcamp's approaches.
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by glompers 2y ago
There's already a literature analyzing this. For instance William Lazonick's 1983 Business History Review article, "Industrial Organization and Technological Change: The Decline of the British Cotton Industry," and his
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by glompers 2y ago
Read: "...the creditors take control, whereas Musk gets a ton of value from being in control of Twitter, so he won't want that to occur."

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