slm_HN

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by slm_HN 2y ago
"Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and vastly cheaper than mined diamonds. Beating nature took decades of hard graft and millions of pounds of pressure." What does graft mean in this context? Is there a process whe
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by slm_HN 4y ago
Was the program was based on the classic book, https://www.amazon.com/Star-Ship-Simulation-games-no/dp/0918... ?
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by slm_HN 4y ago
Puzzles are great for learning tactics, but eventually you need to learn some strategy and positional play. You'll need to read a book or two for this. And don't forget endings!
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by slm_HN 4y ago
Chess.com has the somewhat unique property of being a chess server run by people who aren't good at chess and aren't good at technology. I think they used to hire devs off Fiverr. However they are somewhat good at business as they
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by slm_HN 4y ago
Tell me you don't have anything to contribute other than a weak, ten year old meme without saying that you don't have anything to contribute other than a weak, ten year old meme.
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by slm_HN 5y ago
Yeah, I'm not buying this. For three years China has desperately been searching for an animal reservoir for the virus. They have found nothing at all. This report wants me to believe there was one infected animal at the market and th
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by slm_HN 5y ago
This is a surprisingly good article. Most of the time when the mainstream press covers the chess world there are just too many inaccuracies in the reporting.
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by slm_HN 6y ago
>I get a pretty strong pseudoscience vibe from it. I don't quite know how to categorize complaining about pseudoscience based on a "vibe". It's not quite irony... maybe it's just humorous. As a member of the post
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by slm_HN 6y ago
In fact there is opponent reading (literally) in Blackjack. The opponent (dealer) must check his hand for blackjack, if the dealer's upcard is a 10 or an Ace, after having dealt the initial two cards to every player. "Hole peeking
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by slm_HN 7y ago
As I remember the book it was the humans probing the neutron star with something (x-rays?) in order to survey/study the star that triggered the evolutionary advances in the cheela. So no, it wasn't curious timing, the humans preci
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by slm_HN 7y ago
I didn't cherry pick Larry Nassar to make MSU look bad, it was just the first news story from Google when I googled Michigan State University. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/05/29/fears-abo
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by slm_HN 7y ago
East Lansing is best known as the home of Michigan State University which is best known as the school that harbored Larry Nassar while he molested hundreds of american gymnasts. Who wants to be associated with that?
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by slm_HN 7y ago
As others have already pointed out that paper doesn't say meat is bad, it says that the culprit is processed red meat. It's not the meat that's bad, it's the vat of carcinogenic chemicals that processes the meat that&#x2
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by slm_HN 7y ago
Yep, I've seen the exact same thing at my local used bookstore on normal business days. Someone with an ISBN scanner methodically scanning every book and buying whatever the app told him.
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by slm_HN 8y ago
I can see why some people think this guy is a bit much (Wolfram-branded Pilot Precise Grip pens, Wolfram Cloud, Wolfram Language) but this is a very thorough and interesting article. He even admits the embarrassing stuff: Apple Mac Pro.
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by slm_HN 8y ago
>Sports run in our DNA. We’re former athletes that come from sports families—Nick’s the son of Hall of Fame Quarterback, Joe Montana. I'd be more impressed if you had the sons of Johnnie Cochran and Jackie Chiles. This idea, "L
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by slm_HN 8y ago
He was unlucky in picking harness racing. Standard horse racing is already corrupt, but harness racing takes it to the next level. The rules and the addition of the harness make cheating much more prevalent. I'd rather bet on Professio
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by slm_HN 8y ago
This title is ridiculous, even by Hacker News standards. There's nothing in the article about a "love for weed".
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by slm_HN 8y ago
The Seattle housing market is already cooling faster than anywhere in the country, and has been for a while (newspapers tend to be a few months behind in this type of news): https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-es
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by slm_HN 8y ago
Sure, PhD in cognitive neuroscience is OK, but Demis' most impressive feat is winning the Mind Sport Olympiad a record 5 times.
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by slm_HN 8y ago
Fad diets here, fad diets there, fad diets everywhere. Don't eat this, only eat that, don't eat at these times, only eat at these times, fast, don't fast. It's been going on for decades, and it's both silly and cou
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by slm_HN 8y ago
At this point Seattle is a fairly crummy city in a fairly nice location. The region and climate are nice but the traffic is hell, the crime is bad and the housing costs are astronomical. The tech salaries are high, but it doesn't make
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by slm_HN 9y ago
This reads like a very thinly veiled ad for the author's $500 Software Design web class. Project based learning won't work, traditional learning won't work, only my class will work. In fact the source he quotes (himself) clai
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by slm_HN 9y ago
The "greatest generation" name applies to Americans not Italians. They earned that title by winning World War II, rebuilding Japan and Germany, and creating the richest society in the history of the world. That same generation of
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by slm_HN 9y ago
Seattle has been blanketed in smoke during the last week from forest fires in British Columbia. The flyovers may be related to this or the Seafair airshow. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/why-so-mu
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by slm_HN 9y ago
My father taught college in both Canada and the United States around 40 years ago. When I asked about the differences between the two countries he said they were basically the same, except that Canadian students worked harder and complained
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by slm_HN 9y ago
In the one incident I'm aware of an operator crashed his drone at the Seattle Pride Parade, striking a woman in the head. He received a $500 fine and a 30 day jail sentence. The city attorney was aiming for 90 days of jail time.
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by slm_HN 9y ago
No, you cannot fly your drone over people. The exception being surveying construction sites as it is assumed that people on construction sites are already wearing hard hats. Ironically parks, which would be an ideal place to fly, are often
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by slm_HN 9y ago
It's a common misconception that chess requires memorization. You don't learn to play chess by memorization. That's like saying that you have to memorize the C language specification to be a C programmer. Back when I was play
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by slm_HN 9y ago
They could probably drop the price, but they want OEMs to build their own versions of the machine. If you drop your price too low OEMs will be squeezed out of the market. That's the big problem Microsoft has with their hardware that Ap

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