srl

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by srl 12d ago
"Few paintings have lasted the test of time as the great wave of Kanagawa. It took Kanagawa 40 years before he drew the wave he is most known for." The painting is by Hokusai. Kanagawa is a place.
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Actuarial Notation(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by srl 8mo ago|0 comments
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Operation Cowboy(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by srl 9mo ago|0 comments
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by srl 3y ago
The American allergy to welfare and social safety has caused _global_ fertility to collapse?
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by srl 3y ago
"Police bad" doesn't account for differences in performance between SF police and others. "DA bad" at least tries to do this (although as you note, is in some tension with the facts).
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The Big Alcohol Study That Didn't Happen(asteriskmag.com)
4 points by srl 3y ago|0 comments
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by srl 4y ago
Your statement about Dugin is false---I (in the U.S., to be clear) was able to buy a copy of one book on BooksAMillion, and it looks like most/all of them are still available. Of course, it is true that his books are unavailable on Ama
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by srl 4y ago
It seems likely that this is the cartoon, but I can't figure out what the original source is: https://www.jokejive.com/images/jokejive/23/23a74af0b0d51ee4...
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by srl 4y ago
You and I have very different experiences. At the places where I've been a student and worked, it was possible and permitted to enter the vast majority of buildings (I think all academic buildings, but I'm hedging with "vast
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Sandringham Time(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by srl 4y ago|0 comments
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by srl 4y ago
I don't understand the relevance of this. The claim is about what "half of Russia thinks". Why would propaganda in Africa have a strong effect on the thought of those in Russia?
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Mormon Extermination Order(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by srl 4y ago|1 comments
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by srl 4y ago
This is a bit of a non-sequitur (not to mention silly), but I'm curious about the details. Do you have any links to this story of Rabi refusing to let Bader study part-time? The problem, of course, it that the timing doesn't make
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by srl 4y ago
I'm baffled. Is there some broader context that makes this make sense? From what I can tell, this fellow (the one sending the email) is being paid money to develop priorities for updating the FreeBSD handbook. His response is to send a
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by srl 5y ago
This should have a (2005) --- I was very surprised to see that the competition deadline was 17 years in the past! In any case, here's the follow-up with the winners: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=42
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Global research community condemns Russian invasion of Ukraine(nature.com)
3 points by srl 5y ago|0 comments
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by srl 5y ago
Please don't post this low-effort nonsense. If you cared about the object-level question, you can check easily enough: https://www.whois.com/whois/orwell.ru . (Spoiler: no, not using namecheap.) Really, this is a t
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by srl 5y ago
> The way you frame it is only a problem if civil servants are not part of society and that people don't have an influence about what the government spends money on, that is: you don't live in some form a representative democra
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The world in which we live(freddiedeboer.substack.com)
1 points by srl 5y ago|0 comments
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by srl 5y ago
> For instance Lat goes 0-180 but Lon goes -90 to 90 Surely this is several typos? Longitude, which marks east-west, must span 360 degrees (-180 to 180, perhaps? although 0 to 360 is just as reasonable). Latitude, marking north-south, sp
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by srl 5y ago
Moreover, I've used minute-by-minute forecasts myself, and (at least where I lived at the time) they were quite accurate. My use case was "where is a 30 minute gap when I can walk home without getting soaked", and I never onc
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A Git repository that counts(github.com)
2 points by srl 5y ago|0 comments
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by srl 5y ago
To explain why I thought this was interesting: from what I read, a Tanomoshiko is (mostly "was") an informal mechanism for loans. If one person was in financial hardship, a group of several people would each contribute a small sum
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Tanomoshiko(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by srl 5y ago|1 comments
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by srl 5y ago
From the Nature medicine paper: > Editors’ note, [30] March 2020: We are aware that this article is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that thi
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by srl 5y ago
I see the dress as blue and gold, which was never even an option. But, I'm color blind.
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by srl 5y ago
I've used https://darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html#4/39.00/-98.00
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Lead Stories' Response to BMJ Open Letter Objecting to a Lead Stories Fact Check(leadstories.com)
6 points by srl 5y ago|1 comments
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27 Club(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by srl 5y ago|0 comments
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by srl 5y ago
Okay, I understand that there's some sort of world-wide supply-chain issue. Recently I've heard about fuel shortages of various shorts. It's unclear how related the mess in Lebanon is, since the article states > Prior to t

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