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by ssmmww 5y ago
Possibly a dumb question, but...is there any good economic (vs legal, cultural, etc) reason why a Spotify-style "streaming service" for books wouldn't work? That is, you pay an affordable monthly subscription fee in exchange
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by ssmmww 8y ago
*She
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by ssmmww 8y ago
One striking and highly suggestive statistic: 60-80% of people diagnosed with schizophrenia are smokers. (see e.g. the wiki article "schizophrenia and tobacco smoking", or https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01&#x
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by ssmmww 8y ago
To my not-very-well-trained ear, almost all composers before Debussy sound a little dated, corny, and constrained, and most composers after him - Bartok and Messiaen being important exceptions! - sound abstract and unmusical. Debussy's
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by ssmmww 8y ago
Incidentally, more than 25% of UK pubs have closed since 2001: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/26/uk-pub-clos...
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by ssmmww 8y ago
If this really is Atiyah's claimed proof, it is very sad and embarrassing indeed. I think it is in poor taste to discuss this as if it were a serious attempt at a proof.
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by ssmmww 8y ago
No no no! His website is a treasure! I think the world needs many more garish, lurid, irreverent websites like this.
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by ssmmww 8y ago
My understanding is that the Monty Hall problem was just a cute puzzle published in a pop-sci magazine that confused a few professors who perhaps ought not to have been confused by it. I don't think it says anything at all about the he
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Ask HN: How to manage expectations when inexperienced?
2 points by ssmmww 8y ago|2 comments
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by ssmmww 8y ago
It’s presumably a reference to the fact that norovirus outbreaks are common on cruise ships.
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The mystery of Zach, New Zealand’s all-too-miraculous medical AI(thespinoff.co.nz)
1 points by ssmmww 9y ago|0 comments
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by ssmmww 9y ago
Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, and the Haskell Book.