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by tosser0001 8mo ago
I wonder how true this really is if you make an reasonable effort to keep yourself in shape. It wasn't until I hit 60 that I felt unquestionably different, and even then it wasn't terrible.
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by tosser0001 1y ago
I know little about farming or harvesting, but I’m curious what types of crops actually require manual harvesting? Do we really need to rely on stoop labor to hand-pick crops, or has a relatively cheap labor pool allowed farmers to avoid th
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by tosser0001 1y ago
One of the minor subplot points in Whit Stillman's movie "Metropolitan" was a couple of the characters' debate over the merits of "Mansfield Park".
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by tosser0001 1y ago
I'm glad to see this material has a home, but I'm curious why it didn't end up at some institution in the Bay Area close to MMR's home
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by tosser0001 1y ago
Unlike previous market turmoil (2008, 2020) where the U.S. at least had established global trade order to lean on for the recovery, this feels like the U.S. could be entering a period of sustained damage. I don't see how the U.S. recov
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by tosser0001 2y ago
Anything that requires hard chewing like nuts, raw vegetables and tough meats. The first I ever heard of this topic was from reading the book "The Evolution of the Human Head" (2011) by Daniel E. Lieberman. It's an academic b
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by tosser0001 2y ago
Even the Wikipedia entry on them has the classic bean-shaped diagram. If they are not really like that, why did that become the standard representation? Have they always been know to exist in more network-like structures, and was that why
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by tosser0001 2y ago
An analog of the birthday paradox that gets me all the time is what I think of as The Locker Room Paradox. This is where when I go into the locker room after working out and the guy who comes in behind me ends in the locker right next to mi
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by tosser0001 2y ago
The first record Enid looks at is actually by "R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders" that Seymour directs her away from to another selection. Zwigoff was a member of that group.
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by tosser0001 2y ago
FamilySearch (free registration) has the passenger manifest of her arrival in New York, 28 Nov 1838 aboard the brig Sofia Eliza: Americus Vespucius, female, age 26, Tuscany https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3
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by tosser0001 2y ago
1. There's a fun reference to this book in the movie "24 Hour Party People" 2. Chaucer's translation is referenced in the OED as the first use of the word "twitter" in the English language
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by tosser0001 2y ago
Their “fame” certainly well pre-dated that movie. These were the ones I knew as a kid in the 60s and 70s, and would be featured in old stop animation movies even before my time.
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by tosser0001 2y ago
There are a small handful of relatively well-know dinosaurs: stegosaurus being one of them. There’s also Tyrannosaurus rex, Brontosaurus (maybe you’re not supposed to call them that anymore), Triceratops and maybe a couple of others. Why w
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by tosser0001 2y ago
That doesn’t seem particularly fast of a spin and I’m surprised it’s the fastest one observed. There is a moment in 2001: A Space Odyssey that I’ve always liked. It’s at about 1:13:15 or so, and is just a distant shot of the Discovery One.
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by tosser0001 2y ago
If I never saw another psychedelic-related link on Hacker News again it would be too soon (just my opinion)
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by tosser0001 3y ago
That bridge also took over 2 years to complete at an absurd cost after the one it replaced was damaged. While it was under construction, there was a temporary red light installed at the intersection of Magazine St. which was far better all
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by tosser0001 3y ago
Could someone explain what is meant by "inflammation" in this context? What exactly is inflamed and is it manifested externally in some visible way? I feel like I constantly hear about inflammation but it's never clear to m
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by tosser0001 3y ago
Part of this may have been due to the Hunga Tonga eruption which injected an tremendous amount of water vapor into the upper atmosphere https://twitter.com/RARohde/status/1685971656198545408 https://www
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by tosser0001 3y ago
I like how the diagram is captioned "A hypothetical escape route ..." as if the frog's gut were a cave system with different potential passageways and not a single path out
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by tosser0001 3y ago
I’ve read a bunch of his books and The Road is the only one I know of that actually ends with a glimmer of hope.
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by tosser0001 3y ago
Why do these brain stimulation experiments always seem to result in some sort of benefit? Do these things ever result in a loss of capability?
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by tosser0001 3y ago
I'm not necessarily concerned that I will be entirely without a job because of AI. What I am concerned with is that the aspects of my job that I derive pleasure from will be replaced by AI.
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by tosser0001 3y ago
When I was a young lad, my parents got me that book for Christmas. I loved it. When Unknown Pleasures came out I immediately recognized the image. I used to (I assume) bore people with my knowledge of its provenance - "You know, that i
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by tosser0001 4y ago
I'm sort of glad to be retiring soon. I have a feeling everything I enjoy about programming is going to be going away.
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by tosser0001 4y ago
The article mentions Eno did the cover designs. I've always assumed he took the cover images from real maps, but I've never found any mention of what they may be. It would be interesting to find them if that were actually the cas
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by tosser0001 4y ago
For years after graduating I would have this sense of undirected foreboding every Sunday. I finally realized it was just a carry over from years of being a real procrastinator when it came to getting my school work done and the gnawing pani
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by tosser0001 4y ago
"interest rates are a powerful tool to help control home prices" Unless you're paying cash, most people think in terms of what their monthly payment will be. So driving down the price may not make any particular house any mo
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by tosser0001 4y ago
There is a Twitter satire account that said something I thought was subtly profound: If you ever wondered what you would have done to stop Hitler, you're doing it now.
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by tosser0001 5y ago
It’s a question that thinkers have wondered about for a long time. Argument IV against the eternity of the world: "Yes, Sir, The late Invention of Arts, and the Shortness of the History of the World, are invincible Arguments against it
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by tosser0001 5y ago
I had the exact same experience with this book as a kid. Those diagrams were fantastic. It opened up the whole night sky for me.

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