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by xefer 2y ago
In Pale Fire, Nabokov coins a couple of great collective nouns when he writes "... an anthology of poets and a brocken of their wives ..." The Brocken is the highest peak in the Harz mountains of Germany and is where witches are s
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by xefer 3y ago
There is the Atom Feed Format and there is the Atom Syndication Protocol: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4287 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5023 These specs and
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by xefer 3y ago
Scientific American during this period was a great magazine with fantastic graphics. I used to really look forward to each issue. Sometime in the 90s they made a decision to make the magazine more “accessible” to the general public. The st
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by xefer 4y ago
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by xefer 4y ago
If you happen to know the address of where the individual lived, you can make a much more targeted search if you know the census enumeration district. With the ED in hand, just looking up by last name may be sufficient, but you can also jus
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by xefer 5y ago
"cannabis" and "hemp" https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/107526
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by xefer 6y ago
Maybe you’re already aware of it, but the book “Atlas of Remote Islands” may be of interest: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_Remote_Islands At one time you could group Wikipedia articles in “books” that you co
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by xefer 6y ago
This is going back many years, but I seem to recall that one of the arguments against primordial black holes is that - assuming Hawking radiation is correct - we should see evidence of black holes evaporating if they are of the correct size
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by xefer 6y ago
I believe there is a reference to this law in the movie “No Country for Old Men”. The movie was set in 1980. In the famous coin toss scene Anton Chigurh explicitly states that the date on the quarter is 1958 and that it had been traveling f
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by xefer 7y ago
I've seen people mention putting some sort of "use it or lose it" time limit on the money, so that people are motivate to inject it directly into the economy instead of just sitting on it. I'm not sure how feasible such
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by xefer 7y ago
That was an interesting note about the FPC. It's something I've wondered about for years ... and proof I didn't read until the very end of the linked article I guess :) It reminds me of the small vestigial canal in Cambridge
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by xefer 7y ago
On the subjects of Boston, its new-ish Seaport District and "Make more land": was it ever under discussion to simply fill in the Fort Point Channel completely? That could have potentially knitted the Seaport development into the
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by xefer 7y ago
You’re correct. If you listen to what he’s actually saying it’s told from the perspective of Hader and it only shifts when he’s doing an impression of Cruise or Rogan.
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by xefer 7y ago
I found this reference in which the abstract provides this definition: "The age of the Solar System can be defined as the time of formation of the first solid grains in the nebular disc surrounding the proto-Sun" https:/&#x2
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by xefer 7y ago
How is the time of "solar system formation" defined? Presumably a system slowly forms out of gas and dust but at what point does the accumulating material cross some threshold to where it is considered a new system? Solar ignitio
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by xefer 7y ago
The thing that stands out for me about this period is the lack of a "descent from antiquity". [1] There is no well-established genealogical descent in Western Europe from antiquity to the modern era. Familial lines of descent can
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by xefer 7y ago
As a comment to that article references: it’s certainly a great story, but it makes it seem that this is the catalogue of the library, when in fact it is one of 16 volumes, 14 of which are already known. The referenced page at The Arnamag
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by xefer 8y ago
Re-reading this article from The New York Times Magazine, “Recycling Is Garbage” (1996) is really interesting today. It goes over the whole panic that kicked off the recycling movement during that time period. https://www.nytimes
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by xefer 8y ago
There were eye witness reports to that effect, but the proof would be in the flight recorders. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-witness...
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by xefer 8y ago
I read the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation about 10 years ago. There were a lot of good references and footnotes. But way into the novel, as the Russian army is about to crush the last remnants of Napoleon’s army retreating from Moscow,
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by xefer 8y ago
I noticed they mentioned the speed reduction "Boston, for example, has reduced the city speed limit from 30 miles per hour to 25 mph." Cambridge across the river followed suit soon afterward, but having lived there for decades I c
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by xefer 8y ago
If an account is blocked they shouldn’t be able to see or interact with your Twitter feed. Twitter allows for the mass importation of block lists. Is there an active project to create a master list of corporate accounts to block?
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by xefer 8y ago
It’s also possible that there is such a pent-up demand for housing in San Francisco that no amount of building could realistically do enough to make things truly affordable.
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by xefer 8y ago
I believe this (long!) video of a Dennis Whyte talk from 2016 was posted to HN way back when: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4 It sounded pretty encouraging, but I have no idea what progress has been made or if t
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by xefer 8y ago
I have to imagine that one of the perhaps unintended side effects of lots of driverless vehicles buzzing around is that they'll act as a kind of traffic calming mechanism. I assume these things will have to obey speed limits and traff
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by xefer 8y ago
So I'm curious: have you tried removing details from your Facebook ad preferences? On the desktop website go to: Settings | Ads | Your Interests. There is a huge ontology of various subjects that have been algorithmically assigned to
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by xefer 8y ago
I heartily agree with this statement. I had a business meeting in there years ago and it was the first time I had ever really been inside. I couldn't believe how miserable and depressing the place was. There's always a discussio
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by xefer 8y ago
I’m reminded of Freeman Dyson’s essay in Edge some time ago. [1] I was struck by this statement: “The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it. A field of co
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by xefer 8y ago
I like Banksy's work well enough, but the thing that has always bothered me about his persona is the collusion in the art and media world to maintain his supposed anonymity. I simply can't believe that there aren't large num
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by xefer 8y ago
A couple of interesting points to consider when thinking about putting a base on the Moon: "Each Apollo mission increased the mass of the lunar atmosphere by about 30%, and it took several weeks for the atmosphere to return to its natu

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