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by zeteo 2y ago
Math is un-democratic.
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by zeteo 2y ago
Phillip figured out how to defeat the Greek phalanx (although it took him a while) and had some very limited success against the Persians. Alexander not only made short work of the Greek revolt on Phillip's death, but also went on to d
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by zeteo 2y ago
> Is my kid really going to be a better student because she volunteered at a hospital or played high school softball? Unfortunately, kids from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds have fewer opportunities to volunteer and to pursue e
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by zeteo 2y ago
For someone trying it for the first time, I would recommend the Falim chewing gum, available on Amazon, or the mint-flavored toothpaste at mastic.gr. If you feel comfortable trying pure mastic, the best quality that I've found are the
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by zeteo 2y ago
+1 for mastic, completely nontoxic and it's been used for thousands of years. My cavity problems have pretty much disappeared since discovering it several years ago.
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by zeteo 2y ago
Is it visible from Australia as well?
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by zeteo 2y ago
Did the ad suggest to you that the iPad was a replacement for cheap, low quality physical objects? That would not be very good copy for Apple. On the contrary, all the instruments etc. seemed rather nice to me. The piano alone was probably
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by zeteo 2y ago
Yes, a closer analogy would be "look, this guy had a basketball signed by Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant in 1996, and now it's being blown to smithereens and replaced by a 3D model on his iPad".
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by zeteo 2y ago
If I saw a house, that looked like the one where I grew up, being cheerfully destroyed to build a Walmart parking lot, yes I might get a little distressed. It would certainly not improve my opinion of Walmart.
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by zeteo 2y ago
I felt Kursk was a good example of the superiority of defense over offense in WW2 as the other factors were generally even (no major surprise, both sides had good logistics etc.) Everything you say about Soviet preparations is right, that&#
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by zeteo 2y ago
Just because the defense is stronger doesn't guarantee it will always win. Take two sports teams with different levels of skill, for example. In a single game, the team considered weaker can pull off a surprise win. However, over a spa
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by zeteo 2y ago
There's not a single instance in the article mentioning the EMS Medical Director being consulted in any of the 94 cases gone wrong (much less being held accountable). Multiple cases where the EMTs were pressured by the police, though.
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by zeteo 2y ago
I'm sure there are legitimate cases where sedation is reasonably the best available solution. The problem is - who draws the line? There was a case the other day where a university professor was tackled to the ground, her head hitting
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I don't invest in real estate(unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
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by zeteo 2y ago
Agreed about Vietnamese, which brings up another issue: diacritics. A word or phrase that is heavy on uppercase with diacritics ("BÁNH CUỐN") will look quite different in the vertical plane from one with a lot of descenders (&quot
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by zeteo 2y ago
I've found a bit more information about the topic in a publicly available research article [1]: "A depth of only 25 fathoms is quite enough to give some surface indications: coloration, wave phenomena, perhaps fauna. Is this the e
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by zeteo 2y ago
That sounds fascinating, but it's not really clear to me how imagining islands beyond the horizon can help with dead reckoning. Maybe there are changes in observable phenomena, such as ocean currents, that are associated with these uns
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by zeteo 2y ago
Goldstine also wrote a very interesting book called "The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann" that chronicles some of his experiences and also shows the depth of his research trying to draw inspiration from earlier calculating mac
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by zeteo 2y ago
"At every stage in the growth of that debt the nation has set up the same cry of anguish and despair. At every stage in the growth of that debt it has been seriously asserted by wise men that bankruptcy and ruin were at hand. Yet still
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by zeteo 2y ago
Americans will soon be encouraged to switch to electric pancakes.
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by zeteo 2y ago
You don't need to build the bridge to an absurd strength, but it may have been insufficiently marked as a navigational hazard. Something like a few well-lit pillars 500 feet upstream in the water would have given the ship plenty of war
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by zeteo 3y ago
China, Russia and India have successfully tested anti-satellite weapons. Considering that Iran and North Korea have recently been able to acquire some pretty advanced Russian missiles, it might not be that hard for other countries to obtain
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by zeteo 3y ago
Isn't it the same with exercise, though? > Those who you see exercising are likely quite healthy and thus _able_ to exercise to old age (or won a genetic lottery to be able to withstand a lot of exercising). > What you need to
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by zeteo 3y ago
A swastika?! Not quite, it's more like a cross: ꖅ
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by zeteo 3y ago
Yup that's how they designed it in hexagonal chess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal_chess#Rules "the knight may move to any nearest cell not on an orthogonal or diagonal line on which it stands"
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by zeteo 3y ago
> "Good faith" doesn't mean being dishonest. Instead, it's about showing a little empathy https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/good+faith
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by zeteo 3y ago
> Everyone needs to operate in good faith. I've observed leaders ask their direct reports for something off-hand, without giving it more than 5 seconds of thought. I've watched direct reports operate as a "human command li
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by zeteo 3y ago
It's not really a pyramid, just an ancient volcanic core where people deposited stones on top of it for long periods of time. There is no indication of architecture, engineering or organized work crews being involved in the constructio
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by zeteo 3y ago
Why are all of these examples of successful government tech investment so old ? ARPANET, moon landing etc. are all 50+ years old - before most HN readers were even born. How many billions/trillions have been spent since then without a
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by zeteo 3y ago
Careful with that or it might just eat up your battery trying to contact cellular towers at maximum power with a short retry interval.

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