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It means a publisher ranked possibility of a positive return on investment for that book to be higher than the books they decided not to publish.

Humor imitates life: Russia arrested anti-war protesters holding blank signs: https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-invasion-protest... But apparently this a thing in many co…

What do you mean by "forced to do it"?

The definition does not change from quarter to quarter or year to year. It is perfectly valid to compare this month's value with the past, but not with other countries who use diff…

I'm not sure about that. So many people had hard time synthesizing LK-99, and the original researchers said that even for themselves only 1 out of 10 attempts to create a material …

"F# is designed as a hybrid functional/OO language, so it can do virtually everything that C# can do." https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/why-use-fsharp/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-...

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Ha! Typical Scorpio thinking.

Also see recommendations for "Ask HN: Books Similar to Code by Charles Petzold?": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29522588

This review suggests that the game is now called "Tribes": https://amzn.com/dp/1556343558 , but the author is not Jared Diamond. Is this the game you remember?

Our cat does this on soft blankets, but unlike the other cats mentioned in the comments, she doesn't look like she's enjoying it. Her ears are back and her brow is furrowed and she…

This has changed from early Soviet Union to late Soviet Union. Early Soviet Union was much more radical and utopian, with ideas almost like in Plato's republic with the goal to get…

I clicked on the May Fourth movement because I thought it was odd that BBC would make a documentary about the origins of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day .

I wonder if this can be used for automatically generating mnemonics for people learning Chinese characters.

44/55. I had zero information about what poison ivy looks like before playing this game. This game is very good at teaching (or I got lucky).