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Longtime HN user morphle, who commented elsewhere in this thread, has researched and designed chips and hardware for that purpose (edit: for scaling that form of computing). He has…

The entire County of London[0] had an average population density of 60 people per acre (38,400 per square mile) in 1911 and 42 per acre in 1961. 60 per acre being averaged over non…

Connections to HS1/Europe, and to Leeds, Golborne, East Midlands, Manchester and finally even Crewe have all been cancelled so now extra expenditures will focus instead on Euston S…

The Assad dictatorships in Syria and the Hussein regime in Iraq were proponents of Baathism. The former had occupied Lebanon and invaded Israel while the latter had invaded Iran in…

Orators learned the "palace of memory" trick for remembering long speeches. In that same vein, then, it does seem less demanding to simply be able to see where you put things. Whet…

Did having such a person in charge make a qualitative difference in the atmosphere of how work proceeded among people there? If so, do you think it would have played out similarly …

Not to me. This post in question could be easily expanded into a recognizable Paul Graham essay and no one would bat an eye.

Arsenal of democracy is something that Detroit specifically was called during WWII, so historically it isn't a wild phrase. Ford Motor Company itself built complete B-24 heavy bomb…

Without more prominent melody or harmony I could not find what is finer about it than conventional approaches to jazz. Could you please elaborate on what its quality is?

Implicitly, the argument is that, when "cost and time of litigation scales like n^2 where n is the textual length of the law," justice for litigants declined when sheer access to t…

This is the revised, expanded 3rd edition of that title: https://price.dealoz.com/prod?gtin=09780963397454

> There are coal seam fires that have been going on for centuries and the pollution of these is just as bad as the pollution generated by human created coal mine fires (and that's …

Most of these [0] started as desktop software but some have extended to mobile devices in ways that can interact via cloud with the version on your desktop, if I'm not mistaken. [0…

This civic control correlation can simply have more to do with the most-white-supremacist Democrats switching to the GOP en masse and also simultaneously leaving multiethnic cities…

US Senator was an office initially designed to be selected by state legislatures rather than by direct popular election like the representatives. To a populist or a party boss, tha…

Provided the goal is solid internal culture at the company, the company would have an automatic dart thrower that reliably hits a target that is the wrong target altogether. Suppos…

Crabs may not always face each other to fight, since they walk sideways, so there are still opportunities for large claw facing either claw.

The 2004 Wii port had no land strategy but made some other compromises

It seems to an outsider like California involves exceptional biodiversity, and exceptional habitat protection laws, coupled with the electorate's vocal idealism about the possibili…

Could his new variety of vocalizations be imitating what he sees on his tablet?

> ... the twentieth century may have widened the subject matter of the novel, but it has failed to deepen it Even if we were to deny artistically creative 20C novelists their depth…

People already paid their taxes on all of the principal before they donated it to fund education. You and I are not chartered as an educational endowment; things like Roth IRAs exi…

glycyrrhizic acid in licorice can drop your blood potassium level and cause cardiac arrhythmia, however, as well as commonly raising blood pressure [1] [1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih…

The article says that renting residential units for short terms (of less than 32 days) is already banned citywide in Barcelona. Tourists can stay in hotels.

The OIG most recently did the job in 2023, as multiple HN members have posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083362