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“Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and …

as the article says, it's "most extreme" with respect to its size compared to the surrounding waves: "the Ucluelet wave was nearly three times the size of its peers."

I regularly use parmigiano rind when making vegetable stock. Hopefully the tracker extract will add some nuance.

that's excellent -- couldn't find any background info on the project, do you know the context?

The author of the book -- Ester Salgarella -- has also put together an online searchable corpus of Linear A: https://sigla.phis.me It's very neatly annotated, e.g: https://sigla.ph…

how did joining the EU restrict Commonwealth immigration?

i find such logic hard to understand: UK was part of the EU, hence the open labour market. That's the whole point of EU. What did they find unfair exactly -- that Nigeria was not p…

yes but amplification matters -- there's been at least one study which measured the clickbaity-ness of headliness of paid vs ad-based news sites and the difference was sth like an …

advertising is the primary driver for clickbait and emotion-driven content. it enables The Daily Mail, it results in youtube's algorithm hell, it's why facebook exists. 'clicks = m…

yes, this reasoning does make sense. but given the human cost it should only make sense if there's a significant prior: in most of these cases there was no previous evidence whatso…

This is unreal. Shitty software sending people to prison without anyone in the process considering what exactly is the likelihood of hundreds of postmasters simultaneously becoming…

Could I ask the source for these numbers? I've been trying to find some production numbers for popular synths (including submodels, e.g. all Minimoog or Prophet 5 versions combined…

> American gun culture has little to do with this case. Cops behave like this because behind door number one there could be a guy with an assault rifle ready to take them down i'm …

cheers, had no idea

could you elaborate why? i mainly use deliveroo and tip with the app -- they also seek to minimise contact so usually i just get to pick up the food from my doorstep, cash tipping …

low temp storage was also required for the ebola vaccine and yet it was successfully administered to more than quarter of a million people in equatorial Africa https://en.wikipedia…

pretty much any metric you could come up with to "measure" civilisation -- literacy, urbanisation, economic output, monetary economy -- went to historic lows. slightly orthogonal t…

born in the 1980s

First, I am relatively familiar with the admission process at Cambridge and noone gives a crap whether you were on a robotics team at high school + the rest of the extra-curricular…

also -- this markes the absolute lowpoint in the play and things start slowly but definitely improving from that point on. although Antigonus does end up eaten by the bear.

> Practice Fusion solicited a nearly $1 million payment from the opioid company, promising that in exchange it would create alerts in its software that would cause physicians to wr…

so a specific example then -- in your opinion is putting ca one million Uighurs and Kazakhs into internment camps compatible with the 'Chinese way'?

compared to the best known subscription success stories -- the NYT, WP -- it certainly seems significantly smaller. but i agree, that comparison isn't very valid, it's certainly a …

> And we all know that consumers don't fork enough money to support ads-free journalism, which leads to perverse incentives. yes they do. susbcription-based models are doing quite …