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Except there is no such place. Perhaps you're thinking of Intercourse, PA?

I get what you're saying, but if the government repealed the Gregorian calendar (and went back to Julian) that wouldn't change the day of the week. The day of the week is historica…

and brown is just dark orange.

I assume there is a way to handle this in modern contract law. Surely people have forgotten how long the various months are and written contracts referring to April 31.

I think the rays are straight but you're comparing them to the US-Canada border, which is curved. (No, it really is! A parallel of latitude is not a great circle.)

You're right, but: - he works in Germany ( https://vedran.miletic.net/files/cv-vedran-miletic.pdf ) - the original author is Till Tantau ( https://www.beamer.plus/Introduction.html…

I believe the software was written by a German.

I'm guessing this is a coincidence, though; the Capitol is also, famously, on a Hill.

Wait, so it was actually believed that the Washington meridian just happened to fall exactly on an integer number of degrees (120-43 =77) west of Greenwich?

I need to remember that this is okay. I didn't do it because of concerns about resale value... but recently I sold books for the first time in a while and got so little money that …

ai;dr

Every now and then HN falls apart

IIRC her best-known song saw a spike in popularity around the 2024 solar eclipse. (I know I played it a few times.)

"Strong Songs" podcast breaking down Total Eclipse of The Heart: https://strongsongspodcast.com/blogs/episodes/s07e06-total-e...

I am an Italian-American and would presume to speak for Italian-American foodways but not the foodways of Italians living in Italy.

Bluey would never do this.

I had wondered if getting wordle in 1 based on social media data was possible! Now I know.

see also "absurdle": https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html

These exist for various medical usages. I've seen one to compute the due date of a pregnancy (from either the date of conception or the last missed period). This was at an obstetri…

That's what I was thinking.

Tax brackets are also inflation-adjusted, so shouldn't that cancel out?

It's hard to be totally sure, but I also don't think that's a picture of Dudley.

From a glance at the paper ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.27371 ) it looks like they're using self-reported ethnicity. "We only attempt to identify adverse impact based on self-repor…

I should clarify. I remember the fact that I read them but I don't remember anything about them.

I share this feeling. When I want to free up some space, the books I get rid of are the ones I don't remember reading.