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The words astro-nomy and astro-logy are similar, but this is no "fluke". There's a Wikipedia article with some history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology_and_astronomy I imag…

No mention of chikenized reverse-centaurs in this piece? I find these neologisms helpful as they quite precisely capture the intended meaning and are easy to remember. Doctorow is …

His work with photography influenced my thinking in the 1980s. The ideas of viewing time and moving focus I think are significant in human experience. He talks about it, and you ca…

Dublin knabs a decent chunk of Great Britain, Copenhagen gets southern Sweden. Seems fair.

Tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars for listing. But they make money from the trading and associated services they facilitate, hence the desire to have the largest most liqui…

Yeah, indeed. See (march) https://www.reuters.com/business/new-nasdaq-rules-include-fa... Quote from Cameron Lilja, Nasdaq's global head of index solutions: "It is not necessarily …

What's the rationale offered by NASDAQ for their new "15-days and you're in the index" rule for these massive IPOs? Seems equivalent to removing road safety rules for the least-tes…

(Agreeing with you) In the 1980s Gary Shilling said: The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. A long-term principle that I think does still apply.

This resonates with "the bitter lesson" somehow, interesting... ...On reading more it seems of use primarily in adversarial situations, so not-so-much resonant.

Wet cement is kind of sloppy, so this makes some sense.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26339421

I was expecting regional accent options, so disappointed.

I'm pleased that Blue Origin and others are making progress on reusable flight hardware, because I fear that SpaceX will itself suffer a "RUD" for non-engineering reasons.

Added mine ... let's see... https://foximax.com (word puzzle)

Seems Let's Encrypt also have control of https://letsdecrypt.org . It takes you to https://www.nsa.gov rather than Let's Encrypt home. Conspiracy? I think not, but others might.

Seems Let's Encrypt also have control of https://letsdecrypt.org . It takes you to https://www.nsa.gov rather than Let's Encrypt. Not sure what to make of that!

https://archive.is/fbKl4

An aside: I always understood that Broadcasting House was inspiration for Room 101 (Ministry of Love) rather than the MoT. It's well-known that the University of London Senate Hous…

This looks like "science-slop", but why has it been placed at this URL?

Nice touch having U2's song "Every Breaking Wave" playing in one of the screen grabs ... that being the second track on the (in)famous "free" 2014 iTunes release of their album "So…

Two-player adversarial version of https://foximax.com Porting a trivia quiz game I wrote 25 years ago from a Java Applet to the modern-day web. Has a scoring mechanism like golf (p…

https://archive.is/TY950

I have to admit I thought it might be "like that" before I read the article. But I don't think Chris Stringer would be a co-author on the paper if there was an issue of bias. While…