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London Review of Books articles aren't allowed to discuss the book being reviewed for the first five paragraphs. It's an obscure British law or something.

They used Ink: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink I've used it myself. It has some rough edges in terms of rendering performance but it's nice overall.

Well within the time period when even minor news was routinely posted to the Internet, so it's searchable. On the other hand I have a really common name.

Absolutely. If I hadn't been assured there would be a lawyer afterwards (he represented us as a group btw), I wouldn't have done it... I strongly recommend that anyone doing civil …

Hmmm. When I was in college, I protested and went to jail multiple times in the US, though I was never convicted (the organization I was with provided for legal representation). I …

I took the time to figure out where you took the shots from. You were not kidding about risk, especially for 201 Toland, Jesus Christ.

The North Korean place names for foreign places reflect the native pronunciations, while South Korean place names reflect English pronunciation. Syria is "suria" vs "siria" for exa…

Large scale collective farming I guess. The US' farmland in the central states was also organized by a centralized process (homestead act) leading to similar geographic patterns on…

Not sure why this is downvoted. Kim Jong-un declared that reunification is no longer a goal in 2024 and tore down the Reunification Arch.

Not sure exactly how obvious it is to most Americans, but the Navajo reservation is extremely poor by American standards. When I went there, the local roads were all dirt and the h…

When I lived in Chicago, no one was silent about Chicago's violence. It was widely acknowledged as one of the city's biggest problems and there was a ton of effort put into stoppin…

Question for Arabic speakers: The Arabic transliterations don't have vowel markings (harakat). So how are you able to reproduce the pronunciation? Are you able to just guess and ge…

If it's Krasznahorkai we're talking about, one sentence could be very long indeed.

It's a lot of trouble and hard to get right, but you can make it at home! The ingredients are easy to buy online. It keeps in the fridge for a long time, though after a while it st…

If you like Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, you owe it to yourself to read this deep dive into the philosophy behind it. https://paeantosmac.wordpress.com/

It has been a long time and my memory is based on hearing about it rather than using it, but I believe there was a notion of a rider's "home" datacenter (based on where they signed…

Nice write-up. What's the deal with the transcription of the place names into Devanagari?

I worked at Uber a long time ago - there was some amount of overcomplicated engineering but you genuinely can't completely shard by city because a big part of Uber's value proposit…

You may be interested to know that the author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues has just recently passed away.

In the 1600s, English settlers and native Americans probably had similar standards of living (i.e. a bit above subsistence). Maybe a 2x difference which I'm not sure would have bee…

Glad to see that the author is highlighting verification as the important factor in design productivity. We at Silogy [0] are directly targeting the problem of verification product…

The Antmicro team are doing good work with making Verilator support SystemVerilog / UVM tests but from what I understand it's not complete yet. I've also heard from various people …

I don't know, Caravaggio killed a guy. I wouldn't want to be friends with this guy but it seems like he's a typical artist. Better than having him where he can really hurt someone,…

I want to plug one of her lesser known books, Always Coming Home. It's set among a tribe of people living in the Bay Area way, way after some apocalypse has erased the memory of ou…

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