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This looks lovely, thank you. Is there a source repository available?

Sounds interesting. How do candidates update their profiles? It can be annoying to have to replicate information that's already on both a CV and LinkedIn into yet another recruitme…

Too much drama; too much!

This is one area where richer countries can learn a lot from poorer countries, should they choose to listen. When I lived in Liberia, there were about 10-15 different newspapers in…

I would add that the terrible politics doesn't need to be local. There are a large number of international norms that benefit the already-wealthy, at the expense of the poor, for e…

You may or may not be correct, but I'd say, citation needed. It's not self-evident that life is such a zero-sum game that more people necessarily means fewer resources to go around…

> I also do the bending while swallowing trick that was on HN sometime back Could you share the link for this, if you can find it?

You might want to look into EcoFlow. I use their River system to provide backup power for my home equipment (I have frequent power outages, usually about 2 hours in length). I can'…

> Who’s going around giving pro bono Brazilian waxes to the homeless? Apparently this is most likely to be a local clinic; when handling lower-income clients, it's often a routine …

What's an anagram of Banach-Tarski? Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski!

Ubuntu is an isiXhosa/isiZulu word, and the concept (and similar words) exist in other Bantu languages... But, although Swahili is a Bantu language, I don't think it's a word in Sw…

"A strange loop is a paradoxical structure where the highest level emerges from the lowest level, and the lowest level, in turn, gives rise to the highest level." This is saying th…

The headline is click bait. The results aren't surprising: more research needed. However, despite the terrible headline, the article is an excellent summary of the debate and the s…

In this case, I suspect "china" comes from Cockney rhyming slang, "china plate", "mate", as in "friend".

In case the site is unavailable for anyone else: https://web.archive.org/web/20240127101027/https://aa.usno.n...

Ah! Well the kittens didn't get up to any nonsense while I scrolled, they just sat, cleaning the poop that they had kicked up the wall off their legs... so 10/10, great success! Th…

I opened the webpage, settled myself down, and clicked "Start". A lovely bong resonated through my headphones, and I relaxed. Immediately, one of the foster kitten sidled past me w…

This is a really accessible introduction to a topic that is frequently glossed over in machine learning primers.

This is fun! I like the voice, and the picture of Santa and his helpers are cute. After discussing with my sister-in-law, though, we won't be showing this to my nephew -- still a t…

The title definitely seems like a strawman, but it is the best use of a strawman that I've seen in an academic article: an outrageous and amusing title that makes me want to read t…

I think there are two elements at play. Consider a person of colour living in the eponymous mansion of the city's wealthiest neighborhood. For a racist government, it's a symbol of…

"Without seeking exemption from the law" is the key phrase. He refused to respect a discriminatory law, and, by living there, was effectively daring the Apartheid government to arr…

Archbishop Tutu told me, a few years ago, that he had received a strange email from someone claiming to be a lawyer from a small English parish in which Tutu had been a curate in t…