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It’s interesting to compare Lord of the Flies with a real life example of children being marooned on an island: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-...

Companies would then outsource their low-paying jobs to other companies.

Not quite. She was killed by someone who started out as a fan but then became one of Selena’s employees, who was then caught embezzling.

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I think that's backwards: P-type has more holes than electrons, n-type has more electrons than holes. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-type_semiconductor (property 2)

For the subtle variants, I believe it's how they price discriminate. It's all the same part, but they use fuses to disable various peripherals. Way easier to do that than to fabric…

Who paid for the new looms?

I used jk for a long time until I found out that control-C escapes pretty much every mode. No mapping necessary!

What you or I want is no longer a question afforded to us sadly. I'm genuinely curious: Are there periods of history where people could choose what to go into without it having a l…

Brute force is rarely the answer.

I use it do Anki on my bike ride to/from work. Wrote some scripts in Python. They take my deck, convert it to speech using IBM Watson’s TTS. Then i made a small PCB with 4 buttons …

I received Experimenting with Babies as a gift and loved it. Looking forward to both Newlyweds and Preschoolers!

There's a really good Econtalk podcast called Weapons of Math Destruction about this: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/10/cathy_oneil_on_1.ht...

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I'm going to guess it's not how it's supposed to work, since "A Federal Court judge would later declare the Anton Piller order in this case 'unlawful...'" Here's got a campaign up …

Profit and margin aren't the same thing though.

If you're talking about self-help books, the ones I've seen are usually one or two page ideas which are crammed with filler. This webpage seems to be much more dense with informati…

It seems you might be wrong. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/15/cycling...

Why so sexist? Does it matter that it was a man? "The sentient being who invented the first search engine" would have more appropriate.

sorry, i came across way too bluntly. i really should have noted how suprised i was the an expert thinks its a misconception to think of ourselves as apes. in any case, i think the…

We aren't apes or monkeys. http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/phylogeny/taxonomy/humans...

Unfortunately, cause this is the internet, I cant tell if your joking. If not, source?

"Some social workers have observed that they simply have absolutely no respect for authority - it's meaningless to many of them" Sounds like a bunch of Richard Feynmans.

I think you may be begging the question. You might be right that we're here because of our irrationality, but using your conclusion as its own argument isn't very convincing.