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> 5.2.1 Use spaced en dashes – rather than em dashes or hyphens – to set off phrases." – Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

At my local Asian grocery store, Red Boat costs about four times as much as the other brands, so I'll be sticking with my old standby of "random bottle whose ingredients list conta…

I bought a handmade arcade-style SNES controller from this guy one time. He should go back to making those, I guess.

> The core objective was to determine if a high frequency of HBEs causally links to a high rate of crashes. We employed negative binomial (NB) regression models [...]. A negative b…

If you had asked me to list ten books that would be mentioned frequently on HackerNews, I think I'd have gotten at least eight of the top ten here.

Selling at a loss can also be a monopolistic practice: a firm with enough capital can sell at a loss to capture the market, and then buy out their now-flailing competition.

It's a store of value in the sense that it has a non-zero price at any given moment, but when people say that one of the functions of money is to be a store of value, they mean tha…

Is there a simple way to turn a set of hcker.news feed settings into an RSS feed?

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide does not require that perpetrators are successful in reducing the population of the targeted group, only th…

The causes and mechanisms of ADHD are reasonably well understood. Perhaps whatever other traits you have in mind are not.

The article addresses this.

French spelling is sometimes described as "one-way": it's almost always possible to pronounce a written word correctly, but very difficult to spell a word you've only heard.

Kingsley Read went with something like an artificially rhotic midcentury RP when designing the Shavian alphabet. It works reasonably well for me, a Standard Canadian English speake…

I would include Richard McElreath's _Statistical Rethinking_ here after, or in combination with, _Bayes Rules!_. A translation of the code parts into the tidyverse is available fre…

Grammar problem: "In 3D space, we position objects by setting its coordinates" should read either "their coordinates" or "an object".

The article touches on this, but there have been countless attempts to restandardize English spelling or replace the Latin alphabet with one more suited to English. But English is …

> They put in the time, the effort, the blood, sweat and tears, and what did they get? No thank you, just more work. Don't be ridiculous. They got a pizza party and $20 gift card t…

If Denmark wanted to fund the same number of retired years per person as the US did when Social Security was established, the retirement age would be about 68, based on the 1935 an…

My understanding is that the whole history of basketball is explained by the fact that they won't make the court bigger and the nets higher to account for the fact that the players…

Title II, Article 11.

Boil long pasta in a skillet, not a pot.

There are people who design new abstract tactical games in the style of chess, go, hex, draughts, etc. as a kind of art form or mental exercise, but almost none of them are develop…

> Kids get excited about things that are very different from those of adults. The very first sentence of this post is ungrammatical.

It's often said that if you want to get away with killing an American, first give them a bicycle. Drivers just say "they came out of nowhere" or "the sun was in my eyes" and that's…

English is a language, Cyrillic is an alphabet, and Greek is both. The alphabet one finds in the range U+0000 to U+007F is called "Latin", not "English". If any alphabet has a clai…