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You might like the anime film Time of Eve . It's been described as the best Three Laws work that isn't Asimov or an adaptation.

And yet the company still can't afford walls.

Cardery is my weekend project. It's a script that uses dom-to-image to render PNG images from card data in CSV and card template in HTML/CSS/JS. Work in your favorite text editor o…

The [WTO] said in a statement that it would allow a 300 percent import duty on turkey tail imports and a domestic prohibition on sales during the transition period to allow the cou…

Pigs use mud to avoid sunburn. « Some people have gone so far, especially with show pigs, as to slather sun screen onto their pigs when they know that they will be out in the sun f…

While we're at it, how about defining the offsets the other way around, so we can write 15:30+5 == 15:30 EST == 20:30 UTC?

A WarCraft III commentator told the story of how he once saw a pro, during the opening, send his Demon Hunter to the healing fountain on a certain map, and he started doing the sam…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surgeon_of_Crowthorne "tells the story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and one of its most prolific early contributors, Dr. W…

quoting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10954918 : > Go players activate the brain region of vision, and literally think by seeing the board state. A lot of Go study is seeing…

I learned Go several years ago at the age of 20, and tracked how much time I spent on it. Comparing my progress with that of a certain strong amateur who started at age 14 and esti…

quoting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10954918 : > Go players activate the brain region of vision, and literally think by seeing the board state. A lot of Go study is seeing…

Explanatory note: Most humans have three types of color receptive cones; a few have four. Mantis shrimp have sixteen.

When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow;

If the host can choose between doing nothing and revealing a goat, and the host wants the contestant to lose, then the contestant's best strategy is to never switch, in order to av…

They tried, but I'm not convinced that they succeeded. Their video resembles Street Fighter in the way that https://youtu.be/-2gJamguN04 resembles Football. It's possible that thei…

« Assuming Anand and Carlsen’s blunders were independent events, what we saw was a 1 in 10,000 occurrence. » Are they independent events though? In a game between mediocre players,…

I don't know what it was like then, but perhaps the idea is that if the Ruble were to recover, then the Russian hosts would lose out?

I wasn't sure whether to submit the tool or the explanation, though they link to each other. The tool is here: http://xomnom.com/preference.html

To be fair, I do both of those as well: the former when I have only one hand free, and the latter to sanity-check my formulas.