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I just visited Lisbon, and their azulejos are fantastic. We also have great examples in Mexico. But, why was this posted in HN?
To be clear, this isn't about azulejos specifically. I'm just talking about the pattern in general, whatever the topic.
> but also had a specific function, such as aiding temperature control in homes. How? Why even mention it without a blurb about what that even means?
Especially given its occurrence in the summary paragraph, that is a strong claim and I would like to know more.
Some googling turns up social media links expanding on this claim ("reflective and insulating") but not immediately anything authoratative.
I just visited Lisbon, and their azulejos are fantastic. We also have great examples in Mexico. But, why was this posted in HN?
I'm always puzzled how ordinary Wikipedia pages make the front page. There must be some rare planetary alignment that gets so many people to upvote something that is plain and ordinary. To be clear, this isn't about azulejos specifically. I'm just talking about the pattern in general, whatever the topic.
Amazing how an article from Wikipedia easily trends on HN for no good reason, while many posts go unseen under the [new] tab.
I think this fits nicely under the guidelines of "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" a lot more than all of the AI marketing blogspam over there.
I've seen submissions by original authors not trending, but then someone with enough karma points booming the same article in a second submission, and then folks having to adjust or point to the original submission to give the proper credit (and karma points) to the author.
Visiting [newest] always has a handful of entries that are genuinely interesting, but never trend. At all.
I challenge HN team to bring one to three random entries from [newest] into the [news] (trending) page as an exercise.
Amazing how an article from Wikipedia easily trends on HN for no good reason, while many posts go unseen under the [new] tab.
Doing a little activism here: please don't buy old ones while visiting Portugal/Spain/etc., as they are commonly stolen goods. Thanks, from Lisbon.
I'll take advantage of your domain knowledge :) Where's the best place to find local artists that produce them?
Amazing how an article from Wikipedia easily trends on HN for no good reason, while many posts go unseen under the [new] tab.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
And the surname "matamoros"!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Matamoros
OK, I'm going to go out on a tangent, and put this SE topic where they discuss why "James" is the English equivalent of "Santiago", because it didn't seem reasonable.
https://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/4588/why-is-sant...
> but also had a specific function, such as aiding temperature control in homes. How? Why even mention it without a blurb about what that even means?
I assumed the word was derived from "azul" but from the article, it's apparently derived from the Arabic الزليج (al-zillīj) and has no relation with "azul"