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Re:Ask HN: Why are there no open source 2d printers? on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:51AM (#24787081)
Yes. But this is unrelated to the question they asked.
Re:Acoustic Kitty on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @09:09PM (#24783655)
Category links on the wiki article? Down at the bottom
Re:New glove-like device mimics sense of touch on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @10:18AM (#24567349)
Well, no, that wasn't on my mind. But thanks I guess.
Re:Ask HN: So I Hired a Homeless Guy on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @05:47PM (#24560337)
I am in no way qualified to give HR advice, but I would bring it up with him and give him options... Anyways, this is the highest-upvoted 'Mental Health' post in HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14711621 and maybe there are useful ideas in the comments.
Re:Why books don't work (2019) on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @02:15PM (#24557967)
It's not a coincidence that we have idioms such as 'digesting an idea' or 'ruminating' . It takes time to assimilate and relate concepts, it is not a write operation.
Here's a good talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY Press Shift + > to speed up or check the outline in the comments
If this is the main idea, move it further up on the page if it doesn't break your design goals. I skipped the initial text and went right to it.

https://thegreatbubblebarrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03...

Great idea. Has it been tested?

Footage of the stone in a museum. [0] https://youtu.be/hTmI68vBMu8?t=17 Dated 196 BC. Discovered 1799. Hieroglyphic (top), Demotic (middle), and Greek (bottom)

360 view on Google Street View [1] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5192048,-0.1274951,2a,75y,...

High-res picture from museum [2] https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA24

Re:Show HN: Create landing pages by copy-paste on Sunday August 02, 2020 @06:30PM (#24032345)
Although in juxtaposition from the English pronunciation, it has an advantage:

"If it was written as 1,200.00$ it would be easier to forge it to become, for example, 91,200.00$ by appending a single digit in front."

Re:Philosophers on GPT-3 on Thursday July 30, 2020 @10:59PM (#24005216)
Garbage-in garbage-out. Does this mean that we should be refining content for AI to be most useful for specific goals?
Re:Deadliest Animals to Humans on Saturday July 25, 2020 @08:33PM (#23953463)
You don't think it's interesting that snails make the list? [0] Or that deaths by mosquito top those of the current pandemic?

How do you 'estimate' danger? Sure, the recording is an aggregate. What's a more suitable format? Shouldn't this already exist in Science rather than Wikipedia?

Besides, > This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

[0] Perhaps they knew something already? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-were-medieval-...

Re:Deadliest Animals to Humans on Saturday July 25, 2020 @08:25PM (#23953422)
Good catch! The article attributes it to rabies, but the linked source (broken, by the way) lists prairie dogs!!

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