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Turbo Pascal is 3.7x smaller than the Wikipedia page describing it. Wikipedia's prose description of Turbo Pascal is 148k.

Russia was experiencing democratic protests against their czar and might have had a peaceful transition to democracy in 1918. German-supported propaganda ended up ruining their 20th century. Russia is copying that playbook.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/opinion/was-lenin-a-germa...

Also discussed on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/11/786760790/44-000-year-old-ind...

The NPR story quotes one of the authors of a paper published today in Nature... but then brings in an unrelated graduate student to say, without evidence, that painting was invented somewhere other than Southeast Asia: "Personally, I think ... Africa."

Is it possible to even find out the rated noise level before purchase? I feel like every 'fridge and air conditioner should print this up front with the capacity and voltage. Noise level is the main thing I look for in an appliance with a compressor.

If you have the right paper you can download and print your own notes from https://5thpillar.org/programs/zero-rupee-note/

I believe note will be historically important. I wanted an example for my currency collection. Although Fifth Pillar printed more than a million of these notes and has been distributing them for six years they have been scarcer than hen's teeth on the collectors' market.

I had no luck contacting 5th Pillar. I tried repeatedly from 2009 to 2013 without success. In 2014 I was able to obtain samples from Joel's Coins website. They were selling for $2/note (but cheaper in quantity), far more than the face value of the 50 rupee note they imitate. Because I could find no examples with a provenance to 5th Pillar I am not 100% certain the examples sold to collectors in 2014 were produced by 5th Pillar.

Exactly this. Barabási says "networks drive success." The Baroness was a leaf node. She connected mostly through Duchamp. His network allowed him to succeed. Her packets got dropped by the Duchamp node.

Sugary foods, opium, these things all cost money. Most things on the Internet are free. Think of the addictive things as “gravity wells”. Everyone explores until they find something that addicts them.

Many library cards for <18 year-olds didn’t allow certain adult books to be checked out. Books are mostly not algorithmically/peer generated. Even if you are addicted to some book series you will eventually finish it.

It would be nice if there was a content filter that parents could install that wasn’t curated based on someones opinion but worked more like Waze — routing you around places where everyone was stuck.

Nice photo of the oldest zero known, at Angkor Wat, Cambodia, dated 683 AD http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/origin-number-zero-180...

The previous contender was the zero at Gwalior in India, dated 876 AD http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-india-zero

Few names survive beyond their great-grandchildren unless there are contemporary records to remind people. After the statues are destroyed and books containing are not allowed to be published very little will be left.

Think about how little you know of your own great-grandparents.

For the future, imagine a world where no book, weblog, or tweet is allowed to contain a two word phrase matching a particular SHA-1.

No. It was recently revealed that even a much simpler problem, detecting genitals in on-line worlds, was so difficult that the world was shut down. It might be possible to detect certain words with speech recognition, but the teacher will just use different words. http://fusion.net/story/143218/lego-universe-had-a-huge-dong...

Twenty years ago we learned that even censoring specific bad words in online chat rooms is impossible. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-12-02/features/1995336...