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Re:1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History on Sunday March 29, 2026 @12:17AM (#47560350)
Check out Demons of Unrest, which covers the few months before the American civil war. It covers the stories of Lincoln, other union leaders and Confederate leaders and their understanding and misunderstandings about what the other side thought.

It's remarkable about what assumptions people can make without talking to people from other places.

Maybe the only way to be sure is to have it generate (not stable diffuse) an image with the value in there.
Re:The Naming of America (2001) on Sunday October 06, 2024 @07:44PM (#41761358)
There doesn't seem to be a ton of information easily accessible about America Vespucci, but this [1] except from the Washington Democratic Review for February 1839 notes the following:

> The object for which she had specially come to America, was to obtain, if possible, a grant of land from the Congress of the United States, as a means of honourable and independent support and the failure of her application, as well as the grounds on which it was deemed necessary to decline compliance with the request, are fully and fairly stated in the following Report made to the Senate of the United States, by Mr. Walker, of Mississippi.

Where a report names that she seems to be worth of the name, but fails to mention any actual land grant, which I would assume is a nice way to say no.

> She feels that the name she bears is a prouder title than any that earthly monarchs can bestow; She asking us for a small corner of American soil, where she may pass the remainder of her days in this land of her adoption. She comes here as an exile, separated for ever from her family and friends; a stranger, without a country and without a home; expelled from her native Italy, for the avowal maintenance of opinions favourable to free institutions, and an ardent desire for the establishment of her country's freedom. That she indeed is worthy of the name of America —that her heart is indeed imbued with American principles, and fervent love for human liberty, is proved in her case, by toils, and perils, and sacrifices, worthy Of the proudest days of antiquity, when the Roman and the Spartan matrons were ever ready to surrender life in their country's service.

[1] http://portraits.allenbrowne.info/Vespucci/Buckingham/

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Wow that's super interesting. I'm glad that the MBTA is publishing more detailed stats so we can get super interesting visualisations like that. I'd be curious to see how the charts update as Boston fixes its recent delays.
Possibly something like this: Caffeine and theanine have opposed effect on attention when stressed (2017)

Based on the definition of emotional arousal, stress isn't 100% accurate, but perhaps better than aroused.

[1] https://www.thefreedictionary.com/emotional+arousal

Re:Is Consciousness Everywhere? on Thursday March 18, 2021 @03:53PM (#26506827)
I would be curious to see how the author would respond to this fairly detailed criticism of his book: [1] One excerpt from this amazon review goes "If you are impressed by statistics, blips on fMRI screens, taking correlations as proof of causality and meta-analysis as equal to replication, then you might like this book. If you are interested in what wild speculations parapsychologists are coming up with these days, then this is the book for you. If you are looking for evidence that psi is explained by quantum physics, you'll be disappointed."

[1] https://www.amazon.com/review/R2VIDRICPX3ROL/ref=cm_cr_srp_d...

Re:Show HN: Open-source quadruped robot with robotic arm on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @04:08PM (#24486150)
This looks very cool! I wonder how close it is to the method that Boston Dynamics uses to control the their version. Did they simply train a machine learning algorithm for way longer than a hobbyist can or is there a ton of manual tweaking?
I found that going to the last page showed a more realistic number for results. This would only be shown on that "last page" of results though. However, it does seem strange that there are only 447 results for a google search of "apple"[0] down from a whopping 4,070,000,000 results shown before that page. And that is with show omitted results. Seems like max result limiting for the 0.1% of users that want to look past page 10 of search results

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=apple&start=440&sa=N&filter=...

If the work and stress is spread out over two or three years. It's likely that the time spent could easily be outweighed by many other jobs/projects,
Re:Snapchat Detection on iOS (2019) on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @11:45AM (#23760398)
Interesting that even apple apps with the strictest sandboxing by default still has over ten different methods of determining if a jailbreak exists. Now maybe these methods are only useful when a phone is jailbroken, but it seems that this just seems like another way of collecting information.
Re:Why Does DARPA Work? on Sunday June 28, 2020 @02:14PM (#23670805)
It seems that this would be a much better way of funding research in a general sense, since that seems to be the general process of their problem solving. The only thing is that to apply this to other fields, the barrier for getting people that are equally motivated and intelligent about analyzing if the research is 'going' somewhere is high
Re:Dark Basin: Uncovering a Hack-for-Hire Operation on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @10:55AM (#23467169)
If this is what a single company can accomplish with a moderate amount of funding. It makes me worried about what a military force could accomplish given 100x resources.
So I was looking at the H12DSU-iN(https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/H12DSU-iN) which would seem to be another option. But it looks like the article implies that this would only be available to buy through getting an entire server with it. Although it looks like it could be possible that they sell it if you ask. The server they are going to release is here: https://www.supermicro.com/en/Aplus/system/1U/1024/AS-1024US...
Re:BrachioGraph – a cheap, simple pen plotter on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:54AM (#21282688)
Re:The complicated ethics of Tesla’s Autopilot on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:43AM (#21249505)
Hopefully it takes less than ~50 years which the airline industry took to get to that point. Seems that this would need to become a popular opinion before becoming reality.

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