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> Health agencies proclaimed that covid was not airborne. That was false. more
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> Over the years, companies that tried hosting Git repositories at scale… more
> Crafting Interpreters contains everything you need to implement a… more
> HIV is defined as “various unrelated viruses that cause AIDS.” And AIDS is… more
> Moreover and more importantly, we won’t know before we’ve already… more
I was reading an economics blog that mentioned the "Kalecki-Levy profits… more
> “Roschelle, here’s your reminder,” Sapphire announced at 8:05 A.M. “Leave the… more
> Like biographies use their subject as a prism for the world around them, I… more
> White collar prosecutions are structurally difficult because they frequently… more
> But after years of building on Web streams — implementing them in both… more
> [...] suppose a literal “country of geniuses” were to materialize somewhere in the world in ~2027. Imagine, say, 50 million people, all of whom are much more capable than any Nobel Prize winner, statesman, or technologist. more
> The U.S. is often maligned as being customer-hostile compared to other… more
> What every South Korean man agrees on is that serving in the military is a… more
> Every time a new 3D printer startup graced the front page of Hacker News,… more
> The story of Swiss watchmaking began in Geneva in the 1540s. At the behest of… more
> Parody is protected by “fair use” copyright doctrine when it’s used for the… more
> So what's an old guy yelling at Claudes going to do? He's going to write his… more
> The clearest tragedy during the early desegregation process was the… more
Oliver Sacks was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.archive
> “I have some hard ‘confessing’ to do—if not in public, at least to… more
> We introduce SCONE-bench—the first benchmark that evaluates agents’ ability… more
> Among the age-related-hearing-loss set, getting into the Fortell beta test… more
> For Thomas and Turner, a mature writing style is defined by making a… more
> [R]efrigerators are not only appliances: they are also a key component in the… more
> A recent study from Harvard University caught my attention and provides… more
> While we can’t say that vaping carries zero risk, the evidence clearly… more
That's quite the headline. Is it justified? From the article: more
> Have you ever asked an AI model what’s on its mind? Or to explain how it came… more
> What the Brightline is best known for is not that it reflects the gleam of… more
Looks like Patrick McKenzie got a chance to give a talk to people at the Bank… more
> As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum… more
This is a crazy fever-dream of a post about alpha software and I recommend… more
> Talking to CaBot was both empowering and unnerving. I felt as though I could… more
> A man named Sean, who works as a military contractor—one of several Green… more
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> Military veterans are swamping the U.S. government with dubious disability… more
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> Bowditch: [...] A spy there under our very roof was our babysitter, Klaus… more
The comments are worth reading. One of the authors explains the resistance they… more
> Starting as individual traveling traders, the Hansa built up coalitions for… more
Here's a rather verbose series of blog posts that's intended to introduce… more
Much of the story in this New Yorker article is familiar, but here are some… more
In Bret Devereaux's Fourth of July post, he starts with a bit of history just… more
> PALMER: Yeah, so there's two things that protect Florence. One of them, the… more
> Monumental in its conception, extravagant in its execution, and epic in its… more
> The way to understand these coins is this: these societies had already been… more
> The short answer is that it is clear from studies and from what we see with… more
I linked to the table of contents for this series of blog posts by Ben Recht, a… more
> Articles about Artemis often give the program’s tangled backstory. But I want… more