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913karma·211submissions·May 19, 2013
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In 1954, Escher inspired Roger Penrose to create the impossible triangle. Roger shared this with his father, Lionel, who then designed the impossible staircase. In 1958, they published a paper on thes…
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I always thought it odd that Penrose gets dropped from the Escher conversations.
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Whenever I've had it from a Ukrainian place (labeled with the same name) it's been too sweet.
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I know very little about this but why isn't it mamba-3? Isn't it... uh, more gooder?
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Just like when the official kilogram ("Le Grand K") was losing weight!
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Fits in pocket, chirps for attention, low lifespan... It's an analog Tamagotchi.
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My knuckles no longer crack when I'm in ketosis. I assume it's inflammation related but I've never heard anyone else mention this though.
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Almost all of us would agree if this was just better articulated: "Code was never the hardest part." There you go. Doesn't imply that coding is easy.
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Dolphin tungsten mine in Australia.
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So they finally found a business model: the cause of, and solution to, cyber security problems.
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Roughly 40 percent of Canadians in the top 1 percent of earners have moved to the US. https://thehub.ca/2026/04/03/can-anyone-solve-canadas-brain-... …
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It stops first? Maybe the bottom hit the seafloor?
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Most of the people in tech I know that have interpersonal relationships and go out and look at a tree every once in a while are not often sad.
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> This massive lie can best be summed up as “when it comes to climate change... we have more time.” This time we have no more time but 25 years ago when we had no more time it was true? Or we'…
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The "Great Filter" answer to the Fermi Paradox.
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I visual reminder that perfect compression is indistinguishable from random noise.
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More like, Tell HN: advertisers don't need cookies to track you anymore!
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I believe they can make ANY software project the largest it can be! This solution should look for more problems.
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Hypotaxis: arranging under Parataxis: arranging alongside Diátaxis: arranging across
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Between one and three thousand years ago.
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Bell proved that the universe is weirdly connected and that local hidden variables do not exist.
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Worst Feynman diagrams ever.
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> Here's a more natural flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points.