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14,547karma·4,845submissions·June 3, 2013
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I had this open in a tab from a year ago, a link posted to HNews, but with only 3 votes. It is fascinating and deserves a read. https://archive.ph/AOsei …
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If I’d known, I would have contributed. Alas it would have been too late for Gregory Coleman himself. Is there a statue of him somewhere?
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Is this close enough? it’s from 1969, I wonder what became of them: “Tomorrow's World: Nellie the School Computer 15 February 1969 - BBC” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1DtY42xE…
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A hard paywall seems quite appropriate for a paper on diamonds. But it’d be nice to read it.
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Good point, as ever. So what would be interesting is an interdimensional citrus fruit.
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Indeed, thanks. This takes the citrus gram into 3D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papeda_(citrus) …
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Thanks lovely piece of work. I couldn't find Yuzu, I guess I could have looked at the source JSON file, worked out the co-ordinates that find it on the chart, if its there. Yuzu seems to be havin…
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Did they just skip over the £325k of subsidy? It makes sense to do that, clean air, and build up a market for the vehicles, but just to gloss over it is rather tedious.
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Original title: “‘I clicked on a button – and everything changed’: how a DNA test turned my life upside-down”
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On the Underground there were two carriages for smokers, they were usually a bit more empty, and they were browned with tar on the walls and ceiling. The ban on smoking on the Underground was after th…
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Really, naming something after yourself like this. Maybe we need a Wanker’s Law.
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Paper in question: “Urban mining by flash Joule heating” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26038-9 …
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This sounds astonishing
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London has the new SuperLoop buses, with fewer stops, maybe this article and the SuperLoop are born out of the same idea.
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When every breath is a Turing test, AmIBotOrNot? I’m waiting for a Philip K. Dick bot to declare me non-human. Am I the only one who in a Captcha test sometimes wants a different option for the “I am …
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That would suggest new parties coming to the fore, which has happened in European countries.
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Weird when I read something this interesting I want to post it to HN, then I remember that’s where I found it.