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TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland? undefined
a year ago
Wanderingspace
Webb’s Jupiter So this is “false color” becuase it is infrared (like all Webb images) and made from only two...
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over a year ago
So this is “false color” becuase it is infrared (like all Webb images) and made from only two filters orange and cyan. However, the detail is incredible. That dot is tiny Amalthea at the left and— yes… that is Jupiter’s elusive ring. According to researcher Thierry Fouchet, “This...
The Ruffian
How Did Politics Get So Weird? James Kanagasooriam Explains Everything
a week ago
bt RSS Feed
Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux 2023-03-16 For some on-going projects I need to switch to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux 2023-03-16 For some on-going projects I need to switch to different versions of ruby. Although there exist many step-by-step instructions on installing and configuring rvm for most Linux distros, there aren’t many focused on Alpine “daily...
Moneyness
Coinbase: "What if we call them rewards instead of interest payments?" Here's a question for you: which U.S. financial institutions are legally permitted to pay interest...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here's a question for you: which U.S. financial institutions are legally permitted to pay interest to retail customers? We can get an answer by canvassing the range of entities currently offering interest-paying dollar accounts to U.S. retail customers. It pretty much boils...
diamond geezer
RM70 Every 10 years the Routemaster Association likes to take over Finsbury Park with a mass line-up of...
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5 months ago
Every 10 years the Routemaster Association likes to take over Finsbury Park with a mass line-up of London's favourite heritage vehicle, the RM bus. Unfortunately this year Haringey council made things difficult so the 70th anniversary bash, RM70, had to find a different home....
TheCollector
The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend undefined
a year ago
The Marginalian
Louise Erdrich on the Deepest Meaning of Resistance "Resist loss of the miraculous by lowering your standards for what constitutes a miracle. It is all...
a month ago
Grow With Less
I was living the dream, then my dream collapsed Everything was going great. My blog French Together had just hit 357k monthly visitors, the French...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Everything was going great. My blog French Together had just hit 357k monthly visitors, the French Together course had exceeded $300k in sales. Then COVID happened. My traffic slowly started to decrease, conversions got worse. I ignored it at first, I guess I was in denial. I...
TheCollector
Francisco Goya Research Center Launches in New York City undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
8 Facts About Tamara de Lempicka’s Dark Glamour undefined
a year ago
Arduino Blog
You can now work in collaboration in Arduino Cloud In today’s busy world, getting students or engineers to work together is key to tackling complex IoT...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
In today’s busy world, getting students or engineers to work together is key to tackling complex IoT projects. Traditional code sharing and editing methods, like using offline IDEs or swapping files manually, often slow down projects and lead to mistakes. This can be a hassle and...
diamond geezer
The disappearing Status updates map The introduction of six Overground line names continues to have unfortunate repercussions. Status...
a week ago
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a week ago
The introduction of six Overground line names continues to have unfortunate repercussions. Status updates page on the TfL website where for the last ten years you've been able to see a map of disruptions to the network. The map was removed three weeks ago when the big...
Retail Design Blog
Federal Realty offices by AP+I Design Federal Realty partnered with AP+I Design to transform their new eight-story building near San...
a month ago
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a month ago
Federal Realty partnered with AP+I Design to transform their new eight-story building near San Jose’s Santana Row into a premier...
TheCollector
What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special? undefined
a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb: This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
The Ruffian
The Story Behind the Greatest Guitar Solo in Rock History The Dark Energies Behind Prince's Moment of Genius
3 months ago
balajis.com
#3 - The President of Palau Listen now (51 min) | The President of Palau and Balaji discuss how the tiny island country is...
a year ago
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a year ago
Listen now (51 min) | The President of Palau and Balaji discuss how the tiny island country is becoming a digital leader, experimenting with everything from on-chain identity to drone delivery. Despite having less than 20,000 citizens, Palau is a full UN member state. Its path to...
The Modern House
A Day Well Spent with filmmaker Akinola Davies
a year ago
xkcd.com
Decay Modes
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Stopping a runaway train It feels urgent because it is. But by the time the train is running away, it might be too late. The...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
It feels urgent because it is. But by the time the train is running away, it might be too late. The better strategy is to not sign up for trains that are likely to run away. The first principle of risk reduction is to figure out if you can stop it later. If you can’t, […]
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Paris Saint Germain Flagship Store by oftn studio Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) is a football club based in Paris, France, that extends its football...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) is a football club based in Paris, France, that extends its football culture into lifestyle products, including...
Stoic Simple
Using a Stoic Mindset to See Challenges from Two Perspectives by Bob Cymber I recently watched the intense National Geographic documentary Free Solo. One of the...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Bob Cymber I recently watched the intense National Geographic documentary Free Solo. One of the most surprising things about the film is how Alex Honnold, the rock climber who challenges intense heights without a safety harness, approaches his challenges. Before each of his...
Moneyness
The magnificent Swiss 10-centime coin The Swiss 10-centime coin has a lot to teach us about monetary economics. On its face, the Swiss...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The Swiss 10-centime coin has a lot to teach us about monetary economics. On its face, the Swiss 10-centime (rappen in German) looks like a pretty unremarkable coin. It's the second-lowest value Swiss coin, the Swiss version of America's lowly nickel, the sort of coin that many...
Common Edge
Letter from Tennessee: License for Civility in Uncivil Times Not all civil portent is writ as large. It sometimes comes in small places, hidden in plain sight.
a year ago
TheCollector
Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments? undefined
4 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'First of All a Student of Human Nature' “Desmond MacCarthy, like Dr. Johnson, was first of all a student of human nature.”  The...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
“Desmond MacCarthy, like Dr. Johnson, was first of all a student of human nature.”  The best writers, the ones who compel us to read their work across a lifetime, whose thoughts become our own and who at last become teachers and companions, are those who work in two media: words...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Suppose Age Brings Context' An old friend and former blogger in England has been reading Anthony Hecht and detects what he calls...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
An old friend and former blogger in England has been reading Anthony Hecht and detects what he calls “a very faint ghost of Hart Crane at times.” It’s not a connection I have ever made but I recognize a certain lushness of diction in both of them.  “[I]t's a similar sense of...
Epic Web Dev
Accessible, Typesafe, Progressively Enhanced Modern Web Forms Learn how to use modern tools that offer the best user and developer experience for web forms.
a year ago
TheCollector
JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches undefined
4 months ago
MMapped blog
The numeric tower fiasco
a year ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🛳️ Cruise hustles
4 months ago
Cartogrammar
Land by latitude and longitude, or, a pile of continents Bill Rankin’s graphs of world population by latitude and longitude popped into mind for no...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bill Rankin’s graphs of world population by latitude and longitude popped into mind for no particular reason the other day, followed by a silly-sounding question: “but, like, what about land area by latitude and longitude?” Silly because, duh, a chart of land area by latitude and...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 9 best mobile app A/B testing tools A/B tests are a great way to confirm that your product changes have the intended effects. When it...
a year ago
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a year ago
A/B tests are a great way to confirm that your product changes have the intended effects. When it comes to mobile apps, there are many different A/B…
Common Edge
The Making of Ponchartrain Park in New Orleans How a pair of wealthy outsiders, Edith and Edgar Stern, helped inspire the first neighborhood...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
How a pair of wealthy outsiders, Edith and Edgar Stern, helped inspire the first neighborhood development exclusively available to Black middle-class families.
Josh Collinsworth
The self-fulfilling prophecy of React The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will that self-perpetuating cycle continue?
Commoncog
How to Use Power How do you gain power, use power, and identify those who have power, so that you may protect...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
How do you gain power, use power, and identify those who have power, so that you may protect yourself against them? Part two of three in a series on power in business.
TheCollector
Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000 undefined
3 months ago
Paul Cudenec
The spirit of Sophia: our promise Our Beloved!
3 months ago
The American Scholar
Hot and Cold The post Hot and Cold appeared first on The American Scholar.
5 months ago
Flashbak
Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980 We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
Moneyness
Will the digital euro be like cash? The European Union published its proposal for a digital euro late last month, which will be issued...
a year ago
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a year ago
The European Union published its proposal for a digital euro late last month, which will be issued by the European Central Bank (ECB) if it goes ahead. There's plenty to digest in the 62-page document, but the one area I want to focus on in this post is privacy. Digital euros...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Seduction Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Did you know you can just BUY arcade...
a year ago
Map of the Week
Terrain Representations from the Atlas of Design In last week’s post I reviewed Volume 7 of the Atlas of Design. As an occasional cartographer I have...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In last week’s post I reviewed Volume 7 of the Atlas of Design. As an occasional cartographer I have been interested in how topography is represented in maps for a long time. This atlas volume provides many contrasting examples. From the “cartographic realism” of Tom Patterson’s...
Joel Gascoigne
Ratio thinking * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve found difficult to completely embrace, but which understanding has been super important, is the idea that there is a ratio for everything. I’ve started to call this Ratio Thinking,...
diamond geezer
London's highest station What's London's highest station? Richard). en-gb.topographic-map.com. This displays the elevation...
a year ago
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a year ago
What's London's highest station? Richard). en-gb.topographic-map.com. This displays the elevation of the land using a colourful scale, with blue the lowest and red the highest. Precisely what colour equals what height varies as you zoom in and out. On this map at this scale...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
And then, suddenly, it works The other day a friend was demoing a new app he was working on. My first reaction was: “Yeah, yeah....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The other day a friend was demoing a new app he was working on. My first reaction was: “Yeah, yeah. This is nicely executed version one of…
TheCollector
How Does Epistemology Address Memory as a Source of Knowledge? undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Myth of the Minotaur Journey Into the Labyrinth
a year ago
TheCollector
U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India undefined
a month ago
Contemporist...
A Small Laneway House Designed For A Narrow Property In Toronto Lanescape Architecture has shared photos of a laneway home they completed for a narrow 17-foot wide...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Lanescape Architecture has shared photos of a laneway home they completed for a narrow 17-foot wide lot in Toronto's Junction neighborhood.
Rest of World -...
The TikTok ban is bigger than just ByteDance The U.S. clampdown on Chinese-owned companies won't end here.
8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup History and Myth
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: PostHog vs Kubit Kubit is a product analytics platform built for product teams. PostHog, on the other hand, is built...
a year ago
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a year ago
Kubit is a product analytics platform built for product teams. PostHog, on the other hand, is built primarily for engineers. In this article we’ll…
Open Culture
Marcus Aurelius’ 9 Rules for Living a Stoic Life: Presented by Ryan Holiday This week, the Guardian’s Zoe Williams profiled Ryan Holiday, a one-time public-relations whiz-kid...
a month ago
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a month ago
This week, the Guardian’s Zoe Williams profiled Ryan Holiday, a one-time public-relations whiz-kid who’s reinvented himself over the past decade as a speaker for the dead: specifically Epictetus, Seneca, and above all Marcus Aurelius, the figureheads of the ancient school of...
Math Is Still...
The #1 Clue to Quantum Gravity Sits on the Surfaces of Black Holes A black hole formula worked out in the 1970s remains the most concrete clue physicists have about...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A black hole formula worked out in the 1970s remains the most concrete clue physicists have about the threads of the space-time fabric. The post The #1 Clue to Quantum Gravity Sits on the Surfaces of Black Holes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects undefined
10 months ago
Blog - Guerrilla...
Blocking Sediment Migration Blocking Sediment Migration from Colorado River Basin to Gulf of California I didn’t intend to map...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Blocking Sediment Migration from Colorado River Basin to Gulf of California I didn’t intend to map human migration for the Atlas in a Day project. My plans for a map of the migration of sediment in rivers raised some eyebrows at home, mostly wondering how the subject would fit in...
TheCollector
What Can We Learn from Genre Paintings of the Northern Renaissance? undefined
11 months ago
Christopher Butler
Gestalt Principles of Design – Symmetry We tend to perceive symmetrical elements as being connected, even if they are not. The Gestalt...
a year ago
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a year ago
We tend to perceive symmetrical elements as being connected, even if they are not. The Gestalt Principles of Design are a set of concepts and guidelines drawn from gestalt psychology, which theorizes that the mind tends to process organized groups of things as a whole,...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Southern Heat, Part 3 (Apalachicola) Next we began the actual “road” portion of the road trip as Atlanta receded into the distance behind...
a year ago
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a year ago
Next we began the actual “road” portion of the road trip as Atlanta receded into the distance behind us. We spaced our drives into four segments of 5-6 hours each to make them manageable. I figured that would cover a decent distance without consuming the entire day. The first leg...
TokyoDev
Employer of Record (EOR) Services in Japan EoR. Few employers seems to fully understand how it works, and even fewer working professionals have...
a year ago
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a year ago
EoR. Few employers seems to fully understand how it works, and even fewer working professionals have ever heard of it. So, what is this three-letter mystery acronym, and how can it help us swing the doors wide open on business building in Japan? Let’s have a look. ## What...
Moneyness
The intensifying effort to isolate Russia's banks Last week the U.S. government expanded the coverage of its secondary sanctions to encompass most of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Last week the U.S. government expanded the coverage of its secondary sanctions to encompass most of Russia's banks. It's a very big step, one that has been long-awaited by sanctions watchers, and will likely have significant repercussions for Russia and its trading partners....
The Modern House
The best of Stoke Newington and Newington Green
4 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
‘Puddle’ Are a Series of Flower Vessels Inspired by Puddles of Water Simple and common acts of nature often inspire brilliant design. Such is the case with “Puddle,” a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Simple and common acts of nature often inspire brilliant design. Such is the case with “Puddle,” a series of flower vessels that mimic a puddle of water. Using properties of transparency and surface tension, these whimsical vessels create the illusion of a single plant growing...
A Beautiful Site
Find a name for almost any hex color Have you ever wondered what color that certain shade of blue is? Or maybe you've named your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Have you ever wondered what color that certain shade of blue is? Or maybe you've named your Less/Sass variables something like gray, light gray, lighter gray, etc. Here's a tool that will give you more reasonable names for all those colors. Name that Color lets you enter a hex...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we do customer support at our open source devtool company Thinner docs, better products The highest priority for support at any company is shortening the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Thinner docs, better products The highest priority for support at any company is shortening the feedback loop between your customers and your product…
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup James Joyce and Jewish Philosophy
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Code Review on Printed Paper: an Excerpt from the Twitoons Comic Book 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every...
a year ago
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a year ago
👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. In this article, we cover two out of seven topics from today’s
Londonist
Tram Strikes And Engineering Works Will Affect Network Heavily In March and April 2024 Disruption double whammy.
9 months ago
Maps Mania
99 Red Balloons Go By
7 months ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
Neither necessary nor sufficient
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
CPython Memory Management Internals A high-level but detailed explanation of how CPython implements memory management
7 months ago
Common Edge
Who Is Using Who? The Architect-Patron Fame Game The co-mingling of famous client and famous designer has a long history.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Sufficient resolution Robert Johnson is known as the king of the Delta blues. One reason is that his small output was...
a year ago
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a year ago
Robert Johnson is known as the king of the Delta blues. One reason is that his small output was brilliant. The other, bigger reason is that the recordings that remain of his short life are among the earliest that sound good… most audio recordings from before 1936 sound antique...
Jonas Hietala
Hard Work I’ve spent literally the whole day coding and it feels like I’ve only done a small parts of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve spent literally the whole day coding and it feels like I’ve only done a small parts of the actual game mechanics… I know this isn’t going to end well. I can allow myself a small pause I feel… Not sure where this is going to end, but I’m having a blast anyway!
Maps Mania
OSM GPT
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Multi-Functional Brass Clad Pod Is A Unique Feature In This Small Apartment tsai Design has sent us photos of a micro-apartment they renovated in St. Kilda, Australia, that...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
tsai Design has sent us photos of a micro-apartment they renovated in St. Kilda, Australia, that measures in at just 269 square feet (25m2), and features a unique and unexpected brass design element. Named ‘St Kilda Micro Sanctuary’, the small apartment has been designed for a...
Farza's Newsletter
tried to buy some honey for my tea from wikipedia but they were sold out Life has been going pretty smoothly for the last month. Pretty much all my time is spent working on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Life has been going pretty smoothly for the last month. Pretty much all my time is spent working on Zip, which is what I want! And, all the other time is spent on either watching anime or running lol. In terms of running, been running 4-5 miles per day, 6 days a week pretty...
Retail Design Blog
Triage Staffing Offices by LEO A DALY LEO A DALY transformed four abandoned floors into a vibrant, employee-focused office space for...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
LEO A DALY transformed four abandoned floors into a vibrant, employee-focused office space for Triage Staffing in Omaha, reflecting the...
devonzuegel.com
OWD #2: Vanished in Guadalajara Alain and Marie-Agnes raised three children while living their nomadic lifestyle. So in this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Alain and Marie-Agnes raised three children while living their nomadic lifestyle. So in this episode, we dug into how their role as parents shaped how they experience cities. Join us as we roam Bangkok, Guadalajara, Sana'a, Paris, Port-au-Prince, NYC and beyond! RSS · Apple...
Alex MacCaw
Artificial Knowledge Creation How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know so far.
Adventures In...
Historical Topo Map Explorer (beta) The USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer is getting an update, and you can try out this new beta...
a year ago
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a year ago
The USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer is getting an update, and you can try out this new beta version, here: LivingAtlas.ArcGIS.com/TopoMapExplorer The United States Geological Survey has a rich history of creating exquisite topographic quadrangle maps. These topo maps are...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #198 Thoughts on risk, Berkshire recap, Graham's first investment, Marks on debt, Electricity demand, How...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Thoughts on risk, Berkshire recap, Graham's first investment, Marks on debt, Electricity demand, How to spend your days, AI and productivity
Max Rozen
Guidelines to improve your React folder structure People often say to 'move files around until it feels right', but what does 'right' even mean? Let's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People often say to 'move files around until it feels right', but what does 'right' even mean? Let's learn in this article.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Architecture and Principles Discussing the architecture of the Internet and its the principles that guided its original design.
over a year ago
TheCollector
Is There Democracy Without Voting? Elections by Lot in Ancient Athens undefined
a year ago
Wuthering...
You drool from it. You are happy. - Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Voyage au bout de la nuit Finally, I have finished Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), known in English...
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3 months ago
Finally, I have finished Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), known in English as Journey to the End of Night.  That “end of night” is death.  The existence of death makes everything hateful and nullifies the value of anything else.  I gotta say that the...
TheCollector
Who Were the Samaritans? undefined
a month ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Manifest, Liverpool Some restaurants just make it all look so easy. From the moment you walk into the room to the moment...
a year ago
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a year ago
Some restaurants just make it all look so easy. From the moment you walk into the room to the moment you pay up and leave, everything about the experience at Manifest is just so effortlessly polished, professional and enjoyable, and pitched at such reasonable prices, that it's...
PostHog's RSS Feed
What motivates me as a CEO PostHog got pretty far (17k customers across all our products, went through Y Combinator, seed,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog got pretty far (17k customers across all our products, went through Y Combinator, seed, series A and B raised, $MM revenue) before I really…
Vadim Kravcenko
Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for...
a year ago
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a year ago
First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for Developers”, but then who […] The post Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Londonist
Eid In Trafalgar Square: Muslim Celebrations Return This April End of Ramadan marked in style.
9 months ago
Archinect - Features
Notes on Progress: Sixteen Women Discuss What It Means To Be Female in Architecture... The tides are changing for women in architecture schools in surprising ways. Female deans currently...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The tides are changing for women in architecture schools in surprising ways. Female deans currently lead Harvard, Yale, Princeton, NJIT, Cornell, Syracuse, NYIT, CCNY, Cooper Union, and Boston Architectural College, among others. Despite the difficulties some of them have faced,...
nanoscale views
Seeing through tissue and Kramers-Kronig There is a paper in Science this week that is just a great piece of work.  The authors find that by...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
There is a paper in Science this week that is just a great piece of work.  The authors find that by dyeing living tissue with a particular biocompatible dye molecule, they can make that tissue effectively transparent, so you can see through it.  The paper includes images (and...
Matt Blewitt
Software Sprezzatura Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it”, coined by Castiglione in 1528’s The Book of the Courtier.
journal – Winnie Lim
urgency A few days ago a Singapore Airlines flight encountered severe turbulence, causing one death and tens...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
A few days ago a Singapore Airlines flight encountered severe turbulence, causing one death and tens of people to be injured. The night the news broke out I commented to my partner...
Common Edge
Designing for Disaster in an Increasingly Dangerous World What does it take to protect homes against tornados, hurricanes, flooding, fire, and erosion?
6 months ago
Maps Mania
Piecing the World Back Together
4 months ago
TheCollector
What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland? undefined
a year ago
ToughSF
Starship Lite: from rapid Interplanetary to Interstellar Elon Musk stated that a stripped-down SpaceX Starship could become an interplanetary boost vehicle...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Elon Musk stated that a stripped-down SpaceX Starship could become an interplanetary boost vehicle able to push probes towards the farthest objects in our Solar System.  What other missions could the Starship ‘Lite’ do, and how quickly? Near SSTO Rockets performance scales...
Londonist
Review: Fantasy: Realms Of The Imagination At The British Library The genre finally gets the exhibition it deserves.
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
An introduction to economics under capitalism
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Be at Home in Other Places' At his day job my current barber is a counselor working with street people who have alcohol and/or...
a month ago
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a month ago
At his day job my current barber is a counselor working with street people who have alcohol and/or drug problems. Like most in that field, he values his clients and dislikes the bosses, who live by the dictates of bureaucracy. Barbers are like bartenders. The good ones usually...
TheCollector
Marilyn Monroe: The Fascinating Life of a Pop Icon undefined
a year ago
Basta’s Notes
Read every error. You can't read every error. System stability is a steady state, not a goal
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Home Interior That Blends Japandi And Australian Design Inspiration NAKO Design has designed a home in Edmonton, Canada, that’s influenced by both Japandi and...
a year ago
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a year ago
NAKO Design has designed a home in Edmonton, Canada, that’s influenced by both Japandi and Australian design styles. With a modern palette of black and white warmed with soft silver elm wood accents and texture, the home shows sophistication with a continuity of texture and tone...
TheCollector
Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast undefined
a year ago
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Commodore, Part 4 The Amiga, The Decline, The Fall
a year ago
TheCollector
7 Dickensian Locations: In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens undefined
4 months ago
Seth's Blog
Good businesses solve real problems But not all real problems lead to good businesses. There are problems all around us. People need...
a year ago
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a year ago
But not all real problems lead to good businesses. There are problems all around us. People need housing, health care and food. They want delight, belonging and status. When a company shows up in the marketplace with a product or service that people eagerly choose to buy, it’s...
Blog - Bitfield...
Being a good co-worker is your job now In the final part of this series on the world of work, we’ll talk about how not to suck at...
11 months ago
Noahpinion
The best-case scenario for Trump's second term An optimistic Thanksgiving post.
3 weeks ago
History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building j.hoare Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: the Sultan’s Riddle in SQL Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The Sultan's Riddle Once upon a time there was a Sultan who was looking for a vizier to help him rule his country. It became known to him that among the multitudes of his loyal subjects...
TheCollector
Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial? undefined
7 months ago
Making software...
Do You Have an Extra $10? Do You Have an Extra $10? 2022-11-23 As software designers and developers, think of all the little...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Do You Have an Extra $10? 2022-11-23 As software designers and developers, think of all the little things that we spend $10 on. Maybe it's a couple coffees over the course of a week. Maybe it's a TV streaming subscription. Maybe it's an impulse buy while we're out shopping for...
Joel Gascoigne
Two important and often overlooked aspects of creating a lasting morning routine * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Those that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Those that get up at 5am rule the world" - Robin Sharma Those who know me, know that I love my morning routine. I’m always making adjustments to it, and at its core it revolves around waking...
The personal website...
The hand and the brain Prescriptive feedback limits creative collaboration. I’ve seen it time and time again, but I’ve...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Prescriptive feedback limits creative collaboration. I’ve seen it time and time again, but I’ve struggled to articulate the exact reasons and their remedies. Recently, though, I got some insight from an unusual source: a game of chess. Even though it wasn’t the last move, pawn...
Steve Klabnik
Did you hear? I'm Ruby Mendicant University's first visiting teacher
over a year ago
African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899. Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Why do companies hire people to be idle a lot of the time? The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers. In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000...
a year ago
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a year ago
The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers. In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000 software engineers. That is just mind boggling scale to me. It's roughly as many people as the whole county I grew up in. They are paying a lot of engineers. Some of them do very...
AFAR Media - Travel...
5 Most Exciting Travel Destinations in the U.S. to Visit
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
A massive misallocation of online advertising dollars In an earlier blog post, I talked about how sites that generate purchasing intent (mainly “content”...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In an earlier blog post, I talked about how sites that generate purchasing intent (mainly “content” sites) are being under-allocated…
Noahpinion
Some thoughts on where the war in Ukraine is headed And some perspective on what's happened already.
a year ago
Arduino Blog
ardEEG is an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi shield for measuring biosignals The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount of progress in reading signals produced by the brain. We may not understand exactly what is going on, but we can see the result and utilize it. And now you can start...
Arduino Blog
Making fire detection more accurate with ML sensor fusion The mere presence of a flame in a controlled environment, such as a candle, is perfectly acceptable,...
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The mere presence of a flame in a controlled environment, such as a candle, is perfectly acceptable, but when tasked with determining if there is cause for alarm solely using vision data, embedded AI models can struggle with false positives. Solomon Githu’s project aims to lower...
MMapped blog
IC internals: Internet Identity storage
over a year ago
99% Invisible
Medellin, Revisited [EPISODE] Back in the 1980s, Medellín, Colombia was in the middle of a full-blown crisis. 30 years ago, this...
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3 months ago
Back in the 1980s, Medellín, Colombia was in the middle of a full-blown crisis. 30 years ago, this was the murder capital of the world. Pablo Escobar’s notorious Medellín Cartel was waging a bloody drug war right on the city’s streets. For Medellín’s residents, the threat of...
Seth's Blog
Nice bike A well-designed bicycle is efficient, inexpensive and delightful. If you use your bike on the right...
a year ago
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a year ago
A well-designed bicycle is efficient, inexpensive and delightful. If you use your bike on the right paths, with appropriate goals, it can deliver exactly what you need, while also allowing you to go at your own pace, see what’s going on around you and feel grounded. Until, of...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
“Meaningful” startups There is generally a lot of enthusiasm in the startup world these days. But some observers worry...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is generally a lot of enthusiasm in the startup world these days. But some observers worry that too many startups are working on…
This Space
A rare sort of writer Today is Gabriel Josipovici's 80th birthday. To mark the occasion, I'll link to various posts I've...
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over a year ago
Today is Gabriel Josipovici's 80th birthday. To mark the occasion, I'll link to various posts I've written over the years – after a brief interlude. I read him first in July 1988 after borrowing The Lessons of Modernism from the second floor of Portsmouth Central Library because...
Arduino Blog
Ready for SPS Italia 2024? Ready for accessible industrial automation! Save the date on May 28th-30th, Arduino will be back at SPS Italia in Parma, showcasing how our...
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Save the date on May 28th-30th, Arduino will be back at SPS Italia in Parma, showcasing how our open-source solutions are revolutionizing the industrial sector with high performance and accessibility. At Arduino’s booth #C020, hall 7, we’ll be presenting the latest additions to...
TheCollector
7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions undefined
11 months ago
Common Edge
Why Time Is a Problem for Architects For many, it’s a lurch between copying the past or pretending that time doesn’t exist.
a year ago
Platformer
Ten strategies for replacing Twitter from people who used to work there Announcing 'Extremely Hardcore,' Zoë Schiffer’s book on Musk’s Twitter takeover
a year ago
Maps Mania
Adding URL Parameters to an Interactive Map
11 months ago
Diaries of Note
It is almost impossible to comprehend Zygmunt Klukowski was a doctor born in 1885 in Ukraine who lived much of his life in Szczebrzeszyn,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Zygmunt Klukowski was a doctor born in 1885 in Ukraine who lived much of his life in Szczebrzeszyn, a small town in Eastern Poland where for thirty years he held the post of superintendent at the local hospital. During World War II, he balanced his medical duties with covert work...
Josh Thompson
Driven by Compression Progress Note from author: This is part of an experimental series, more-or-less based on “white papers” and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note from author: This is part of an experimental series, more-or-less based on “white papers” and academic literature, as applied to somewhat practical-ish domains. These pages serve as a brief overview of a paper, and I’ll be able to link to this paper down the road when I what...
TheCollector
What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays? undefined
2 months ago
Scott Jenson
Design can be free As consumer devices get ‘smart’, they tend to sprout a large number push buttons. It’s almost cliche...
a year ago
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a year ago
As consumer devices get ‘smart’, they tend to sprout a large number push buttons. It’s almost cliche at this point to complain about them. The tiny buttons, hidden modes, and Konami Code interaction encourages mistakes and forces frequent trips to the user manual. Of course, they...
The Marginalian
Between Matter and Spirit: Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on the Substance of What We Are "We are carriers of spirit... into a future unknown, unknowable, and in continual creation."
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Introducing Yet Another Rust Resource (or YARR!) Rust is a hard language to learn, in the scheme 1 of things. I've previously talked about why...
a year ago
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a year ago
Rust is a hard language to learn, in the scheme 1 of things. I've previously talked about why the learning curve is hard and what we could do about it. Today, I'm proud to say that there's another resource to help people learn Rust in a more approachable way. Introducing Yet...
Probably...
What are the odds? Whenever something unlikely happens, it is tempting to ask, “What are the odds?” In some very...
a year ago
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a year ago
Whenever something unlikely happens, it is tempting to ask, “What are the odds?” In some very limited cases, we can answer that question. For example, if someone deals you five cards from a well-shuffled deck, and you want to know the odds of getting a royal flush, we can answer...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Reverse Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you could take the organs from a bunch of people...
a month ago
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a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you could take the organs from a bunch of people and make a new person, what would you do? Today's News:
mtlynch.io
Reset Month No update this month I’m skipping my normal retrospective this month, as I sold TinyPilot and am...
6 months ago
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No update this month I’m skipping my normal retrospective this month, as I sold TinyPilot and am taking some time to figure out my next project. Retrospectives will hopefully resume in a month or two!
Moneyness
How is the foreign expansion of Canadian banks going? With the high profile nixing of TD Bank's purchase of First Horizon Bank last month, I thought I'd...
a year ago
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a year ago
With the high profile nixing of TD Bank's purchase of First Horizon Bank last month, I thought I'd take a step back and try to visualize the last few decades of Canadian bank expansion outside of the country. What I've done is go through the annual reports of the big-5 banks at...
Luxagraf:...
The End of the Road For a long time I had the idea that one day I would write a book about this trip and call it The End...
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2 months ago
For a long time I had the idea that one day I would write a book about this trip and call it The End of the Road. It was an incomplete idea, but it seems to me we are, culturally, at the end of a metaphor when it comes to The Road. I had the idea that you could trace a thread...
Rest of World -...
Apple suppliers are scrambling to fill over 40,000 jobs in Vietnam Foxconn and Luxshare slashed workers. But under pressure to expand away from China, they suddenly...
a year ago
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 4-5 November 2023 Fireworks displays, a reopened museum, a roller disco -- and more!
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Automating my backups with restic and anacron I've been running my backups by hand1 every week on my laptop for as long as they've been set...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I've been running my backups by hand1 every week on my laptop for as long as they've been set up. Automating them was something important but was on the back burner, because, well, it never felt very important. Then I lost a few days of work when my SSD died, and it felt more...
Retail Design Blog
Wrigleys Solicitors office by Bluesky Design Interiors Our first activities included undertaking an extensive storage audit which would inform the design...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Our first activities included undertaking an extensive storage audit which would inform the design development. Wrigleys had been in their...
Londonist
Short Courses At UAL: Learn Life-Changing Creative Skills How (And When) You Want Over 1,000 short courses to choose from.
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is David Hammons Best Known For? undefined
11 months ago
Blog - Guerrilla...
How AI is changing cartography: A chatbot’s perspective Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the practice of cartography, not just as a...
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9 months ago
Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the practice of cartography, not just as a mechanism for extracting and manipulating data, but as a tool for creating, curating, and interacting with geospatial images. A simple web search for “AI in cartography” points to a vast...
The Works in...
Three Maintenance Philosophies Fought for Control of the Auto Industry A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
a year ago
Common Edge
Delays Undermine Promises of Affordable Housing in Brooklyn How New York’s rising Area Median Income dashed hopes for the Atlantic Yards megaproject.
a month ago
xkcd.com
1-to-1 Scale
a year ago
Kagi Blog
Kagi raises $670K Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our...
a year ago
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a year ago
Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our first external fundraise to date.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy) Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
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a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
Stoic Simple
Stoicism Simplified: an Easy Overview of What Stoics Believe by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism (referenced in the diagram above), and I wanted to use this opportunity to go over each of these in a little more detail. Hopefully you’ll get an understanding of what they mean,...
computers are bad
2023-10-15 go.com Correction: a technical defect in my Enterprise Content Management System resulted in the email...
a year ago
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a year ago
Correction: a technical defect in my Enterprise Content Management System resulted in the email having a subject that made it sound like this post would be about the classic strategy game Go. It is actually about a failed website. I regret the error; the responsible people have...
The Honest Broker
Are Harvard Graduates Better Than Harvard Dropouts? Or how I spent $503,402 on college education
11 months ago
Seth's Blog
Find the others: Worldwide Strategy Meetups On October 22, around the world, I’m helping to organize hundreds of in-person get togethers. A...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
On October 22, around the world, I’m helping to organize hundreds of in-person get togethers. A chance to share your work and have a conversation about your strategy with others. Mutual support and peer connection. All the details are on this page. It’s free. A chance to connect...
Scarlet Ink
Work Enemies: Actions You Can Take to Protect Yourself From Bad Relationships You won't always get along with your co-workers. What can you do to protect yourself?
3 months ago
Mazdak
Meta Fined & FBI on Polymarket Meta slapped with a HUGE EU fine, the FBI is investigating Polymarket...
a month ago
Archinect - Features
Are Architectural Workers More Pessimistic About the Economy Than Firm Owners? In our recent analysis of the Archinect Business Survey published last month, we observed a distinct...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In our recent analysis of the Archinect Business Survey published last month, we observed a distinct divergence between how firm owners and workers were feeling about the business health of their firm, industry, and the wider U.S. economy. Across the board, our survey suggests...
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 May 20 - June 1 Faces The last two weeks have been unusually busy and routine-disrupting. Half the input to the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Faces The last two weeks have been unusually busy and routine-disrupting. Half the input to the book as usual, but still, something is better than nothing! I intended to make the collage on the right only black and white. Couldn’t resist a bit of color. Very...
TheCollector
Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for? undefined
10 months ago
David Perell
Surrendering to Your Nature A mark of maturity is surrendering to the person you actually are instead of the one you wish you...
a year ago
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a year ago
A mark of maturity is surrendering to the person you actually are instead of the one you wish you were. The post Surrendering to Your Nature appeared first on David Perell.
Both Are True
introducing: are both true? (a podcast-ish podcast) 🎵 when a man tries to podcast 🎵
a year ago
Math Is Still...
Michel Talagrand Wins Abel Prize for Work Wrangling Randomness The French mathematician spent decades developing a set of tools now widely used for taming random...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The French mathematician spent decades developing a set of tools now widely used for taming random processes. The post Michel Talagrand Wins Abel Prize for Work Wrangling Randomness first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Willem's Blog
Smartwatches vs Mechanical watches Why I still wear a mechanical watch and why smartwatches have potential.
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
If Zara Home rebrands as luxury Imagine a complete transformation of Zara Home. Stepping through the threshold, you’re no longer...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Imagine a complete transformation of Zara Home. Stepping through the threshold, you’re no longer greeted by the familiar retail layout....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Experience Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also what if this IS the experience machine and the...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also what if this IS the experience machine and the real world is way worse? Today's News:
Contemporist...
This Cape Town Home Was Given An Updated Interior And A New Garden Pavilion Interior design firm ARRCC has shared photos of a project they recently completed in Cape Town,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Interior design firm ARRCC has shared photos of a project they recently completed in Cape Town, South Africa, that included the updating of the interior and the addition of a new garden pavilion.
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Forlorn Hope' Published in the February 1950 issue of Partisan Review was a “symposium” -- always a feature...
a month ago
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a month ago
Published in the February 1950 issue of Partisan Review was a “symposium” -- always a feature beloved by editors and loquacious respondents – this one titled “Religion and the Intellectuals.” Such things tend to be heavy on posturing and vast generalizations. I might have been...
macwright.com
Recently This will be three Recently monthly blog posts in a row, without a regular post in the middle. I’ll...
a year ago
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a year ago
This will be three Recently monthly blog posts in a row, without a regular post in the middle. I’ll write a standalone post again, soon enough. It’s been another busy year and I’m as aware as ever of the challenge of keeping all of my habits and outputs going. Some, like...
African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
ToughSF
Actively Cooled Armor: from Helium to Liquid Tin. We have seen designs for long ranged particle beams and powerful lasers. Could they be the end-all,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We have seen designs for long ranged particle beams and powerful lasers. Could they be the end-all, be-all of space warfare? Not if we fend off their destructive power with actively cooled armor. Let's have a look at the different cooling solutions, from high pressure gas to...
Cremieux Recueil
Why America’s Racial Poverty Statistics Are a Lesson for Researchers What if a single government employee could tell you an entire literature was wrong?
3 months ago
Stephen Diehl
Haskell for Web Developers
over a year ago
Moneyness
Your finances are being snooped on. Here's how We all have a pretty good idea that our finances are being snooped on, but most of us aren't quite...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
We all have a pretty good idea that our finances are being snooped on, but most of us aren't quite able to articulate how. We know that we're being snooped on by two groups, corporations and the government. This post will focus on how the government snoops on our transactions,...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Why content sites are getting ripped off A commenter on my blog the other day (Tim Ogilvie) mentioned a distinction that I found really...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A commenter on my blog the other day (Tim Ogilvie) mentioned a distinction that I found really interesting between intent generation and…
TheCollector
What Treaty Ended World War II? undefined
4 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
The Cold War Arms Race Over Prosthetic Arms In 1961, Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, broke his hip and wound up in Massachusetts...
a year ago
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a year ago
In 1961, Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, broke his hip and wound up in Massachusetts General Hospital. Wiener’s bad luck turned into fruitful conversations with his orthopedic surgeon, Melvin Glimcher. Those talks in turn led to a collaboration and an invention: the...
The Universe of...
Loki the comedian Toph and I were discussing the story of Loki and Skaði, one of my favorites. (Previously.) The...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Toph and I were discussing the story of Loki and Skaði, one of my favorites. (Previously.) The Æsir have killed Skaði's father, and owe her compensation. She has been sad since her father died, she says, and demands that the Æsir make her laugh. Loki rubs his hands together...
Open Culture
How Well Does Medieval Armor Actually Stand Up to Medieval Arrows?: A Historical Re-Creation Lets... The popular image of the medieval suit of armor looks formidable enough that any of us could be...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The popular image of the medieval suit of armor looks formidable enough that any of us could be forgiven for assuming that, with its steel-plated protection, we’d emerge from even the most harrowing battle without a scratch. Yet if we really found ourselves transported to, say,...
Seeking Wisdom
Focus on the process, not the outcome Woorkeri Raman, a former Indian cricketer and former coach of the India women’s national cricket...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Woorkeri Raman, a former Indian cricketer and former coach of the India women’s national cricket team, has two non-negotiables. As an offspinner, you must never get cut, and you must never get driven through the covers. Even when Ravichandran Ashwin takes five wickets, Raman will...
Both Are True
the detonator no, i will not 'grieve' my pre-parent self
8 months ago
Londonist
Spotted These Circular Tube Maps Doing The Rounds? At last! The Circle line makes sense.
10 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
Birkenstock IPO: Is it worth $10B? And 4 other questions about the 249-year cult German footwear brand.
a year ago
Nat Eliason's...
Do You Want a Happy Life or a Memorable Life? The Mindfulness Happiness Conflict
a year ago
Citation Needed
25 years for Sam Bankman-Fried "The judgment has to adequately reflect the seriousness of the crime, and this was a very serious...
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"The judgment has to adequately reflect the seriousness of the crime, and this was a very serious crime."
TheCollector
Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor undefined
a month ago
Left To Write
№ 69: What's It Like To Have An Autistic Brother My brother Alan has autism. We are four years apart — I'm the older sibling. My brother is a gentle...
a year ago
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a year ago
My brother Alan has autism. We are four years apart — I'm the older sibling. My brother is a gentle soul. Yes, there are times when he can be irrationally angry. But most of the time, he’s so quiet and lost in his own world that it’s difficult to sense out what he’s thinking.
The Modern House
Our guide to Twickenham: architectural splendour and riverside walks in south-west London
11 months ago
Common Edge
Light, Empathy, and Silence: The Architecture of Marina Tabassum A Q&A with the celebrated Bangladeshi designer.
6 months ago
Fonts In Use: Blog...
“Incalculable Loss” front page of The New York Times for May 24th, 2020 Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: store.nytimes.com The New York Times. License: All Rights...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: store.nytimes.com The New York Times. License: All Rights Reserved. The front page of The New York Times for Sunday, May 24th, 2020, was a stark wall of type, and only type: a long and somber list of Americans who have lost their lives...
Greg Brockman
OpenAI Five Finals Intro The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI beat the world champions at Dota 2: “Welcome everyone. This is an exciting day. First, this is an historic moment: this will be the first time that an AI has even attempted to play...
Scott DeLong
AI-Integrated Search: The Latest Way Big Tech Is Stealing From And Crushing Small Businesses It's Big Tech's latest way to steal the hard work of publishers, and there's nothing you can do...
a year ago
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It's Big Tech's latest way to steal the hard work of publishers, and there's nothing you can do about it except adapt. The post AI-Integrated Search: The Latest Way Big Tech Is Stealing From And Crushing Small Businesses appeared first on Scott DeLong.
TheCollector
Did Jesus Christ Really Exist? undefined
a month ago
Seth's Blog
The marketing department That’s the first part of the confusion. It’s a group of people who can’t decide what the thing they...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
That’s the first part of the confusion. It’s a group of people who can’t decide what the thing they do is supposed to be. Is it: Advertising Publicity Increasing retail distribution Direct and measured response SEO Making the logo pretty Wholesale and trade relationships...
Computer Ads from...
Ergotron's MacTilt MacTilt is the Solution
3 weeks ago
xkcd.com
Machine
8 months ago
A Smart Bear
The three kinds of leverage that anchor effective strategies Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best...
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a year ago
Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best when durable. Here's how to create leverage.
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Last of the Anglo-Saxon Poets' “Hooray for Christmas, as Bessie Smith calls rather cautiously on one of her tracks, and if all...
a year ago
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a year ago
“Hooray for Christmas, as Bessie Smith calls rather cautiously on one of her tracks, and if all you’re your friends like jazz it will present no problem.”  It’s December 14, 1963, and Philip Larkin is reviewing an assortment of releases for the Daily Telegraph in time for...
MMapped blog
Debug like Feynman, test like Faraday
over a year ago
The Modern House
Desert modernism meets London stock brick in the strikingly staggered Aperture House
5 months ago
Passing Time
Manufactured Data Scarcity All your information is under the hood even if you’re be interested in seeing what is driving the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
All your information is under the hood even if you’re be interested in seeing what is driving the engine.
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 16-17 December 2023 Festive pursuits, family events, and a huge horse show.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Four types of mobile apps If you are a founder trying to create a new mobile app or an investor trying decide whether an app...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you are a founder trying to create a new mobile app or an investor trying decide whether an app has enduring value, it is helpful to…
HTMHell
An HTML structure for a tab component by Marco Bretschneider Can you remember the day you first learnt about ARIA? Maybe the first fact...
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a week ago
by Marco Bretschneider Can you remember the day you first learnt about ARIA? Maybe the first fact you learnt about ARIA was the first rule “Don't use ARIA, use native HTML instead“ - and so did I. As someone who has been able to speak native HTML for many years, I always thought...
Roberto Vitillo's...
What every developer should know about database consistency Imagine assigning some value to a variable, reading it back immediately after, and finding out that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Imagine assigning some value to a variable, reading it back immediately after, and finding out that somehow the write had no effect at all…
Londonist
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In my last last post, I argued that property-based testing and fuzzing are essentially the same practice, or at least share a lot of commonality. In this followup post, I want to explore that idea a bit more: I’ll first detour into some of my frustrations and hesitations around...
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The reference frames from which observers view quantum events can themselves have multiple possible locations at once — an insight with potentially major ramifications. The post In the Quantum World, Even Points of View Are Uncertain first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The list of books piles up, thirty-three now, and I'm reading fewer and fewer novels. Not through choice, but so little of what's new appeals. Instead, this year I read and reread books like Peter Handke's To Duration and Once Again for Thucydides, both of which escape helpful...
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I was late to the VS Code zeitgeist, and as penitence I try to go out of my way to try new editors whenever I see them — which is why this morning I installed Zed, which makes its bones on performance (yay!) and teams functionality (irrelevant for my use cases, but seems...
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In observance of Memorial Day, R.L. Barth sent me a poem by Ambrose Bierce, one I had never read before, “To E.S. Salomon” (Black Beetles in Amber, 1892). Here is the memorably pertinent third stanza:  “The brave respect the brave. The brave Respect the dead; but you -- you...
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I’ve been listening the wrong way my entire life — with just my ears. True listening is a totalizing, full-body experience. The post Learning to Actually Listen appeared first on David Perell.
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One of the more interesting theses advanced by Zero to One [1] is that monopolies are good to the extent that they afford companies the agency and comfort to engage in long-term activities: Monopolists can think about things other than making money; non-monopolists can’t. In...
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We start with their history by returning to the origins of Western thought. We argue that splitting education into two halves — Professional and Civilized — is the only way to think about education clearly. We then outline the evolution of the Liberal Arts, from the ancients to...
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Obsession is a pretty powerful thing. It’s awesome how you can get obsessed with something and spend all your energy just being obsessed with that thing. Some of my favorite musicians are like that. Matt Bellamy from Muse would always talk about how he’s just been obsessed with...
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Since we are in a “all hands on deck” situation when it comes to climate change, we need to take a look at all potential strategies for delaying and blunting global warming. The game at this point is all about peak warming – how much will the Earth warm before temperatures peak...
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I've always preferred the Serpent's Tail edition of Pessoa's Book of Disquiet over the others published around the same time, such as from Quartet Encounters and Carcanet, the latter with a fussy variant on the title: The Book of Disquietude. But this one is the most pleasurable...
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When someone acts in a surprising way, we can begin to understand by wondering what they might be afraid of.
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“That best fact, the Moon,” Margaret Fuller called it. “No one ever gets tired of the moon,” Walt Whitman wrote down the Atlantic coast from her, exulting: Goddess that she is by dower of her eternal beauty, [the moon] commends herself to the matter-of-fact people by her...
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Even without the Silvercup Bakery sign, I’d know this view, from an old Daredevil comic. The tracks are the 7 train, Flushing-bound, just west of the Queensboro Plaza station. This is the view you’d see looking off the west end of the platform, or from the rear window of an...
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TikTok Shop, the controversial app’s ambitious next phase, has caught fire in Indonesia. “This is truly the year of TikTok,” says one seller.
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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A lot of times, when I’m discussing an old photo, I’ll talk about where the photographer was standing when he or she took the shot. It matters to understand exactly what you’re seeing, and figuring it out is usually not that difficult if you know some of the quirks of Manhattan...
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Taking a first glance at the Babylonian Map of the World, few of us could recognize it for what it is. But then again, few of us are anything like the British Museum Middle East department curator Irving Finkel, whose vast knowledge (and ability to share it compellingly) have...
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It took over two years for the Emancipation Proclamation to reach Galveston, Texas. Specifically June 19, 1965 hence the Juneteenth holiday. Galveston was the largest slave market west of New Orleans. The newly emancipated fled Galveston to Freedmen's Town and other parts of...
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For a decade, Cliffs Notes were the bestselling section of the bookstore. They were a simple way for any high school student to get insight, examples and answers about the books they were assigned and read (or didn’t read). When Cliffs published a list of their thirty bestselling...
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The renaming of the Overground lines draws closer, indeed should be taking place next month. The original intention was for the changeover to be in August in conjunction with a new tube map, but that's not happened so technically it's late. That said, an awful lot of signage on...
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Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional systems. They also face major obstacles. The post AI Needs Enormous Computing Power. Could Light-Based Chips Help? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to share a diary? Late mover advantage Product…
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Musings on Markets
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It seems like a lifetime has passed since artificial intelligence (AI) became the market's biggest mover, but Open AI introduced the world to ChatGPT on November 30, 2022. While ChatGPT itself represented a low-tech variation of AI, it opened the door to AI not only as a business...
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Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in Northern Japan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami). Despite Tokyo being several hundred kilometers from the epicenter, it's effects were felt even here (although to a much lesser extent than...
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Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. I've found that neither malice nor stupidity is the most common reason when you don't understand why something is in a certain way.
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Visualizing what words often appear in the vicinity of woke/wokeness in news media content illustrates why communication is almost impossible between red and blue America
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I'm not frequently a fan of flavored lattes. I like an occasional pumpkin spice latte near Halloween, an occasional vanilla latte if it's exceptionally well made, but I usually just stick with the simple unflavored latte. Furthermore, I'm definitely not a fan of mochas: I'd...
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I have been using Kubernetes for five years, but only very recently started using plugins to enhance my kubectl commands. I will show you five plugins that help me avoid repetitive tasks, make cluster administration simpler, and incident response less stressful. All the plugins...
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Open Culture
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A middle-class Parisian living around the turn of the twentieth century would have to budget for services like not just water or gas, but also time. Though electric clocks had been demonstrated, they were still a high-tech rarity; installing one in the home would have been...