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- aslfjiasf parentIt means a publisher ranked possibility of a positive return on investment for that book to be higher than the books they decided not to publish.
- Humor imitates life:
Russia arrested anti-war protesters holding blank signs: https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-invasion-protest...
But apparently this a thing in many countries, and there's even a Wikipedia article about this form of protest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_piece_of_paper
Ah, to be in America:
>In 1970, Anna Halprin organised a "Blank Placard Dance" by members of her San Francisco Dancers' Workshop. They paraded, dressed in white, while holding blank placards. She explained, "...there were so many protests going on and this way each person watching us could just imagine whatever protest slogan they wanted on the placards."
It's nice to be able to protest with blank signs because you want to make a joke, and not because of fear of arrest.
- I'm not sure about that. So many people had hard time synthesizing LK-99, and the original researchers said that even for themselves only 1 out of 10 attempts to create a material succeeded.
The pure LK-99 crystals pictured in the article were obtained using more advanced technique: "Unlike previous synthesis attempts that relied on crucibles, the researchers used a technique called floating zone crystal growth that allowed them to avoid introducing sulfur into the reaction, eliminating the Cu2S impurities."
But I agree that if there's money to be made, it will be available world wide quickly.
- "F# is designed as a hybrid functional/OO language, so it can do virtually everything that C# can do."
- Also see recommendations for "Ask HN: Books Similar to Code by Charles Petzold?": https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=29522588
- This review suggests that the game is now called "Tribes": https://amzn.com/dp/1556343558, but the author is not Jared Diamond. Is this the game you remember?
- Our cat does this on soft blankets, but unlike the other cats mentioned in the comments, she doesn't look like she's enjoying it. Her ears are back and her brow is furrowed and she looks like she is unsure why she's doing it. Alternatively, she looks like she's hatching an evil plot to take over the world.
- This has changed from early Soviet Union to late Soviet Union.
Early Soviet Union was much more radical and utopian, with ideas almost like in Plato's republic with the goal to getting to the point where the state rather than the parents would be raising children.
This was later abolished in the 30's and 40's and more traditional family values were encouraged.
- I clicked on the May Fourth movement because I thought it was odd that BBC would make a documentary about the origins of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day.