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I wonder how true this really is if you make an reasonable effort to keep yourself in shape. It wasn't until I hit 60 that I felt unquestionably different, and even then it wasn't terrible.

I know little about farming or harvesting, but I’m curious what types of crops actually require manual harvesting?

Do we really need to rely on stoop labor to hand-pick crops, or has a relatively cheap labor pool allowed farmers to avoid the costs of automation?

If labor is to be in perennial short supply in the future, I wonder if American farmers will simply be forced to turn to crops that allow machine harvesting.

One of the minor subplot points in Whit Stillman's movie "Metropolitan" was a couple of the characters' debate over the merits of "Mansfield Park".

I'm glad to see this material has a home, but I'm curious why it didn't end up at some institution in the Bay Area close to MMR's home

Unlike previous market turmoil (2008, 2020) where the U.S. at least had established global trade order to lean on for the recovery, this feels like the U.S. could be entering a period of sustained damage. I don't see how the U.S. recovers from this in anything like he near term. Americans will have to get used to a long stretch of low economic growth.

The global trade order is going to be reconfigured, but not in the way the Trump thinks. The U.S. is throwing up a wall around itself, but the rest world will continue with the current regime and likely move away from the U.S. permanently.

What's sad is, the Congress could simply revoke the ability for Trump to single-handedly make these tariffs, but they appear too cowed to do anything about it.

Anything that requires hard chewing like nuts, raw vegetables and tough meats.

The first I ever heard of this topic was from reading the book "The Evolution of the Human Head" (2011) by Daniel E. Lieberman. It's an academic book, and parts are not exactly light reading targeted for the general public. I had read it when it first came out, seemingly well before it because such of point of discussion.

The problem with this topic is, if you try to look anything up on line you can quickly find yourself in the "manosphere" with its associated toxicity.

Even the Wikipedia entry on them has the classic bean-shaped diagram. If they are not really like that, why did that become the standard representation? Have they always been know to exist in more network-like structures, and was that why there was initial resistance to seeing their origin in free-living prokaryotes?

An analog of the birthday paradox that gets me all the time is what I think of as The Locker Room Paradox. This is where when I go into the locker room after working out and the guy who comes in behind me ends in the locker right next to mine. So there’s two of us in a big empty room awkwardly jostling away.

The first record Enid looks at is actually by "R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders" that Seymour directs her away from to another selection. Zwigoff was a member of that group.

FamilySearch (free registration) has the passenger manifest of her arrival in New York, 28 Nov 1838 aboard the brig Sofia Eliza:

Americus Vespucius, female, age 26, Tuscany

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939V-51SJ-FT

There are hundreds of newspaper stories from around the country about her in the U.S.

1. There's a fun reference to this book in the movie "24 Hour Party People"

2. Chaucer's translation is referenced in the OED as the first use of the word "twitter" in the English language

Their “fame” certainly well pre-dated that movie. These were the ones I knew as a kid in the 60s and 70s, and would be featured in old stop animation movies even before my time.

There are a small handful of relatively well-know dinosaurs: stegosaurus being one of them. There’s also Tyrannosaurus rex, Brontosaurus (maybe you’re not supposed to call them that anymore), Triceratops and maybe a couple of others. Why were these ones so “famous”? Were they the earliest ones discovered? most common? Just fine examples of their type?

That doesn’t seem particularly fast of a spin and I’m surprised it’s the fastest one observed.

There is a moment in 2001: A Space Odyssey that I’ve always liked. It’s at about 1:13:15 or so, and is just a distant shot of the Discovery One. Suddenly two space rocks silently tumble past. I like the scene because it gives a sense of the scope and silence of outer space, but I suppose it would be incredibly rare to be so close to even one rock, let alone a pair. And they are tumbling at about the pace measured by the one in that article, so perhaps even rarer still.

If I never saw another psychedelic-related link on Hacker News again it would be too soon (just my opinion)

That bridge also took over 2 years to complete at an absurd cost after the one it replaced was damaged. While it was under construction, there was a temporary red light installed at the intersection of Magazine St. which was far better all around as it allowed pedestrians to just cross the street much closer to the only real stores in the immediate area (and a Starbucks, now closed.)

While the bridge is well-built and provides wheelchair and bike access, its location is inconvenient. It’s so far away from any of the few available amenities that many people just try to dart across the road from the park and community pool. Two people have been struck in killed trying to cross in the past few years.

Other than a single water bubbler at the BU boathouse, that only went in a couple of years ago, there isn’t a single place to get a drink (let alone buy one or get a snack) the entire 4+ mile length of the river in Cambridge from the Museum of Science to the Elliot St. Bridge, without crossing Memorial Drive. It’s unclear to me why they just don’t take down the footbridge and make the stop light with crosswalk permanent. There seems to be some issue with the fact that Cambridge itself doesn’t really have control over the road itself or the land along the River as it’s controlled by the Department of Conservation & Recreation (the “dcr”) which is a State agency.

The footbridge that I find oddest is the one across Rt. 2 past Alewife just over the Cambridge line in Arlington.

https://goo.gl/maps/8JrUQHn2j4B7TuE56

    42.399443, -71.147645
    Arlington, Massachusetts

I assume it has a similar story to the OP in that whatever utility it may have had has long since passed.

Could someone explain what is meant by "inflammation" in this context? What exactly is inflamed and is it manifested externally in some visible way? I feel like I constantly hear about inflammation but it's never clear to me what is physically happening.

Part of this may have been due to the Hunga Tonga eruption which injected an tremendous amount of water vapor into the upper atmosphere

https://twitter.com/RARohde/status/1685971656198545408

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/tonga-eruption-blasted-unpr...

I like how the diagram is captioned "A hypothetical escape route ..." as if the frog's gut were a cave system with different potential passageways and not a single path out

I’ve read a bunch of his books and The Road is the only one I know of that actually ends with a glimmer of hope.

Why do these brain stimulation experiments always seem to result in some sort of benefit? Do these things ever result in a loss of capability?

I'm not necessarily concerned that I will be entirely without a job because of AI. What I am concerned with is that the aspects of my job that I derive pleasure from will be replaced by AI.

When I was a young lad, my parents got me that book for Christmas. I loved it. When Unknown Pleasures came out I immediately recognized the image. I used to (I assume) bore people with my knowledge of its provenance - "You know, that image is ..."

I had cut it out of the book and pasted it on wall at some point. What I didn't find out until many years later was that Saville had use that book as the source, and not some earlier primary document.

I'm sort of glad to be retiring soon. I have a feeling everything I enjoy about programming is going to be going away.

The article mentions Eno did the cover designs. I've always assumed he took the cover images from real maps, but I've never found any mention of what they may be. It would be interesting to find them if that were actually the case.

For years after graduating I would have this sense of undirected foreboding every Sunday.

I finally realized it was just a carry over from years of being a real procrastinator when it came to getting my school work done and the gnawing panic I would get knowing I had a lot of work and little time to do it.

It was weird that after recognizing the source that feeling dissipated pretty quickly and I really embraced being free of it all

"interest rates are a powerful tool to help control home prices"

Unless you're paying cash, most people think in terms of what their monthly payment will be. So driving down the price may not make any particular house any more affordable.

There is a Twitter satire account that said something I thought was subtly profound:

If you ever wondered what you would have done to stop Hitler, you're doing it now.

It’s a question that thinkers have wondered about for a long time.

Argument IV against the eternity of the world:

"Yes, Sir, The late Invention of Arts, and the Shortness of the History of the World, are invincible Arguments against its Eternity. If the World was from Eternity, you must needs make them an eternal Race of the most stupid Blockheads imaginable, without the least Drachm almost of Wit, or Contrivance, or indeed common Sense; and that none of these Qualification ever were known in the World, till within these two or three thousand Years last past."

William Nichols, "A Conference with a Theist" (1696)

https://archive.org/details/aconferencewith00nichgoog/page/4...

I had the exact same experience with this book as a kid. Those diagrams were fantastic. It opened up the whole night sky for me.