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  1. What's the best book you read this year?

    Looking for some ideas for Christmas... Mine were: – Caro's The Power Broker – Koestler's Sleepwalkers – Lewis's The Discarded Image – Massie's Dreadnought – Packenham's Boer War – Rose's Intellectual Life of the…

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  2. Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?

    I'm looking for inspiration for the Christmas holidays. Mine were: – Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai (2000) – William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis (1991) – John Ma, Polis (2024) – John Julius Norwich, A History of Venice…

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  3. Ask HN: Best Books on Systems Theory?

    I'm halfway through John Gall's Systemantics and have been really enjoying it. What might I move on to next? I think I'm more interested in the real-world applications of systems theory (e.g. how we might go about…

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  4. Why does Excel get 213,458,046,676,875 x 29 wrong?

    When I put =PRODUCT(213458046676875,29) into Excel, it gives me the answer 6,190,283,353,629,370. The actual answer is 6,190,283,353,629,375. What has happened?

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  5. Ask HN: When/how was distributed version control invented?
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  6. Ask HN: What to do about key supplier TRIPLING their prices at short notice?

    Hi HN, I am hoping some of you may be able to offer your advice on this on, as I imagine it's a fairly generalised problem. The specifics of the issue aren't actually that important, so I'm not going to include company…

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  7. Study shows how police interrogation techniques generate false memories

    News report (one of many): http://boingboing.net/2015/02/09/police-interrogation-technique.html Link to full study: http://libgen.asia/4ae374811019a754c21620106.../shaw2015.pdf HT to a friend of mine…

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  8. What3Words: a giant grid of the world made up of 57 trillion squares of 3m x 3m (what3words.com)
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  9. Why Genius may struggle to annotate the world (themassolit.wordpress.com)
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  10. Show HN: Massolit – online education in literature and the arts (massolit.co.uk)
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  11. Clickbaiting education (Part 1) (christudor133.tumblr.com)

    So I've been thinking about how to get more young people engaged in online education, and decided to look to see if 'clickbaiting' would do the trick. It's all a bit tongue in cheek, but here's the plan:…

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