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Sri Lankans began planting jackfruit trees to gain food self-sufficiency during British rule, and they’ve since helped islanders avoid starvation.

The OCaml compiler saw a huge jump in contributors after moving to GitHub, and the effect has persisted.

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Making a vaccine isn't a sourdough recipe, but it's easy to crap on other people's hard work that's keeping you alive. People crap on Moderna and Pfizer while forgetting Sanofi, Glaxo, and Merck tried to bring a vaccine to market in 2020: all three failed.

Tool kit ....for drinking water security plan for villages .

Merck was responsible for bringing the Ebola vaccine to market but couldn't succeed with their COVID effort. Now they're in talks to replicate the J&J vaccine.

You Aren't Actually Mad at the SATs great that communist freddie says it. doesn't matter. freddie focuses on liberals broadly, but phd scientists with advanced stats backgrounds refuse to understand conditioning in the collider.

they want to believe

When we eliminate effort, we eliminate life’s pleasures.

"The honest competitor understands that while luck affects outcomes, it doesn’t affect effort. So he learns to take his pleasure from the daily grind."

@dhume @shrikanth_krish (1/n) "Separation of Powers" in global legal history: evidence from Indian Knowledge Systems seen alongside 'The Crown and the Courts' and 'The First Constitution'

@vakibs

@dhume @shrikanth_krish @vakibs (2/n) Eurocentrism and more in the 21st century: the case of 'Suum cuique tribuere (Ancient Rome, c.1000 BC–AD 565)' and 'A New History of Dharmaśāstra'

interesting

@compay this is a quick video (30s) on the "spiral out" motion to spread the batter:

The Church's crusade against cousin-marriage did not create the Western nuclear family, by @policytensor wow. this is really a really impressive post

Google paid Apple around $10bn last year to be the default search engine in Safari (which has around 60% of US mobile web traffic).

Phew! From:

A very interesting article on implications of the airborne nature of #COVID19. Ensuring ventilation in enclosed spaces may matter more than any other measure we are taking. 1/n

@btbytes chechen town Grozny 'liberated' by russians

google "Grozny 1995" (safari does not give direct link to googled page...)

like this:

@asc89 @freemarketUP @sura_puli @Frankisalegend1 @dylanhead94 @Scoundrelmonk @lataa_si @RSinghggnalways @12notout yes. It is not bimodal now, but might become so. @danluu has a good article -

The stunning plumage of the male Himalayan monal, which is the national bird of Nepal. @hbdchick @EPoe187

@btbytes Surprised as aussies were masters of “mental disintegration”
we have come a long way😎

pledge() and unveil() are gradually being adopted by operating systems other than OpenBSD:

@prathgodbole @btbytes @omarali50

@vjgtweets @btbytes @omarali50 Not quite royal family but aristocracy nonetheless.

This is his father-in-law

Unreal. I've always wondered how ransomware gangs converted bitcoin ransom payments to fiat. For a fee of 4%, this Russian exchange insider does anonymous cash drop-offs. Suggested cash-out amount is $1 million, which weighs 10 kg.

Source: ht @smdiehl

@dhruvabatni see

@sashachapin How to take a walk -

@elisa_freschi Or try

Ever want to read a vampire novel and learn a new database at the same time? Now you can!

Introducing Easy EdgeDB — an illustrated ebook that teaches EdgeDB through the process of designing a hypothetical video game for Bram Stoker's Dracula. 🧛‍♂️📖🚀

Calbright College, a new online public college in California, was finally audited.

The results? It has soaked up $175 million in public funds and graduated a grand total of twelve students.

Hi @anniecorreal: #Robbinsville allegations are serious. And until we have details, note:
-@BAPS is a large Hindu sampradaya (religious tradition)-not a 'sect'
-Alleging dual loyalty of American Hindus to Indian politics is a common Hinduphopic trope
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#AWS Local Zones Are Now Open in Boston, Miami, and Houston -

@btbytes @calm_sutra Try ಮಾಡಿ - ಬೇರೆ ರುಚಿ

🥰 Looks like my favorite ASCII diagramming tool got a major facelift!

Aside from dark mode and fancy arrows, it can now draw boxes using extended ASCII characters. Very nice!

New from me and @AnikVJoshi: We analyzed the results of the Indian Assembly elections and what it means for the BJP, the Congress, and the regional parties.
TL;DR: The BJP has a lot of work to do. Congress is in trouble and they know it.

On Freedom House, the “independent” NGO funded and staffed by the US government that decides which countries are democracies. Since its beginning, it’s represented the foreign policy establishment, including when it helped lie the US into Iraq.

@btbytes @anangbhai That's Dev Patel starring as the Arthurian Green Knight (from Gawain and the Green Knight)

DuckDB is a high-performance analytical database system

This is a very interesting interview with an actual practitioner (the BMC chief) on crisis management was for Wave 2. Also busts some myths given that the political lens predominates discourse (e.g., there is more Union state cooperation than we think)

some amount of tourism in ancient china, too. people wanting to get out of the towns and enjoy nature. these were people with money, ofc. literati types.

mass tourism is certainly a modern invention, but there was a certain amount of tourism in both ancient greece and rome (egypt was a favorite destination). romans even went to seaside resort towns in the summers.

On the BBMP bed booking scam and more-- a new (or very old) story from the Kathasaritsagara:

In 1862 Charles Darwin received a flower from Madagascar with the nectar located in an extremely deep crevasse. He predicted the existence of a moth with an extraordinarily long tongue to reach the nectar. Xanthopan morganii was discovered 150 years later

Imperial College London got in hot water when the press exposed that researchers were using their academic credentials to write marketing material for promoting token investments on the shady crypto broker eToro. (18/)

@btbytes

Just reading Apple vs Epic. I don't like Apple attacks against @itchio . is great community of content creators and they don't deserve to be dragged down by Apple and Epic money issues.

This is fantastic news!