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pivot-table by okfn (cc by)
Parasite Unseen (delightfully) admits to being a "spreadsheet person" in the Placeholder Girlfriend thread
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"I'm a crypto hate maximalist"
smcdow writes software that connects to crypto exchange APIs, and speaks on the nuts and bolts of "the always-amateur-hour that is the crypto world" in the Bond villain compliance strategy thread
What's not enough and what's too much?
Two Years Ago by esotericsean (cc by-nc-nd)
Some fascinating advice from grumblebee on how to read a script
Origins and Interactions
ACA_4653 by Alessandro Caproni (cc by)
Very interesting post from dhruva on DNA analysis showing that Polynesians and Native Americans met 800 years ago, including a great comment in the thread from atrazine, who explains in detail some of the reactions to the article: The disagreement with some archaeologists seems to be not the genetic analysis but the hypothesis around where the mixing occurred ...
"Can't Get There From Here?"
Transportations by AlexRamat
Travel demand modelling is an entire (small) field, I've been doing it for 20 years... Homeboy Trouble with some great suggestions for someone looking for data and info on how people travel
He Who Casts the First Stone
Siege of Gondor by Masked Builder (cc by)
deeply nerdy pedantry about LotR and history.. I'm down! — drewbage1847
LOTR fans are enjoying Chrysostom's post on a historian’s look at the Siege of Gondor in Peter Jackson’s Return of the King.
"How, really, ought Chirin to live?"
Chirin’s Bell is like if, instead of Bambi being raised by his father after the death of his mother, he sought out the hunters who killed his mother and insisted they teach him how to use a gun: interesting post from J.K. Seazer on an unusual children's book (and film), plus a great analysis of the work.
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