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π Kibbutz
A kibbutz (Hebrew: Χ§Φ΄ΧΦΌΧΦΌΧ₯β / Χ§ΧΧΧΧ₯β, lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim Χ§Φ΄ΧΦΌΧΦΌΧ¦Φ΄ΧΧβ / Χ§ΧΧΧΧ¦ΧΧβ) is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism. In recent decades, some kibbutzim have been privatized and changes have been made in the communal lifestyle. A member of a kibbutz is called a kibbutznik (Hebrew: Χ§Φ΄ΧΦΌΧΦΌΧ¦Φ°Χ Φ΄ΧΧ§β / Χ§ΧΧΧΧ¦Χ ΧΧ§β; plural kibbutznikim or kibbutzniks).
In 2010, there were 270 kibbutzim in Israel. Their factories and farms account for 9% of Israel's industrial output, worth US$8 billion, and 40% of its agricultural output, worth over $1.7 billion. Some kibbutzim had also developed substantial high-tech and military industries. For example, in 2010, Kibbutz Sasa, containing some 200 members, generated $850 million in annual revenue from its military-plastics industry.
Currently the kibbutzim are organised in the secular Kibbutz Movement with some 230 kibbutzim, the Religious Kibbutz Movement with 16 kibbutzim and the much smaller religious Poalei Agudat Yisrael with two kibbutzim, all part of the wider communal settlement movement.
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- "Kibbutz" | 2021-05-08 | 68 Upvotes 35 Comments
π Stratton Oakmont, Inc. vs. Prodigy before Section 230
Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co., 23 Media L. Rep. 1794 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1995), is a 1995 U.S. New York Supreme Court decision holding that online service providers could be held liable for the speech of their users. The ruling caused controversy among early supporters of the Internet, including some lawmakers, leading to the passage of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in 1996.
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- "Stratton Oakmont, Inc. vs. Prodigy before Section 230" | 2023-02-26 | 11 Upvotes 2 Comments
π Bomba (Cryptography)
The bomba, or bomba kryptologiczna (Polish for "bomb" or "cryptologic bomb"), was a special-purpose machine designed around October 1938 by Polish Cipher Bureau cryptologist Marian Rejewski to break German Enigma-machine ciphers.
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- "Bomba (Cryptography)" | 2022-11-05 | 88 Upvotes 12 Comments
π BrouwerβHilbert controversy
In a foundational controversy in twentieth-century mathematics, L. E. J. Brouwer, a supporter of intuitionism, opposed David Hilbert, the founder of formalism.
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- "BrouwerβHilbert controversy" | 2018-11-08 | 95 Upvotes 32 Comments
π Ballistic Recovery Systems
Ballistic Recovery Systems, Inc. (commonly referred to as BRS Aerospace, or simply BRS) is a manufacturer of aircraft ballistic parachutes.
The company was formed in 1980 by Boris Popov of Saint Paul, Minnesota, after he survived a 400-foot (120Β m) fall in a partially collapsed hang glider in 1975. As a result, Popov invented a parachute system that could lower an entire light aircraft to the ground in the event of loss of control, failure of the aircraft structure, or other in-flight emergencies.
Popov was granted a U.S. patent on 26 August 1986 for the so-called Ballistic Recovery System (BRS) - patent US 4607814 A.
The company has two divisions: BRS Aviation and BRS Defense.
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- "Ballistic Recovery Systems" | 2014-03-21 | 43 Upvotes 30 Comments
π List of Animals by Number of Neurons
The following are two lists of animals ordered by the size of their nervous system. The first list shows number of neurons in their entire nervous system, indicating their overall neural complexity. The second list shows the number of neurons in the structure that has been found to be representative of animal intelligence. The human brain contains 86 billion neurons, with 16 billion neurons in the cerebral cortex.
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- "List of Animals by Number of Neurons" | 2020-05-25 | 12 Upvotes 1 Comments
π Stenotype
A stenotype, stenotype machine, shorthand machine or steno writer is a specialized chorded keyboard or typewriter used by stenographers for shorthand use. In order to pass the United States Registered Professional Reporter test, a trained court reporter or closed captioner must write speeds of approximately 180, 200, and 225 words per minute (wpm) at very high accuracy in the categories of literary, jury charge, and testimony, respectively. Some stenographers can reach 300 words per minute. The website of the California Official Court Reporters Association (COCRA) gives the official record for American English as 375 wpm.
The stenotype keyboard has far fewer keys than a conventional alphanumeric keyboard. Multiple keys are pressed simultaneously (known as "chording" or "stroking") to spell out whole syllables, words, and phrases with a single hand motion. This system makes real-time transcription practical for court reporting and live closed captioning. Because the keyboard does not contain all the letters of the English alphabet, letter combinations are substituted for the missing letters. There are several schools of thought on how to record various sounds, such as the StenEd, Phoenix, and Magnum Steno theories.
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- "Stenotype" | 2019-12-18 | 29 Upvotes 18 Comments
π Law of Jante
The Law of Jante (Danish: Janteloven) is a code of conduct known in Nordic countries that characterizes not conforming, doing things out of the ordinary, or being overtly personally ambitious as unworthy and inappropriate. The attitudes were first formulated in the form of the ten rules of Jante Law by the Dano-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose in his satirical novel A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks (En flyktning krysser sitt spor, 1933), but the actual attitudes themselves are older. Sandemose portrays the fictional small Danish town Jante, which he modelled upon his native town NykΓΈbing Mors in the 1930s, where nobody was anonymous, which is typical of all small towns and communities.
Used generally in colloquial speech in the Nordic countries as a sociological term to denote a social attitude of disapproval towards expressions of individuality and personal success, it emphasizes adherence to the collective.
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- "Law of Jante" | 2024-07-31 | 10 Upvotes 4 Comments
- "The Law of Jante" | 2023-11-19 | 12 Upvotes 1 Comments
- "Law of Jante" | 2023-05-23 | 13 Upvotes 2 Comments
- "Law of Jante" | 2017-09-30 | 87 Upvotes 61 Comments
π Surveillance Capitalism
Surveillance capitalism has a number of meanings around the commodification of personal information. Since 2014, social psychologist Shoshana Zuboff has used and popularized the term.
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- "Surveillance Capitalism" | 2021-07-27 | 16 Upvotes 1 Comments
- "Surveillance Capitalism" | 2020-04-12 | 71 Upvotes 38 Comments
- "Surveillance Capitalism" | 2019-03-13 | 14 Upvotes 2 Comments
π Project Coldfeet
Project COLDFEET was a 1962 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operation to extract intelligence from an abandoned Soviet Arctic drifting ice station. Due to the nature of its abandonment as the result of unstable ice, the retrieval of the operatives used the Fulton surface-to-air recovery system.
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- "Project Coldfeet" | 2020-03-09 | 122 Upvotes 29 Comments