The most impressive linguistic feat I’ve ever seen — A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas

Issue #537 — September 26, 2021

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The most impressive linguistic feat I’ve ever seen twitter.com \| points: 355 \| comments: 152

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A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas economist.com \| points: 325 \| comments: 208

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AMD’s Lisa Su spectrum.ieee.org \| points: 297 \| comments: 141

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Unlocked OS Build for the Oculus Go twitter.com \| points: 264 \| comments: 44

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Demonopolizing the Internet with Interoperability pluralistic.net \| points: 263 \| comments: 132

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Ten Commandments of Salary Negotiation lennysnewsletter.com \| points: 229 \| comments: 147

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Facebook is other people kevinmunger.substack.com \| points: 205 \| comments: 129

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Google CEO allegedly sought to keep Incognito mode issues out of spotlight reuters.com \| points: 184 \| comments: 110

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Data scientists shouldn’t need to know Kubernetes huyenchip.com \| points: 171 \| comments: 104

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Firefox Addons Unable to Update, Undisclosed AMO Issues discourse.mozilla.org \| points: 169 \| comments: 92

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I Am Not Satoshi Nakamoto schneier.com \| points: 162 \| comments: 160

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AS13335 doing SSH scanning encryp.ch \| points: 147 \| comments: 93

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OpenTTD 12.0-RC1 openttd.org \| points: 142 \| comments: 36

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Speech Synthesis on Linux (2020) darkshadow.io \| points: 137 \| comments: 64

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America is substantially reducing poverty among children economist.com \| points: 137 \| comments: 141

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EU Is Warned Green Label for Gas Would Be ‘Disastrous’ Mistake bloomberg.com \| points: 131 \| comments: 123

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Truth about ProtonMail encryp.ch \| points: 117 \| comments: 79

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Pope Francis and Other Christian Leaders Are Calling for Bold Climate Action text.npr.org \| points: 115 \| comments: 66

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Paint.NET 4.3 is now available blog.getpaint.net \| points: 109 \| comments: 67

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All 16,777,216 RGB colours (2005) davidnaylor.org \| points: 109 \| comments: 68

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