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by 5040 5y ago
What would this mean for a small town? No one would want to open the first bakery, the first hair salon, the first bait shop, etc.
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by 5040 5y ago
Diplomats have long argued that certain concessions can only be made if the specifics of their negotiations are kept private.
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by 5040 5y ago
Modern Japanese is interesting here. It also doesn't make use of spaces, capitalization, or much of punctuation for that matter.
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by 5040 5y ago
This is my favorite example of this sort of thing (Source: Appendix II - λυκάβαντος: when the wolf comes?' in Elisabeth Irwin's 'Solon and Early Greek Poetry: The Politics of Exhortation) At Odyssey 14.158–64 and 19.303–7, t
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by 5040 6y ago
Sadly, this is what customers want. When given the option of a 30$ belt that lasts for life or a 5$ belt that lasts one year, many will go for the latter, and this is who Walmart caters to.
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by 5040 6y ago
Of some relevance here: Transformers that are small are often on hand and easy to swap out. But some of the bigger ones have months long lead times. The facility we were at had transformers that had a 6 month lead time from Germany to repl
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by 5040 6y ago
I like how Plato puts it at Laws 4.709b where he speaks of god, luck, opportunity, and skill. "but human affairs are nearly all matters of pure chance. But the fact is that, although one may appear to be quite right in saying this abo
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by 5040 6y ago
It's a bit of a pain, but I've had some luck using isfdb.org. I search for the author, search and click on the desired title, and then check to see if it's in an inexpensive ebook collection. For example, I see that Asimov&#x
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by 5040 6y ago
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/stress-testing-the-boote... This article is 5 years old now, but may give a rough idea. Like other booter services, Asylum, Lizard Stresser and VDO rely on a subscription model
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by 5040 6y ago
There were sweeping purges on Twitter after the elections. The official story was that these were 'bots' or 'trolls', but lots of good accounts got permanently deleted. It happened two or three times as I recall. You&#x2
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by 5040 7y ago
Bee theft has a long history, with even Plato talking about it. (Laws 8.843d-e) >And if any, yielding to his taste of bees, secures for himself another man's swarm by attracting them with the rattling of pans, he shall pay for the d
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by 5040 7y ago
A number of stores use Sirius for their background music too.
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by 5040 7y ago
The Roman philosopher Seneca made a similar point about non-continuous noise. "Among the noises that sound around me but do not distract me, I count passing carriages, a carpenter somewhere in the building, a nearby saw grinder, and t
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by 5040 7y ago
>Someone has run the numbers and figure out energy cost and total tonnage and figure out what makes sense to streamline. Prices are dynamic though. Some things make sense to recycle today, but may not tomorrow, and some things may not ma
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by 5040 7y ago
>The only solution has always been to reduce consumption, but deep down, everyone wants to consume more and more, while at the same time feel better about and blissfully ignore that they are destroying the environment. Maybe I'm onl
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by 5040 7y ago
>Because at that time people didn’t distrust medical authorities like they do now (anti-vaxxers among others) I recommend taking a look at 'The State as an Immoral Factor' by Maria Louise Ramé--pseudonymously written in the lat
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by 5040 7y ago
There may come a time where tourists are tagged with GPS trackers. Those who go off the beaten path could face fines.
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by 5040 7y ago
That some use the word in its technical sense knowing full well that it will be interpreted to mean something entirely different is troublesome.
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by 5040 7y ago
This recent development in English law strikes me as inhuman. It turns the kissing of a sleeping lover into a violent sexual assault. Passion and spontaneity become criminalized.
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by 5040 8y ago
Environmentally speaking, doesn't it make more sense to get oil from close-by instead of importing it from far way?
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by 5040 8y ago
Is there such a thing as the "normal extinction rate"?
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by 5040 8y ago
>I seriously doubt that. It might have made it not "safe" for some small circles, but hardly "not cool" to the coolness-seeking people. Teenagers for example and younger people could hardly care about that. Sites can
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by 5040 8y ago
It's not exactly that extra costs should be imposed on these people, it's that these things shouldn't be subsidized.
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by 5040 8y ago
Speaking for myself, I'd love a small house with no parking and without a backyard. These houses are basically impossible to find because of zoning rules.
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by 5040 8y ago
It is useful in showing us how alien the original is.
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by 5040 9y ago
Imagine repeatedly telling those who truly struggle with mathematics that math is soothing, math is easy, even dumb people should be able to do math, etc.
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by 5040 9y ago
It must be said that the "extreme right" is hardly unified. I'm sure some of the groups labeled in this way actively seek to gain new adherents or to influence public discourse. Others still probably simply want to cater to s
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by 5040 9y ago
It may be that they are worried about getting punished by advertisers in the future. Youtube took a hit when news stories started claiming that extremists were making money off videos on the site.
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by 5040 9y ago
With help from an insider?
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by 5040 10y ago
Surely this is a victory for Poland?

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