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by DanBC 6y ago
Videos often do poorly on HN but I thought I'd submit this anyway because it's an interesting look at very high precision machining. He also talks about the intricacies of measuring when the thing you're measuring, and the to
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Making Precision Gage Balls(youtube.com)
2 points by DanBC 6y ago|1 comments
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by DanBC 6y ago
Because we, unlike the Americans, have article 8 protections.
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by DanBC 6y ago
That's not how language works.
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by DanBC 6y ago
They mean to say "90% of the plastic in the ocean that comes from rivers comes from just 10 rivers". https://factcheck.afp.com/widely-cited-study-did-not-show-95... "It estimated that 88 to 95 percent of the
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Glasgow's street gangs: Tongs ya bass(glasgowlive.co.uk)
1 points by DanBC 6y ago|0 comments
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by DanBC 6y ago
> Vegans are still omnivores, No they aren't. From New Oxford English Dictionary: > omnivorous > adjective (of an animal or person) feeding on a variety of food of both plant and animal origin.
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by DanBC 6y ago
> The professional class generally have great care and don't pay much for it. Wealthy people in the US are over-tested, which leads to over-diagnosis and over-treatment, and these things cause harm.
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by DanBC 6y ago
> Thirdly, the content is beyond terrible. Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet, Stillwater, For All Mankind, Little America, Ted Lasso, Boy's State -- these are all pretty good or excellent. They're definitely getting more hits
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by DanBC 6y ago
Advice to people learning English as a foreign language is that this use is fine, but you might want to avoid it in writing because some people mistakenly think it's an error. But it has a long history. > Further, as they/them
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by DanBC 6y ago
It's been used as singular for as long as modern English has existed.
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by DanBC 6y ago
We need to remember that the HN rule allows very polite racists to speak about how they feel Black people are genetically inferior, and then bans the people who respond angrily.
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Wet Plate Photography Makes Tattoos Disappear(petapixel.com)
32 points by DanBC 6y ago|5 comments
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by DanBC 6y ago
"Joe Bloggs III" is a pretty common name? Are all those parents arseholes?
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by DanBC 6y ago
You can't pick and chose which bits of the standard to apply! > meter out a 1 litre pot of water. now meter out 18-20 grams of loose green tea. what you brew (if you attempt it) will be flat-out undrinkable. You've ignored the
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by DanBC 6y ago
She had full thickness burns requiring debridement and skin grafts. You probably need to read up on her injuries before calling it dumb shit.
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by DanBC 6y ago
Here are two links with lots of information: https://www.riskscreen.com/kyc360/news/art-in-the-frame-for-... https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2019/09/the-art
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The right wing being silenced by cancel culture? Are they, though?(alloaadvertiser.com)
2 points by DanBC 6y ago|0 comments
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Geosocial Networking Application Use Among Sexual Minority Adolescents(sciencedirect.com)
1 points by DanBC 6y ago|0 comments
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by DanBC 6y ago
You have to feed your slaves or they die. No-one suggests that this is somehow paying them.
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by DanBC 6y ago
No-one's burning any books. A company has decided to stop printing and selling a few books. This is the exact same commercial decision they make every day for thousands of books. There's probably a useful discussion about whether
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by DanBC 6y ago
No, because I'm not interested in not very good, sixty year old, books.
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by DanBC 6y ago
I don't get it. All her books are still in print and being sold. All the films from her books are still being sold. There's work happening right now to create games from her IP. She could have an interview published in any UK me
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by DanBC 6y ago
Had you ever heard of these six books before today? Have you ever read them? How many were sold? We've been sanitising kids books for decades now. What version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory do you own? The original with actual
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by DanBC 6y ago
The place is called Tintern. It's being described as "in the Wye Valley", but that's not part of the name.
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by DanBC 6y ago
Children are taken off the parents to protect them from harm. We can only justify that if we then protect them from harm, and that means not placing them with abusive parents.
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by DanBC 6y ago
> Talking out of both sides of your mouth means saying contradictory things, It's a bit more than that, isn't it? There are elements of dishonesty. From Cambridge Idiom Dictionary > be speaking/talking out of both sides
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by DanBC 6y ago
> In what instance is he being _bad_? In his own words, he is an asshole some of the time >> Am I really an asshole? I don’t think so. Not most of the time. Many of us have worked with men like this and they're awful. I mean,
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by DanBC 6y ago
> but I'd rather read the meat of the story than variations of "I don't think I'm a bad guy." Especially when he illustrates that with examples of him being the bad guy.
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by DanBC 6y ago
> But he wasn't public about his identity prior to this, I don't understand how people make this claim when had given out most of his real name, his profession, his state, and the kind of work he did. Finding SSC from his real

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