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by a_bonobo 5y ago
Newer Sesame Street episodes refer to social issues which were not on the forefront of the 70s, or wasn't deemed something kids should know about. The South African Sesame Street now has an HIV-positive muppet, the US Sesame Street has
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
Birkenstock had a similar story - too many resellers, lots of counterfeit trash, so they stopped working with Amazon (they still work with Amazon subsidiaries though) https://footwearnews.com/2020/business/retail&#
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
>Why don’t more plants evolve towards the “grass” strategy? Fun story!!! Seagrasses are like whales, in that their ancestors lived on land, and now they live completely submerged. Seagrasses are nowhere closely related to grasses. Quote:
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
>People were like “yes, $100 million deli, absolutely, I want to buy that.” Hometown went from a thinly traded pink-sheet deli that nobody had heard of, to a company that everyone had heard of exclusively because it was a poster child fo
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
>Federal prosecutors and the Ministry of the Interior regularly move against organizations deemed far-right or hate groups. On the contrary, the Verfassungschutz and other federal organisations built to work against enemies of the state
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Here in Australia, some food prizes are up because the farming industry relies on cheap backpacker labor. Borders are shut so no backpackers come in, so a lot of fruit died on the field. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03&
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
>The most realistic scenario is that he knows exactly what he's saying and is doing so simply to rile up fanatics, I don't know, if there's one thing I've learned from Q-anon and other modern cultists is that they are
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
>I have never not got all of my bond back. Then you're lucky - I've had enough friends in QLD and WA who have had their bond partially kept back because the landlord company thought they could get a few hundred or thousand for
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Scholarly Kitchen is the 'house' blog of the publishing industry, they've run very similar articles > https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/09/18/guest-post-th... >Let me be clear: Sci-
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
This seems to be a rewrite of a Quillette piece - at least it's the same person? HN discussion on the quilette piece: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20486348
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Yes, you're right, the German system is a bit weird. In a nutshell: At the end of primary school your primary teacher recommends whether you should go to Hauptschule, Realschule, or Gymnasium. H. and R. ends after year 10 after which y
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Seveso - Bhopal - Chernobyl - Fukushima is n > 1, but most people forgot Seveso and Bhopal. n=1 needs to occur every ~10 years.
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
In the 70s Monty Python picked up this tradition by shooting two episodes of 'Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus' for German TV. The first special was written in English, then translated to German, and all Python members learne
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
I don't know, that book looks a bit dodgy - released 6-ish months ago, OK publisher, 6 reviews on Amazon, the co-author seems to be a long-time Clinton enemy ( https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bensmith/man-
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
It's like when you give your old stuff away on Facebook/craigslist/gumtree - when it's free, you'll get very entitled people messaging you whether you can deliver it to them, or don't keep agreements. Asking fo
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Think of it as your wine-cellar, you wouldn't keep all those bottles after you've drunk them!
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
It did plummet from about 100 books to 40 per year. For me the key was a) getting an ebook reader so I always have books on me and b) commuting instead of driving to work, that's an easy 90-120 minutes of reading per day. The Goodreads
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Yeah, the Python csv package hasn't had problems for me yet. One unfortunate bug that they seem to have put onto the 'wont-fix' pile is that for many recent-ish books, the 'date read' field isn't properly expor
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Could he retire from Google, take his money, and resign his US citizenship? That's what Tina Turner did, she is now a Swiss national, she does not pay taxes to the US anymore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Turn
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Same for me between R's data-frames and Python pandas' data-frames, they kind of do the same thing but they're also just different enough to make switching hard, you're constantly stuck in an uncanny valley
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Very often I see these tiny articles in local newspapers, 15 sentences, that go something like 'The driver lost control of their vehicle and died in the crash'. I've had some terrifying software problems in Audis, including r
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Outright insurance fraud. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/06/ubiome-suspends-clinical-ope... >In the months before the FBI search, the company would often bill insurance multiple times for its tests without p
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Australia's Centrelink, the unemployment/student payment government body, is notorious for doing this. They have physical centres which usually tell you to call the hotline. In 2015, the hotline got the busy signal for 29 million
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
I use !g often because google is a bit better at finding error messages, while DDG seems to search more for individual terms within the error message
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
When you finish a book you can review it, or assign shelves. The default shelves are to-read and read but you can add many custom ones too. The shelves work like tags. Once you have a decent amount of books with tags, goodreads will start r
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
For me, recommendations got remarkably better once I used 5-10 tags ('shelves') per book for about 50 books I read - after that, the per-shelf recommendations got very good.
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
Or in this absolutely mind blowing article showing different groups and classes of interfaces https://www.designedbycave.co.uk/2020/LEGO-Interface-UX/
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
I think wadkar means part 2 - deep learning from the foundations - which you could do optionally after finishing the 'main' course. It USED to live here: https://course.fast.ai/part2 but has disappeared, I reckon
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
I did have AOL in the early days of 56k in Germany. It was the same walled garden as it was in the US, and I was 'locked in' that garden without knowing. I must've been 12 or 14 years old and this was our very first internet.
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by a_bonobo 6y ago
'The bees are dying so we should all become beekeepers!' is imho, one of the biggest failures of science-communication in the past decades. Honey bees are doing comparatively OK, for honey bees to die out it would require a much g

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