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by andrewl 6mo ago
The population density is probably one factor. New Zealand has 5.34 million people in 103,000 square miles. At the other extreme you have Hong Kong with 7.5 million people in 430 square miles. Each mile of track gives service to a much larg
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by andrewl 6mo ago
Yes. You get a lot of bang for your buck as far as the number of people served. Hong Kong is less than half the area of Rhode Island, but the populations are 7.5 million for Hong Kong and 1.1 million for Rhode Island. Small area plus high p
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by andrewl 6mo ago
The fact that a product has not yet been created from a given technology does not mean the technology or the research itself is useless, or will not turn out to be useful in the long term. You can also learn a lot from research or develop
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by andrewl 6mo ago
His article has a link to an article about Uganda called How the deceased are robbing the living . [1] I know approximately nothing about Uganda, and I have no way of evaluating the article. Especially since I haven’t read it yet. But it d
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Kicking Off the ATP Working Group at the IETF(atproto.com)
1 points by andrewl 6mo ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 6mo ago
Yes. And then after you throw all your tools away you should buy my software.
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by andrewl 7mo ago
Replying to slibhb, while the research involving mental illness is not conclusive, fecal transplants are a known and accepted treatment for persistent C. diff ( Clostridioides difficile ) infection. Just for the record.
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The Death of the Cheap Laptop Is Coming(nytimes.com)
8 points by andrewl 7mo ago|3 comments
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by andrewl 7mo ago
Cassepipe, it’s not a great default for sure. What do you have yours mapped to? I mapped jj to return to normal mode and also save my file. So, as I’m typing, I just hit jj, the jj vanishes, and this command is run: <Esc>:w<CR>
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by andrewl 8mo ago
Speaking of ranged weapons, I used to throw boomerangs. Not the heavier, non-returning kind made for hunting, but the lighter returning boomerangs. It felt like magic when I finally got good enough to throw one and not have to take a step t
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David Gelernter recommends 'small good looking blonde' to satisfy Epstein(rawstory.com)
5 points by andrewl 8mo ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 8mo ago
I hope you are right, but the administration does not tend to follow court orders. They break the law and then use every legal mechanism at their disposal to slow walk cases through the system. And then, as I say, they do not follow rulings
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by andrewl 8mo ago
"It's like if we took sleeping pills every time we had trouble sleeping. Having said that, I just realised I have the impression that's exactly what people do in the USA?" Not that my personal experience is actually a st
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by andrewl 9mo ago
It's an important topic and it's worth getting the terms correct. Concentration camps and extermination camps are two different things. Not that Jewish and other peoples were not killed in concentration camps, either by being work
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by andrewl 9mo ago
I would say USAID (United States Agency for International Development) has done good work overseas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_Inter... Like all large organizations and projects they are not
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by andrewl 9mo ago
Not traveling alone on foot in a country in which you barely speak the language does not mean staying shut in your house and never traveling at all and never meeting people. There is a middle ground.
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by andrewl 9mo ago
The WNIP.org (Wednesday Night Interesting People) home page says: Invitees: Interesting Guys, Hot Girls. Exceptions Tolerated: Hot Guys, Interesting Girls. The organizer sounds like an unpleasant person.
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by andrewl 9mo ago
As another commenter said, at lot of the fraternal organizations are religious. The Elks site says to be eligible for membership, you must 1) Be at least 21 years of age; 2) Believe in God; 3) Be a citizen of the United States who pledges a
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by andrewl 9mo ago
What country are you in?
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by andrewl 10mo ago
Where do you live, and what does AOW stand for? There's no way to say whether your comparison is correct without having any idea of what you're comparing Social Security to.
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by andrewl 10mo ago
Will readers be able to create accounts and post, or is it read-only for readers?
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by andrewl 10mo ago
The comment I was replying to has been flagged and hidden, so here is the video it mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qI-Dd4MqYEc
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by andrewl 10mo ago
I’m all for analysis of, and challenges to, research studies. If we don’t have that we can’t do science. But I don’t like sneering, knee jerk statements like ourmandave’s Yeah, this seems related to the "raccoons becoming domesticated
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by andrewl 10mo ago
One idea of how ancient statues might have been colored can be seen on the pediment of the Philadelphia Museum of Art: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pediment,_Philly_Art...
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by andrewl 10mo ago
As a big fan, and user, of SQLite, this looks like something to watch. And I agree with the comments about the unfortunate name. Just yesterday there was a post here about bad names for software: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by andrewl 10mo ago
I strongly agree with this. And what bothers me more than obscure or meaningless names like Viper are silly and embarrassing names like Hunchentoot. Names like that sometimes cause people to dismiss good software. It’s like using Comic Sans
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Operation Bluebird wants to reclaim Twitter's trademark for a new social network(theverge.com)
7 points by andrewl 10mo ago|1 comments
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Cybercrims Arrested, Accused of Plotting 'violence-as-a-service'(theregister.com)
3 points by andrewl 10mo ago|0 comments
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Kicking Robots – Humanoids and the Tech Industry Hype Machine(harpers.org)
1 points by andrewl 10mo ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 10mo ago
The Semantics and Philosophy section of the Ruby page on Wikipedia gives a good overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language)#Se...

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