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901.
by ashark 10y ago
> It was difficult to find a shop selling better furniture than Ikea, except for the designer furniture stores in the centre of Copenhagen -- and I'm not ready to spend over 5000kr on a concrete-topped table. Same in the US. The opt
902.
by ashark 10y ago
Yeah, I was agreeing. Sorry, I think I edited more meaning in just as you were responding.
903.
by ashark 10y ago
Coal mining alone probably destroys dozens (could be a vast underestimate) of absolutely incredible, actually scientifically valuable fossils every single day. Source: have sifted through what's left when they're done. [EDIT]
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by ashark 10y ago
No-one with the interest and means to preserve these fossils would have taken them for free . They're already giving/throwing away nicer pieces than these because they're out of space.
905.
by ashark 10y ago
Vertebrae are among the cheapest parts of a dinosaur. Spinosaurus isn't an especially rare dinosaur. Morocco, where they sourced this, sells dinosaur bone by the crate-load (literally). It's also a hotbed of fakes and mediocre pie
906.
by ashark 10y ago
You also don't suffer for spending 2-3hrs watching a movie then waiting indefinitely before watching another. Even if you're watching a series of movies they were originally released months to years apart, so you'll be fine
907.
by ashark 10y ago
The profit margin on this has to be bonkers . Maybe not on the first one, but now that they've got the process down? Yikes.
908.
by ashark 10y ago
Similar situation here. With the time constraints imposed by kids you have to drop entire categories of activities, not just moderate them, because the baseline time commitment ("oh god, last time I played this was 2 weeks ago and I
909.
by ashark 10y ago
Yeah, I'm doing salad-with-fats lunches now to hopefully aid the next attempt, and I rarely eat breakfast anyway but when I do it's already mostly fats 90% of the time (full-fat yoghurt with no added sugar + nuts). Doubt I'd
910.
by ashark 10y ago
I know it shouldn't be a big deal to fast even for a few days, and I don't find hunger to be a problem, but I do find feeling very drunk-dizzy and incredibly tired starting around hours 14-16 to be a problem. That part defin
911.
by ashark 10y ago
Finding out about this a few months ago was enlightening. Entire classes of messes I've seen in public restrooms that were previously inexplicable short of deliberate action became comprehensible through a combination of stand-to-wiper
912.
by ashark 10y ago
That's the vibe of the entire Android project, though. At least the developer-facing side of it. Lots of the SDK feels poorly-thought-out, even relatively recent additions. Some things that exist for both Web and Android are worse on A
913.
by ashark 10y ago
The NRA and NRA-backed politicians tend to fight even researching gun deaths, let alone trying to do anything about them. If you know that, then any gap in our knowledge about gun violence stops being surprising. http://www.bus
914.
by ashark 10y ago
7 weeks minimum vacation by law, so everyone has the time to stay healthy and sane (could do a 4wk-long hike/year and you still have 3wks left for regular vacations and other stuff, plus holidays off). Quickest and surest route from
915.
by ashark 10y ago
OH yeah, though (as you note) mostly interviewing. Those "tell me about a time when something went wrong" or "tell me about a time you had a conflict with someone" sorts of questions are really stressful. I damn near hav
916.
by ashark 10y ago
Plus climate change would have to get pretty incredibly bad for, say, Mars to start looking easier to live on than Earth. That's the problem with colonization as an Earth back-up—even Antarctica and the Sahara Desert are more livable
917.
by ashark 10y ago
Not aware of any. Only recently found out about this—didn't realize until a few years ago that I was so far outside of normal, just thought everyone's experience was similar to mine, more or less. Only found that Wikipedia artic
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by ashark 10y ago
I have a terrible memory for names, and (relatedly?) have awful auto-biographiical memory, which is apparently a distinct thing from other forms of memory. I've got an average-ish memory otherwise. I'd have trouble giving you spec
919.
by ashark 10y ago
Despite having to have Slack for work anyway, I find joining public projects' Slack channels to be too high-commitment, so I never do it. IRC? No problem. I also like that IRC somehow has both a less formal and a lower-BS feel/c
920.
by ashark 10y ago
Personally, I find absolutes like "I will not eat period " or "I will eat only pre-packaged x, y, and z for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, respectively, every day" much easier to follow than more vague calorie-counting r
921.
by ashark 10y ago
IF can just mean skipping breakfast or something. Apparently I've done it for years without meaning to by just often not being in the mood for breakfast. I wouldn't call it "real" fasting in the way you'd usually th
922.
by ashark 10y ago
Vonnegut's Bluebeard : I think that could go back to the time when people had to live in small groups of relatives—maybe fifty or a hundred people at the most. And evolution or God or whatever arranged things genetically, to keep the
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by ashark 10y ago
Counterpoint: I'd consider the Wii one of the worst designed consoles around. 1) Way less portable than its predecessor (Gamecube, famously portable) and, for that matter, most other consoles ever made, aside from a handful of famous
924.
by ashark 10y ago
Yeah, and especially "don't ever, ever put your real name, phone number, or location into ANY online system". It was the way to preserve the benefits of anonymity and free speech without opening the door to (much) serious a
925.
by ashark 10y ago
Similar experience. Win10 was really, really sluggish on my spinning rust drive. Problem went away with an SSD. Must be tuned for use on a solid state drive.
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by ashark 10y ago
The provisioning? Yes, easier on Android. Getting published in the app store? Yes. Having an IDE that doesn't crash daily? Yes. Everything else is harder/worse though. Documentation, SDK/APIs, device ecosystem (so, testing an
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by ashark 10y ago
We used to have to call[1] several people to organize a gathering/outing, in the distant past of 15 years ago. If someone wasn't home you just had to try again later and/or leave a message, which they would only hear when the
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by ashark 10y ago
There doesn't seem to be much difference between making you unlock your phone (and thus all the services it's connected to) and just making you sign into your social/cloud accounts at a kiosk. Are they doing that yet? If not,
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by ashark 10y ago
Cheap Android phone. Temporary, cheap SIM (or none—you can get one where you're going) with a different number from your real one. Only way to go. Bonus that it's 100% reasonable to do this because you don't want to risk havi
930.
by ashark 10y ago
Moto G4 Play if you want something that's not totally disposable but is also sort-of an OK phone, by cheap Android phone standards. ~$130, which is pretty cheap for someone from the US on HN, most likely. You'd be sad to lose it

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