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by b5 9y ago
> Like no other time in human history, we each > now have a say in any and every story being > told; any and every story ever told. This is disingenuous and misleading. The centralisation of entertainment -- in
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I've read the story, but frustratingly can't remember its title or who wrote it. The ending works well because everything in the car is handmade and overengineered, and the "improvements" are all cost-saving measures. I
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An Interview with Best-Selling Science Fiction Author Alastair Reynolds(futurism.media)
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by b5 9y ago
At my last job, which involved a lot of number work, my boss would often pick up my HP-12C to quickly calculate something we were talking about. Every single time, he'd say, "Your calculator is broken," then put it back on m
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by b5 9y ago
I have a couple of 12Cs -- one made the year I was born, and the other made 2011 -- and an 11C. I use my 12C for absolutely everything, and couldn't live without it. The one made the same year I was born (1983) is a sturdier, but the
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by b5 9y ago
My dad, who went to Uni in the '70s to do maths and physics, has a Sinclair scientific that looks very similar except has blue LED digits. I don't know the exact model.
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by b5 9y ago
> and one of the habits we have to get rid of if we > want to improve our ecological footprint. A much, much bigger improvement (reduction) of humanity's ecological footprint would be for everyone to go vegan two days
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by b5 9y ago
There's a documentary on Netflix called Pet Fooled [1] which covers how dogs and cats, are fed now and the effects a modern, processed diet can have on them. I've watched it, enjoyed it, and felt I learned from it. I don't
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I couldn't disagree more. Dogs definitely have tastebuds, can definitely taste foods, and definitely enjoy some foods more than others. Dogs can, and do, develop genuine, strong preferences for some foods over others. That's
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The name is probably ironic, but I immediately found it offputting: "In literary criticism, purple prose is prose text that is so extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw excessive attention to itself."[1] I&