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by bb101 7y ago
It's a long o-umlaut. Pronounced like "err" (thinking) or a stretched out version of "ea" from earth. Incidentally, Erdős in Hungarian means Forester.
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by bb101 7y ago
You beat me to it. I find the references quite perverse, and detracts from the rest of the article.
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by bb101 7y ago
I agree with your sentiment, just not your delivery.
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by bb101 7y ago
For most home users, the NAT on their router is also their firewall. It's akin to saying that it doesn't matter if someone can open your front door as they will only get access to the entrance hall...
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by bb101 7y ago
I just set a reminder for +1 year minus 2 days in my calendar and live happily knowing I'll be notified when the time is right.
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by bb101 7y ago
It would appear QANTAS doesn't have any ex-Charleston 787s either. Couldn't say whether it's intentional.
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by bb101 7y ago
It's possible to find out whether a 787 was made in Everett or Charleston by checking the production site and remarks on planespotters.net e.g. https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/Boeing/787/G-ZBJM-Bri
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by bb101 7y ago
Excellent analysis of the topic. Thank you.
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by bb101 7y ago
Interesting how the author seems to think that cycling advocates have only a marginal impact on our built environment because they "ask for twigs". I would have assumed that the lack of cycling infrastructure in cities is more inf
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by bb101 7y ago
A good place to start is to read Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma [1]. I was amazed at how much of our current food originates as corn. Corn is good at fattening cattle in record time, and seems to be having the same effect on
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by bb101 7y ago
I use RSS multiple times a day through Feedly and Reeder. It is anything but dead.
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by bb101 7y ago
If one is going to buy the phone anyway, payment plans with 0% interest make a lot of sense (from the buyer's perspective).
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by bb101 7y ago
Depends if his objective is form a future network of C-suite acquaintances (Harvard, Oxbridge), or to learn science (MIT, Netherlands).
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by bb101 7y ago
"Ferrier sat his Leaving Certificate exams last month at Schull Community College and is due to attend university in the Netherlands. The teenager works as a curator at the Schull Planetarium, has won 12 science fair awards, speaks th
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by bb101 7y ago
Many supermarkets in the UK outsource maintenance of their car parks to private firms, who benefit from being able to charge after a certain period has elapsed. It's the same with hospitals, train stations, council car parks. It makes
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by bb101 7y ago
I found the food on the Amtrak Coastal Starlight (Seattle-LA) better than expected, and their wines were much better than I expected (comparable to Asian airlines' wines in business class). A pleasant journey all round really.
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by bb101 7y ago
The BBC had an interesting article this week exploring these very ideas in the context of the island of Barbuda. Why I don't want to own the land my business is built on : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-492101
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by bb101 7y ago
I remember watching the 1988 film God Bless the Child [1] with Mare Winningham as the hardworking yet impoverished mother trying to keep it together for her young daughter. It was so moving, I cried all the way through it and it has left
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by bb101 7y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look.
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by bb101 7y ago
Fascinating. Do you know any recent good books that cover the topic? I'm thinking something like Browder's Red Notice, but for China. Misha Glenny delved into China in his McMafia, but it was more about smuggling in the Fujian pro
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by bb101 7y ago
The last time we drove through Poundbury on a summer weekend, the town (it's not a city) was a ghost town. We tried to find somewhere pleasant to have lunch - i.e. open and not fast food - and utterly failed. It has a central town squa
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by bb101 7y ago
The rot starts at the top: https://www.elsevier.com/about/management
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by bb101 7y ago
iOS 13 will be supported on the 6s, just not on the 6/6 Plus (and below).
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by bb101 7y ago
"But since I flew into O’Hare on a commercial flight, like a common schmuck, Hertz wouldn’t give me the car, even though they clearly had it to give. Basically, I wasn’t rich enough to rent the car Hertz had allowed me to reserve, so
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by bb101 7y ago
I lived across the street from the Charles Dickens Museum in London for years. Never once went as "it'll always be there later". Still haven't been.
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by bb101 7y ago
It could be the tip of a trend. For every one person suffering the full Paris Syndrome psychosis, there are probably a thousand Japanese departing Charles de Gaulle thinking to themselves "What a horrible dump, thank god we are leaving
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by bb101 7y ago
The jocular style had me clicking the close button after three paragraphs ... "(long story, don't ask)"
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by bb101 7y ago
This is revolutionary, even if only from a dynamic range standpoint. It's somewhat disappointing to see the first comment under their article is "Looks like VHS" ... really?
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by bb101 7y ago
Iain Bank's Culture series deals with self-conscious machines with the same rights and freedoms as humans. Each machine has a value denoting its mental equivalence to a human, and some starship Minds are close to gods (similar to compa
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by bb101 7y ago
Only if I had no other choice. When choosing my flights, I'd actively avoid the Max and if my flight was changed to use a Max, I'd look around for an alternative date or time.

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