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by carlob 8y ago
Well, given the recent spat with Spotify I'm under the impression that they have more than enough curators to clean up the app store from scammy apps. I just think they make enough money from microtransaction "whales" not to
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by carlob 8y ago
Funnily enough the word we use for stamping tickets in Italian is vidimare which comes from vidimus (seen) in Latin, so it's actually closer to visa in etymology.
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by carlob 8y ago
More accurate, less precise
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by carlob 8y ago
Well, now they can use bird's mode as yet another option for directions. I often wish it was easier to get geodesic distance. It is certainly more useful than that uber and lyft ad.
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by carlob 8y ago
ever heard of the phrase bird's-eye view?
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by carlob 8y ago
wait aren't virtually all android apps written in java?
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by carlob 8y ago
A new kind of personal infrastructure?
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by carlob 8y ago
I once visited the US SW with a T-Mobile phone and I think I've seen it connect to some network twice in ten days.
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by carlob 8y ago
> Wolfram-branded Pilot Precise Grip pens, Honestly, that's just swag. I must have a box of them, plus 10 t-shirts, cardboard spikeys, bags from various conferences.
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by carlob 8y ago
I'm just going to say this: walking is faaaar better than eating :)
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by carlob 8y ago
Disclaimer: Stephen Wolfram pays my rent. The times have changed a lot since Matthew Cook, now a lot of my meetings with him are simultaneously live-streamed on several different platforms and the recordings are available for anyone to use.
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by carlob 8y ago
I call bullshit. Go to any grocery store in Italy and the prices range from 1 to 7 euros for a 250 g pack, go to a local roaster and you can go up to 10, yet the cup of espresso is always 0.80-1.20 euros. Why is that? Given the amount of co
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by carlob 8y ago
It's not quite "my idea", it's how hot beverages have been served and drank for centuries before the invention of disposable cups. Somewhat related fun fact: did you know that the waffle ice cream cone was invented to ma
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by carlob 8y ago
100% of cafés in Italy serve coffee in non-disposable cups and it rarely costs more than a euro. It's a cultural thing, not economical. Most food and beverages are take out by default in the US.
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by carlob 8y ago
This really drives me nuts. You get this long article about the "discerning coffee connoisseur", and yet you have a picture of the robot pouring coffee in a paper cup. To me this is exactly like seeing an article about sommelier a
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by carlob 8y ago
But in Europe we have stronger customer protection laws: if something doesn't work as advertised you have 1-3 years (depending on the country) to bring it back to whoever sold it to you. Then it's their problem to deal with the ma
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by carlob 8y ago
QR codes that give recruiters and marketers my email information are bad and should die. I'm looking at you codemotion!
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by carlob 8y ago
Venice has both, which might make it more confusing. Each door can be addressed either by street name + number1 or by sestiere name + number2. Note that number1 and number2 do not coincide.
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by carlob 8y ago
> Prostitution is not illegal in many parts of the world, and even decriminalised is some parts. Nitpick: decriminalization means that something is still illegal, but it's not a crime.
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by carlob 8y ago
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by carlob 8y ago
I once fell from my bike because of this behavior in Paris. I was basically in front of Notre Dame, car traffic was blocked at a green light but the bicycle lane was free. I was going at a good clip and a tourist crossed in front of me. I s
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by carlob 8y ago
I remember seeing a piano from the early XX century that had a fourth string, however it was sympathetic (never struck) and there was no fine control of how many strings were being struck. EDIT: found it! https://www.pianostreet.
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by carlob 8y ago
There is also the whole question of salinization. I highly recommend Cadillac Desert
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by carlob 8y ago
I remember reading about some experiment involving mosquitoes and body odor, IIRC they were done behind a mosquito net. I seem to remember the takeaway was: wash your feet well.
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by carlob 8y ago
> He was tall and lean, ran six miles a day, and was a strict vegetarian. “I believe a physician should provide exemplary motivation to patients,” he once wrote. “I don’t smoke and have cut out all alcohol.” > “Sometimes I worked from
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by carlob 8y ago
Best 12 euros I've ever spent, even thought I haven't yet mastered the stone in a kettle barbecue the results in my Ikea electric oven are amazing.
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by carlob 8y ago
Two more school-related examples from Tuscany. The Latin lapis for pencil instead of matita. What do you erase the blackboard with? The correct Italian term is cimosa, but you'd hardly hear it outside Tuscany. I'm also reminded of
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by carlob 8y ago
The cafeteria of the place where I went to grad school in Paris still serves wine. I also know of at least one research institution in the US that serves wine at the cafeteria.
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by carlob 8y ago
Maybe it's just the short video and the FAQ, but I found it particularly difficult to find information about the distributions involved and how to choose that. I imagine there a bunch of cases where the defaults would not work like you
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by carlob 8y ago
That's Germany not Belgium ;)

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