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by carlob 9y ago
I don't know why turk184's comment is dead. But yeah adversarial mouches seems like an amazing idea! And why not QR-codes.
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by carlob 9y ago
> Contestants were required to give their email address and share their location in order to earn a chance to win tickets to see Manson live at a show near them. ah ok
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by carlob 9y ago
Why can't pasta have been invented independently in Italy and in China (and possibly somewhere else?). After all flatbread and pizza are very very common in cultures that had not communicated. As a matter of fact the first written ment
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by carlob 9y ago
The Romans probably had some kind of fried pasta called lagana (probably cognate of lasagna), the other things you mention are not quite staples, for example avocados are still pretty hard to come by in Italy.
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by carlob 9y ago
Or zucchini, peppers, eggplants, chillies, and coffee which are all staples of Italian cuisine now.
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by carlob 9y ago
> In fact, Roman cuisine wasn’t at all like Italian food. It was all about contrasting sweet with salty and sour foods (they liked to eat fishgut sauce, garum, with melon). It's true that it wasn't at all like Italian food, but
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by carlob 9y ago
At the current American rates probably, but in countries with universal healthcare the costs are not ridiculously inflated by a Byzantine system.
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by carlob 9y ago
Piketty argues we need a low worldwide universal capital tax. At the very least one of the advantages would be to have a census of wealth, just like we have for income.
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by carlob 9y ago
I'm very surprised lobsters and other shellfish don't make the cut…
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by carlob 9y ago
> Many remain skeptical of deduplication, which hogs expensive RAM in the best-case scenario. And I do mean expensive: Pretty much every ZFS FAQ flatly declares that ECC RAM is a must-have and 8 GB is the bare minimum. In my own experien
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by carlob 9y ago
I think on average in western countries women actually work more much more than men when you consider house chores and childcare as work.
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by carlob 9y ago
Nokia 515, I'm sure you can still find it on ebay
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by carlob 9y ago
I've seen supermarkets sell live basil plants for the past 20 years (probably even earlier but I wasn't paying attention) in multiple countries. Maybe they just picked the wrong example to start the article?
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by carlob 9y ago
Education
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by carlob 9y ago
A review from one year ago https://the-digital-reader.com/2016/05/16/second-gen-dasung-... the price tag seems to be $1300
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by carlob 9y ago
And what's capital i, in English and most other countries it's I, but in Turkish it's İ, while I is uppercase ı.
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by carlob 9y ago
Funny that the main researcher on this study on ochre would be called Rosso (red in Italian).
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by carlob 9y ago
Not invented, right (but I didn't say exactly that). However in the context of Sgt. Peppers: According to David Fricke, the album was a major influence on The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Paul McCartney reg
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by carlob 9y ago
It's also worth noting how heavily the whole Sgt. Pepper is influenced by Freak Out! by Frank Zappa. That record basically singlehandedly started the psychedelic revolution in rock. If you don't know it go listen to it!
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by carlob 9y ago
Telegram works without a smartphone, whatsapp doesn't.
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by carlob 9y ago
A few years back I was kinda in this role: I was contacted by an old professor of mine who didn't know I moved out of academia and into software. He had recently won a grant and wanted to hire me as a post doc. In the end we arranged t
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by carlob 9y ago
I have this bookmarklet I use all the time javascript:(function()%7B(function%20()%20%7Bvar%20i%2C%20elements%20%3D%20document.querySelectorAll('body%20*')%3Bfor%20(i%20%3D%200%3B%20i%20%3C%20elements.length%3B%20i%2B%2B)%20
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by carlob 9y ago
Not so sure it's cheaper in France. There are many ways to go to the movies for much less than that. There is some kind of subscription that's very popular in Paris that lets you go to any movie in about half of the theaters (incl
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by carlob 10y ago
> a junior, a medior and a senior first time I hear the word medior. It's a fun neologism, but it's technically very wrong in Latin: senior and junior are comparatives (older and younger), so medior would be more medium?
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by carlob 10y ago
Why take the mean instead of the median of the images? Wouldn't the median be less sensitive to outliers?
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by carlob 10y ago
and octarine!
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by carlob 10y ago
I wonder how dependent this is on language: can we make Trump speak Chinese using a one minute audio track of him speaking English?
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by carlob 10y ago
You are also assuming that Italian cuisine didn't evolve in the past century. Even the most famous Italian dish: pizza margherita is not 150 years old. There are very common dishes nowadays, for example carpaccio, that pare post-ww2 in
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by carlob 10y ago
Not true, spaghetti con le polpettine is a thing, just not very common nowadays, and not spread throughout the country.
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by carlob 10y ago
All I'm saying is that if you think about it. If somebody asks you where to buy good bread, you probably have an opinion. If somebody asks you where to have a good espresso or a simple pasta dish, you probably know one place where wher

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