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by carlob 10y ago
Just start considering NJ the 21st Italian region. Spaghetti with meatballs and chicken parm are certainly things you never see in Italy, but are considered a staple of Italian cuisine in the US. The other thing which is weird is how a lot
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by carlob 10y ago
Frankly German bread is also often excellent in termsof both variety and consistency.
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by carlob 10y ago
I am from Rome, I lived in France for more than 5 years and now I'm back in Italy. Southern Italian bread is good, provided you like the 2-3 types made your area, which usually means some variation of casereccio. Oh and also choose the
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by carlob 10y ago
I wear hard gas-permeable lenses, and AFAIK those have to be washed with water as well as some detergent and then rinsed with water. Does anyone know if all the article says applies to hard lenses too? For those who don't know the diff
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by carlob 10y ago
Your comment made me check if it actually was possible, and what the platonic solids in higher dimensions were. http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/platonic.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/120-ce
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by carlob 10y ago
> Scots is a language, historically equivalent to English - very similar but different. What is considered a language or a dialect is largely a political construct. By the way you put it, it seems to be the case here too.
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by carlob 10y ago
Yet another thing not mentioned in the article is the effect on the energy grid: as we move towards renewables, which are much harder to turn on and off to match demand, we will need to invest a lot more in energy storage. Large scale deplo
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by carlob 10y ago
One idea could be, use this dataset for training an image recognition net, and when there is no codebar fall back on that.
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by carlob 10y ago
Lead that has just been dug out of the earth was exposed to radiation from other minerals and cosmic radiation until very recently. On the other hand this batch of ancient lead was at the bottom of a lake for 2000 years, so it had time to l
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by carlob 10y ago
I remember visiting the Gran Sasso Laboratories during a high school trip (my high school physics teacher had practiced particle physics for a bit before teaching). It was really one of the defining moments as a student, one of the things t
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by carlob 10y ago
Sure, let's repeal Obamacare and tell the poor to invest in the stock market to get enough money to get medical treatment, I'm sure that's gonna work out great for them.
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by carlob 10y ago
The problems start when the rich get richer faster than what it takes for the poor to get a little less poor. This is what is described as 'divergent behavior'. In the long term there is no equilibrium to this, and we revert to pr
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by carlob 10y ago
After owning a couple of smartphones I went back to dumbphones a few years ago. I've owned a Nokia 515 and now a Nokia 208. By book reading went up about an order of magnitude. The only thing I really miss are maps. I actually just spe
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by carlob 10y ago
Arguably the Marshall Plan is one of the best examples of this
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by carlob 10y ago
Yeah can we please change this to the original blog post at rcharlie.com?
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by carlob 10y ago
I once bought some Camembert in France which, instead of having an expiration date, had a date to determine the ripeness of the cheese e.g. "Eat this cheese 30 days after this date if you like it ripe and runny".
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by carlob 10y ago
The video says the difference between reals and rationals is that reals can have infinite decimal expansions. But I concede you're right (if a bit pedantic), the complement of reals and rationals is irrationals.
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by carlob 10y ago
These are the things I found I would have known to be wrong at the end of high school: The complex plane doesn't usually have the imaginary on the x axis. Real numbers are not the only ones that have infinite digits, think 1/3. e
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by carlob 10y ago
Not necessarily, it could be e if you're using natural logarithms. Anyway: log10(12.74) = 1.10, log10(80) = 1.90. So, it's a little less than a full order of magnitude, but pretty close.
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by carlob 10y ago
Doesn't seem to work in Safari, probably because the audio is a wav.
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by carlob 10y ago
(2014)
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by carlob 10y ago
What about the politics?
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by carlob 10y ago
I don't think most taps reach 60° C. That would be 140° F in freedom units…
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by carlob 10y ago
> A few years ago HN's nested tables led to random font sizes on mobile. So there have definitely been problems in the past. That was actually a bug in Chrome, that was trying to be overly smart and changing font sizes aggressively.
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by carlob 10y ago
> Slow? Okay, we don't have as much high-speed rails as France, but e.g. Hamburg-Munich (775km, once across the whole country) is 5:40h, while traveling by car is ~8h. You don't have real high speed at all: 775km is more or les
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by carlob 10y ago
Except Hannover Berlin is more or less the same as Paris Lille. Paris Lille is under 1h and the price never exceeds 35 euros (which means you can sometimes find tickets under 20). Now compare the prices with the price of everything else in
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by carlob 10y ago
Just last week I bought return tickets from Rome to Milan for the days around Christmas on Italo (the only competitor for high speed trains) and I paid under 50 euros return. Also the distance is not 420 km, but closer to 600 (it's 480
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by carlob 10y ago
I think this is more of a statement to how bad DB is. In Germany traveling with blablacar or mitfahrtgelegenheit is still very very popular, because trains are slow and incredibly expensive. Even if in my own country (Italy) people love to
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by carlob 10y ago
See how well that went in the UK… We've had this in Italy for high speed trains for a while, and so far the only private competitor is close to bankruptcy.
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by carlob 10y ago
We've been using zoom.us for a few years now and it seems to work pretty well. If your internet is too flaky you can still dial in.

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