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by clock_tower 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland Note the first picture in 1772 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland#/media/Fi... ), showing a Poland that looks remarkabl
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Whatever their problem is, they're not the only ones to have it. Japan's been in the doldrums for decades; my understanding is that the country turns a profit, as it were, but doesn't have many opportunities for further inves
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Not many want to live in these areas yet , but there was a time when Paris was a few mud huts on an island, and Venice was a swamp. Determination, patience, and wealth are what create destinations, even if you don't have California&#x
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by clock_tower 9y ago
There's revolution, and there's also a general fading into irrelevance. The Ottoman Empire probably stagnated and collapsed because their land-use practices led to steadily declining agricultural yields; the US's increasingly
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by clock_tower 9y ago
> That being said, what is feasible to do? On a personal scale, at least: live close to work, and save as much money as you can; the amount you spend is a tolerably good measure of your carbon footprint. The ideal would be to live close
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by clock_tower 9y ago
But they do mask the quality of other ingredients -- note the Frenchman's comment above.
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Like a MOAB drizzled with chocolate sauce? :)
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by clock_tower 9y ago
I agree with what he's saying, but you do have a point. Good prose is lucid; eschew obfuscation, as the saying goes.
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by clock_tower 9y ago
You sound like you'd enjoy Mexican chocolate drinks, if you get the chance. I once had the chance to try freshly-prepared Mexican hot chocolate -- at a museum, actually, in connection with Day of the Dead festivities -- and it's c
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by clock_tower 9y ago
"Sugary water" is pejorative because it's just sugary water; so I'd say that the answer to your second question is no.
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Exactly!
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Protein! And fats, for that matter; there's much more to milk than sugar.
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Dense cities and narrow streets would solve the same problems with fewer technical demands. Look up New World Economics and "Really Narrow Streets"; the author provides a blueprint of sorts for traditional cities with minimal comm
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Wide-open spaces, even enclosed ones, can reduce the psychological burden of confinement quite a bit -- there's a variety of Russian strategic-missile submarine with a swimming pool, for example. This subject also comes up frequently i
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by clock_tower 9y ago
> It seems crazy, but there's also some appeal in the idea of opting out of all the legacy infrastructure. If we could rebuild our roads from scratch today to serve a vehicle for the 21st century, what would we build? I don't k
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by clock_tower 9y ago
You should join the Unicode Consortium; I'm pretty sure you'd fit right in. :)
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by clock_tower 9y ago
> What's up with the massive drop in happiness of fired women between years 3 and 4 post-firing? Noise from big data, were I to guess. There's no logic involved in this sort of thing, just a lot of self-reported correlations an
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Looks like you meant to post this over at 14214401 (Bloomberg on why losing a job is allegedly worse than, at least, getting divorced).
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by clock_tower 9y ago
The trouble is that the ice trade is 19th-century, but Braudel quoted a source from the 17th century about taking everything iced. Can any Filipino reader comment on whether snow ever falls there? I didn't see any snowcaps on Google Sa
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by clock_tower 9y ago
It's the NYT playing to their audience, who would be surprised and put off if there wasn't at least one insult in an article on two red states.
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China used night soil as fertilizer historically; they don't anymore (when was the practice abandoned, I wonder? And is there any Chinese interest in terra preta?), but it got them into great habits. The same is true for at least Korea
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by clock_tower 9y ago
I'll admit, they had me fooled, and they weren't even trying to fool me; at first I thought that this was an authentic Amazonian or South Pacific language, until I started reading the article more carefully. The part about only ha
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by clock_tower 9y ago
I'm surprised that this isn't seeing more discussion; it's not a pleasant area to think about, but it's definitely one that needs thought and consideration: the "Miserable Failure" issue, but on a grand scale a
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by clock_tower 9y ago
If it makes you feel any better, remember that a lot of these people would be preaching Anglicanism in Hawaii if they'd been born 150 years ago.
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by clock_tower 9y ago
Do you seriously think that anyone on this website doesn't know the term PIGS? Do you think that I wasn't alive four years ago? And the PIGS weren't the poorest countries in Europe; they were the most over-leveraged. Spain is
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by clock_tower 9y ago
I've heard there's also a penny stock with the symbol NEST, which shoots up every time Nest (which is privately held) is in the news...
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When I first heard about this story, I thought that "poor countries like Spain" was the funniest thing I'd heard all week. (If you think Spain's poor, I hope you never witness the heartbreaking poverty of Taiwan and Sout
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That's true -- but the top is a harder place to stay at than you think. China, the West, and the Middle East all have variations of "from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations"; most fortunes don't last past
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by clock_tower 9y ago
This is either a nitpick of your post, or a complete agreement with it, but I'm not sure which: "work ethic" or "Protestant ethic", in Weber's original understanding, had three parts: hard work, deferred consum
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Bear in mind that "rocket science" is proverbial for a reason. Are you familiar with the THAAD ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_De... )? What convinced me that it wasn't just cor

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