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by ddoran 7y ago
I've started playing this puzzle every day. If you get every word that NYT expects, you get a "Queen Bee" award, the trick is that they don't tell you what the Queen Bee target is, and more often than not there is at lea
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by ddoran 7y ago
Previous discussion 1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17606748
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by ddoran 7y ago
Anyone who wants to learn more about the history of pedestrianism, long-distance walking and latterly ultrarunning should check out Davy Crockett's Ultra Running History website and podcast [1]. He covers George Wilson in a two-part ep
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by ddoran 7y ago
Congrats on the launch. How can I see whether you are in my neighborhood without first installing the app, accepting the t&c's, creating an account (and in the process giving you my email address)?
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by ddoran 7y ago
I've started to see quite a few electric moped/scooters by Revel [1,2] parked around Brooklyn. [1] https://gorevel.com/ [2] https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/shared-mini-motorcy
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by ddoran 7y ago
Not making a comment on the veracity of the article, but the source is "Animal Frontiers", the journal of "The American Society of Animal Science (ASAS)" which is "a non-profit professional organization for the adva
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by ddoran 7y ago
Can you give some examples by name? I'd like to know more. Thanks
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by ddoran 7y ago
I happen to be staying at a b&b at a organic French vineyard right now. We stayed here because the owner has written three books about the experience [1] and it was in an area we wanted to visit (between Bordeaux and Bergerac) rather th
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Garmin Acquires Tacx(dcrainmaker.com)
2 points by ddoran 8y ago|0 comments
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by ddoran 8y ago
Today's NY Post had fun with this. The cover headline: "Bezos exposes Pecker" [1] https://nypost.com/cover/covers-for-friday-february-8-2019/
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by ddoran 8y ago
What do you use to heat/cool the bus? What range have you covered since you started living in it? Do you stay within a given city, State, or beyond? Thanks
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by ddoran 8y ago
This article seems to focus on top 1% by income. Very few of the top 1% earners in any developed country are also in the top 1% of wealthy people. The truly wealthy tend to be so because of their capital/assets. Salary is an utterly ta
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by ddoran 8y ago
"he's been largely forgotten by time" Perhaps he himself is not well known, but the eponymous company he started in 1759 was the watchword for high-end ceramics for more than two centuries and is still sold to this day. Towar
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by ddoran 8y ago
I strongly recommend "The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why" by Amanda Ripley [1]. It is a terrific look of the character traits and behavior of people who survive life-threatening circumstances and those w
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by ddoran 8y ago
In the early years or Ireland's national lottery, a syndicate was opportunistically assembled (1992) to guarantee a lottery win and positive return on investment. They succeeded [1]. [1] https://www.independent.ie/irish
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by ddoran 8y ago
As a kid in the early 80s, I used to love going to the cockpit. British Airways had a "Junior Jet Club" [1,2] for children, figureheaded by Captain Leo Budd, a Concorde pilot (amazing the names/things that stay in memory afte
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by ddoran 8y ago
DE = Germany/Deutschland, not Delaware. (The original article title specified Germany. The abbreviation may be read differently by Americans).
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by ddoran 8y ago
Looks great,I am about to order. From the intro on Amazon: "Twenty-five years ago, it didn't exist. Today <1998!> 20 million people worldwide are surfing the Net."
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by ddoran 8y ago
+1 for the movie. It used to be on youtube but I can't find it right now. Perhaps the BBC had it removed. This is the finest moment in the movie, for me, when Wiles describes the moment when everything clicked. The whole movie is well
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by ddoran 8y ago
Customers have options, scramble or not. My sympathy is with the staff, sorry "teammates" (per the webpage). It's a lousy time of year to be out of work.
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by ddoran 8y ago
Men At Lunch [1] is an interesting documentary about the skyscraper photo, and an attempt to identify the men in it. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZEvNYKEnVw
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New book suggests Arthur Conan Doyle based Moriarty on George Boole(irishtimes.com)
61 points by ddoran 8y ago|22 comments
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by ddoran 8y ago
You might get a kick out of how archaeologists "discovered" the oldest street in Dublin http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/04/dublins-oldest-street/
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by ddoran 8y ago
Sign up for the New York Road Runners NYC Half (March 17th - St Patricks Day!) As of 2018 the new course starts in Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, down Flatbush Avenue and run across the (closed to traffic) Manhattan Bridge, along the FDR, throu
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by ddoran 8y ago
As soon as I grab my dog's lead, he does a full deep body stretch. This, more than anything else, convinces me that stretching is important. If only I'd do something about it.
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by ddoran 8y ago
Semantics. I respectfully disagree. Being alive, and living at a place are two completely different things. By your definition, I've lived in 12 countries this year. I haven't.
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by ddoran 8y ago
> I typically only live in NYC for 3-10 days at a time That's not living somewhere. That's visiting.
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by ddoran 8y ago
"The European Union fined the company $5.1 billion this summer in an antitrust case over the dominance of Google’s Android mobile operating system." Damn, that's sloppy reporting. The EU didn't fine Google because of its
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by ddoran 8y ago
Amazon does not have an Irish store either. Amazon.ie redirects to the UK store where all prices are in GBP, though they happily deliver to Ireland.
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by ddoran 8y ago
We already pay tolls to access Manhattan on some bridges and all tunnels. With a congestion charge added, a return journey from Long Island City, Queens to Jersey, about 3 miles, would involve three tolls.

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