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901.
by detritus 6y ago
Yes. You're completely right - I'm unsure how I missed that wholly-obvious interpretation.
902.
by detritus 6y ago
> Japan is second to China in financing coal plants in developing nations. It's hard enough for me to consider China a developing nation these days, but Japan?
903.
by detritus 6y ago
Just read this too, and it's looking like it's just under three times what Timothy McVeigh unleashed in Oklahoma City. This kind of unnerves me a little. Seemingly, a couple of tons of this not-entirely-impossible-to-get-ahold-of-
904.
by detritus 6y ago
This is what I've been trying to work out, but am having problems Googling for suggestions. The only things I've in the past read as causing red smoke are highly carcinogenic/toxic hypergolic rocket fuels (hydrazine?), but I&
905.
by detritus 6y ago
It's more 'stop being a prick and be polite'. Society is a series of rules, stated or otherwise, that the generality gravitate around. It's not rocket science, it's just manners. One has every right not to wear a ma
906.
by detritus 6y ago
Which is why I chose two private domains in my examples - a consumer retail environment and public transport, both of which were subject to a change in culture 100-odd years ago, wherein prior boors wouldn't have even questioned spitti
907.
by detritus 6y ago
I consider myself fairly hygenic and don't think I have any diseases, and don't really think we should be concerned about clouds of particulate spittle - so what difference is a little quantity? If I want to spit on the restaura
908.
by detritus 6y ago
Because I can't open files from clients who use a newer version than I do - with the 2020 illy update particularly schisming matters.
909.
by detritus 6y ago
Just so you know - you have cost me at least four hours of background cognitive potential so far, as I've had this on whilst I worked.
910.
by detritus 6y ago
You're assuming everyone expects to get Hug'o'Deathed. I suppose a site like the one here should expect a higher bandwidth around competition and announcement time, but for independent people who happen to get picked up on HN
911.
by detritus 6y ago
Kind of like Discord has in its space, I love how gamer-centric optimisations can lead to better use case experiences for non-gamers. I could imagine using something like this for much more than just games. Is there a way to configure Firef
912.
by detritus 6y ago
This ended too soon! For me the real age of the Amiga started with the 500, which this article - wonderful as it is - stops exactly short of.
913.
by detritus 6y ago
The trilogy overall is worth wading through, if only for the ridiculo-scienceFiction on offer - but if you enjoy good characterisation and dialogue, I'm afraid it doesn't improve on the first.
914.
by detritus 6y ago
As does Psilocybin in Magic Mushrooms. Back when we used to sell the stuff (UK, 2005 or so), we had a small 'lab' (a grand term) run by someone who suffered serious cluster headaches and had gotten involved with us through our sel
915.
by detritus 6y ago
I'm sure that helped, but as a Spectrum owner, I'd be breaking code - decades old as it might be - to suggest that anything positive could arise from the existence of that machine. . Looking back now, the C64 was clearly a bette
916.
by detritus 6y ago
Having gone from The Acorn Electron to the Spectrum to the Amiga and always keeping up with the nerdy magazines of the time, I remember it being about price point and 'cool factor'. The older I got, the more I appreciated how cool
917.
by detritus 6y ago
Technically, probably, although there are exisitng and likely better vector conversions for none-animated purposes. The problem with CAD is that whilst a conversion to a rough sketch will be possible, 'CAD' implies very high accur
918.
by detritus 6y ago
This is one thing I always loved about The Economist - it didn't matter how obvious an entity might seem, they would always qualify what it is when mentioned in an article, never presuming upon their readers' knowledge, eg. "
919.
by detritus 6y ago
If that's the case, then great - but to my ignorant eye the warning notice at the bottom seemed to imply there were some (or, at least - as a passerby - I am perhaps unsure what merits a 'strictly necessary technical tracker'
920.
by detritus 6y ago
I'm curious to learn more, but I wish to opt-out from 3rd party trackers beforehand - there doesn't appear to be any method to do this, so am I (and any other Europeans in the same boat) entirely unwelcome on your site? Or am I mi
921.
by detritus 6y ago
I genuinely don't recall ever seing any full background videos on product pages. Large embedded videos, sure. There was tha fad many years ago for having fairly low quality, low contrast greyscale video set under halftone or pixellated
922.
by detritus 6y ago
It's funny for me to read you berating 'web designers', presumably as a profession, because I can't think of ever having seen a professionally-designed website deploying an animated background as egregiously as this site
923.
by detritus 6y ago
Lovely work! I can imagine a game based on this where you get dropped somewhere on Earth and your score is based on how few double clicks to load new tiles it takes you to recognise where you are.
924.
by detritus 6y ago
Moreso: I think when we start digitally encoding these environments - much as we have over ground in South America, using LIDAR to discover previously unseen, but right in-sight structures such as those of the Maya - we'll realise ther
925.
by detritus 6y ago
I see someone's mentioned Heraklion/Alexandria, as well as Dogger bank in the North Sea - add to the list Dhaskalio in Greece, Yonaguni in Taiwan, Mahabalipuram and Dwarka in India, as well as ruins in Crete and even the Caribbean
926.
by detritus 6y ago
I've been saying this for years - especially as humans are essentially a littoral species (culturally, at least - I'm not referring to the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis!). Most of our ancient history lies just off shore under a very few
927.
by detritus 6y ago
Sorry, yes - I meant in relation to the person I was responding to, not OP - the bouillon gloop, rather than the cubes. I'd still suggest that Oxo cubes are different beasts to the cubes up there - again, i think Knorr would be an equi
928.
by detritus 6y ago
*Bouillon - personally I'd prefer some bullion! :) And I don't think I've ever seen that here in the UK, although I have come across it on the internet beforehand, during a bit of a seach on OTS meat stock and such a few year
929.
by detritus 6y ago
Thank you for this - my first music recommendation from HN! Particularly of interest to me is the 'slightly slippery' beat it appears to have. It seems slightly off in places, but pleasingly so.
930.
by detritus 6y ago
> and it's important that we connect. Gotta love the unquestioning entitled hubris of this kind of set-up.

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