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by dreen 4y ago
I was referring to the knowledge of how to make long lasting concrete, not necessarily specifically how the Romans did it, but I guess I could've been clearer.
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by dreen 4y ago
I don't think the knowledge is gone, we could make that or maybe even better. The point is nobody wants it, most things we build need to be torn down after at most a few decades anyway.
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by dreen 4y ago
I read this as an extended life metaphor, the first reports seemed to describe a maternity ward, then a school etc. They get progressively more confused, ending with a grown up realisation that every moment matters. Didnt see much horror or
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by dreen 4y ago
Very true, but HN has a hard limit on how much time I will spend here. A few stories on the main page plus sometimes comments, and that's it for the day. Social media is designed to eliminate that limit, I used to be able to spend an e
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by dreen 4y ago
Quit Twitter about 6 years ago because of related issues. Checked out Mastodon, but apart from the distributed aspect it just seems like more of the same, as in an evolution upon the experience of watching TV, in the internet era. I've
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by dreen 4y ago
The UK government should recover after its aquisition by Samsung. The new owners promise streamlined design of all civic life features.
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by dreen 4y ago
No, it does. I'm saying asking someone where they're from yeilds no facts about that person if all you get back is a name of the country. It doesn't mean they definitely grew up there, or that they hold citizenship. But it&#x
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by dreen 4y ago
People ask each other where they're from, even though it gives you precisely zero amount of concrete information about a person, and then proceed to paint a picture going forward of that person based on assumptions about other people f
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by dreen 4y ago
Agreed, and make it yellow/gold for better visibility, also remove the blue and the white for better contrast.
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by dreen 4y ago
The speed of this situation unfolding makes me wonder if it was known for a while and arrests were timed for the world cup for maximum damage.
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by dreen 4y ago
Do be careful around beavers though. Their teeth are REALLY strong, I know at least one example personally of a human killed by a beaver, it bit through a critical vein in his leg and the guy bled to death. To be fair the guy was a hunter s
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by dreen 4y ago
It's not a muscle.
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by dreen 4y ago
Hopefully Minecraft has a mod to let you fly around in a helicopter and pick people up from the ground only to drop them confused on top of a skyscraper.
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by dreen 4y ago
I spent the last 15 years in London and I strongly disagree. Not only are foreigners judged (perhaps subconsciously) on how British they can be, where you came from initially matters a great deal as well, which is why I worked on loosing my
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by dreen 4y ago
I quit Twitter years ago not due to any of these problems (they are endemic to the whole of internet), but because I was addicted to the scrolling. It was a lot easier than I thought to quit and I can't even imagine anymore what I thou
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by dreen 4y ago
I hope I don't survive the nuclear war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)
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by dreen 4y ago
You mean unpleasant to our current biology and with our current ability to build space habitats. Give it a few hundred years and things may look different.
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by dreen 4y ago
That's what I've been thinking about for a while as well. Why live down the gravity well if you don't have to? Some might still choose it, much like some modern people choose to live in the forest. And in space, there is plen
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by dreen 4y ago
The policy doesn't make sense. Farming benefits massively from economies of scale, and farmland in most of Eastern Europe is already very fragmented due to "agricultural reforms" in 45. If you're not familiar with that s
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by dreen 4y ago
In Poland atm you can't even buy farmland unless you are a registered farmer in the local county already. Its a new rule and hopefully they remove it cause its insane. And then of course you can't just build on it. You may attempt
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by dreen 4y ago
If I think my customer is using my service to harass people do I need to sue them? Or can I just refuse business? It's not the same as refusing to make a gay cake either, because you can't discriminate based on someone being an as
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by dreen 4y ago
Absolutely, and theres nothing bad or wrong about playing it or watching a Micheal Bay movie. If you like it then great. Many games seem to transition into more movie-like experience. Assassins Creed games for example, I found at some point
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by dreen 4y ago
Well, this is Call of Duty, the Micheal Bay of video games.
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by dreen 4y ago
It called Sortition and it was used in ancient Greece. It's not a bad idea imho.
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by dreen 4y ago
I just commit them to the git lfs (in my case via netlify). Larger sites benefit from actual asset management systems though.
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by dreen 4y ago
Wine on Windows would be great for running some 90s Windows video games.
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by dreen 4y ago
Ancient Greeks also made basic steam engine as well as basic rail transport. The limiting factor was probably metallurgy, but it's fun to think about what-ifs.
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by dreen 4y ago
Electricity
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by dreen 4y ago
I wonder if marketers could start exploiting this. Get something obviously innocent banned in a stupid way by algo, then use the outrage effect for promotion. They already kinda did this with people destroying stuff of companies that made s
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by dreen 4y ago
Nah, it's just gambling but with a veneer of investing.

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