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by eesmith 2y ago
While every island which "has a name and someone living on it" might count, the links mentions: > Sweden has 221,831 counted islands ... Though Sweden is the country with the most islands in the world, less than 1,000 of them a
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by eesmith 2y ago
> In the 80s ... Unrestricted was the default and zoning was loosely defined where it existed at all. Umm, pardon? Zoning was well-defined by the 1980s. A lot of post-war development was deliberately zoned single-family detached housing,
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by eesmith 2y ago
> below a given threshold Is the threshold the same for all listed countries, or does it use each country's specific definition of "island"? Is it all islands, or only ocean islands?
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by eesmith 2y ago
The Global Islands database I linked to considers the Delmarva Peninsula ("Lower Delaware") in the US to be an island because of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, so that's not unique to Sweden.
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by eesmith 2y ago
Quoting the linked article: > The epic run was conceived by the London-based Kato to highlight the history of human migration and the discrimination faced by many black Africans, a message underlined by the fact he endured daily racism f
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by eesmith 2y ago
Do they use the same methods to define "island"? The section for Australia seems very broad: "Australia itself dominates the islands around its coastal fringe, which range in size from smaller rocks that are not covered by wa
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by eesmith 2y ago
Sounds easy enough if you have access to a -25°C freezer. So, umm, since the supposed reason is to prevent certain liquid explosives, and -40°C are a thing (as well as -80°C freezers - https://www.grainger.com/category/
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by eesmith 2y ago
Since the V-2 rocket passed the Kármán line during WWII, I wonder if dlcarrier is pointing out that the line was passed before there was any space race and before Kármán proposed that boundary?
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by eesmith 2y ago
For what it's worth, https://www.gotokernville.com/ says at least some people there consider it a town: 'Our town of Kernville ...' Just because it's a census-designated place doesn't mean that Kern
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by eesmith 2y ago
The 100+ years of research on PTSD, starting from shell shock studies in WWI shows that PTSD isn't so simple. Some people come out with no problems, while their trenchmate facing almost identical situations suffers for the rest of thei
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I think a better example is mining, where miners received no safety equipment, and the mines were not built with safety foremost. The idea was, if you didn't like it, leave. If you wanted safety equipment, buy it yourself. Or leave. Ca
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by eesmith 2y ago
> “The reality is, if you are using your smartphone, if you’re posting on social media, you are violating your own privacy far more than anything that’s going to happen at an airport,” Jacobson said. But, but, but ... I don't have a
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by eesmith 2y ago
A two-ton pile of ad fliers? Sounds like Ted Nelson's Junk Mail collection, https://archive.org/details/tednelsonjunkmail .
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People Express let you buy your ticket onboard back in the 1980s.
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by eesmith 2y ago
Yet Italians go to beach and mountains, buy 2nd hand furniture, transport babies, and play sports, apparently with smaller cars. As supporting evidence, here's a link to Google Street View of a beach parking lot near Rome: https:&#x2F
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by eesmith 2y ago
I noticed the same thing! I was walking around on a visit to Europe and thought "that's a big car!", then realized that no, it was a mid-sized car in the US.
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by eesmith 2y ago
Actually, I'm wrong. Part of the Nazi rocket team ended up on the Soviet rocket team, not the NASA rocket team, so it should more precisely be: {NASA rocket team} ∩ {Nazi rocket team} ≠ ∅ Disney sure did a good job laundering the chief
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by eesmith 2y ago
That = should be a ⊃.
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by eesmith 2y ago
If I listed all the companies I've heard about, I would still be writing.
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by eesmith 2y ago
Hollywood accounting has taught me to seriously distrust what "profit margin" means. If company X rents a building from company Y, and X and Y are both owned by company A, then X can have no profit on the books, even though A stil
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by eesmith 2y ago
That is what I meant by "more qualifiers". You may need even more qualifiers. Violent radical environmental groups currently carry out sabotage rather than targeting those directly responsible for the faults with the system, perha
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by eesmith 2y ago
I didn't mean to imply that you did. That said, I would tear down DRM. There's no reason for HP to profit by keeping you from using an alternative ink supplier, not even for one second.
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> Because they weren't strategically targeting anything... There is a long history of strategically targeted killings in the US not doing anything, so you need more qualifiers than that. Kaczynski targeted "people he believed t
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by eesmith 2y ago
You must realize that makes no sense, right? Set aside that none of the school shootings has changed national gun policy ... Set aside that it's unlikely the US health insurance system is unlikely to change, especially given the majori
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by eesmith 2y ago
It's still more than with a computer. I don't think I had any teacher who only talked in front of us. Not only did that do more than that in class, and via marked papers, we also had teachers who helped out in school clubs, and at
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by eesmith 2y ago
Looks like it will be "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets", which https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_the_Land_of_the_Sovi... says "is the first volume of The Adventures of Tintin" and "it w
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by eesmith 2y ago
Also relevant is "Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace" from December, 2015 at https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-t... with 35 comments from the time at https://news.yco
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by eesmith 2y ago
And I'm calling you out for your overt bigotry, and pointing out that what you want to talk about has nothing to do with the topic. I am well aware of the issues in theocratic rule, in multiple Abrahamic branches, and in non-Abrahamic
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Sure. Thing is, every one of those technologies I listed also "helped as an augment to normal style education." Including a copy of a book like "Introduction to Latin". I have to be hand-wavy because the full analysis ha
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by eesmith 2y ago
Have you considered that it might be because computer-based education doesn't really work? There's a long history of technology which promised to revolutionize education - records, radio, film reels, TV broadcasts, VCR, microcompu

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