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by elbasti 7y ago
Ah. You're looking for "rusk". Google "Greek rusks" and you might find something that approximates the shadow of what you had.
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by elbasti 7y ago
FWSY is a great introduction to bread baking, but I think it's important to move beyond it pretty quickly. I find it quite joyless. As an example, there's a recipe that calls for 3/16th teaspoons of yeast. Why didn't he
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by elbasti 7y ago
Yes. Selling cars to the border patrol is, in this formulation, unethical.
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by elbasti 7y ago
Of course not. I don't think there's anything in my comment that would suggest that. My comment was explicitly about: inhumane acts done to apprehended migrants and building technology to apprehend more migrants. Those seem very c
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by elbasti 7y ago
In principle, nothing. In practice, current policy at the southern US border is directly responsible for acts which are unconscionably cruel and inhumane. Separating children, babies and toddlers from their parents. Keeping children in be
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by elbasti 7y ago
Is it even safe to buy yubikeys on Amazon given the counterfeit problem?
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by elbasti 7y ago
This will sound paradoxical but... Wearing earplugs can really help. Hearing loss isnt so much an inability to hear "quiet" (despite how hearing tests are performed) as it is a los of dynamic range. By wearing earplugs you can low
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by elbasti 7y ago
Here is a pop-science account that contradicts that: https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...
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by elbasti 7y ago
Apparently the positive health effects of sun exposure are negated by sunscreen. Here's a pop-science explanation: https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...
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by elbasti 7y ago
This is a minor plot point in the sci fi novel "A deepness in the sky", where a spacefaring culture has their systems built on top of so many, ancestral layers of software, that there is a career called "code archeologist&quo
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by elbasti 7y ago
1) I think if you re-read my comment you'll notice that the issue with the US policy isn't loose borders, it's unethical treatment of people who make it _past_ the border. 2) Mexico's deportations are just as unethical a
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by elbasti 7y ago
I believe a [citation needed] is required for the claim that US immigration policy is "internationally conventional". There is of course enormous variance in how countries handle immigration, but the ethical and conventional polic
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by elbasti 7y ago
Quite simply the belief that: 1) these efforts do not guarantee their safety and comfort (though others might, these don't) and 2) that even if they did, the ethical price of hunting down undocumented immigrants is inexcusably high
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by elbasti 7y ago
Out of curiosity (and I really do mean, out of pure curiosity), why do you care about fraudulent clicks? Unless the fraudulent click volume is "lumpy" or unpredictable, the only thing that matters is cost per lead/cost per pu
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by elbasti 7y ago
I find that an under appreciated use case for the touch bar is UI discovery. I'm a fairly savvy computer user, but there have been many times when using new software that the touch bar has shown me a feature that I did not know there w
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by elbasti 7y ago
As a JS dilettante, I found this incredibly surprising. const data = { foo: 42, bar: 1337 }; // >>> can be represented in JSON-stringified form, and then JSON-parsed at runtime: const data = JSON.parse(&#x
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by elbasti 7y ago
Oh my god, the ice "being gone" is basically the definition of catastrophe. If we get that far then it's way, way, way too late. Saying "once the is is gone the albedo won't get worse" is kind of like saying &q
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by elbasti 7y ago
We don't need thousands of years of storage. We need 200, before we boil ourselves to death (metaphorically speaking).
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by elbasti 7y ago
I don't disagree with this comment, except insofar as I think there's room for both. Even a partial success on the mitigation side buys us more time on the adaptation side. On a personal note, what steps do you think an individual
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by elbasti 7y ago
Found a 3 minute version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73xdpoQFLQk
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by elbasti 7y ago
> it's never late to start, especially if you are rich (relatively). It is. It's too late to start. In the immortal words of Magnus Carlsen, Too weak, too slow .
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by elbasti 7y ago
> Warming is unstoppable, second order effects are already happening. Thinking that we can do anything about it is naive. This is probably true. However, it is possible—if highly unlikely—that something could be done. This would invol
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by elbasti 7y ago
> So people should stop with individual action while lobbying politicians? If it helps them lobby their politicians more, then sure. I mean, it doesn't, but if it did I'd take that trade any day. > On what do you base that
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by elbasti 7y ago
The issue is that we seem to have triggered two positive feedback loops; methane release from melting ice and loss of Arctic albedo. This means the Earth will continue to warm even in the absence of new emissions, in a runaway fashion.
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by elbasti 7y ago
Unfortunately we need to do both. It's much "cheaper" (in money and thermodynamics) to release carbon than to capture it, so we need to stop pumping it into the atmosphere in order for it to make any sense whatsoever to spe
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by elbasti 7y ago
There is no more time for individual action. We're about 20/30 years too late for this plan. Positive-feedback has kicked in, so slowing down emissions will achieve very little. Because of positive feedback, even halting emissio
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by elbasti 7y ago
This might sound like a cop-out answer, but I think the answer is "nobody knows". So-called "cost-disease" spans infrastructure, education (public & private!) and medicine (again, public and private). All of these th
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by elbasti 7y ago
It seems like the obvious answer is to consider fixing the "cost disease" of infrastructure as the #1 priority. Not more trains, or faster trains or whatever. Just getting the costs in line with the rest of the world. The extra in
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by elbasti 7y ago
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by elbasti 7y ago
Chex is subject to the FCRA, so at the very least one should be able to appeal (Chex) on the basis of inaccurate information, and to get a report from Chex explaining the information they have on you. As well, if a bank denies you a checkin

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