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by eszed 3y ago
Depends on where you drive, dude. I spend more time on mountain roads than highways. And, also, if you like driving, and sometimes drive for fun, curves are way more fun than freeways. None of this has anything to do with supercars, eithe
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by eszed 3y ago
Thanks for the kind wishes. I have some residual neuropathy in my right hand, and I have to take anti-seizure medication every day or my brain tries to kill me. Either the medication or the brain injury has reduced my brain-power and abilit
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by eszed 3y ago
I think it's a little bit better than that. There was a theory in operation: regulation which prevents sprawling monopolies will produce good results for society. Of course , if you shook the historical dice differently, there would b
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by eszed 3y ago
I can corroborate your insight from personal experience. I had a stroke a few years back and, while I was recovering, my intelligence was drastically reduced. I always derived a great deal of my identity and self-worth from being "smar
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by eszed 3y ago
I had the same thought regarding decisions vs impressions. For what it's worth, my preference during my time as a working actor was to audition first thing after lunch. I figured (based largely on my own experiences as an auditor) that
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by eszed 3y ago
Thanks for the story and the video. They're both interesting, but had no tech-specific information. If anyone has anything like that, I'd be interested in seeing it. I had read a bit about Masaai keeping track of each other and th
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by eszed 3y ago
Where are the iPhone using hunter gatherers? Not snark: I want to know more about them.
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by eszed 3y ago
I have a friend who farms organic walnuts, and who turned me on to all of these ideas. I agree with you (and him) that all of this should be done at scale. The obstacle, as I understand it, is that yields aren't as high as "conven
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by eszed 3y ago
Reciprocal thanks to you! Fun - and occasionally enlightening - chats with strangers were what originally drew me to the 'net, and still seem to me to be its highest, best, and unimproveable use today. See you 'round.
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by eszed 3y ago
Good for them! That's quality journalism. Do you know who owns those stations?
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by eszed 3y ago
Absolutely fair point: it is an unanswerable question. It's just... Aargh: - Africa, Australia: continuous habitation; no suitable creatures. - Europe, Asia: continuous habitation; suitable creatures. - South America: recent habitation
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by eszed 3y ago
American, not Dutch, but lived in the UK for nearly a decade, and can attest to the [general] accuracy of the first two columns of the table, down to the precise phrases given. I lost one job, early in my stay, exactly because I hadn't
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by eszed 3y ago
If you expand the theory to encompass riverine ports that would cover five of the six. I don't know enough about Olmec / Mexican geography / development to speak to that.
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by eszed 3y ago
One question I've had about domesticable animals that I've never seen addressed - likely because, to be fair, it's unfalsifiable - is How many of the North American large animal species wiped out in the first waves of human s
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by eszed 3y ago
I stand corrected. Thank you. (Still recommend HILN, though it's not a valid answer to the question asked.)
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by eszed 3y ago
> Are they sweeping all the state/city mandates into the delivery charge? Nope, not on my bill.
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by eszed 3y ago
How I Live Now , by Meg Rossof, is a stellar novel. There are some really, really good books marketed as YA (Young Adult) (that's the term I know for what he's calling "middle-grade" - maybe that's new branding?),
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by eszed 3y ago
I'm with you on this. I'd like to expand your artistic vs practical point by denying that really is a dichotomy, at least not in practice. I've done lots of creative writing, and most of what matters in that domain is solving
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by eszed 3y ago
Many will know, some will not: "rapeseed" and "canola" are the European and American descriptors for the same substance.
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by eszed 3y ago
If you're interested in this topic, here's a book to read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Victorian_Internet It's been twenty+ years since I last owned a copy, but it was one of my favorite books fo
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by eszed 3y ago
Does having an "open in maps" link somehow violate GDPR? No idea, but that's a plausible extrapolation from that (very irritating!) pattern.
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by eszed 3y ago
Ten years or so ago the first phone trees with speech recognition were generally trained to recognize profanity and transfer the call to a human. I got great results, for a while, by opening every call with a string of expletives. That tric
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by eszed 3y ago
Which is another way of saying: it's gotta be a partnership. That generalizes across all business categories, right? Product and Sales/Marketing have to work together. That's such a banal insight that it's absurd so many
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by eszed 3y ago
I thought congestion charging was a bad idea, too, for all of the reasons we see rehearsed on these threads when it comes up. Then I lived in London at the time their congestion charge was put in place. (And, to be clear, we were poor. Inco
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by eszed 3y ago
Hard agree. I never bothered to look it up, because we were so disappointed, but it was like they changed writers or show-runners to people who didn't appreciate the material, but everything we liked about the first season was changed.
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by eszed 3y ago
I went back to my county's site, and that definitely would not be possible. I doubt that that would be possible anywhere, because the owner would typically get a single tax bill for the entire parcel-of-record. Maybe there's a leg
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by eszed 3y ago
Without context the phrase "majorana anyons" makes me giggle. (In fact, I googled to be sure I wasn't falling for a parody.) Was the nomenclature originally tongue in cheek? Edit: It gets better: "Fock space". Also
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by eszed 3y ago
Jeepers! First I'd ever heard of those. The logic is flawless, but they'd be terrifying to encounter blind.
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by eszed 3y ago
Thanks! Great additions to the story. My favorite is that one of the rescuers was a groundsman who had never been higher than 75ft up the mast! It reminds me of the Mr Rogers line about "look for the helpers" - the folks who run t
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by eszed 3y ago
I think there are two axes: reason about and intuit . I "understand" ballistic flight when I can calculate a solution that puts an artillery round on target. I also "understand" ballistic flight when I make a free thr

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