eyko

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by eyko 5y ago
Simplifying: contrary to popular (western) opinion, there are countries outside of the US/EU sphere of influence that still trade with Russia, Cuba, etc. And US/EU haven't completely stopped trading with (nor in) Russia.
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by eyko 5y ago
I don't think this was a possibility that they didn't consider.
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by eyko 5y ago
Nuclear contamination doesn't tend to stay put and respect borders. Russia knows that, so I don't think Russia would drop a nuke anywhere in their own vicinity.
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by eyko 5y ago
I don't have any experience with telescopes or satellites but I can imagine that the cost of running a satellite in space is not just the cost of launching it. Everything after that is necessarily more complex and expensive: repairs, c
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by eyko 5y ago
"Prize-winning poet Shelley Puhak is the author of the new book The Dark Queens, from which this story is adapted." I don't know if the author is a historian, and she doesn't present herself as one. I'd take that
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by eyko 5y ago
I'm from Europe and I don't find unions particularly attractive, especially when they want to function like guilds, as they do in my country. That's basically gatekeeping and they want to have the power to specify salary rang
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by eyko 5y ago
> In Poland where I'm from you'd get at least 10 different types of normal white flour in every store, based on how finely they are ground and how pure they are(denoted as "type" from 450 to 2000) Okay that's imp
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by eyko 5y ago
Don't buy your bread from a supermarket (in fact, buy as little as you can from a supermarket). I can't speak for the entire UK, but in London and south east in general (essex, kent), you can find very good sourdough. The UK also
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by eyko 5y ago
Some would probably call it stigmatising poverty or something along those lines.
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by eyko 5y ago
But at the same time indistinguishable by their reaction to Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline".
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by eyko 5y ago
> In Europe, only Denmark and Netherlands have similarly low coverage. You forgot Iceland, at about 2%.
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by eyko 5y ago
Never had a chance to try it, but my first reaction to the Hololens announcement was exactly that. Being able to have your physical input devices in view whilst still seeing an overlay of your screen. It's prohibitively expensive thoug
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by eyko 5y ago
I was mainly thinking in the difference between an atom in laboratory conditions being observed in a very controlled way, vs an atom at the core of a protostar, for instance, but that's an interesting point, thanks!
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by eyko 5y ago
> What are we gonna do then? Rediscover local journalism? We're probably already in the first stages of that journey, complete with the unreliability and all.
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by eyko 5y ago
I'm not convinced that comparing two different states of matter is a useful comparison. The universe doesn't necessarily work differently, we're just observing different phenomena, aren't we? The behaviour of an atom or
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by eyko 5y ago
Cheap android phones with decent cameras and expandable storage (microSD). Edit: I'm obviously oversimplifying, but most of the world doesn't have always-on data connections (e.g. rural areas) and manufacturers outside of silicon
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by eyko 5y ago
The EU capped intra-EU calls and SMS prices a few years ago: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/intra-eu-c... Perhaps too little too late since everyone now uses messaging apps for practically no co
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by eyko 5y ago
I used to think so as well, but someone pointed out to me that Germany has a similar % of public sector jobs as the USA, and Spain is not that much higher, and all seem to be shrinking. Belgium on the other hand seems to be stable at 21% (2
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by eyko 5y ago
You can't paint all of Europe with the same brush, and whilst most of Europe may be in the single market, they're not the "same" market. In my experience, there is a high variance amongst European countries (Eurozone or
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by eyko 5y ago
Veritasium did a video on the Blackbird (plus a bet to prove it does indeed work). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyQwgBAaBag
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by eyko 5y ago
Of all the boroughs I've lived in, in London, the East Village (a.k.a. Olympic village) and the adjacent Queen Elizabeth Park is by far my favourite, and it's still improving. It has also had an impact on the surrounding areas whi
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by eyko 5y ago
Construction doesn't pay that well in most parts of the world.
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by eyko 5y ago
Who pays for the interesting structures, ponds, waterfalls, and arenas? It ultimately always boils down to where does the money come from -- think of "data organising" as the circulatory system of an extremely complex, multi layer
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by eyko 5y ago
TIL! So many (most?) christian names have hebrew origins so it's just great to see how much hebrew pronounciation has been completely violated to create words that sometimes barely resemble the original.
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by eyko 5y ago
You're right! Most castellano speakers don't make a distinction between /b/ and /v/. Some latin american countries do make the distinction and also some spanish regions, like catalan/valenciano speakers in
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by eyko 5y ago
Most people pronounce the spanish Vicente as "Beethenteh" in castellano but you can definitely ignore the "th" sound and pronounce it like an S, it's your name after all, you make the rules! In some spanish language
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by eyko 5y ago
Another interesting one: James and Jacob are the same name (from the Hebrew Yaʿqob), and in spanish it's either found as "Jaime", "Jacobo" or "Santiago" which comes from "Saint Iago" (Iago being
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by eyko 5y ago
Same boat here. Vicente in Spanish so I go by Vincent most of the time (either the english or the French pronounciations, I don't care). Most people see my name in Spanish and pronounce it like it was Italian ("Vinchente", th
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by eyko 5y ago
The evolution of cuisines in recent history bares no resemblance to the evolution of cuisines in the late bronze Age to the late antiquity. For one, information was slow to travel, and influences were much further away, and besides that, mo
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by eyko 5y ago
Learning a language for economic or practical reasons doesn't mean you forget your own language. The silicon valley example is more likely to make English evolve than to make a hundred other languages extinct. In the case of Sweden, wh

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