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by frabbit 7y ago
Happy to find a fellow Aubreyite (and also agree on the LeGuin). Just wanted to put in a mention for the superlative reading of Patrick Tull of the Aubrey series for the audiobooks). He is head and shoulders above most other narrators.
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by frabbit 7y ago
Your comment changed my life!
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by frabbit 7y ago
Lucky Jim is wonderful: "the strangely neglected topic"
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by frabbit 7y ago
The Bible (Old and New Testaments), An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, The Constitution of the United States of America and Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.
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by frabbit 7y ago
In what way do you have to fool with this? https://meet.jit.si/ It is quite possibly the simplest videoconferencing I have ever experienced (Google Hangouts, BlueJeans, Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams being my experi
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by frabbit 7y ago
Are there any advantages to Zoom over Jitsi Meet? For most people's use case (a small group of family friends) the simplicity and quality of the Jitsi Meet setup is incredible.
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by frabbit 7y ago
Surely this is not a false-positive, but rather a false-negative? That is, the patients were observed clinically to have caught and recovered from the virus, yet the test shows no trace of the viral infection.
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by frabbit 7y ago
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/03/coronavirus-recession-glo...
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by frabbit 7y ago
I disposed of 63 wasps over a period of about 3 weeks with it. Can confirm that it kills at a range of 6 inches by blowing the body apart. So, usually it was two shots, one to immobilize and another to kill. Vastly prefer this to spraying
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Exposure to fake news in 2016 election overstated(m.phys.org)
2 points by frabbit 7y ago|1 comments
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by frabbit 7y ago
This is only tangentially related to your question, but you might enjoy it anyway: https://creativecommons.org/2008/01/20/doctorow-completes-re...
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by frabbit 7y ago
The name should be corrected to Vannevar in the title.
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Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear reactor technology(cbc.ca)
372 points by frabbit 7y ago|316 comments
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by frabbit 7y ago
Author should take advantage of this suggestion. It's awesome and side-steps the noise around the current name.
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by frabbit 7y ago
Exactly. Ce n'est pas facile à apprendre mais c'est possible.
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by frabbit 7y ago
The attitude you display in this post suggests that it's a good thing for everyone that you moved. Quebecers are actually very tolerant of Anglophones and while it is difficult to adapt to using a new language it is not impossible and
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by frabbit 7y ago
But blockchain?
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by frabbit 7y ago
* Addressing climate change is not going to be easier if there is an economic collapse.* Growth is tied to emissions of GHG. Economic collapse will decrease growth. A correllary will be large numbers of early deaths (as seen in the ex-USSR
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by frabbit 7y ago
But it's _so_ much better than GPG and the WoT where you have to ... verify..... everything........... yourself...........
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by frabbit 7y ago
And most of that is coming from MattGreen and Ptacek.
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by frabbit 7y ago
Do you mind explaining that further? I don't know what happened with GoPro.
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by frabbit 7y ago
Someone has to pay for it, why not the ones that use it? Just tax the GHG-emitters fairly and there cities coffers will be over-flowing. That will help shift the incentive for those too dim and slothful to make a change on their own.
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by frabbit 7y ago
From bitter experience I concur: take the lane! It is safer for everyone.
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by frabbit 7y ago
This is definitely not victim blaming. It is sound advice based on the usual flow of traffic and the uniform vehicle code. Bike lanes of various types are experimental parallel transport systems dropped into an existing system with which mo
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by frabbit 7y ago
For those interested in helping to make Rockbox on new hardware a reality checkout this earlier comment from the PinePhone developers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21021001 Relevant thread: https://news.y
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by frabbit 7y ago
Yup. Nassim Taleb's skin-in-the-game definitely comes into play when we are considering collisions.
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by frabbit 7y ago
Long-distance, high-speed inter-city transport should be by railways. Inter-city should be either low-speed (max 25Km/h) electric golf-buggies, trams, buses, light-rail or cycling or walking. Cars are a temporary aberration that relied
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by frabbit 7y ago
I don't think it's disrespectful to call out someone who has previously made the _exact same_ mis-representation of a highly contentious issue as acting in bad faith and thus untrustworthy. There is a concerted and prolonged attem
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by frabbit 7y ago
It may be unintentional on your part but your post seems to suggest that rms argued that adults raping children was acceptable. If that was intentional the you are lying. If it was not intentional the it's ironic that you are so sloppy
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by frabbit 7y ago
Agree about the quality of life afterwards being the most important issue. I have seen too many people who have lingered "alive". I suspect that if I get knocked down then there is a dichotomy of outcomes: 1) unpleasant, painful

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