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by frereubu 2y ago
I'd encourage people to read this excellent piece in the London Review of Books by someone who was contracted to ghostwrite Assange's autobiography, and who initially felt very sympathetic towards the aims of Assange and Wikileaks
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by frereubu 2y ago
I certainly wasn't contending that current rural areas are more natural (Isabella Tree's book Wilding is really interesting on what "natural" would have meant in the very long term), but if you're talking about the
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by frereubu 2y ago
I remember reading a line from William Blake's diary which talked about him walking "over the fields to Lambeth" from his house in Soho.
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by frereubu 2y ago
Yes, I think this is a much better implementation of the idea.
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by frereubu 2y ago
The main feeling I have when seeing maps like this is how incredibly small the city was compared to the present day, and how much more open natural space there must have been across the country. The UK is a very densely populated country -
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by frereubu 2y ago
I think it would be clear that the picture was drawn for the person - I imagine most people would explicitly say something like "I drew this for you" in the accompanying message. And I don't know what kind of kids you've
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by frereubu 2y ago
I like the Michael Pollan dictum: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." I don't think you can go far wrong with that.
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by frereubu 2y ago
From ten years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5512477
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Europe on high alert after suspected Moscow-linked arson and sabotage(theguardian.com)
3 points by frereubu 2y ago|1 comments
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by frereubu 2y ago
'Speaking to the Sunday Times, former conservative party leader Sir Ian Duncan Smith, said: "We’ve yet again gone to China to build buses. What is the matter with our domestic production? These are iconic, British London buses. Wh
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by frereubu 2y ago
This is a great podcast about how Victorian London built a huge sewer system to deal with the vast amount of human waste generated by one of the biggest cities in the world: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gjcm I
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by frereubu 2y ago
I mean, it's on the front page because people upvoted it. "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anyt
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by frereubu 2y ago
For those asking, from TFA: "Burning the hives was more painful when other countries used tools like vaccines, antibiotics and sterilisation - measures prohibited in New Zealand and in some export markets."
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by frereubu 2y ago
"We have to be a little bit tougher than this" is not the same as "Man up cry babies". That's a hyperbolic rephrasing which I think significantly misses the tone of the original.
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by frereubu 2y ago
I think this is it. Imagine if instead there was a "siphon" effect where the instruments get miniaturised / sucked into the iPad. I don't think anyone would have been upset by that. It's the crushing that's at
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by frereubu 2y ago
I suppose I would flip the question around - why should I have to do that, when content platforms could do it? It's just another administrative burden that gets foisted onto the plebs because large tech companies want to scale, but won
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by frereubu 2y ago
The internet is a big place. How am I supposed to manage what Google / Facebook / YouTube etc. serves to my daughter?
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by frereubu 2y ago
Exactly. I know someone who runs their small company - set design for exhibitions and operas - off an iPad Pro.
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Yorkshire apostrophe fans demand road signs with nowt taken out(theguardian.com)
5 points by frereubu 2y ago|1 comments
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by frereubu 2y ago
Bit of immediate feedback - United Kingdom is out of alphabetical order, presumably because it's filed under Great Britain or GB. People from the UK always go for United Kingdom, so keep the label but update the sorting. Edit: also, pe
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by frereubu 3y ago
For those who want to go down a small Wikipedia rabbit hole about dictionaries, I found this an interesting article on pre-Johnson dictionaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_English_dictionaries
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by frereubu 3y ago
I've had Apple silently delete music from Music when I had iTunes Match, and I've stayed paying for Dropbox despite wanting to use iCloud, which would be no extra cost for me, because their mechanisms for dealing with conflicts ar
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by frereubu 3y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I'd heard about the r / l issues with romanizing Japanese but hadn't made the link.
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by frereubu 3y ago
I bumped into another English guy who was teaching English in Japan and he made me laugh when he told me that the name of my favourite conveyor sushi restaurant in London - Kulu Kulu - meant "round and round". Sounds like it might
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by frereubu 3y ago
There are plenty of links in the article to "emails released as part of the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google". I didn't read any of it as saying he was involved in those conversations, they're just c
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by frereubu 3y ago
On what basis?
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by frereubu 3y ago
(2014)
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by frereubu 3y ago
Can you unpack why you think breeding dogs - by which I take you to mean all dog breeding, not just the kind that leads to serious physiological issues such as breathing difficulties in pugs - is unethical?
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by frereubu 3y ago
To take Cage's investigations into "silence" further, he sat in an anechoic chamber - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anechoic_chamber - and afterwards remarked to the technician that he heard a high whine
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by frereubu 3y ago
The alternative to this is to buy an expensive rice cooker like a mug (me) and after a few months realise that the last 20-odd minutes on the display go down much faster than 20 minutes. Fuzzy logic indeed.

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