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811.
by frereubu 3y ago
I thought of it as satirising the picture painted by the security services of terrorist groups as Mission Impossible-type bad guys who were amazingly organised and professional, so they needed loads of money for counter terrorism. Don'
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by frereubu 3y ago
Presuming the stats are correct, it's interesting how localised this can be - unhealthy levels very close to healthly levels. I read a pollution report on my city recently where they talked about pollution "canyons", busy roa
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Knepp Rewilding Project(knepp.co.uk)
1 points by frereubu 3y ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 3y ago
That struck me too - Brian Eno said the same at a talk of his I attended. He has friends in both disciplines and remarked on how different the thought processes and methods are. I studied both sculpture (to BA level) and neuroscience (to MS
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by frereubu 3y ago
That's a facetious take on a reasonable opinion. If you disagree - which there are also reasonable grounds for - snark isn't going to help us understand what your real point is.
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by frereubu 3y ago
There's a reasonable amount of confusion in the comments between Thomas and Oliver Cromwell. Thomas Cromwell (1485 - 1540), who this article is about, was a relatively cosmopolitan man and chief minister to Henry VIII before being behe
817.
by frereubu 3y ago
Two of which were refunded... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich#Purchases
818.
by frereubu 3y ago
A better comparison is to the round-the-clock coverage of the Chilean miners who were stuck underground, and the boys who were eventually rescued from the cave in Thailand. Your comparison is apples to oranges. The Messenia disaster was ove
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by frereubu 3y ago
I dunno - some of it seems quite healthy in fact: "A typical lunch box for Vancouver resident and “white people food” fan Shawn Liang consists of a boiled egg, fresh broccoli, a slice of ham, cheese and a piece of whole-grain bread.&qu
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SEC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao for ‘mishandling billions of dollars’(theguardian.com)
6 points by frereubu 3y ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 3y ago
I love the quote "we have taken extensive steps to recover and secure the data" (my emphasis), as if you can take back the stolen data somehow. There's no interpretation of "recover" that makes any sense in that s
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by frereubu 3y ago
In mice.
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by frereubu 3y ago
I remember a conversation in my 20s with a friend who said "Jamie Oliver's recipes all work" and I was nonplussed by it - I figured that all the recipes in recipe books had been tried and tested, but boy was I naïve. The ones
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by frereubu 3y ago
Ah yes - I misread your suggestion. Seems feasible in that case.
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by frereubu 3y ago
In the article they point out that anything that can be used to identify one click and link it to a subsequent click - in your example the cookie - is considered person hall data. This is because you may be able to de-anonymise a person fro
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by frereubu 3y ago
Thanks very much for these - Shapez looks really good. As you say, I think Open TTD is a bit beyond her on her own, but it might be a nice one to play together.
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Ask HN: Intellectually stimulating gaming sites for children
2 points by frereubu 3y ago|2 comments
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by frereubu 3y ago
You're making some pretty big assumptions about a stranger on the internet there.
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by frereubu 3y ago
Yeah, it's a fascinating area to talk about if you're with genuinely curious people - for example I think there are some really interesting discussions going on about the changing notion of being "British" in the context
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by frereubu 3y ago
His teenage kid asked him what "defenestration" meant, and rather than giving a succinct answer his interest in history took over and before he knew what he was doing he'd started giving a mini-lecture that involved the defen
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by frereubu 3y ago
Having been following Sam Freedman for a while I'm pretty sure it wasn't about showing how cool he is - it's self-deprecating rather than self-aggrandizing.
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by frereubu 3y ago
This reminds me of one of my favourite self-aware history geek tweets: https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/1650216668272947201
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by frereubu 3y ago
I've noticed that when talking about national teams the BBC has started to refer to things like "the England team" and "the England player" to get around the potential controversy of calling someone "English&qu
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by frereubu 3y ago
Having been born and lived in the UK for my entire life has given me an intensely low tolerance of arguments about nationality. These things may be very important in practical terms - e.g. whether the UK remains part of the EU, or Scotland
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by frereubu 3y ago
I'm sure you're going to get lots of responses detailing situations where the outcome isn't optimal, but I bet the majority, if not all, of those will be an example of the perfect being the enemy of the good. That is to say,
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by frereubu 3y ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or if these are genuine questions. I suspect the former, in which case you need to unpack your arguments a bit more.
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by frereubu 3y ago
The problem I have with the Safari is that I don't write much and they dry out before I use them much. My Kaweco Sport lasts for ages, and I think it's to do with the fit of the screw top compared to the relatively loose clicking
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by frereubu 4y ago
Who caused that is still an open question that no-one really has the answer to, so I'm not sure why you're so confident. One of the things that makes me trust O'Brien over others is that he generally admits when he's bee
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by frereubu 4y ago
Both true, but that doesn't mean the central point isn't correct, particularly when it comes to materiel.
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by frereubu 4y ago
Absolutely. Just because Ukranian losses are less than the Russians certainly doesn’t mean Ukranian losses aren’t considerable.

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