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by ftrobro 4y ago
I was mainly wondering why noone else claimed the tavern or demolished it to make room for a new building considering that the city was probably growing between 2700 BC and 2075 BC. Looking at the photo it seems the tavern was found in the
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by ftrobro 4y ago
I wonder why the tavern was abandoned with food in it in 2700 BC when the city itself was inhabitated far longer and according to Wikipedia might have been "the largest city in the world from c. 2075 to 2030 BC".
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by ftrobro 4y ago
> you can't just block their access to the internet Or maybe that's the best thing you can do for them, perhaps preventing them from revealing even more passwords etc to the attacker.
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by ftrobro 4y ago
I had to google the meaning of "socialized medicine" (no I don't live in the US). My first thought was that maybe it meant "getting better thanks to emotional support from other people", but Wikipedia had this to sa
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by ftrobro 4y ago
I found that for Go development vim is really good. I tried Sublime, Atom and VSCode for Go development on Mac, but didn't feel comfortable with how slow they were, especially when trying to dig into an SQL dump. It could take a minute
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by ftrobro 4y ago
Technological advances during the middle ages made more land fit for agriculture. >> During the medieval ‘agricultural revolution’, new forms of cereal farming fuelled the exceptionally rapid growth of towns, markets and populations a
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by ftrobro 4y ago
It seems to me that leaders who reduce public debt become unpopular, while those who increase it become popular. Reduction of UK public debt by Thatcher (visible in the second half of the eighties): https://ercouncil.org/wp-
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by ftrobro 4y ago
Husqvarna EPOS does not need physical boundary wires and seems to be available in the US too: https://www.husqvarna.com/us/discover/epos/
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by ftrobro 4y ago
The dead line happens because telemarketers place several calls at once and then start talking to the first one that answers. They dont bother with terminating the other calls.
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by ftrobro 5y ago
This book gave me a lot to think about 25 years ago. Made me aware of limitations of my own consciosness. Has perhaps been superseded by some other book since then, I'd love to hear recommendations. "The User Illusion: Cutting Con
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by ftrobro 5y ago
Unglazed clay pots have been used for thousands of years, I have one myself. You soak it in water for 15 minutes before putting the food in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EbdBty-40I
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by ftrobro 5y ago
Russia does not normally buy 5 advanced fighter jets every day, so their peace time military budget is not a relevant comparison. The numbers in the article also seem to include future costs that might be ammortized over 50 years or somethi
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by ftrobro 5y ago
Earth's magnetic field follows the flow of magma inside Earth (not the solid iron core). There would not be any pole reversals if the magnetic field was created by something constant like the distribution of molecules in Earth's a
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by ftrobro 5y ago
First we would need to create a huge magnetic field protecting Mars from the solar wind that has blown away the atmosphere Mars previously had. https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/how-did-mars-lose-its-atm... https:&#x
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by ftrobro 5y ago
The email has not been sent to everyone yet, but it mentions "transition all remaining users". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996432
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by ftrobro 5y ago
Thanks for the insights! Surprising that Go met resistance internally at Google, considering that Go is created by Google and that Google have been sued by Oracle for using Java in Android.
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by ftrobro 5y ago
In my experience a few email services refuse to accept emails from AWS SES, probably because a lot of automated emails are sent from AWS SES.
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by ftrobro 5y ago
"Aggressively stripping out all the unnecessary trash that the linker puts into it makes it 297 bytes" Reminds me of how impressive 256 byte intros are, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w72MXbAIJVg
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by ftrobro 5y ago
Haha I have the same experience... I have given up trying to send emails to t-online, but every other email-provider accept emails from the server I manage. It sends a few thousand emails per day. A few years ago we had problems, but then I
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by ftrobro 5y ago
Most crime goes unpunished, no matter the neighborhood. In 2020, only 14% of investigated crimes against persons in Sweden reached a solution. But that doesn't mean we should ignore all other problems.
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by ftrobro 5y ago
I'm talking about things that have happened to people I know personally and things I've read in the news: https://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/krim/man-misshandlad-o... There are of course other ways to
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by ftrobro 5y ago
> most crime happens in poor neighbourhoods That's kind of my point. Let's say you live in a poor neighborhood but do some stock trading and suddenly make a large profit. That will be shown in public records, it's not just
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by ftrobro 5y ago
In paper: https://www.ratsit.se/ratsitkatalogen
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by ftrobro 5y ago
It puts a target on the back of anyone that earns a lot of money but doesn't live in a high security bunker. Sometimes foreign crminals make a quick tour in Sweden, rob a couple of rich people in their homes and then get out of the cou
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by ftrobro 5y ago
The irony... I guess this proves that inter-team-communication is more difficult than rocket science...
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by ftrobro 5y ago
And funnily enough that problem also happens for encyclopedias. Check the article about airplanes/flight in any old encyclopedia and you will probably see this incorrect theory about how airplanes can fly: https://www.grc.na
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by ftrobro 5y ago
Project managing in assembler code, I love it. One of Gabriels assignments is that he should test if the game runs well on his dad's laptop.
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by ftrobro 5y ago
Private entities under strict regulation, yes. Individuals in basements? Not so much. Any such person will be placed in custody in most countries if caught. I remember that happening more than once. I'd provide you a link but would rat
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by ftrobro 5y ago
"Democratizing genetic engineering won’t suddenly unleash bioterrorism upon the world." How sure is he of that, and why? As a comparison, nuclear power has been of great utility for many countries, but I sure would not want to see
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by ftrobro 5y ago
I agree, and this way it's easy to use locally built custom variants of dependencies, by just pointing to the relevant build output.

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