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by ftyers 4y ago
https://archive.ph/njixG
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by ftyers 4y ago
It's hard to have a serious accident when you're going under 10 miles an hour. And I also disagree that blunt knives are more dangerous. One might give their child a plastic knife which is totally blunt, but not a super sharp mach
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by ftyers 4y ago
One of the things I love in Mexico is the "topes", they're like sleeping policemen, but lot bigger, and you basically have to slow down unless you want to mess up your suspension. I think some of them are implemented by local
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by ftyers 4y ago
And vote too... I think the only election that can't be voted for is English people resident in Ireland for the president (for obvious reasons... there is no equivalent vote in England).
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by ftyers 4y ago
Yeah, that's one of the worst cookie notices I've seen in a while, no reject button for what is essentially a page of Markdown. In addition snarky wording which I can't work out if I hate more than the faux caring "oh yo
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by ftyers 4y ago
Can't explain that...
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by ftyers 4y ago
Many of the ones I see in airport bars in the US are for prescription drugs and go something like "do _you_ have metastatic breast cancer? ask your physician about cibrofambuloxivin" [graphics of a woman looking sad and then after
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by ftyers 4y ago
Also if you're lucky, bilingual schooling too <3 Wales :D
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by ftyers 4y ago
In my village in England, where I grew up, the house and land prices have increased 10-fold in twenty years, but the average salaries have only increased 2-fold. This makes it basically impossible for me to simultaneously make a living and
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by ftyers 4y ago
That's a classic.
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Ask HN: What is the newest MacBook Pro with Linux support
2 points by ftyers 5y ago|1 comments
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by ftyers 5y ago
It sounds like working on understanding your thought processes would be useful practice for people who want to learn to think and understand flexibly. You seem to be explaining things from the point of view that your different way of thinki
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by ftyers 5y ago
They're widely (although not universally) considered to be irredeemable in England after an article they published in 1934 entitled "Hurrah for the Blackshirts".
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An app for reporting corruption by civil servants(consulmex.sre.gob.mx)
5 points by ftyers 5y ago|1 comments
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by ftyers 5y ago
This seems to be pretty common where I'm living in Mexico and is also pretty great. But also everywhere is walkable and no one is driving their canyonero to go and pick up tacos.
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by ftyers 5y ago
According to the article: > In other posts with more pictures, the reader learns that Reese is the youngest of four daughters; the other three are the biological children of her parents. She gets straight A’s. She loves her parents and h
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by ftyers 5y ago
I really didn't get this part: > But according to the information provided by her parents, “This family has drastically changed their lifestyle and have left their faith and extended family for a quiet, secluded life.” It is their h
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by ftyers 5y ago
NVIDIA's terrible software (drivers and CUDA) have wasted months of my time. They have what is essentially a monopoly on hardware for "Deep learning" and so this should come as no surprise. Of course to a certain extent this
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by ftyers 5y ago
Isn't the word "fila" from Latin for "file, queue, rank" not from Arabic?
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by ftyers 5y ago
> Also, it's possible to make college/university admissions very much anti-discriminatory simply by making them exam-based, and preventing those who check the exams from knowging who did the exam. This is how the system should
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by ftyers 5y ago
They're actually not that bad "Unauthorised Bread" made me laugh out loud a few times, and some of them are pretty short so if you find you don't like them it's not a huge waste of your time. Anyway, it's one o
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by ftyers 5y ago
The Jitsi integration works ok, and isn't worse than Google. Others I haven't tried.
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by ftyers 5y ago
I read it on Idlewords: https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm . Pretty much all the talks there are fantastic!
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Lowtechmagazine: III Printed Volume(lowtechmagazine.com)
2 points by ftyers 5y ago|1 comments
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by ftyers 5y ago
Thursday: ortzegun (L LN HN), orzegun (L LN), ostegun (G HN LN), ostégün (Z), ostégun (R), orzégun (R) n. ‘Thursday’. 1617. + egun ‘day’. This word, which looks so much like a calque of Lat. Jovis dies ‘Thursday’ (lit., ‘day of Jupiter’),
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by ftyers 5y ago
Osteguna, ostirala, larunbata, igandea. Not sure of the etymologies of those, but Trask's dictionary probably has them.
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by ftyers 5y ago
In Basque the words for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are: astelehena, asteartea and asteazkena, literally "beginning of week", "between week" and "end of week" respectively. People have thought that at some po
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by ftyers 5y ago
There is still only one implementation of the protocol and no fully functioning Python API. (Disclaimer: I love IPFS, but until it has better support for programmers who don't want to use Go, it's unlikely to get much traction).
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by ftyers 5y ago
> The carcases were pulled ashore and distributed to locals for consumption.
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by ftyers 5y ago
It takes about a week to get the interface translated and to start collection, for any language with at least 5000 sentences in the public domain. I helped bootstrap Guarani and Breton and a few other languages spoken by friends of mine, bu

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