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by glompers 3y ago
Nurbs noobs, unite: all you have to smoothe is your domains!
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by glompers 3y ago
I am pretty certain the parent's analogy was that (the non-Paris) French cities typically can fund bus service routes just as widely convenient as (the non-Amsterdam) Dutch cities typically can fund train services. It was not at all a
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by glompers 3y ago
Nice comment
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by glompers 3y ago
The problem is that a single-party propagandist republic is effectively a separate type of government than a representative republic and makes it harder to distinguish the will of the population. The policies could be hidden from the vast m
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by glompers 3y ago
https://www.yahoo.com/now/delta-states-fighting-okra-mascot-...
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by glompers 3y ago
The 31st person dressed up and walking behind the painting may have had something constructive to say about the situation
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by glompers 3y ago
Haha look Hold my beer
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by glompers 3y ago
Yes but to many it is a relaxing form of work, just like a better form of mental and physical workout combined with “forest bath” or “bird song bathing” — depending on the local biome and season of course
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by glompers 3y ago
No offense intended, but the second leg of cyberax’ point still stands — quoted below — higher percentages of the total jobs in a metro area are within the average range of an average US metro dwelling household also, as long as they don’t
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by glompers 3y ago
Neither companies nor families go around looking to share their responsibilities (product or personal) with third parties on terms chosen and reneged by the third party whenever the third party wants to do so. If they share their responsib
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by glompers 3y ago
I generally like the comments posted here by DoreenMichelle. I would cite the historic cobblestone or quarried Belgian Block pavements in American port cities like Philadelphia and Savannah as examples of locally available materials that w
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by glompers 3y ago
You can still do it without doing it well. That's probably not at issue so I think the parent is not false
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by glompers 3y ago
I like your comment and not because I polemically see this as correct compared to the other people who disagree with you. I think it is a good comment although I don't agree with you, so thanks, and (on second thought I suppose you co
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by glompers 3y ago
> “ In 1969, Reuters needed money to further expand in the Middle East and Western powers such as Britain wanted to bolster their influence against the Soviet Union by expanding news services across the world, the documents showed. The s
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by glompers 3y ago
I suppose I see the axes quite differently! If a city is going to be there, there are going to be a bunch of costs; but I don't want built space to be constrained and crummy for people by being either (A) favela/bidonville/
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by glompers 3y ago
> should be more widely understood and, IMHO, criticized. I think this is almost as bad as the Nazis. Cultivating too exalted a view of our human potential/destiny -- Modernism and some postmodernisms both following in a long line
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by glompers 4y ago
Author Leopold Kohr's twentieth century books argued that bigness and scaling are a major problem for freedom, and so insoluble that it's better not to keep attempting to manage bigness. Riversflow was arguing here, correct me if
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by glompers 4y ago
Shenaniganically, I'm just pleased that the rat that scurried across my pillow at midnight in an Airbnb (that the host and company have both decided to continue right on doing nothing new in response to my reporting) decided not to bit
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by glompers 4y ago
Good perspective for businesspeople who tend to create a false equivalence between being a successful fast follower in the market and being a successful innovator, as though the market oxygen which fast followers seek were simply something
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by glompers 4y ago
> an alternative to the anglo compromise (dont behead the king but clip its wings) and at most blew the mind of all who thought that having a divine omnipotent ruler was a fatality. Do you mean, all who were fatalistic about the divine r
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by glompers 4y ago
Good post. I haven't used Carto, Every Door, nor StreetComplete, but some of the consistency and non-ESRI-ness that OP is seeking seems to me to be present in Regrid fka Landgrid: https://regrid.com/why-regrid
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by glompers 4y ago
Well, because even from commentators who justly praise LeBron, you find acknowledgments that, for instance, "And then there's D'Angelo Russell, who, in short, is a valuable defensive player only when he isn't really task
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by glompers 4y ago
> The thinking seems so alien that it's hard to really put myself in their shoes. Even the vast majority of the modern religious, and certainly the elite religious, at least in the US, don't act as if they truly believe like th
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by glompers 4y ago
side note, the TPU acronym is already taken by tensor processing units so Tetris GPUs will have to be something else… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_processing_unit
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by glompers 4y ago
But as lanrei comments, "When bees sting other insects they can sting them multiple times, like a wasp."
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by glompers 4y ago
We tend to think of risk management and secondarily the cost horizon of [re]building eroded technical competence, in the West, but hn commenter User23 also makes a point that is incredibly important and less often mentioned: https:/&#
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by glompers 4y ago
The walkways there _are_ paved in easy-to-level asphalt rather than, you know, cobblestones
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by glompers 4y ago
I don't know if that interest rate was specific. But there is a family in Missouri that receives a couple of percent of the NBA's television deal revenues annually to this day despite never owning a basketball team that played an
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by glompers 4y ago
That fact about Harvard sounds like multiple urban legends. For one thing Harvard began in the 1630s, yet in 1684 the King dissolved Massachusetts Bay Colony's 1628 royal charter because of their bad behavior (hanging of Friends). An
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by glompers 4y ago
Multiple urban legends reported as fact. Massachusetts Bay Colony lost its royal charter anyway for hanging Quakers. Edit: wiki reference added in following comment

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