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by henrikschroder 3y ago
I am so happy that at least a few people here knows how the game works, and it's made even funnier by the smattering of commenters who don't get it! :-D Like I said, it's a great exercise for teaching kids about interpersonal
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Congratulations, you win! Let's play another round, I'll go first. Hyde Park Corner. Your turn!
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by henrikschroder 3y ago
> Why wouldn't I just immediately say Mornington Crescent? Congratulations, you win! Let's play another round. I'll start. Tottenham Court Road. Your turn. (Also, thank you for illustrating why this is a good exercise that
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by henrikschroder 3y ago
You can play this game in it's simplest form with children, to teach them about anticipation and social cues and hidden rules. The base game is super simple. You go around taking turns, each player saying a London underground station -
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Yes, those things were/are openly advertised. There was a lot more hidden perks for people who shelled out for suites.
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> and 3 or 4 fast passes per day. Yes, this is how it worked. Remember that the fastpass system was completely opaque, you put in your tickets in the fastpass machine, and it gave you a fastpass ticket and timeslot. Everyone with normal
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by henrikschroder 3y ago
No, they're charging money openly for it now. It's long been possible to skip ahead of the queues at Disney by paying for it, it was just hidden for most people, since it required that you booked expensive suites at their on-prope
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by henrikschroder 3y ago
The superferry was canned because of lobbying by airlines and car rental companies. Currently, the only way to travel between the islands is by actual airplanes, through airports, with all the annoyances that comes with that, TSA, security,
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It is also unfortunately rather common that the person living in the source apartment never complains about having roach problems, never admits to having a roach problem, and certainly don't want to let people in to check or fix it. Wh
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by henrikschroder 3y ago
I used one years ago, and I think it was this one: https://travelingmailbox.com/ They have a bunch of addresses for you to pick from, and it works the same way for any other similar service, so check around and see if one
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There's a ton of services like that. You pick one of the physical addresses they offer, get a unique mail address to you, and whenever mail arrives they scan the envelope, giving you the choice to either shred, open and scan contents,
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by henrikschroder 3y ago
> Paul Graham, CSIRO chief energy economist and lead author of the report, Is there anything pg can't do?!?
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by henrikschroder 3y ago
I saw that Norway is now mandating tap and pay at all new EV charging spots. I agree, that's the way to go. Charging an EV has to be just as easy as filling up a gas car. Pull up, tap you card, plug in. There's zero reason for h
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by henrikschroder 3y ago
> I suspect there's got to be a showstopper that prevents its adoption No, it's the other way around. Diesel-powered non-computer-controlled hydrofoils weren't good enough to overthrow regular diesel-powered boats. You sav
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by henrikschroder 3y ago
The Stockholm area looks like this: https://www.google.com/maps/@59.3284101,18.0369884,11.71z?au... There are plenty of places where the water route is much, much, much faster than the land route, and there are plenty
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> 16550A UART *wave of nostalgia*
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> If they mess up the launch of the semi in terms of early adopter customer satisfaction Only Tesla thinks of this as a regular consumer product with a "launch". In reality, the competition is already offering electric trucks o
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> having an idea with serious merit that only has some subjective drawbacks. Abolishing local solar-approximate time is an idiotic idea with multiple objective drawbacks, not to mention that it would be massively unpopular. IF you thin
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And to exactly no-one's surprise, everyone in China uses an unofficial local time, because it turns out that people really like solar time. Well, I'm presume the timezone abolishionists are surprised...
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by henrikschroder 3y ago
> heuristics that only match very small patterns They match huge humanity-encompassing patterns that have been true for millenia, for as long as we've kept time. We kinda like organizing our time in waking periods that we already ca
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They were pressured by their payment provider.
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Every episode is pretty stand-alone and specific, so pick episodes with topics that interest you.
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> Rubicon by Tom Holland I'm currently listening my way through The Rest Is History, the podcast he does with Dominic Sandbrook. Very entertaning, highly recommended!
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> but isn't it fascinating how truly interested in the roman republic and emopire we are? If you're in the US, how can you not be? It's everywhere! The fledgling US was desperately in need of authority and gravitas, so the
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by henrikschroder 3y ago
Sure do, you can just keep stacking, almost like in English. But where English just has "great great grandmother", In Swedish you can specify exactly which one of the eight people you mean, was it your "mormors farmor" o
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> Heck, he will continue working for Tesla for almost half the year. Learn to read between the lines. Remember how their director of AI, Karpathy, went on a sabbatical? That was also a lie.
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> somehow The US has an absolutely enormous Not-Invented-Here field around pretty much any policy discussion. It is simply inconceivable for most Americans to look for solutions outside their own borders. The solution is called modern tr
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Mine has an even lower population density and we still incinerate our trash instead of putting it on landfills. The environmental benefits are huge.
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> In a landfill the CO2 remains trapped. Some, yes, but not all.

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