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by hosh 2y ago
My wife doesn't have that problem with Google Maps on her iPhone, so I'm aware of that counter-point. It might have something to do with that I use offline maps. Things started breaking -- points of interest doesn't load, or
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by hosh 2y ago
My Google Maps experience has gone downhill over the past two years. It has gotten bad enough that I started using Apple Maps. I was blown away by the difference, not just from how far they have come along since launch, but that how the nav
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by hosh 2y ago
I mean, it depends on what you mean by "rebellious". There is a lot more nuance than that. From the Kuomingtang's perspective, the CCP are the rebels. One piece of history is that after Sun Yat-Sen died, his successor Chang K
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by hosh 2y ago
On the other hand, historically speaking, the various dynasties of China had been able tightly control markets when it was one of the jewels of the Silk Roads. I prefer a free market myself, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking t
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by hosh 2y ago
There have been many periods of Chinese history with multiple competing dynasties, including transition periods. The Later Jin, for example, who became the Qing, took three generations to defeat the Ming dynasty; and they had been around si
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by hosh 2y ago
I've heard experienced weiqi (go) players use the metaphor that Taiwan is a Ko fight between China and US. That is, the threat of capture is used to exert influence and pressure elsewhere.
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by hosh 2y ago
The underlying principles and methods in here reminds me of Crucial Conversations and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I’m also glad to see a mention for how this can apply to personal relationships
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by hosh 2y ago
Pasture-raised backyard chickens are also great pest control.
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by hosh 2y ago
A description of Promise Theory, in an article published in the Linux Journal in 2014: "IT installations grow to massive size in data centers, and the idea of remote command and control, by an external manager, struggles to keep pace,
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by hosh 2y ago
You want to empty the health to 0 before leveling up, because any extra experience goes into the next level. For each level, heart only goes up by 1 but experience needed to level goes up by 3. You need to reach 15 to kill the dragon.
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by hosh 2y ago
This is such a fun game! Once I got used to it, it felt a lot like a very careful dungeon crawl. [Spoiler] Extra experience points go into the next level up, so it is better to empty the hearts before leveling up.
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by hosh 2y ago
That was not what I said. Industry isn't defined by being a marketable activity.
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by hosh 2y ago
Industry refers to a particular way of doing things that involves portable use of power. Instead of relying on natural cycles (wind-, water-driven machinery), it involves the use of engines (steam, gasoline, electrical) to drive tractors, p
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by hosh 2y ago
I don’t know why this was down voted. This is historically true. The modern canal that runs through Phoenix is built on top of ruins of a much older canal built by indigenous people for farming.
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by hosh 2y ago
Before Phoenix the city was founded, there was a canal built by the indigenous people who live there in the lower Sonoran. That canal became the basis for Phoenix, and eventually, the big canal that transport water long range through the st
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by hosh 2y ago
Water in the fabs gets mostly recycled. There’s an old slidedeck from Intel’s Chandler (Phoenix metro area suburb) fab about it. This includes discharging what isn’t recycled to refill ground aquifer. From what I understand, the area is mor
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by hosh 2y ago
It's been my experience with myself and observing people that beliefs can form in both reasonable and unreasonable ways. While people often times have reasons of their own, I've learned not to take it for granted, or even assume t
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by hosh 2y ago
I've been on a quest to find out what went wrong with modernity. Looking through the history, I found out the Renaissance was not what I thought it was. The history of the Silk Roads were not what I thought it was. And I haven't r
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by hosh 2y ago
I think that minimizes the fact that people were deliberately curating and designing perennial food forests, historically and contemporarily. Our ancestors may not have the scientific knowledge we have now, but they were just as smart as we
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by hosh 2y ago
It can and humans (like birds) do disperse genetic material. However we are talking about deliberately curated food forests. The European forests, in contrast were not like that. I remember reading about accounts from settlers in North Amer
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by hosh 2y ago
That didn’t just happen in the Amazon. The Pacific Northwest had something like that. My understanding is that the Eastern American forests were curated like that too, before it was cut down. I have heard of an oasis in North Africa that wa
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by hosh 2y ago
That puts a different tone to their justification that the dress code is meant to promote professionalism and be a good representative for chess!
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by hosh 2y ago
And we'll see if FIDE will be seen as a preserver of traditional values or out of touch with the new generation of chess players.
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by hosh 2y ago
That changes depending on when it is issued, and which coalition is in power when that passport was issued.
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by hosh 2y ago
The Democratic Progressive Party led coalition would change the name on the passport the government issues when it is in power. It would revert back when the Koumingtang led coalition comes back into power. It falls in line with what the co
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by hosh 2y ago
That is in dispute and depends on which party is in power, by the year. Until general elections were opened up in the late 80s, it was definitely the Republic of China.
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by hosh 2y ago
All the authors are Chinese. They might have been confirming a cultural transmission about the origins of using silk that otherwise had no direct archaeological evidence. They got a bit of the history of the Silk Roads incomplete. The Silk
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by hosh 2y ago
I have been noticing a steady degradation in Google Map's ability to navigate and finding things. I'm nearing the tipping point where Apple Map or OpenStreet Maps is making more sense as the daily driver.
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by hosh 2y ago
"I'm just emphasizing that Gobekli Tepe isn't a totally standalone precursor that's wildly distant from anything else we've found. It's an old and beautiful site that existed within the broader context of an en
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by hosh 2y ago
I'm just jumping in on someone else's thread with my comment about Nacirema; those other points are made by other people. 'However, using the word "history" in a way different to historians is not going to uncover a

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