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by jeffwass 7y ago
This depends on the book (or perhaps the publisher). For example, I just bought the Illuminatus Trilogy in one cheap paperback, and it’s got a terrible typeface, it looks like a smeared typewriter. But all other books I’ve bought the past
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This. I would gladly play a bit more for acid-free paperbacks that don’t turn yellow and brittle. I am concerned what my current book collection will look like in 10-20 years, and for this reason have been considering hardbacks over paperba
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Ok, You are happy to accept this risk. What about all the drivers NOT willing to accept this risk for themselves and their families?
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On the Everest comparison, the difference is Everest climbers primarily risk their own lives as people who agreed to make the climb. Whereas Cannonballers risk the lives of everybody sharing the road with them. Ie, regular drivers who have
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Out of curiosity, how do you find learning two languages at once?
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Not at all, it’s a drastic change in meaning in title between original article and HN. Given the huge breadth of complaints against the butterfly keyboard, the title saying that the keyboard of a ‘new’ MacBook is the same as the ‘old’ MacBo
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HN should change the title. The actual article title ends with “just the old, good keyboard”. Leaving out the word “good” changes the entire meaning.
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I wrote the second half of the draft of my novel (kids Sci-Fi) on my iPhone on the train to/from work (scrivener app). I could get in the zone and just tap away. Now editing, that’s a whole different ballgame. I find editing very hard
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Jon Snow used the same logic to get out of the Night’s Watch.
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> I also feel bad for a playground like the one in the image: https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1094dd57d6a80c1ae1fb131937de5... . Disagree 100%. My kids absolutely LOVE that playground (assuming it’s the one in Hy
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Obligatory mention of “The Clock”, a veritable piece of artwork soldered from hundreds of individual diodes and transistors. The bare uninsulated component wires form part of the artwork. https://techno-logic-art.com/clock.h
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The key point in the briefing (and the “developing” article is fairly brief) is that Amazon was considered the front-runner for contract, but Trump has a personal vendetta against Amazon/Bezos and also made comments that he’d get perso
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Man gets legally drunk on beer fermented in his own gut(edition-m.cnn.com)
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I wondered the same thing, surprised it wasn’t mentioned in the Wikipedia article.
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I seriously don’t understand why this post has been modded down, currently at -1. Seems inline with the rest of the anti-pollution sentiment on this thread. Here’s info on ULEZ Phase 2 Expansion, which I really want to see implemented :
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Heathrow has higher flight density, no 3rd runway. The real issue is that they put east-west airport runways due east/west of the centroid of population. It’s almost as if they wanted the airports to maximally affect as many Londoners
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Mentioned this above but taxis are not allowed to idle their engines waiting at taxi stands. You can kindly ask them to turn off their engine (most do without argument). Or you can also take photographs and report them to the TfL.
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This is a good start but needs to go further. There are plans to extend the ULEZ all the way to the North and South Circular ring roads, which will really make an impact. But won’t happen until Oct 2021. Hopefully the good results here may
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FYI, you can report taxis idling with their engines running to the TfL. I wrote to them last year after regularly seeing waiting taxis idling their engines in front of my workplace, and they wrote back saying it’s unacceptable, and to email
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Wow, very prescient amazing article! Quote near beginning to put things in context of where we were back in 1994 : “ To participate in the pilot, hungry Santa Cruzers need computers with Internet access and a version of an Internet interfac
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Terrible. Reminds me of this Far Side cartoon. https://jennafeld.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/tree.jpeg (Link to the image on a random person’s WordPress site)
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Not sure why you think this. In New a Jersey back in 1986 my 6th grade class read the short story “The Wave”. We knew it was based on a real school event and talked about it afterwards. I think we might have even read it again in 8th grade.
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Out of curiosity is the fraction of time you spend indoors vs outdoors similar between the UK and NZ? (Asking as someone living in the UK noticing his eyesight getting a little worse every year)
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> I am a big time traveler. Awesome example of a major semantic difference depending where you place a hyphen.
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Never heard that one before, but I love it.
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Johns Hopkins Opens New Center for Psychedelic Research(nytimes.com)
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I just wrote - How does your tool differ from Scrivener? But I think I get it now. Is the idea that your tool lets you take blog-style posts from multiple authors and let you rearrange those? (As opposed to a bunch of posts composed by yo
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Did I describe this wrong? Not sure why it got moderates down. Basically, my professor was one of the first female physicists trying to make it in a clearly male-dominated field nearly 60+ years ago. She was not offered jobs, or jobs at red
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You might be interested to read Jeanette Ng’s acceptance speech for the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the Hugo Award Ceremony just two days ago. The text alone doesn’t do it justice, her animated energy and excitement was a t
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My undergrad college physics professor (Fay Ajzenberg-Selove) introduced this metric back in the 50’s. She faced major sexism and bullshit claims against her productivity, and had to use this metric to prove her detractors wrong, that she w

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