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by jkepler 4y ago
Supporting your point, in many hotels the bar/restaurant area is visible from the lobby, which naturally invites people it to have a drink or a bite to eat. But its rare to find this architecture in apartment buildings. This is why I l
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by jkepler 4y ago
It was hardly "hard money" in 1922, as the Fed was created in 1913, and the dollar started plummeting. If you want to see what a hard money world looks like, look at the 40 years or so prior to 1913, when most civilized nations
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by jkepler 4y ago
Growing up, my dad often said that raw carrots are "nature's toothbrush" and he would encourage us to end any picnic lunch with carrot sticks, not with a sugary dessert. Can carrot sticks function like a little twig in terms
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by jkepler 4y ago
Florida also has pythons, moving north from the Everglades.
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5 floors was pretty standard across Europe, from Paris to Kyiv, in the age before elevators, as it was about the maximum height most folks were willing to walk up the stairs. Though, in Paris a lot of the 6th floors (where lots of the typic
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by jkepler 5y ago
Bridges are usually massively over-engineered for safety.
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by jkepler 5y ago
Neither his tweet thread nor the primary level comments mentioned the real reason for collapsing in higher education: broadly speaking, as a culture, we've lost any confidence that truth exists and should form us as persons, that knowl
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by jkepler 5y ago
Civil asset forfeiture. Reason.com (a libertarian magazine in the USA) has been reporting on this massive challenge to private property rights in the US for over 40 years: https://reason.com/tag/civil-asset-forfeiture&#
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by jkepler 5y ago
Teach them to read real books, on paper, by real authors. Given them lots of unstructured time in nature with other children, with a watchful parent nearby (this requires investment of a parents' time, but I can't think of a bette
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by jkepler 5y ago
Brilliant !
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True. However, sometimes large buyers, such as governments or enterprises, change their policies towards purchasing requirements. For example, since 2013 France has had an Inter-Ministry Foundation of Free Software[0], which provides the pr
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by jkepler 5y ago
Exactly the parent commercial it's point: market segments /can/ and do change sizes and their proportional relations. And more people are beginning to understand the importance of security for privacy in a world that is incre
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by jkepler 5y ago
Lynn White's classic study, "Medieval technology and social change", looks at three broad innovations: the stirrup, which led to mounted knights as shock troops and the feudal reorganization of society to support them; the ag
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by jkepler 5y ago
I still use my x200s, though its battery barely holds a charge, so I use it docked with am external monitor, as a desktop machine. Most of my work is writing, so no issues with its lower CPU compared with newer machines.
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by jkepler 5y ago
I turned the touchpad off on my x220 and simply used the track point.
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by jkepler 5y ago
Equality of opportunity, as I understand it (and I think as it was historically broadly understood prior to Marxist socialism becoming mainstream in Mich of the West) meant each person got the same treatment before the law---i.e., no double
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by jkepler 5y ago
Its how it worked in the Weimar Republic in the 1920s, in Argentina in the 1980s, Zimbabwe after 2011, and in Venezuela in recent years. Especially if you look at bond market yield curves going negative, and consider that massively indebted
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by jkepler 5y ago
When I lived in Ukraine, the 'bandits" that the then-pro-Moscow government claimed were running rampant in the streets were the "titushki" (guys hired for $20/night to wandered around with a beer in one hand and a c
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by jkepler 5y ago
I grew up there, and always heard that full-serve only was about jobs.
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by jkepler 5y ago
> if the perception of crypto continues to be that it's a significant contributor to climate change -- regardless of how true that may be -- Therein lies a huge part of our societies problems : people base their beliefs on perceptio
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by jkepler 5y ago
US history prior to World War 2 says otherwise. The gold-backed dollar was slowly deflationary for multiple periods, precisely because a hard money standard enables entrepreneurs' economic calculation and real growth. HN readers genera
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by jkepler 5y ago
Crypto provides better incentives for strong network security than any other security tech: has the bitcoin protocol base layer ever been compromised? Compare its network security against any other corporate or government network, and see i
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by jkepler 5y ago
Or raw - my child still loves raw veggies: carrots, broccoli, sweet peppers, cherry tomatoes, cucumber.
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by jkepler 5y ago
From a very young age, me Small Child liked peas frozen. I think the temperature sensation and contrast with other foods must have been interesting.
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by jkepler 5y ago
As a Debian and Android user, can anyone help me understand how AirDrop and this python implementation differ from or are similar to Syncthing and/or Firefox Send? Is it basicly the same idea?
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by jkepler 5y ago
Uh, I'm on Android ans I use Syncthing, not a câble.
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by jkepler 5y ago
> But it's a forced choice, and people who are not interested in sport or TV should be allowed to prefer something different. Exactly. Why not allow philosophy, or history, organic farming, game theory, theology, Austrian economics
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by jkepler 5y ago
For anyone interested in a Christian theologian's ruminations on whether copyright laws are just or actually prevent people from loving their neighbor, see "Copyrights and Copying: Why The Laws Should Be Changed" by Vern Poyt
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by jkepler 5y ago
We're totally happy with a Christmas tree timer, and see no need to let the world know when our tree lights are on or off.
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by jkepler 5y ago
Especially considering that the wine project which Crossover relies in and contributes to also uses the term 'bottles' to encapsulate how they create different Windows environments.

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