jmadsen

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by jmadsen 10y ago
"mal" means time(s), but used that way in German is a shortened form of "einmal" (once)
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by jmadsen 10y ago
A curious side note - hardly a language or even dialect, really - is the effect that having a large number of immigrants from one country can have on a region's language. For example, in my own eastern Wisconsin, a large part of "
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by jmadsen 10y ago
or... decreased shipping costs will go into the pockets of the business owners as additional profits. Since I'm already used to paying $X for that, why would you necessarily cut that out when you can keep it? Just another possibility.
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by jmadsen 10y ago
with respect - have you seen pictures of that thing? Chinese drivers may be "bad", but they aren't idiots. Only one side is ever going to lose an argument with that thing.
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by jmadsen 10y ago
actually, another solution is the roads. there were some experiments years ago that don't seem to have gone anywhere because of costs, where old tires were ground up and added into the asphalt for new roads - at a HUGE difference. I th
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“Land” on Pluto with New Horizons Footage(space.com)
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Ask HN: Chop sticks and plates with sensors?
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by jmadsen 10y ago
Currently discussing with friends best way to crack it and make it seem like there's a rare pokemon just up ahead - for all those people who slowly clog up the sidewalks and stations staring at their phones. Ideas welcome! (For the off
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by jmadsen 10y ago
"When things get easier to do, they tend to be done too much." --- When you only have a SWAT team: "We have him cornered, with no food or water and limited ammunition. We don't want to lose any more officers. Can we just
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by jmadsen 10y ago
I thought long and hard about posting this, due to the unfortunate comments I'm sure will come from it. In the end - in part because of the two incidents in the last 24 hours, in part because of what I feel is the importance of the con
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Can video of the police shooting an unarmed civilian ever be viewed objectively?(aeon.co)
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The Blazer Experiment – Brief History of Police and Relations in the US(99percentinvisible.org)
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by jmadsen 10y ago
Just a note (and this is only my opinion): The photos you see of people sleeping on the stairs, etc are probably late-night drunks, not inemuri The phenomenon described is real, but people do it more slumped over on the train, meetings, e
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by jmadsen 10y ago
This is what shoots down the biggest myth of the "pure capitalism" crowd. They have a habit of presenting complicated economics in "Lemonade Stand" simplistic terms. "Labor will move to where they can make the most
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Dissecting a spammer's spam script(jelleraaijmakers.nl)
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by jmadsen 11y ago
Why is there no downvoting? Or do you feel your algorithm handles that? There was an episode of on podcast I listen to I thought was really poor, and would have voted down. left a comment instead
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by jmadsen 11y ago
or "came prepared with a topic", which is maybe what you're saying, but too many podcasts for a while were "So....episode 12...what do you want to talk about". I don't see this as much these days, but perhaps b
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Why YOU should write that eBook(codebyjeff.com)
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by jmadsen 11y ago
I don't think "Google or iphones" are the type of technology he is referring to. He's thinking more plows, or cotton gins, or fiber optics
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How Far Back in Time Could You Travel and Still Understand English?(sploid.gizmodo.com)
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There will be Netflix on Mars(popularmechanics.com)
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by jmadsen 11y ago
This should not have been down-voted. Although he may spin it a little further than it is worth, in fact before all the latest events of the last several years started, the Middle East was the area determined to be most at risk of a "m
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Full-sized lego car that runs on compressed air (and more)(aeon.co)
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by jmadsen 11y ago
I didn't remember people still being that hairy in '82. I thought we were mostly cleaning up by then, unless you were in a band.
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by jmadsen 11y ago
I'm guessing the number of stories about people's "China" tea sets & "Turkey" dinners are statistically minimal on Hacker News. Couldn't tell you how much Georgia is skewed, as a quick scan shows they
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by jmadsen 11y ago
A: He's the biggest half-wit I've ever known. B: Actually, all halves are exactly half. You can't have a "bigger half-wit"
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by jmadsen 11y ago
There is a huge difference between making a pass and groping. You need to learn this, it seems.
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What I've learned so far from living in a Mars Simulation(aeon.co)
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by jmadsen 11y ago
hmmm...yes to the first part, but the rice grown in NA is of a different variety they don't particularly like here.
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by jmadsen 11y ago
I think there is another strong element that was completely missed out in the article, though I would like a Japanese person to confirm this: The right wing political groups in Japan have a disproportionate sway on politics. They push very

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