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by ljf 2y ago
I'm I'm eating pigeon (which we used to a lot as a child) - I was always told that Wood Pigeon was the tastiest - but I can't say I could tell the difference.
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by ljf 2y ago
My (mildly interesting) pigeon story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39689815 I think they are amazing, and as you say they were once integral to our lives, now just a pest.
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by ljf 2y ago
True, but while all humans have chimp dna, many humans have 0 percent neanderthal dna - are they more human than me?
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Astronomers detect sudden awakening of black hole 1M times mass of sun(theguardian.com)
2 points by ljf 2y ago|0 comments
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by ljf 2y ago
According to 23andme I am 2 to 4% neanderthal, and I think of myself as human...
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by ljf 2y ago
I posted it elsewhere - but libby is also available in some parts of the UK - I feel so lucky to have it, really good selection of content on there.. In fact I need to dig out my ancient ipad and see if it will run on there still. One more
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by ljf 2y ago
I feel very lucky that my local library has 'libby' an ebook reader that also has magazines and some papers - all for free. It is pretty nice to read a couple of magazines in the evening, as an alternative to 'just one more s
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Goiânia Accident(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by ljf 2y ago|0 comments
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by ljf 2y ago
Very true - but I drive cars until they die - and have never had a car issue because of engine braking - it is usually another part of the car that goes before whatever damage I am adding to the engine, becomes an issue. So engine brake awa
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by ljf 2y ago
Even now my 4 year old P20 Pro with a Leica lens, takes better photos then my wife newer iphone - whenever it matters she asks me to take the photos as the colours are just better. I really don't like the apple ecosystem (android is no
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by ljf 2y ago
Thank you - they are stunning. It is a media type that I don't often see - to be honest my go to is readying the HN discussion, before I even click through to the article (if I do at all) - so I'm sure I miss loads of great conten
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by ljf 2y ago
This - an e-tricycle kept my dad active until the day he died - he loved it. There is no way he could have ridden entirely under his own steam, but the e-trike was a life-changer for him, and us as a family.
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by ljf 2y ago
I spent a short while going down the rabbit whole of the meaning of bivalent, and how that applies to this scenario/phrasing - before I realised it was likely a typo for ambivalent.
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by ljf 2y ago
Was too stunning and interesting not to be a post in its own right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40643610
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by ljf 2y ago
The photos are amazing - blows my mind the amount of hardware people have brought to get hold of the 'ethical ivory'. The cost much be huge, it appears to be a wild gamble for those taking part - but then I guess that is why it is
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The Mammoth Pirates. In Russia's Arctic north, a new gold rush is under way(rferl.org)
20 points by ljf 2y ago|3 comments
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by ljf 2y ago
Important to read this first: https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/#how-did-repli...
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by ljf 2y ago
Indeed - people sometimes think that the National Insurance number is our identifier - but the forget you can use many names with that, and people get by just fine. My mother is an actress and holds bank accounts (and gets paid) in her full
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by ljf 2y ago
I went to read a bit more about this - as this was something I was only vaguely aware of: https://theconversation.com/the-racist-roots-of-american-pol... It seems there were police in the States before the Slave Patrols th
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by ljf 2y ago
About 25 years ago (about this time of year) I was in Sydney, Australia - I was in a hostel and popped to the minibus to read their A2Z maps to look up a job I was heading to. I was a mild autumn day, maybe 16c. As I got in the van I heard
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by ljf 2y ago
As an older adult I've realised I most likely have ADHD - I've always struggled to focus in busy places, unless the person has my attention - as soon as we are in a group or people all talking or pitching in, and I can't focu
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Millions in US face extreme-heat threat as experts urge better protections(theguardian.com)
2 points by ljf 2y ago|0 comments
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by ljf 2y ago
I can't find info about it now, but I'm pretty sure in the 60s in South Africa, if you regularly donated blood you got to be bumped up the system for various ops and waiting lists, and if you had to stay in hospital you were offer
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by ljf 2y ago
I just managed the website - I wasn't involved in the game, but it didn't seem to be that well managed from my outside perspective. I think part of the issue was there was not system to 'patch' - so the far larger downlo
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by ljf 2y ago
Ouch - no where near that bad but once I was working on a children's online game. The game was large (500MB or more), and this was still pretty early on in ADSL roll out - lot's of kids still had dial up. So we offered a CD with t
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by ljf 2y ago
They wanted people to either think that is was Bette Midler, or someone that sounded very like her to gain the benefit of association with her. They wanted to use some of Bette's cultural cachet, without her permission.
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by ljf 2y ago
I live in north norfolk, a fairly 'young' coast in that this was all land to Europe only 6000 years ago (Doggerland), so we get loads of coastal erosion here - houses and even villages seem regularly lost to the sea. Fascinating g
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'The fear has properly set in': watching my home town disappear into the sea(theguardian.com)
20 points by ljf 2y ago|5 comments
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by ljf 2y ago
Thanks, I think for me part of the cramp is a mental block - I spent a long time hating writing (and English lessons in particular) and being told I was bad at it/lazy. but as soon as I could type my essays I loved English and writing.
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by ljf 2y ago
I assume the parent means to adjust the watch internals - changing how fast or slow it runs, and completing basic servicing. I have a couple of automatic Seiko's and they keep terrible time despite (fairly expensive) servicing, and the

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