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by martopix 4y ago
This is exactly the point. In the UK too, they have a plethora of different companies, but you can buy any ticket anyway.
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by martopix 4y ago
Uhm, perhaps HN is not for you? HN is about the community of hackers, not hacking in itself. Anything you chat about at lunchtime with colleagues is on-topic. Reddit is different, there's a lot more about memes and fun, usually. Th
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by martopix 4y ago
Reading Borges as a teen is marvelous. I tried rereading it last year and liked it, but wasn't mind blown in the same way.
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by martopix 4y ago
The question is incredibly vague to me. All books that you find interesting or that you simply have fun reading are worth investing your time in. So I could mention wonderful classics of literature. It sounds like you want "insightfu
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by martopix 4y ago
Reminds me of being called out of the classroom for a meeting with the head teacher when I was 12. I panicked immediately, because "go to the head teacher" was usually just to be told off.* Then my teacher specified "it'
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by martopix 4y ago
While I think meditation is interesting and important for a number of reasons, I wouldn't try to solve every problem with "try meditating". It's unfair.
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by martopix 4y ago
That is still much much better.
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by martopix 4y ago
Is there a way to get OSM to display names in Latin characters? I was in Thailand last week and looking at this very railway map I got really frustrated because I couldn't understand anything with the Thai script.
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by martopix 4y ago
GEB is art, in the sense that it's really literary . In this sense an "explainer" cannot really capture what it is about and why it's interesting. Reading a summary of the story of Hamlet, no matter how "in-depth&q
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by martopix 4y ago
I read GEB at about 18 and it changed my view of things. I loved it deeply and studied even the formulas. But not everyone is like that I guess. And even my self today wouldn't be.
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by martopix 4y ago
> In modern computing
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by martopix 4y ago
Reminds me of those models which are so sophisticated you can fool them into thinking a cup is an iPad by putting a post-it that says I-PAD on it. I'm not sure if this was real or a joke though, can anybody find it?
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by martopix 4y ago
Wikipedia has a nice and amusing summary: > The Thai state has failed at promoting utility cycling as a mode of transport.[33] Officials regard bicycles as toys, and cycling as a leisure activity, not as a means of transport that could h
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by martopix 4y ago
I just came back from bangkok and was impressed by how well people drive compared to other large cities in developing countries I've been to. To be fair Thailand is much more developed than I thought before going.
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Bikes, not self driving cars, are the technological gateway to urban progress(nextcity.org)
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by martopix 4y ago
> This only can come from a strong character. You need to be able to afford it.
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by martopix 4y ago
It would probably a very old way of saying browsing internet on phone
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by martopix 4y ago
I hope this is a joke. Physicists coming in and claiming things are critical here and there is a common thing in neuroscience, and it's in fact a rather serious and interesting field, but this has not prevented it from attracting some
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by martopix 4y ago
The single worst thing about this paper is that they claim they are investigating the first, and their proof is entirely based on the second of your points.
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by martopix 4y ago
That is literally the announcement.
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by martopix 4y ago
Ok. I was 12.
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by martopix 4y ago
It's just a psychological threshold, but because I don't follow currency markets that closely, it makes it very evident to me that the euro has fallen below a threshold, against the dollar, that it never had gone down to.
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by martopix 4y ago
I like givedirectly very much, especially because they try to do actual research on the outcomes. However I would love to see some research that is not done directly by them, but is more independent.
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by martopix 4y ago
"Trickling up" instead of "trickling down"!
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by martopix 4y ago
The point here is precisely that development has been funded by those charitable institutions and public entities listed.
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by martopix 4y ago
ntfy.sh is a very simple tool for this kind of thing for private use: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12370702
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by martopix 4y ago
Same in Italy
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by martopix 4y ago
I mostly use GPS as a way of locating myself on the Google map or another map app. This is mostly because I usually bike or walk, and having a voice telling you things is not really the best way to navigate in that case. However, even so I
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by martopix 4y ago
I was also struck by this definition, which I had not heard before.
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by martopix 4y ago
I disagree with the first part, I remember home appliances made in Asia in the 90s that came with completely ridiculous manuals, possibly translated with a dictionary and little else. Machine translation can really be good if used properly.

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