mkempe

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by mkempe 9y ago
To the downvoters: what is generally sold as "chocolate" in British grocery stores is at best similar to moldy sandwich bread one would try to pass of as "croissant" (assuming you know what a fresh, French croissant is l
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Sorry I only remember Cadbury's but there were other brands. As for taste in the UK and America, for the American market Lindt chose to adulterate their standard Excellence recipes to adjust to local preferences; consequently some of t
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Both. Indeed. My frames of reference are Swiss dark chocolates and pralinés.
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It's amusing to see a British paper attacking the health benefits of dark chocolate, given what they sell as "chocolate" in stores. After having had unfortunate opportunities to try it, I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot
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30 seconds, taking the stairs to my home office. I listen to podcasts, almost exclusively while doing yardwork, and classical radio while working or cooking.
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Kim Stanley Robinson's works have been steadily drifting in the direction of despair and apocalyptic scenarios. By now he probably regrets writing the Mars trilogy -- his deepest sympathies having drifted more and more towards his few
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Now, why would Facebook's Sandberg openly support FOSTA? further, who else is in favor of this kind of attack on the Web?
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It is a short leap from believing that the American people are not responsible for what they do to their bodies, to believing that they are not responsible for the contents of their mind. What else are they not responsible for?
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What does "done to us" mean? is your thesis that obese Americans have no agency in what and how much they eat, or in how they treat their own bodies?
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Seeing so many obese kids, under the age of 5, is seriously disturbing. Not that seeing nearly half of the American adult population obese isn't bizarre. Sometimes I look at someone's balloon-shaped head, and wonder what their bea
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Dutch say 'no' in referendum on spy agency tapping powers(reuters.com)
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Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic(nature.com)
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US Plans to Slap Stiff Tariffs and Investment Restrictions on China(nytimes.com)
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I had the same question, especially because several relatives and I own Volvos and pay attention to their safety promises. One would assume that Uber cannot disable Volvo's safety systems... However, it appears that Volvo's "
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Is the BFR also expected to land on droneships?
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There are more verbs in various forms. E.g. "sciendum est ..." means it should be known that ... "tecta" is from "tegere".
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First it must be known that the empire is surrounded etc. etc. and each edge (of the empire) covered with natural features appeals to cunning barbarism. I.e. they're at the gate.
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The US revolution is driven by the spirit of the agora and the polis, an alliance of such polities, and the idea that the people are the source of all state power; rather than the Roman Republic or Empire as a centralized entity with absolu
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"The Barbarians are at the gate." Source: I took Latin for 8 years; had to read-and-translate live for three years from Virgil every other week at 8am in front of the class. Latin is usually more concise than English, except when
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Interesting, but you need more colours in your life. It's like spice. The backpack and sunglasses strike me as overly expensive -- why is that? why have so many head-/earphones? no cost for a suitcase?
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The USA is an Enlightenment creation, designed to learn from and avoid the failures of previous government systems; as such they owe more to the spirit of Ancient Athens than to that of Ancient Rome.
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It's been singular. You did not explain the exact cause of your anxiety. External pressure or personal standards?
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Maybe they should increase the amount of data they try to fit in one page, so it becomes truly impossible to focus on anything? Or they could ask an IA to think about how to present fairly important data in a useful and usable way. Just a t
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Pixar's Senior Scientist explains how math makes the movies and games we love(theverge.com)
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DIA Director's 2018 Professional Reading List(dia.mil)
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Was Social Media a Mistake?(tracinskiletter.com)
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Market insurance without government support, and absence of emergency funding after disasters...
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Thanks, that makes sense as a goal, to evaluate and minimize impact on current coastal populations. I assume future coastal population centers would actively shift inland, over multiple decades, if they take into account predicted sea level
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So the current sea level is the one that must be kept? forever? or should it rather be the level at the start of British Industrialization, let's say in 1760? What about sea level changes that are not caused by us? should we stop that,
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What is the exact sea-level that is perfect and should be maintained --or returned to-- by all means? I have a similar question about the perfect amount of atmospheric CO2. We do know that the long-term trend of CO2 was headed down to a dan

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