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by mkingston 9y ago
The huts are seriously fantastic. For any visitors to NZ who have any interest in hiking, buy a doc hut pass ($90 when I last bought one some years ago) and stay in most of these huts at no additional cost. Some of the abandoned ones have b
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by mkingston 9y ago
Related to that, I recently found out about the Civilian Conservation Corps[1], which I thought was very cool. TL; DR during great depression US gov employed people on conservation projects for ~550USD in 2015 dollars per month. [1] https:
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by mkingston 9y ago
Yes, I've found that for me 'wilderness' was initially a tricky term to use in the UK. As an explanation for anyone else reading: conservation in NZ and the UK are very different. In many areas of the UK, conservation consist
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by mkingston 9y ago
Indeed, we're missing some data. Certainly I'm pretty appreciative of the Tidy Kiwi campaign, and how NZ seems to have embraced that. On a personal scale I think NZ is great about conservation and cleanliness, perhaps better than
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by mkingston 9y ago
Indeed, I believe "National Park" in the centre of the North Island was the world's second national park. And Goat Island Marine Reserve was the world's first no-take-zone. The story I've heard of the latter is that
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by mkingston 9y ago
Interesting, that article quotes the Exmoor NP authority "Swaling maintains the character of the landscape". I've asked perhaps 10 Brits, mostly walkers and climbers who value national parks, what they think about reforesting
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by mkingston 9y ago
As a New Zealander currently living in the UK, the contrast in conservation approaches is stark. I've come to the conclusion that New Zealand is beautiful in large part because a) it has a low population density and b) it hasn't h
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by mkingston 9y ago
In fact, it's very easy in Scotland. I spent two weeks doing so a couple of summers back. Rules are roughly: Leave no trace. Don't be visible from the road or a settlement. Don't stay more than one night in one place. Don&#x2
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by mkingston 9y ago
The problem is, I think, the 2d knapsack problem. In case it's of interest: https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/1478/algorithms-for-t... Edit: looks like the million dollar homepage is probably a bit more
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by mkingston 9y ago
Here's a trick: find a friend who you feel you can't bail on and who won't bail on you. Pick a regular time you can both attend. Find some exercise/sport you both enjoy. Now, if it's just your one friend, you'l
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by mkingston 10y ago
Somewhere between the default and your binding: @@ repeats the last macro. So you can record your macro, go to your search text, @q, n, then for all subsequent matches @@.
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by mkingston 10y ago
Suppose you have a type A ('0' in the original description) and a type B ('1' in the original description). Suppose any instance of A < any instance of B, but any given instance of A is not necessarily even comparable
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by mkingston 10y ago
Happened to me an hour or so ago. Notification on phone suggesting I log in again. I ignored it like I ignore everything that doesn't seem pressing. Then hangouts refused to send a message, which made me think the login suggestion was
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Cosmic particles wreaking low-grade havoc on personal electronics(phys.org)
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by mkingston 10y ago
It's pretty effortless to switch. For me, I found: .vimrc was compatible (but lives in .config/nvim/init.vim). Plugins were compatible (in fact, YouCompleteMe worked better). There was a little bit of faff setting up symlinks
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by mkingston 10y ago
I would personally recommend a trial for sleep-in contacts. I did so through my optometrist, firstly wearing them as dailies for a week. Then, after an optometrist inspection, leaving them in for one night, followed by another inspection. F
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by mkingston 10y ago
Often Banff Mountain Film Festival has a good climbing film or two. The Caldwell/Honnold Fitz Traverse (for which they won Piolets d'Or) was in there this year. Strongly recommended- a really great story.
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by mkingston 10y ago
This comment papers over a huge problem. How educated is educated enough?
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by mkingston 11y ago
The ultra community is great. Sadly, I expect it'll only last until there's some real money in the sport. Quietly, I sort of hope that never happens.
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by mkingston 11y ago
Unsure if it's totally related to cheque acceptance, but as I understand it NZ fares much better in the card payments realm because of EFTPOS [1] adoption. EFTPOS in NZ is independent of MasterCard/Visa/other credit card comp
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by mkingston 11y ago
I guess that's what they're saying. Contrast with: From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond Synthetic diamond is also widely known as HPHT diamond or CVD diamond after the two common production me
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by mkingston 11y ago
While I suspect you are correct that there is no 'shortcut' (or syllabus) to critical thinking I think one is able to perceive critical thinking ability in others. If critical thinking is seen to be useful by a potential student,
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by mkingston 11y ago
"does he not deserve a reward regardless of what enabled him to do so" No. Why would that be the case? In your moral framework that equates moral desert with technological progression, sure. But not in mine, where technological pr
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by mkingston 11y ago
A high-level description of functionality: http://carbonengineering.com/our-technology/ Essentially running an alkaline solution through a structure and simultaneously forcing air through the same structure. Air contac
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by mkingston 11y ago
IIRC not all distros will put executable binaries in /usr/bin/, but even those that don't will usually provide /usr/bin/env (even as a symlink), which will then search your path for python. In summary: &#x
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by mkingston 11y ago
DiabloD3 almost certainly limited caloric intake at some point (at intake or somewhere in digestion). But your comment doesn't address some complexity in the way the body processes food, or in the food itself. For example, eating 200 c
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by mkingston 11y ago
You make a good point about other mosquito-borne diseases. I suspect that at the margins some degree of risk homeostasis will occur nonetheless, but that seems like it will quite likely be mitigated by this point. You're also very much
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by mkingston 11y ago
I didn't mean to imply that drug companies have an obligation to produce products that aren't commercially viable. I understand that's just not the way the world works at the moment. I was just curious whether anyone knew whe
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by mkingston 11y ago
Progress, perhaps. I really, really hope this doesn't end up having the unintended consequence of people coming to believe (consciously or unconsciously) that bed nets are no longer required. Maybe we should wait until we have somethin
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by mkingston 11y ago
The answer depends somewhat on the license. However, for the purpose of my answer I shall assume a product or service for which releasing the source code would destroy an ability to generate a return on investment. (Of course this isn'

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