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by mtts 5y ago
Agreed, it’s false. Pizza in Italy (and in the rest of Europe, for that matter) is very little like pizza in the US. Amusingly, however, while it’s influence on the food itself is at the very least debatable, the influence of the US on how
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by mtts 5y ago
No, he died really early
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Not much of a retort. It starts of with an insult at the journalist asking the question why they need to be so strict and then goes on with the usual fear mongering about heroin use being so rampant it destroys society. Fact is LKY and the
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by mtts 5y ago
In China you were fined when you had more than one child. In Singapore, you were not. It was just a publicity campaign, basically. > I'd guess the lack of space and longer working hours would be more of a contributor. Yup. Also, Sin
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by mtts 5y ago
Except that humans are not pea plants and having grandparents play an active role in child rearing significantly improves the survival odds for their grandchildren (who carry a quarter of their genes).
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According to the article they’re not buying the indeed fantastic French “BD” comic books but manga.
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by mtts 5y ago
Why would a newspaper send money to Blendle for a someone clicking a link directly to their own site?
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by mtts 5y ago
A company called Blendle tried this in the Netherlands. It didn’t work. Turns out you do not want to have to think after every headline and teaser whether you want to pay to read the full article.
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by mtts 5y ago
You can get masa harina at Albert Heijn (the bigger ones). But other than that: no.
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by mtts 5y ago
Not usually in the habit of giving much thought to Tesla, but suggesting that a proven correct C compiler created by a company that builds transportation devices that contain lots of computers might be interesting for another company that
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by mtts 6y ago
> The Dutch 'r' phoneme sounds similar to the AE one. Only in the West. But there it is so strong that speakers of other languages affect an "American" r when they speak Dutch thinking it is the sound used in Dutch. I
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by mtts 6y ago
Last mile delivery is hard to do efficiently. Sending someone into a huge warehouse to pick up and package, say , two cucumbers and a jar of olives, is ridiculous, so you need to collect items destined for last mile delivery in bulk. Then y
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by mtts 6y ago
According to the Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin the Fermi paradox is solved by the certainty that if an alien civilization announces its presence to the rest of the universe, one of the gazillions of other advanced alien civilizat
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by mtts 6y ago
> They're [...] gentle [...] No they're not. They're brutal, vicious killers (a trait they share with lots of others of members of the rodent family, such as rabbits). Here's just one example: https://www.n
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by mtts 6y ago
Meanwhile in education Slack never was a a thing, everyone already had Office 365 and some adventurous users had already started to experiment with that chat client thing tacked on to Sharepoint. Then, when COVID-19 hit, what we needed was
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by mtts 6y ago
Which is why, the conspiracy theory goes, it’s only second tier athletic disciplines that have a doping problem. In sports where the real money is, such as football and tennis, it pays to sweep results under the rug. Cyclists and distance
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by mtts 6y ago
It is a public secret that at the finish line of cycling races at the junior level, parents stand around swapping tips on which asthma inhaler to get.
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by mtts 6y ago
While that generation lived long and fairly healthy lives (possibly because the weaker members of it were weeded out by the war) the current generation of seniors certainly looks and behaves much differently. My grandparents at 65 looked an
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by mtts 6y ago
Guy I know owned (owns) a music store. In the late 90s, he thought he knew were things were going. He started saving up for his pension, thinking that by 2015 or so no one would be buying cds anymore. Now, he says, his music store is doing
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by mtts 6y ago
Salaries work a little differently for pro athletes: they're not just earning money to live off now, but they also need to save up for when their career inevitably ends and they don't have any other skill to fall back on. Seen in
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by mtts 6y ago
No need to share this link twice. Especially since the piece is itself more of an unfocused mess than the book it intends to critique.
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by mtts 6y ago
Another example from South Africa is Afrikaans. It uses words that are clearly Dutch, but the underlying structure has more in common with the Bantu languages that surround it. This example also shows, however, that the category of contact
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by mtts 6y ago
I heard part of the problem is that solar collectors don’t work when they get dusty and that there’s a lot of dust in the desert. (That’s alongside other obvious issues such as the political instability others have alluded to).
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by mtts 6y ago
One other reason why vinyl sounds better is that how it’s mastered. For streaming, tracks are optimized for low quality headphones and phone speakers. Loudness is all that is required. Mastering for vinyl, however, takes effort. Do it wrong
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by mtts 6y ago
> Would having 6000 false positives be okay for being able to find the 1000 true positives? I’d say no. That’s 5000 people who are told they might have cancer while in fact they don’t and who will then undergo further testing that is at
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by mtts 6y ago
Not if you use zip loc bags
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You can freeze coffee beans. Helps keeps them fresh a lot longer.
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Part of it is because he’s painting now whereas before he was mostly drawing. You just can’t get as much detail that way. But even so, yes, this looks amateurish. Which is probably due to he fact that he no longer paints / draws for a
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by mtts 6y ago
> Yet I find it lacking. I can never get IDE features like code navigation and completion to really work. Same here. In the end I just gave up and installed Emacs with vim key bindings (evil mode). Took a while to set things up, though,
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by mtts 6y ago
Thank you for this reply. I actually agree with you (except in not being Buddhist): we should differentiate between Buddhism the organized religion and Buddhism the spiritual practice. Unfortunately, too many people are only familiar with t

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