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by mtts 7y ago
Yes. Cancer treatment is very, very invasive.
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by mtts 7y ago
Between - very roughly - 100 and 200 years ago books (some containing essays) were where the intellectual life of the west happened. Since we are not in any meaningful way different - or smarter - than people from the 19th and early 20th ce
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by mtts 7y ago
A solid contender for the title "best book of the 19th century". Together with Madame Bovary. Which wins, IMHO. But still: great book.
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by mtts 7y ago
I only buy vinyl because, funnily enough, it lasts. CDs scratch and become unlistenable. I’ve also had multiple name brand players crap out on me. Record players are much more reliable - and much easier to fix. Also, in my favorite genre -
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by mtts 7y ago
They could have built it much less dense than they did. It’s a very green city. It’s also hard to imagine a place with better public transportation.
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by mtts 7y ago
They do indeed seem to use the last time something significant was added to a building, which leads to strange dates such as a 19th building around the corner from where I live getting reported as 1983 because that, apparently, is when they
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by mtts 7y ago
Cute, but riddled with errors. In my area (Arnhem / Nijmegen) it assigns 1975 as the date for buildings that are much newer. It also sets my house as 1925 when 1900 would have been more accurate (it was, however, split in 2 around 1920
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by mtts 7y ago
Exactly, but from what I remember reading somewhere - but can’t of course now find a source for - it wasn’t so much that he invented the word but that he decided to use it for his comic characters. The word was in common use at the time - a
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by mtts 7y ago
Not at all uncommon. The dialect of Brussels has something similar: “schroumpf”. This word has become famous the world over, albeit in translation. You likely know it as “smurf”.
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by mtts 7y ago
> Java got things like Lambdas and other modern stuff in recent years is great These feel incredibly bolted on. Instead of a utilitarian, if verbose, lowest common denominator type of language, Java is becoming a Frankenstein monster. An
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by mtts 8y ago
> Neither is the Prince best known for his stylishness. You'd be surprised. https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/royals/prince-charles-...
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by mtts 8y ago
I think I meant it more in the sense of "smoking causes cancer and so does exposure to chemicals so it's not the smoking or the chemicals that we need to look at but something they both have in common." I may not have made th
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by mtts 8y ago
The Chinese don't follow an Abrahamic religion and yet they've built huge urban empires. It's unlikely this is a factor.
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by mtts 8y ago
"The original system was programmed by a high school student in the ’80s, and he’s the only one who knows how to fix software glitches. " Wow ... That is beyond irresponsible ...
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Outgrowing Advertising: Multimodal Business Models as a Product Strategy(a16z.com)
55 points by mtts 8y ago|14 comments
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by mtts 8y ago
I love Kafka and I think The Trial could have done with quite a bit of editing. Try the stories instead. Many of those are very good. "The Metamorphosis" is an obvious starter candidate, as is "The Hunger Artist".
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Alibaba vs. Tencent: The Battle for Supremacy in China(fortune.com)
1 points by mtts 8y ago|0 comments
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by mtts 8y ago
I think the author's perspective is skewed because he's living in Yogya, which is, and has been for a long time, the center of a large and prestigious culture. Yogyakartans don't need to speak Indonesian unless they're
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by mtts 8y ago
"Well, call me a rebel, but I don't stretch my strings and I will go one stage 30 minutes after putting on new strings" Which would probably work. Back in the day I would break strings on stage . Yes, stretching strings help
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by mtts 8y ago
It's been quite a while since I tuned a guitar this way, but isn't the trick with using harmonics that you listen for clearly audible "beats" when it gets in the ballpark? Once there are no more audible"beats"
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by mtts 9y ago
Fantastic! Didn't know about this one. Will add it to my list. Thanks!
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by mtts 9y ago
Love this stuff. It's like an illustrated version of Jorge Luis Borges' Book Of Imaginary Beings, which is likewise a wonderful catalog of all the strange things the human mind can dream up.
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by mtts 12y ago
An amusing anecdote I heard about this a few weeks ago: he came up with "P" and "V" when explaining the concept to his students at Eindhoven University. He looked outside the window of the classroom he was teaching in an
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by mtts 13y ago
Oh, I'm not disputing Vermeer may have used photographic techniques to aid him. There is definitely a very photographic look to his work that is unlike that of most of his contemporaries. What I am disputing, however, is that they we
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by mtts 13y ago
Occasional amateur painter here. Yes, tracing images is immensely easier. Problem is it yields lousy paintings. Photographs have different perspective and lighting than what you see with your own eyes and paintings that have been made by tr
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by mtts 13y ago
Because running a VM still incurs a lot of overhead. Which is a bit excessive if all you want to do is run a terminal.
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by mtts 13y ago
Not true. My mom (otherwise heavily into classical music and, through the influence of her older brothers, somewhat interested in singer songwriters like Bob Dylan and - gasp - Donovan) bought a copy - and went to a concert. She didn't
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by mtts 13y ago
> That's why France has one of the highest birthrate in Europe for instance. France has very active policies in place to promote large families, which is why if you run into a French couple with children they'll often have thre
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by mtts 13y ago
Nice idea. In practice, if you live in a large urban area, especially in warmer climates, by the time those fruits and vegetables get to your plate, they'll have far fewer vitamins than you'd expect. Back when I lived in Jakarta (
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by mtts 13y ago
You actually touch on a good point: because educational success of a country is measured in the number of university* graduates, governments incentivize universities to, well, produce more graduates, which they do both by lowering standards

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