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by nephihaha 21d ago
20 km isn't that far away but still shocking. (No pun intended.)
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by nephihaha 22d ago
Hence I said "pretty uncommon'. Windermere is the most prominent example but is often called Lake Windermere. There is also Fowlmere nature reserve. Definitely not the most common name for inland bodies of water by a country mile
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by nephihaha 22d ago
The trajectory of disagreement online. 2009: I disagree. You're a troll. 2019: I don't like you. You're a Russian bot. 2029: Is there anyone out there? Are you human?
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by nephihaha 22d ago
There was one major distinction, which was "is it drinkable?" Someone crossing the North American Great Lakes (before pollution), didn't need to store water. But they would crossing an ocean, or the Caspian Sea. It's not
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by nephihaha 22d ago
The word "mere" in English is pretty uncommon but tends to refer to small bodies of water.
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by nephihaha 22d ago
Yes, there are many substantial ones in New Zealand. Lake Taupo is an obvious one, and there are some large ones in Otago and Southland which are not abutting the sea. I would imagine Polynesian languages would distinguish between fresh wat
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by nephihaha 22d ago
The author does mention the possibility of more than one non-IE pre-Greek language, as well as the possibility of an Indo-European predecessor in the region. There are similar arguments over Pictish, but at least with Greek there is a subst
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by nephihaha 22d ago
Quote: "Google Earth Pro on desktop will no longer be available for download beginning June 25, 2027. Google Earth launched as a free program in 2005, and now it will be replaced with Earth on the web."
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by nephihaha 22d ago
Beautiful piece of family memoir. Thank you for posting this.
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Google Earth to be axed next year [video](youtube.com)
4 points by nephihaha 22d ago|2 comments
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by nephihaha 23d ago
Look at what's left in Europe: * Nordics: Iceland and Norway which are ambivalent, despite repeated attempts to get them to join. (They are already in EFTA.) Greenland and the Faroe Islands fall more under the dependencies category bel
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The Surprising Health Benefits of Reading a Book(time.com)
2 points by nephihaha 23d ago|0 comments
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by nephihaha 23d ago
It deserves a "1989-style shelving" much more than it did in 1989 itself. The viewing figures are tumbling off a cliff at a time when the BBC in general needs them more than ever.
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by nephihaha 23d ago
Duplicate post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717155
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by nephihaha 24d ago
There are already quite a few Turks in the UK, but I don't remember Turkey being used as a specific scare story. (I voted Remain... Have to point this out continually.) Either way, it's clear that UK migration levels have not been
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by nephihaha 24d ago
Many European countries already have substantial Turkish migration. Notably Germany but also visible in the UK, where they seem to have cornerned the market for barbering.
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by nephihaha 24d ago
Turkey has been floated as a serious EU candidate for decades now. Most of it is not in Europe of course, and it has a large population. Turkey refuses to address its past with the Armenians, Kurds and Greeks which is a major concern. The o
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by nephihaha 24d ago
It's not about friendship but money.
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by nephihaha 24d ago
The EU is running out of Europe. I thought Turkey or North Africa would be the next steps. Maybe Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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by nephihaha 24d ago
Sadly, guns have entered these conflicts since that film was recorded, and there have been far more fatalities. They've changed the dynamic and not for the better. Central government doesn't seem to have much control over big port
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by nephihaha 24d ago
Wikipedia is not a challenge to the system. If it were, it would be excluded from search results, much like blogs are now.
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by nephihaha 25d ago
In the battle footage there is little or no hand to hand conflict, and the spears are thrown by hand (from what I remember): no catapults or sheathes to launch them from. At one point, someone removes a spear from his leg, and while it does
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by nephihaha 25d ago
Jared Diamond's whole thesis in Gun, Germs etc is post hoc ergo propter hoc.
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by nephihaha 25d ago
Maybe for the simple reason that a pike doesn't need to be charged up, or stocked up with ammunition. Maybe sharpened.
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by nephihaha 25d ago
"They had had a long battle with what looks to be hundreds of participants and there were a few wounded, but nobody died." Observe the weapons. Most of them are sharpened sticks and they had a limited supply. Less deadly than swor
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by nephihaha 25d ago
Some gangs are like that today.
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by nephihaha 25d ago
One of my parents' friends had spent a lot of time doing research in PNG as well as remote parts of South America. He was the nearest real life equivalent to Indiana Jones I've ever met. He told us some wild stories about the plac
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by nephihaha 25d ago
It sounds like it is easy to get to Port Moresby (which is apparently a bit of a dump and very dangerous), but difficult to get anywhere else. PNG has changed very rapidly. Parts of the country were in the Stone Age within living memory and
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by nephihaha 25d ago
* US government
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by nephihaha 26d ago
Because barely one lived out there then and even fewer now.

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