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by oska 6y ago
My grandfather made me a beautiful wooden model of Kingsford Smith's biplane the Southern Cross , complete with spinning propeller. But we moved a lot when I was a child and at some point it got lost or left behind. I greatly regret n
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by oska 6y ago
You're applying the standards of today to the past i.e. 100+ years ago. That never works. "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." The only standard you can use is how behaviour was judged contempora
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by oska 6y ago
Because this way no-one has written forms of their mother tongue. They have to learn a second language and its written form. As others are pointing out, the situation is pretty much equivalent to Europe 1000 years ago when Latin had evolved
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by oska 6y ago
That's not a compromise; that's worse. What it's essentially saying is that the publisher should be able to continue to act unethically in polluting minds by pushing ads but also collect extra money from people who object t
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by oska 6y ago
A newspaper that includes a dedicated classifieds ads section? Fine. A newpaper that runs advertising through its editorial sections? Not fine, and the influence of advertising accounts held by major corporations with newspapers on how and
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by oska 6y ago
Japan was the first country to introduce unleaded petrol/gasoline in 1972 and the first to ban leaded petrol in 1986 but, according to the article, they aren't seeing the decreases that Europe and North America are seeing. So that
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by oska 6y ago
Maybe? I don't know. My father's business wasn't in the US.
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by oska 6y ago
Apart from you question not being in good faith (because there have always been business models to support publishing and providing services that do not rely on adverstising and these models are well known), the main point is that they do n
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by oska 6y ago
> You'll find that a number of HNers, including a number of high profile ones are against any form for advertising. Yep, this is me (although I'm not at all 'high profile'). Specifically, I'm against all push a
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by oska 6y ago
My father had a computer store that sold Taiwanese desktop clones and Toshiba laptops in the late 80s. The article says that Toshiba were manufacturing laptops from 1985. I'm pretty sure we were selling them in 1987 so I didn't re
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by oska 6y ago
> He didn't understand exactly how they worked but he was greatly impressed by them. This tends to be the case for ppl impressed by Chinese characters from the outside. When you do have some understanding you realise that it is a ve
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by oska 6y ago
Cruise ships are massive emitters of sulphur dioxide. > The results [of the study] show that the luxury cruise brands owned by Carnival Corporation & PLC emitted in 2017 in European seas alone 10 times more disease-causing sulphur
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by oska 6y ago
You're right about the two different types of sweat glands. And just to finesse what you're saying here: > The smell is related to bacterial activity in the "apocrine sweat". Armpits don't smell because they swea
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Doctor advises only using soap on your hands and nowhere else(theguardian.com)
58 points by oska 6y ago|72 comments
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by oska 6y ago
Appreciate you giving your well-expressed differing take.
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by oska 6y ago
Regarding the Le Guin selection: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is perhaps my least favourite Le Guin story. I understand (and appreciate) the theme but its presentation is so tritely and artificially delivered that I think it undermi
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by oska 6y ago
I agree. Saying that a Dyson Sphere is something that an 'extremely advanced civilization would build' presumes that we can project the course of civilization. Seems presumptuous and short sighted to me.
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by oska 6y ago
The image literally sent chills down my spine.
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by oska 6y ago
How's that going with Elon's pronouncements on Covid-19? I only saw lots of him assuming he was right against clearly better informed medical opinion.
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by oska 6y ago
Similarly I remember reading a comment on Slashdot in the late 90s warning how much of a dystopia the Web would become. I also remember myself mostly dismissing the comment as buzz-kill.
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by oska 6y ago
Yes, lie-flat beds make great sense. And bunks in economy class would make sense too. I'm not talking about giving customers space and real comfort. I'm talking about the 'luxury' pantomime.
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by oska 6y ago
I remain unimpressed by such 'first class' gimmicks. A full bath? Wow, English public housing units commonly include a full bath (and 'private bathroom'). Ride in a Porsche? Truly not a big deal. Air travel should be tre
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by oska 6y ago
The block only affects people moving coins from an exchange account. Those coins are, in the final analysis, still controlled by the exchange. It doesn't affect anyone who is moving coins from an account they directly control (i.e. h
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The growing short case on Facebook and Google(twitter.com)
119 points by oska 6y ago|169 comments
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by oska 6y ago
The concept of 'dog whistling' is bogus. You can only hold people accountable for what they say , not what you think they might be 'signalling'.
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by oska 6y ago
Please don't downvote this reply from a DDG staff member (as I'm currently seeing). Even if you don't like the reply it's good that we're getting replies.
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by oska 6y ago
Cool. Maybe come back and tell us her name, if they know it.
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by oska 6y ago
Regarding the picture of the woman standing next to the pile of punch-cards which is, annoyingly, uncredited, I have found it credited in this article [1] as: > Programmer standing next to the SAGE computer's control program > Im
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by oska 6y ago
The risks involved with rapidly changing the planet's climate are huge and largely unknowable. We're running a very dangerous experiment where we can't know what all the results will be. Hence, you don't run the experi
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by oska 6y ago
> Someone's interpretation of their own sexuality or gender affects no one but themselves. I don't feel you've really followed the debate. Some trans rights activists are demanding that they be legally defined as the sex t

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