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by oska 7y ago
Just as a comment: I really hate seeing Brexit dragged into every conversation. We're talking about rockets here, which should be a million miles away from any discussion of Brexit.
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by oska 7y ago
This guy is amazing. Look out for his interview with Elon Musk that should be released in the next 24 hours on his YT channel [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6uKrU_WqJ1R2HMTY3LIx5Q/vid...
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by oska 7y ago
The really cool thing is when he thinks out loud on stage. How many public speakers do that? Asked a technical question he will often think it out as he answers it (although it's usually something he's thought about before and he&
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by oska 7y ago
I would actually give the opposite advice - I think people continue to overestimate Blue Origin based simply on Bezos' deep pockets and the success he had with a non-engineering online business (Amazon). Best way to judge Blue Origin
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Increased rates of myopia linked to reduced time outside, studies suggest (2015)(nature.com)
172 points by oska 7y ago|53 comments
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by oska 7y ago
> How did they know to search for a hard box at a known shallow depth? They didn't. They would have been searching for a shallow grave. Thanks for linking the brother's website. I found his letter interesting, particularly this
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The Ursula Herrmann kidnapping mystery(theguardian.com)
26 points by oska 7y ago|4 comments
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by oska 7y ago
I suspect your downvote (not from me) came from your calling Shogun 'truly exceptional historical fiction'.
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by oska 7y ago
This is a delightful anecdote.
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by oska 7y ago
Speaking personally, I feel that the experience of sexual attraction and sexual desire has been a stimulus to the development of my intelligence, not a brake upon it. If you look at great art and literature you will see it has played a cruc
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Intelligence, Complexity, and the Failed “Science” of IQ(medium.com)
2 points by oska 7y ago|0 comments
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by oska 7y ago
I submitted the same story (but from a different source) a couple of days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20785971 I had the same problem with reducing the title. In the end I decided to leave mention of the Great
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by oska 7y ago
This is a big claim you're making here. I'm sceptical. Can you provide figures and sources to back it up?
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Giant pumice raft produced from underwater volcanic eruption near Tonga(abc.net.au)
1 points by oska 7y ago|0 comments
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by oska 7y ago
I like it. I like pedestrians asserting themselves in traffic. I think in urban areas pedestrians should have precedence. Walking is our natural way of getting around.
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by oska 7y ago
In the looping video at the top of the article, notice how confidently the woman in the red & yellow sari steps out in front of the rickshaw (making it wait for her to cross).
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by oska 7y ago
It's only ludicrous because the plastics industry wants to pretend that plastics are recyclable when, mostly, they're not (because it's impractical or uneconomic). The rules for recycling when you exclude all plastics are pre
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by oska 7y ago
The playground equipment I see these days is simply awesome. Yes, improved safety, but also markedly more imaginative and fun-looking (climbing walls, flying foxes, monkey bars and other 'hang-from' stuff that's incorporated
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by oska 7y ago
That's disappointing. I feel like being able to swim and handle ocean surf is a "birthright" of Aussie kids. I remember being taken out in fairly big crashing surf as young as 5 and 6 years old by my parents so I could learn
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by oska 7y ago
> (and misogynistic) society This word is becoming way over-used (and thus losing its meaning). There are real misogynists and real misogynistic behaviour; I can think of a prominent media identity in my own country who is definitely a m
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by oska 7y ago
I had to re-read your comment. At first I thought you were saying you had one hour of homework per night. One hour per class per day is insane. I regularly avoided doing homework throughout my school life. The only thing I think that suff
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by oska 7y ago
There's the possibility that the humans in that area at that time were migratory, i.e. only visited it in the summer.
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by oska 7y ago
> I truly believe people should be free to move wherever to realise their maximum potential. Why? Why not improve their local environment to better help them "realise their maximum potential"? (I put your words in quotes becaus
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by oska 7y ago
Here we have a native speaker of Japanese being downvoted for giving an opinion on their own writing system that HN readers don't want them to have.
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by oska 7y ago
And have you ever sought out what opinion Japanese Braille readers have of the system? Whether they find it "less than optimal"? I can't find the references right now but my memory from reading up on it at one time is that us
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by oska 7y ago
We always get this reply in this (endlessly repeated) conversation. However, as the person you are replying to says, blind and vision impaired people are perfectly proficient readers using Japanese Braille [1]. [1] https://en.wik
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by oska 7y ago
The counterpoint is that if you are fluent in spoken Japanese you can get by with a fairly minimal number of kanji (and complete understanding of the kana as well, obviously). Which is the trend with native Japanese people too.
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by oska 7y ago
> Habermas pointed to the early 18th century as a crucial moment of change. At that time, newspapers and periodicals exploded in both number and influence. ‘In The Tatler, The Spectator and The Guardian the public held a mirror up to
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by oska 7y ago
It's rather disappointing to see a self-identified Korean being (currently) downvoted in an article all about Korea. Even if you disagree with their thesis that "the principal founding blocks of Korean consciousness are deeply fe
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by oska 7y ago
Obviously there are still children being born in South Korea, just less of them than in recent times.

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