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by oska 7y ago
I found the book you mentioned - A Dinner of Herbs by John Verney. Looks good. Somewhat confusingly there is another book called Dinner of Herbs by Carla Grissman which is also a travelogue describing close contact with 'peasants&#
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by oska 7y ago
I approve the provision of a cell phone for that age group (early teens). Provided it's a dumb phone with only call service available in case they really need to call for help. I'm much more dubious about giving them GPS. It'
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by oska 7y ago
A little bit tangential to this: bushwalking at night can be a very beautiful experience. I remember doing a ~15km section of the Abel Tasman track in New Zealand during the night so as to catch the early morning low tide for a tidal river
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by oska 7y ago
I've listened to all but the last 20 minutes of the podcast now. Thiel I find interesting and his ideas provocative even when I don't agree with him on some points. Weinstein I didn't find very interesting at all. He appears
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by oska 7y ago
Stuntman Garry Connery demonstrated the efficacy of what you're describing when he jumped from a helicopter at 2,400 feet (730 metres) and steered himself using a wingsuit onto a runway of vertically stacked cardboard boxes. [1] [1]
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by oska 7y ago
> You will want a tall tree with an excurrent growth pattern—a single, undivided trunk with lateral branches, delicate on top and thicker as you cascade downward. I had not encountered the word excurrent before. They provide a bit of a
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by oska 7y ago
Desalination is not a panacea.
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by oska 7y ago
Dogs are a bad example to use to support your argument as they are domesticated animals who are fed processed dog food.
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by oska 7y ago
I've gone 30 years without using soap (or anything else) on my body with similar results and experience to you. Also no problems with body odour; instead quite the opposite, being complimented on how I smell (by intimate partners). I s
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by oska 7y ago
They weren't all created by Amazon. Quite a number of them are acquisitions, e.g. AbeBooks, Book Depository, Goodreads and IMDb.
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On the Homogenizing Dangers of Easily Translated Literature (2016)(lithub.com)
47 points by oska 7y ago|13 comments
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by oska 7y ago
Your comment is an example of corrosive cynicism. And I don't think it's true either. Resistance to further extensions has built since the last extension.
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by oska 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ridgecrest_earthquakes
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Europe begins to think like China in building its own battery industry(europe.autonews.com)
3 points by oska 7y ago|0 comments
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by oska 7y ago
It's entirely possible (and also desirable) to make pollution taxes such as a carbon tax revenue neutral i.e. other taxes are lowered to balance the new pollution tax. And because pollution is a marker of inefficiency, pollution taxes
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Who wants to kill the electric car this time?(sierraclub.org)
3 points by oska 7y ago|1 comments
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by oska 7y ago
Your question reminded me of the purported efforts of one of the male children of the Lykov family (the family separated from civilisation in deep Siberia): > Lacking guns and even bows, they could hunt only by digging traps or pursuing
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by oska 7y ago
If you are referring to Canada's arrest of Huawei's CFO for potential extradition to the US then that is a very different matter.
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by oska 7y ago
Oh, thank you, my mistake.
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by oska 7y ago
There is an argument that a Chinese astronomer observed and documented a Jovian satellite in the 4th century BC. [1] [1] http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-TTWL198102000.htm
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by oska 7y ago
The trend described in this article was written about by Buckminster Fuller in 1938, except he called it ephemeralization [1]. Paul Graham wrote an essay on the same subject (iphones and ephemeralization) in 2010 and, unlike this piece, m
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by oska 7y ago
> he even named his dumb project along the lines of the Winkelvii's crypto currency exchange I hadn't made this connection before (although I'm sure it has been made many times in the bitcoin and cryptocurrency space alrea
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by oska 7y ago
A bit odd that they didn't include Japan in their set of countries. My expectation is that it would have probably topped the list.
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by oska 7y ago
> However, "Like, uh, their purpose." is grammatically and semantically meaningless. Compare to "Like, well, their purpose". I don't expect you'd have any problem with the word 'well' in that sente
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by oska 7y ago
This is your paraphrase: > The writer breathlessly warns that "campuses across the country" are succumbing to mob rule. And this is the actual sentence from the article from which you took the quote: > As on other campuses a
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Facebook lawyers explain to a judge that privacy on Facebook is nonexistent(theintercept.com)
216 points by oska 7y ago|89 comments
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by oska 7y ago
> an oft-repeated truism that is as useless as "the only winning move is not to play" Not sure why you see that as useless; it's basically the moral takeaway from Hamlet . There are many situations where it's best to
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The CFA franc subjugates African states to French economic interests(spiked-online.com)
1 points by oska 7y ago|0 comments
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by oska 7y ago
I'm sympathetic to farmers who hack their John Deere tractors which they only use on private land. I'm much less sympathetic to people who hack the software of cars they drive on public roads.
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by oska 7y ago
You're demonstrating one of the (many) weaknesses of arguing from analogy. You've completely switched your argument to what happened when instructions were posted about removing software imposed limits on a printer, not what happe

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