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pharke
11y ago
Perhaps there is a different term for the type of city you are thinking of, generally cities such as Letchworth[1] are moreso what is known as a garden city. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letchworth
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11y ago
It depends on your diet. People who eat a lot of red meat are going to be fine though, as mentioned in the article, it is possible to be anemic from a B12 or vitamin A deficiency as well which could result from a poor diet even if it is hi
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11y ago
... a multi-billion dollar per annum industry and beloved recreational past time? I do agree that prognostication is very rarely correct but the uses for the technologies in question go far beyond the political pipedreams of the seasteading
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11y ago
I believe that part of the idea behind sea-steading is to extend the concept of freedom of association to one's residence, real-estate, and business, literally enabling you to pick up stakes and move at any time you feel your environme
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11y ago
We have to use what we know, but with a serious effort towards discovering communicating civilizations other methods could be explored. I'm sure the people working on gravitational wave detection would love the boost of interest they
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pharke
11y ago
Sure, I'd compare the taste to a blueberry muffin but, you know, in liquid form. 1L freshly steeped green tea (2 min, less if you dislike the flavour) 1/2 cup quick oats 1/2 tsp. nutritional yeast 1/2 tsp. flax seed meal
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11y ago
I quit drinking coffee around the end of last summer and replaced it with around a litre of green tea mixed into a shake that consists mostly of oat, nut and seed meal, blueberries, honey, and a few spices which replaces my breakfast entire
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11y ago
Projectors aren't limited to displaying static images, but I guess the format is a matter of taste.
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11y ago
Or a decent high res LED projector, would have cost less than the foam board he stuck the map to and he could have it done in a day.
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11y ago
Movie price should still be subject to market pressure rather than the false valuations of the content owners. Having every provider create their own competing digital standard for media distribution is as absurd as expecting them to all p
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12y ago
I'm not arguing against providing a decent notice to people who's browser set up is not compatible with the technology being used by the application. I believe that, where possible, elements should provide support for people who&
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12y ago
That's in the same ballpark as saying there are plenty of reasons to not use fossil fuels or there are plenty of reasons to not use English as a lingua franca or plenty of reasons to not eat meat. There are lots of good reasons to not
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12y ago
and if there's nothing on the page to read? Should every chat app have a non-JS fallback option? Do we need to implement all color scheme, layout and templating tools in pure CSS? Facetiousness aside, the web is most definitely not ju
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12y ago
Reminds me of this talk https://youtu.be/21j_OCNLuYg and also happens to be my current mid-range goal. I've worked on a farm, gardened, and raised chickens growing up and I'm dead set on doing it again, the amoun
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12y ago
Delivering constructive criticism in a polite and non-abrasive way is more efficient. If abruptly telling someone their wrong causes them to take offense to the help you're trying to provide, they'll likely disregard what you
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12y ago
I don't know why but it seems to make more sense to me if I think of the multiplication in terms of rotating or transposing and moving the vector or matrix so that the columns or rows line up with the ones they are to be multiplied wit
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12y ago
The most interesting part of the article seems to be in the video in which it is mentioned that part of the goal is to create easily reconfigurable assembly lines that "fit together like lego bricks". It is also mentioned in the
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pharke
12y ago
You can also just listen to the websocket that they are using to update the button (this is without being logged in): var buttonSocket = new WebSocket("wss://wss.redditmedia.com/thebutton?h=3b85664277e270cfd024faee2cc021
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12y ago
Absolutely agree, for many of those machines it would prove far more valuable to compile a history of early, working designs that are more easily produced with simple methods and tools and update them judiciously making use of current art b
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12y ago
No engine required https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect
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12y ago
This is probably the most relevant comment in this thread and something that I am glad to have learned.
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12y ago
A naked devil grabbing his very erect penis. I can understand why some people may find that offensive but I personally wouldn't be any more offended by it than I was by the peeing "swordfight" statue at the Franz Kafka museu
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12y ago
To me, this is akin to chaining yourself to a tree in a public park to protest its removal or to a fixture in a courthouse or city hall or placing posters or drawing with chalk in such locations. This statue is about as permanent a fixture
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12y ago
They took due care to choose materials that would not harm the monument. Public monuments and property are there for the enjoyment and use of the public, if that usage does no harm it should be allowed. The placing of this bust pushes the
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12y ago
It'd probably hit the news with the headline: "Anonymous benefactor donates $30k statue to city park"
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12y ago
Do you have examples of precedent where this occurred in the U.S.? If not, you're simply speculating based on your own opinion/mood/blood sugar level. Graffiti is rarely covered up so quickly unless it is found to be particu
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12y ago
I believe what he meant by money making a person increasingly smug was perhaps that (Western) society holds the expectation that the amount of money a person controls is directly proportional to their overall success or fulfilment in life.
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12y ago
I would think that your conversation with the computer would play a vital role while you were instructing it in the task it is to perform, even if it were a purely one-sided, instructional conversation the computer would still need to ackno
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To make things even more complex, with ultra-violet for sure but possibly involving other forms of radiation as well, it is possible that small amounts of exposure actually produce a preventative effect in regards to cancer. With UV, that
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12y ago
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. --Bjarne Stroustrup [1] [1] A standard complaint deserves a standard response.
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