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by robga 5y ago
The first paragraph of Nabokov’s memoir Speak, Memory. “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, ma
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by robga 5y ago
Various eye conditions can cause binocular vision issues. People can be unaware of a mild condition. They can have 20/20 vision. Have you taken any binocular vision tests? Eg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worth_4
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by robga 5y ago
Fascinating. As a teenager of the 80s I could never see them. 35 years later, and with (more) deteriorated vision, I wondered if I’d have a revelation. Still nothing. Strangely affirming. I feel 15 again.
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by robga 5y ago
> It’s hilarious this is so many years behind schedule. It’s also why I don’t think nuclear is the answer - as a country the U.K. can’t do big projects. Maybe they’re great at building, poor at scheduling. If they’d +4 year’ed the initia
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by robga 5y ago
> Hamrick is an upstanding guy who deserves a lot of respect for the way he’s run his business for over 20 years now. He seems like a one man shop that just never sells out and goes on indefinitely. I guess the software will die when he
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by robga 5y ago
Yes, it’s been a while since I used it but about half the price of an AWS spot instance.
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It looks like I’m in a tiny minority. Sure, I you want to follow a well trodden “career path” then follow advice until the day you retire. I can see how that makes sense in academia, or medicine. If not, my advice is to stop taking advice f
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by robga 5y ago
I’ve used vast.ai many times over several years. I use the “top up” approach. Never any unsanctioned payments.
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by robga 5y ago
Which came first - mass produced eggs or the egg box?
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by robga 5y ago
Based on 2020-21, by purchasing as much toilet paper and pasta as your SUV will take.
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> if you want basic features like cloud sync and handwriting conversion, you have to sign up for the $8/mo subscription. You don't "have to" for cloud sync. Remarkable is a fairly open platform and there is a vibrant
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by robga 5y ago
You’re right. Thanks for the clarification. 85% of Earth’s land is in the Land hemisphere.
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by robga 5y ago
The “Water Hemisphere” is 89% water. The “Land Hemisphere” is 85% land. The location [0] may be a little surprising. The shared view above is deceptive due to the land at the edges. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L
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by robga 5y ago
That many so-called contrarian views are alternate conformist views or denialist views rather than contrarian views.
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by robga 5y ago
“Unlimited Service Locations. Order as many Starlinks as needed” Does this mean I could have 3 on a property to triple bandwidth? If 1 per property, could I have my neighbours hang together? (High density, 10M between 3 dishes).
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by robga 5y ago
The wikipedia article says "rapid tests have a market value of $15 billion; however, the market is expected to cease from 2024 due to the vaccination of the global population by the end of 2023." I suppose they're just talkin
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by robga 5y ago
A Guardian article says the dig was in August and September. The first 3 episodes in the BBC's brilliant Digging for Britain that aired last week look like they were shot in a similar timeframe. This fossil will covered in tomorrow&#x2
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In these cases you could use Boyd's OODA loop. It can be positioned as more able to deal with less certainty, epecially those that need to understand external context. I see echoes of it in Agile.
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by robga 5y ago
My view is there is a strong “anchoring effect” at play. Because so many vulnerable actually died at the outset, and indeed since, it’s become a yardstick for damage. Even the qualifiers of long covid and life altering conditions seems a he
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by robga 5y ago
I’ve always wondered what the average colour of the web is. Probably close to light gray. Maybe Facebook gives it a blue tinge. Dark modes have complicated the question.
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by robga 5y ago
I was surprised that the ‘you only use x% of your brain’ canard was not discussed. Whenever I read articles like this I feel the field is about 150 years behind other sciences. What I fail to grasp is whether they are marooned at this point
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by robga 5y ago
I read this with a smile. Collecting cans was my first money making venture as a 10yo, 80% of my life ago. ~1c/can (recycle value, no deposit), about $10/wk just cleaning up at 2 neighbourhood schools. I remember making my own &#x
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by robga 5y ago
I can’t actually recall, history blurs. Somewhere 3.5-4.5. I did try her on a balance bike. She wasn’t interested and just ran everywhere. Within 2-3 months of hopping on a pedal bike she had no training wheels. I don’t doubt your or other
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by robga 5y ago
I taught my kid how to ride using training wheels 4 years ago. She rode 4 times in 4 weeks using 2 training wheels. 1 hour on 1 wheel the next week. The next weekend within 20 minutes of no wheel she was fine and cycled perfectly since. Tru
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by robga 5y ago
It’s a dirty industry (snort!) Howling, germ bellowing airblades are a personal dislike of mine. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/25/hand-dryers-...
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by robga 5y ago
Cash for anything > 5 to 10 years is def not the way to go. For a kid I'd put it all in some form of All World tracker 100% equity. If you eenvisage they'd actually draw on it aged 18-25 I'd scale back to 70/30 with b
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by robga 5y ago
Whenever I have to put a signature, which is rare, I tell them I don’t have a signature. Because I don’t, really, not one I’d trust not to be faked. I haven’t used a signature on a debit/credit card for 20 years and it’s never once bee
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HHhH
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It’s usually time if you’re wondering if it’s time.
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BBC's radio show More or Less did a great piece on this recently. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09ch7qv It is related to Matt Parker's youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ko3TdP

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