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by simplicio 3y ago
Here's a reading of Twain's most famous anti-war work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRVod4PwQHs
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by simplicio 3y ago
I remember in the early wikipedia days, Jimmy Wales complaining (in a good natured way) how a bunch of anime series had more pages devoted to them on wikipedia then World War II.
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by simplicio 4y ago
Those costs are paid either way though, aren't they? At least, it seems that close to 100% of houses with roof-top solar are still grid connected, so I don't really see how they'd achieve any savings related to transmission
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by simplicio 4y ago
I don't really understand the advantage of rooftop solar over just putting the same number of solar panels in a field somewhere. Id think it would be a lot cheaper to install the panels in one-place then having to distribute them to a
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by simplicio 4y ago
Yea, putting aside any other ties he may have had with the CIA, its hardly a mystery why the CIA would make a big deal out of the death of a former director who went on to be a US Prez.
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by simplicio 4y ago
Also encompasses the "cash for clunkers" program and period of low interest rates, both of which accelerated the retirement of older cars for newer (and generally, safer) cars
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by simplicio 4y ago
The book was originally conceived as a graphic novel using some sort of software to generate the images from photographs of actors and props. The jacket was a prop for one of those photoshoots. You can see some examples of the art in one
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by simplicio 4y ago
As a native English speaker, I find written Vietnamese to be quite easy compared to other western languages. The grammar is relatively simple, and words only have one form, there's no changes due to gender/tense/number. Even
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by simplicio 4y ago
I think the 2 reasons people don't suspect Ukraine is that: a) it seems kinda implausible they have ability to blow up the pipe-line, nevermind to do so without being detected in what has to be the most cloesly monitored body of water
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by simplicio 4y ago
Also feel like if there was more then one way to interpret a query, it used to try and give an example of each on the first page. Like it used to be if I searched "ford", I'd get both links relating to Ford Motors and Presid
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by simplicio 4y ago
Yea, Birthday parties mixing small kids, paper decorations, candles and hydrogen balloons seems like a questionable idea.
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by simplicio 4y ago
Maybe, but that works both ways. Employees are often reluctant to leave jobs where they have a lot of personal relationships, or if getting a new job would entail moving to a new city/state/country, even if jumping ship would ent
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by simplicio 4y ago
For more meteorologists messing around in the wind on Mt Washington, here's the classic "Breakfast of Champions" of a guy trying to serve breakfast at the summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J37u_usbJHc
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by simplicio 4y ago
My theory is that Python and C++ are slowly evolving towards eachother, and in 20 years will merge into the same (very confusing) language.
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by simplicio 4y ago
Feel like HN should start a collection to pay the author to finish the series, since it shows up here every few months, but the writer has (understandably) not had the time/inclination to complete it.
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by simplicio 4y ago
Since I learned this the other day on HN, Ill add a minor nitpick: "ZZ" doesn't save and quit the article suggests, but saves if modified and quits.
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by simplicio 4y ago
I've been slowly reading my way through the Diary on the linked website, a few entries at a time, since last year. I haven't tried to "sync" my read through with the other people reading through the diary in "real-
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by simplicio 4y ago
I mean, the article is about the landlord suing Twitter, so the question of how they plan to enforce the terms of the lease seems to have been answered. Note the landlord here is a big national firm. They're not going to be scared off
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by simplicio 4y ago
They'll lower rents in order to maximize profit. Number of units goes up, demand stays constant, the price will need to come down or they're stuck with empty units that generate negative profit.
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by simplicio 4y ago
I assume if your trying to prove someone violated a law, it makes sense to use the exact phrasing in the law, rather then paraphrase and leave the defense some possible semantic wiggle room.
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by simplicio 4y ago
Not useful for commercial energy production, but useful if you want to study self-propagating fusion explosions in a bomb, which is the actual purpose of the facility. NIF is really confusing the issue (I think this is the first pop-sci art
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by simplicio 4y ago
I think the confusion here is at least partially due to most articles obscuring the primary purpose of the NIF. Its not supposed to support commercial energy development, its supposed to support nuclear weapons development under the Nuclea
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by simplicio 4y ago
I think it helps to watch the video of Thackery saying them outloud at the end of the post. The rhyming gives counting off in groups of five and then 20 a kind of rhythm that "1,2,3.." lacks. I suspect if you have some sort of mo
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by simplicio 4y ago
30% seems like a lot!
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by simplicio 4y ago
FWIW: I didn't like it either, but really enjoyed "Tinker.." and "Smiley's People".
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by simplicio 4y ago
I've found it to be a pretty good product, at least for my use case. I only have an hour or two/wk to play games these days, so it doesn't make a ton of sense to spend the time and $ to buy and install a new video card. So
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by simplicio 4y ago
Presumably if the fine is bigger then the delta between the current share price and what Musk offered, he'd be better off buying the company and then trying to turn around and sell it then paying the fine. Similarly, if the fine is sma
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by simplicio 4y ago
I'm trying to imagine myself being impartial on a jury when one side is the KKK and the other is Mr Rogers.
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by simplicio 4y ago
I like him in the books, but he also seems like a really good example of why making movies their own thing instead of slavishly following the source material is a good idea. There's no way having the hobbits break the tense flight fro
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by simplicio 4y ago
Yea, just anecdotally, I feel like comic covers have gotten less horny as the target market has moved away from being exclusively teenage boys (which isn't to say there aren't still plenty of sexually titillating covers). But a

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