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by smcl 3y ago
That's a very romantic view of the life of a chef but I'm afraid that by an overwhelmingly enormous margin the output of a chef is servings of food not century-spanning recipes. The comparison between developer and chef is kind of
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I feel like the issue of whether he left are the real racists (as you seem to be implying) or whether they infantilise indigineous people is a separate one
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I don't think it's right to hold a comment on HN to the same standards as a magazine article, though. It's entirely possible to write that sentence you had a problem with in a way that describes what happened without any conf
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It's still incinerated plenty of places, iirc Japan does it and I know that at least some of it here is: https://www.teplarny.cz/cs/spolecenska-odpovednost > Využíváme spalování odpadu. V létě je spalovna hlavn
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by smcl 3y ago
That's an interesting perspective, I hadn't ever broken the word down and thought about it like that! However from the perspective of a native speaker, I can't imagine anyone thinks there's anything admirable about a &qu
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The genocide in question is that of the indigenous people, not of the Bison
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Honestly I'm with you on everything you have said in this thread. I was dancing around it because I didn't want to be too accusatory, but I might as well say that what I meant is that if someone's writing little "oo what
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Yeah I think it could've easily been included (even just a sentence[0] and a link to something that explored it in a bit more detail maybe?) but I don't think there was any malice in its omission. Some people want to rewrite or wh
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I explicitly said that I understood why they didn't include it - the article was meant to highlight the bizarre idea of hippo meat being introduced in the USA. I commented here because I just thought some HN'ers would like to kn
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I can understand that this was glossed over somewhat to focus on the quirky and bizarre rather than the grim. But here: > Bison had become nearly extinct The use of the passive "had become" in the above is hiding a pretty imp
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Oh man this is from the really early days. It's where most of us learned of the bizarrely named Liberian fighter "General Butt Naked" for the first time.
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I think you're mistaken in believing I am on "tech twitter" as you understand it. I had a serious account under my real name (which I barely used and followed serious tech people) and a fun account under a false name (which I
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Exactly, I’ve outlined why I don’t particularly enjoy using the service for free, no idea why I should also pay for it. I’m surprised they didn’t also accuse me of being too poor to afford it, or of spending that daily on a “coffee with [my
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Alright I’ll bite, what reality am I denying here? I could’ve gone further but I thought in the interests of not aggravating the few remaining Elon fans I’d keep it simple, but apparently that didn’t work.
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Yeah whenever I visit twitter now the adverts are really frequent, so maybe they just think "oh lots of ads, I guess the advertising revenue is normal". Like for every 5 normal tweets I see one "promoted" tweet, and ab
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The biggest complaint I've seen hasn't been that it's too much power in one person's hands, it's that he's just been fucking around with the service and annoying people.
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Top replies to tweets are from blue-checks (nowadays, generally the worst posters) so to see any good interactions you either have to scroll pretty far or have used a blocklist. Twitter Blue is now completely tarnished - even if you just wa
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> PS5 level performance on a mobile device PS5-level performance on a six year old mobile device, no less. It's showing its age now, but it's still a fun little device and has a few absolute bangers. BotW and Super Mario Odys
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I had a fine time on JAL, theyve come a long way since being responsible for one of the more infamous food/air incidents - the poop plane: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_food_poisoni...
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Reading the comments there reminds me that Reddit can be a pretty nasty place. Like "Do you have any other questions? Cos if this is your lot then you should stay out of pub quizzes" - needless hostility.
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Why on Earth would they do that? Is there a big problem with "pro-abortion fanatics" trying to stop people having access to healthcare?
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It could be that this was the intent behind that comment. However I usually see "they want you to eat bugs" as a scaremongering tactic, when in reality the "they" in question just want some pretty uncontroversial stuff l
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Yep I also saw some in a Hokusai museum in Osube near Nagano
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The dismissal of environmentalists as "lol eat bugs" is really fucking sad, to me. It's like you're delighted that this happened because you get a chance to wind up some people you dislike. I mean whatever we say here or
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I thought he made and sold many prints of each piece, so that identifying the original one wouldn't really be possible.
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I dunno if I want a "debate" or anything, but certainly the ability to openly consider things like, for example, what an independent Scotland might look like. As it stands pro-indy people often declare it'll be a riproaring s
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Yeah I finished the game within the first month on a Radeon RX580 before many of the optimisations were released. Performance at low/medium was fine, not wonderful but perfectly usable so long as I didn't raise the settings too hi
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Born and lived in UK for most of my life. I generally agree but it really varies. Thing is, there are interesting discussions to be had around the past, the present and the future of the various nationalities in the country ... however mu
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If you like your wikipedia spicy, you may enjoy the story of Croatian-language wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_Wikipedia
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Quite a few of these disputes were about nationalities, which is interesting as I encountered this recently. I noticed on one page that someone famous was quite unusually described as "British" when "Welsh" was more accu

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