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by thriftwy 3y ago
Is it better to be one of those 0 to 1 kids, science valuing types who fear insiders ? They're not okay with a significant fraction of their peers, which does look maladaptive to me.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Some of my relatives had told their toddler "we're going to granny of your grand-dad". Yep, that's 5 generations at once. That particular sub-branch has children later so they are a full generation ahead of my own branch
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Independence from who? The evidence that it has significantly happened is the 2014 LDNR referendums and the following harsh resistance of Donbas militias against Ukrainian forces (absolute majority of the soldiets being locals since how wou
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Independence referendum of 1991 was about whether UkrSSR will admit the dissolution of already defunct USSR or if it will continue its quasi-state existence. Even then they didn't get everybody on board. It was not a referendum on &q
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Even if Scythians were fluent in Greek, the lack of material to write on would keep them mostly illiterate.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Rural tourism is definitely a thing. The problem is that the countryside used to feed and employ half of the population until very recently. The large city will unlikely consume that much rural hospitality services. So only a token amount o
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Thank you - checked and corrected.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Interestingly, before Turkic and Mongol nomads there were Indo-European nomads which were just as convincing. I wonder if ancient Greeks could actually understand some Scythian. They didn't diverge that long ago. There were also Finnic
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by thriftwy 3y ago
People are increasingly competing for that Monaco real estate (or realistically, Paris suburbs), whereas a lot of land which had agricultural communities thriving as soon as 50 years ago is now worthless and abandoned. Nobody needs the frui
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Realty is still scarcy. Good education is scarcy. Medicine is scarcy. Only things which are plentiful are plastic crap, unhealthy food and arguably cars.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
This is because for some reason human teeth are just so bad / unfit for the current use profile. I've probably went to a dentist 30 times or so, whereas I've only been to all other kinds of health care 5-10 times over the sam
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by thriftwy 3y ago
"Modern slavery system" is hilarious, but even more worrying is claim that one might ever lose the modern society's protrection against being enslaved under some conditions.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Perhaps that was that lead poisoning from gasoline. I wonder if anybody researched its effect on non-criminally inclined population.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
This is because your socket lacks grounding. Your laptop's body is normally connected to ground and both power supply lines are also connected to it via two capaciators. No actual current is driven through it but it does have an effect
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Tagsoup + xpath for the win. Jq is a nice tool, but...
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by thriftwy 3y ago
It takes one volcanic winter for them to cross the oceans and emerge on the other side, without being fit for the warm waters.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I'm not sure why these AI bots use dumb filters of user input, instead of running the output through another LLM to make sure it has nothing forbidden in it. When I see how these chat bots operate it seeem to me that their developers (
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Notes from the Underground Internets.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I believe that during the Soviet era, almost every position will be "on the guard" not just the yard keeper (as depicted in "The Diamond Arm" of 1968). After the Soviet era, yard-keeping services are way understaffed to
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I believe these refer to the pre-Soviet state of affairs when the yard keeper (дворник) of an apartment block was basically subordinate to the city police - at least in the capital of St. Petersburg.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
It does however give you a right to download any data that is being collected. I wonder if that's covered by GDPR.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
That one's for Christmas.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The UFO talk seems to occuring when the USA needs to distract attention from other things.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
That's the flip side of academic freedom. Once you trust a group of people with self-governance, they would invariably use it to enrich the insiders at the expense of outsiders. Just look up how a Greek democratic poleis worked. That&#
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Most consumer grade drones are too expensive for one-time FPV drone. They're usually built from kits.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The problem here is not simply food security, but the fact is that herds represented the capital those rural mongolian held, and now it's gone.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
A honorable mention of less hobbyist, more automated https://www.rome2rio.com/
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Particularly good: Central St. Petersburg, especially Petrograd island[1] and other districts with smaller streets such as Peski/Kolomna. Smaller streets, slightly broken grid and uniform height 5-storey buildings lead to never experie
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by thriftwy 3y ago
In a cold climate, these wide boulevards lose their leaves in the autumn and the turn into enormous ducts for cold wind to traverse freely. You freeze just while crossing it. In cold climate, you definitely do not want tall buildings with s
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Well it worked for Russia, didn't it.

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