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by tropdrop 3y ago
I see many possibilities for commercials, demos... not to mention kids' animations, of course. Actually, thinking of this from the perspective of a start-up, it could be cool to instantly demonstrate a use-case of a product (with just
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by tropdrop 3y ago
I have not found Duolingo valuable for learning a language from scratch – my experience with German, in particular, was terrible. Then I tried to do Japanese with it, and trying to use it to learn Japanese from scratch was also terrible. Ho
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by tropdrop 3y ago
Same here – I wondered what the "!" was for and made the mistake of clicking on Caldera's.
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by tropdrop 3y ago
Beautiful work and great magazine. Thanks for sharing
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by tropdrop 3y ago
Don't forget Robert Durst of The Jinx – an American real estate heir got away with murder for decades. The Jinx was a true crime documentary for which Durst, for some reason, agreed to be interviewed. I don't want to give away
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by tropdrop 3y ago
The article points out that the mass-sent email used a different email address than that of the ToS. arbitrationoptout@23andme is the email in the ToS. Jury is out whether this hyperlink mix-up was intentional...
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by tropdrop 3y ago
The entire city is very run-able though (so the Con is a little less so if you're into long distance)
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by tropdrop 3y ago
Maybe to a very young child that is an interesting spot, but this kind of intersection certainly was representative of the closest points of interest in the suburb where I spent my middle-school years. In my experience, older children tende
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by tropdrop 3y ago
I read the image as a visualization of why it feels hostile, to a suburban child, to walk to a point of gathering or "third place." For many suburban children, this kind of intersection is fairly representative of the closest poin
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by tropdrop 3y ago
Nice to see a high quality article by a high school student – kudos to this young new urbanist.
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by tropdrop 3y ago
Not only dragged but actively pinned with the car stopped on top of her leg (warning – graphic photo [1]) until firefighters arrived. 1 - https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/woman-run-autono...
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Hi, 'Barbie'! Russian Theaters Find Ways to Screen Blockbusters Amid Sanctions(nytimes.com)
2 points by tropdrop 3y ago|0 comments
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by tropdrop 3y ago
> Most U.S. foresters, [Lohrengel] says, are trained to cut the best trees and leave the sick ones behind. The result is a forest with deteriorating genetic stock. But the Menominee are “doing the opposite, and making the forest healthie
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by tropdrop 3y ago
I'd use my "especially writing" heuristic here to separate the two – graffiti comes from the Greek root "graph" (to write), right? So even though 1 contains elaborate and beautiful full wall pieces, I would still co
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by tropdrop 3y ago
Graffiti is usually tagging [1], but includes other forms of (non-sanctioned) random acts of art and, especially, writing. Wall murals are usually sanctioned – either there is permission granted to paint a wall, or, often, they are commiss
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by tropdrop 3y ago
Honestly I've been impressed with their fish sandwich recently – wild caught and actually flaky filet!
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by tropdrop 3y ago
From the article: > "Dowry usually emerges in highly stratified societies, like caste-structured India and colonial Latin America, whereas the reverse convention, bride price, is more likely to appear in communities with less socioe
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by tropdrop 3y ago
Minor gripe: there was no one "author." I found it interesting that this was "authored" by WP's Editorial Board. I sense that they wanted to avoid someone specific being dragged to shreds on Twitter (a lot harder to
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by tropdrop 3y ago
As others have pointed out, the problem has many sources. Other states/cities busing their homeless to California has historically been at least a minor contributor. California won a suit against the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, for spec
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by tropdrop 4y ago
Change "pocket" to backpack and my word, am I guilty... I have an invented breakfast I call "Breakfast of Champions" – just some plain popcorn with avocado and fresh-cracked pepper. Bonus: if I have nutritional yeast on
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by tropdrop 4y ago
I think in some regions they're a lot more common than others – in Connecticut they're found in almost every grocery store, but states/cities without an outsize Italian-American presence one might have to run around town.
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by tropdrop 4y ago
My biggest issue is the high rate of failure with fresh produce. I remember when one of my orders came in with a bag of organic sweet potatoes, with the claim that the organic Russet I had ordered were "out of stock." I was doing
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by tropdrop 4y ago
For what it's worth, I moved to the United States at some point halfway to adulthood, and I felt the way you describe for about eight years. It took me about three to grok the language, but where I landed was so culturally homogeneous
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The Irony of Canceling Everything Russian(nytimes.com)
3 points by tropdrop 4y ago|1 comments
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by tropdrop 4y ago
It was strange the article focused so much on airport noise when there is another kind of noise pollution for city residents so much more widespread – ambulances/emergency vehicles. I've lived in San Francisco for awhile (and stil
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by tropdrop 5y ago
Agree with all said here, but a small caveat with PhDs in the UK – from my understanding, admissions can be very difficult for those not living in the UK (purposefully biased towards UK citizens). However, getting into a one year Master&#x2
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by tropdrop 5y ago
And "shahmaty" is what chess is called in Russian – шахматы. The expression for check and mate is shah i mat (шах и мат) also, but "shah" (шах) in Russian sounds almost exactly like the word for a step (шаг) – it sounds
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by tropdrop 5y ago
I was surprised to see no examination of the American healthcare system vs. those of the European countries listed anywhere in the article. Doesn't it make sense to see life expectancy fall for every age category when every age categor
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Seemingly Successful Soviet Experiments in Telepathy(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by tropdrop 5y ago|0 comments
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by tropdrop 5y ago
I've tried nicotine (in cigarettes, cigars, and vape-based products), but for some reason, it never became this light switch in my head. However, as soon as you started describing this, I immediately thought of my relationship with foo

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