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by xhedley 9y ago
Pre-existing hold plus the ingredients required to create ethanol (sugar, water, airborne or fruit or baking yeast, warmth) are legal and ubiquitous.
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Meet your new cobot: is a machine coming for your job?(theguardian.com)
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by xhedley 9y ago
I took a holiday trip to Norway recently and parts looked like Scotland ... but with trees. I was told this was due to Norwegians no longer keeping goats since the 1950s. The before and after landscape photographs are striking. http:&#x2F
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by xhedley 9y ago
You can define it by imagining a male co-worker in a meeting with your mother/sister/daughter/other female relative/female friend. Are you comfortable with your male co-worker discussing pornography and sex work in that
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by xhedley 9y ago
Toomuchtodo: I posted earlier in the thread about a friend who bounced back after brain damage following a cardiac arrest. The time when I didn't know the extent of the damage (would my friend ever wake up) was terrifying. The thought
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by xhedley 9y ago
A friend of mine had her heart restarted at age 40 after 20 minutes of resus by the excellent London Ambulance Service. Intensive Care then applied a cooling apparatus to drop brain temperature. My friend was in a coma for 6 weeks and had
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by xhedley 9y ago
Freshly made sandwiches? Don't supermarkets sell those? The UK has shops like Pret A Manger where the selling point is that all the sandwiches are made fresh in the shop every day. We also have Subway franchises who tweak your sandwich
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by xhedley 9y ago
We get this in the UK - I can order from Tesco or Asda and get it delivered to my door. "Price promise" price matches lowest price in area for branded goods like Heinz baked beans. It's cheaper in UK to pick supermarket own
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by xhedley 9y ago
Advice probably applicable to more than demoing SAAS. Also the author has clearly acquired some sales chops by reading those books on demos - the note at the end about researching and writing the post in 9 hours using airstory had me clicki
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by xhedley 9y ago
Great link. Interesting how Stephenson believed in 1996 (probably correctly) that a directly wired connection from Manhattan to London was faster than a non direct connection from Manhattan to the Bronx. Nowadays the speed of light is a goo
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by xhedley 9y ago
Psychological research indicates that "stressors" associated with poverty impair executive decision function such as ability to prioritise medium term goals (get to work on time) versus short term desires (stay in bed). Stressors
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by xhedley 9y ago
"the gene that encodes for the toxin protein is actually carried by a virus or phage that infects the bacteria" [0] It seems the advantage for the virus in making the bacteria produce enough toxin to kill a duck fifty times over i
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by xhedley 9y ago
Arizhel, I have never been subjected to rape and attempted strangulation myself. But someone that I know well has. In the country that I live in, the justice system rightly requires that guilt in criminal cases is proved "beyond reaso
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by xhedley 9y ago
UK imperial ton 2240 pounds = 1016kg. UK now uses only metric ton = 1000kg. USA ton 2000 pounds = 907kg. I believe this ton is still in use.
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by xhedley 10y ago
Buying and selling sex in a private space in England isn't illegal. But two or more women selling sex in a single property constitutes "brothel-keeping" which is a criminal offence. Owning a "brothel" is also a
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by xhedley 10y ago
Clearly Excel isn't always the best tool if you are free to choose between R or Python or C or Java. But if you're not a developer then Excel may be the only tool that you and all your colleagues are guaranteed to have. Even if I
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by xhedley 10y ago
You don't have to be so hard on yourself when "practising meditation" though. There's another piece on the front page of HN right now about using positive reinforcement to influence the behaviour of children. The secula
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by xhedley 10y ago
I like the design choice of chilled music and graphics which contrasts with the game objective of typing fast. Makes me want to type as fast as I can while remaining perfectly relaxed.
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by xhedley 10y ago
DNA provides evidence of paternity of Sally Heming's children. Which appears to be that the father was Sally Heming's owner Thomas Jefferson. Sally Heming may have been head over heels in love with Thomas Jefferson. But on the ba
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by xhedley 10y ago
Mandatory XKCD link here https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ This isn't just a comic - Randall Munroe ran a color naming survey on internet users. Native language was not collecte
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by xhedley 10y ago
Thank you for posting that. Talking about the human process and story about how things happen help other people going forward. Understanding how people build things is crucial. Legacy isn't just for novel writers and building architec
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by xhedley 10y ago
Asimov's science ideas sound outdated in some cases because they became science fact. For example his 1945 proposal on communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit ... Www.lakdiva.org/Clarke/1945ww as quoted in Wikipedis
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by xhedley 10y ago
I don't think it was about survival chance. Death by heat sufficient to kill you would surely be extremely painful. Death by fall impact from high enough would at least be quick. As either option was clearly fatal, jumping wasn't
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by xhedley 10y ago
I'm a product lead not a technical lead, but in that domain I prefer roles where the situation is dysfunctional. If everything is working well enough then management don't want a troubleshooter. If things are broken then there&#x
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by xhedley 10y ago
Software companies aren't the only people who hire developers. I spent today (I'm a non-technical product owner in an enterprise) discussing middleware which will transform 10,000 miscellaneous transactions from multiple line of
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by xhedley 11y ago
Agree how helpful a total break for a week can be. I've always found it odd that the USA only gives two weeks annual holiday (plus public holidays). Someone finding a new job just to get a week off seems really inefficient - it probab
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by xhedley 11y ago
For technical books that I am reading for understanding I prefer paper books. My memory filing system for things I have read sometimes uses tactile, visual and physical clues which exist for paper books but not for ebooks. The vague memory
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by xhedley 12y ago
Disclaimer - I practise mindfulness but I'm not an expert. Yes it's normal to feel agitated initially. If life is focussed on doing and achieving stuff then deliberately stopping and deliberately not doing anything feels wrong. Bu
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by xhedley 12y ago
Knowing about the Dunning Kruger effect makes me more inclined to ask other people how good I am at something instead of relying on my own opinion. Which I think would make my evaluation more accurate.
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by xhedley 12y ago
I'm a native English speaker who learned Bahasa Indonesia in 1984 from adults whose native language was Javanese or Sundanese. Bahasa Indonesia was based on Court Malay or Trading Malay as the language of Indonesia after independence f

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