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12,119karma·1,819submissions·July 26, 2011
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No Such Thing As A Fish has ruined Anna Karenina for me.
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This is igNobel prize winning material
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"Although mathematicians suspect that there may be even larger numbers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J9MRYJz9-4 …
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I took part in this trial, at Holborn Station. The escalators are very long, and few people walk. However, despite the signage, markings and announcements, when I stood on the left I still got the occ…
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It's already got a primitive version of regenerative braking! The deep-line tubes—those that have the heating problem—are designed so that the stations are at peaks in the line. As the train is a…
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This fucks me off no end. As someone who eats vegemite, to find a full meter of shelving dedicated to Marmite in various formats almost everywhere is very frustrating. For long shelf life goods what&#…
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I think you're right. For example in EU supermarkets you will typically find, separately: white onions, brown onions, sweet onions etc. In the UK: onions. Maybe sometimes also 'large onions&…
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UK supermarkets are crap, and have got noticeably crapper in recent years. At even large mid-tier supermarkets you will find a paltry range of fruit and veg, and a maeger selection of almost entirely …
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The use of Ode to Joy in A Clockwork Orange is not incidental. In the original novel Alex is obsessed with classical music and Beethoven in particular. When he is subjected to the Ludovico technique i…
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If you like demo-in-a-tweet content, check out dwitter: https://www.dwitter.net/
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US doesn't have high enough denomination coins to make it work I imagine.
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In a cartesian plane yes. However for geospatial it's Lat/Long everywhere except in GeoJSON it seems.
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GeoJSON decision to use Long, Lat instead of Lat, Long partly to blame here. It's not what any new user expects. I suspect there are plenty of other bugs lurking out there due to people making th…
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As I someone who has studied art a little, try it! Appreciation for work of this kind comes quickly when you try and emulate it.
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UK citizen here. We implemented direct democracy by having a largely ill informed and sometimes deliberately misled population vote on the highly technical and complicated matter of EU membership. Ask…
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All publicity is good publicity, but especially so in the art world.
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The busses will have a safety driver on board, but apparently they expect they will not need to take control at all normally. It will be interesting to see (if possible) how much this holds up in real…
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You can freeze mice solid and warm them up in a microwave and they'll come back to life. Not everything that works in a mouse model works in humans.
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Mozilla gave them a thumbs up https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/garmin-... …
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> Snap Inc. is a camera company. > We believe that reinventing the camera represents our greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. https://snap.com/ …
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You thought the e-scooter debris in historic cities was bad, if these take off they'll be clogging up historic monuments in a European capital near you soon. https://edition.cnn.com&#x…
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I started donating blood specifically because I have a needle phobia. I'm up to 8 donations now and feeling better about it each time.
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Is this parody? > Creating a blog from scratch requires quite a lot. Quite a lot of what? If I want to create a blog then there are many existing systems that are essentially plug and play. Perhaps…
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If you're buying your storage from Apple it is not cheap!
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Taken alone this might be unfortunate, but given Apple's long-standing trend of upselling storage at hugely inflated prices it's pretty damning.
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Oh shit thanks, I didn't know