dreamweapon
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Comment · 11 years ago
Monica is really awesome. And deserves to be listened to.
Comment · 11 years ago
It's not just a good idea for HN. It's a good practice to apply in one's everyday life, generally.
Comment · 11 years ago
The decision that Google has made is unacceptable and unintelligible to CNNIC,
Standard language of the authoritarian mindset, everywhere.
Comment · 11 years ago
In German: E-Mail, URL, CD-ROM, and Jeans are usually feminine, for example.
Basically, whenever a noun (or the core of a compound noun) has a direct (or close) translation to a frequently used noun in German, then it's quite common for its gender to "bleed" over into the English loanword.
So in the examples above, Mail → Post, URL → Verbindung, CD-ROM → Platte, Jeans → Hose, etc.
Comment · 11 years ago
But does anybody use them?
Comment · 11 years ago
Though its owners may sometimes crash there, it's not really a "residential" structure, per se. The primary purpose it serves is as a sophisticated portfolio diversification instrument -- or (for offshore title holders), a convenient money laundering device:
http://nymag.com/news/features/foreigners-hiding-money-new-y...
Comment · 11 years ago
I totally agree about making price levels reflect true resource costs, ending bad incentivization systems, etc. (Meant to edit my first post to mention that, but got distracted).
Comment · 11 years ago
So eating a single almond, grown in California, is like opening one of these (https://hornstrafarms.com/product_images/large/monadnock_gal...) and pouring it down the drain.
It's highly misleading to suggest that the net impact of cycling a gallon of agricultural water (including irrigation + rainfall) is equal to that of a dumping a gallon of drinking water (packaged and delivered to your door, no less!) down the drain, of course.
Also, while the water footprint of almonds (and pistachios, cashews, etc) isn't great, if you aren't comparing it to that of other high-impact foods (in terms of water use by weight of end product) like say, dried tomatoes, butter, or most four-legged meat products -- not only per gram of end product, but per recommended serving (which for nut products is comparatively modest) -- then you're not only not helping us understand how we got into this mess (and how to get out); you're just pushing people's buttons, basically.