paulette449

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Comment · 1 year ago

Yes, true here in Lyon, 2hrs away from Geneva.

Comment · 1 year ago

I read Ulysses last year and enjoyed it but this "companion" book was indispensable:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/ulysses-annotated-revised-and-e...

But also the free (online) Joyce Project with hyperlinked annotations:

http://m.joyceproject.com/chapters/telem.html

I wish I'd bought this version when It came out. It's pretty expensive now.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-cambridge-ulysses-the-1922-...

And I cannot recommend Frank Delaney's Re: Joyce podcast enough, sadly he passed away before completing the project

https://blog.frankdelaney.com/re-joyce/

Comment · 1 year ago

Great to see they've hit their target but I've been burned so many times on Kickstarter, I just walk away.

Comment · 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing. I've been thinking of creating a non-revenue online guide to my new city, Lyon, France, but I've been concerned that I'd only be feeding the AI machine.

Comment · 1 year ago

"the level of popular education is actually declining. What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked on as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect."

Comment · 1 year ago

Early commenters, the site is satire. Pls don't read a snippit and rush back here to vent.

Comment · 1 year ago

You should've read on. The site is satire. The "quote" from the Truthfully AI "founder" is hilarious.

Comment · 1 year ago

After reading this one-sided article, I checked out the rest of the website. Sadly I did not find evidence to support their statement that they "have no allegiance to any political party or tradition." And this article is a prime example. Ever since the right discovered that Wikimedia makes donations to "social justice" groups, they've been gunning for it. This hit piece is one of many.

Comment · 1 year ago

Great advice, thanks

Comment · 1 year ago

I have a potted miniature lime tree that spends 8 months of the year outdoors and the NYC winter indoors. It's easy to maintain and every year it produces more limes. This year I got at least 30. They taste unbelievable especially versus store purchased. Highly recommended.

Ask HN: Has anyone opened a physical business (store, coffee, food)?

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Comment · 1 year ago

> A few years ago, my girlfriend and I started a small coffee shop in Hanoi as a fun side project

Did it end up being the fun side project you expected?

Comment · 2 years ago

For anyone in the northeast, i can recommend Three Days At The Fair [1], the longest duration of which is actually 6 days and the course is a 1 mile loop around a state fair ground in New Jersey. I did a mere 12 hour option on the final weekend, and the suffering of those competitors on their 5th/6th day is something i will never forget. Sideways leans, some quite pronounced, others moving backwards to alleviate pains developed moving forwards etc.

Why do they do it? Well, the camaraderie is incredible. Much of the course is lined where runners have pitched their tents/campers/chairs and the support, sharing of food, stories and beer make it a unique event. The shortest duration is 6 hours and you’re not obliged to run more than a single loop/mile if you don’t want to.

[1] - https://sites.google.com/site/njtrailseries/fair

Comment · 2 years ago

I have just finished reading Carmilla [1], a vampire novella by another Irishman, Sheridan LeFanu, which pre-dated Dracula by 25 years. I much preferred it to Stoker's book.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmilla

Comment · 2 years ago

Not a comment on the term being discussed but i do have a problem with the charts used in the article: “vehicle deaths per million residents …” and “US death rate from motor vehicles per hundred million miles traveled”. Both graphs show a declining trend. But of course that’s how an unscrupulous writer could hide rising data, by charting against an even faster trend and not just showing data in the raw. i don’t know if that was a deliberate ploy here but it did annoy me that i had to go and find out whether deaths by cars are actually increasing or not. So i googled and discovered:

“Drivers Hit and Killed More Than 7,500 Pedestrians Last Year, Most Since 1981, New Projection Shows” [1]

And by that point i was just as bothered by the questionable use of data as i was by the questionable use of language.

[1] https://www.ghsa.org/resources/news-releases/GHSA/Pedestrian...