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Comment · 4 years ago
It completely changed the balance of power between landholders and peasants. Peasants started being able to actually negotiate on wages (to a degree that was revolutionary at the time), which also drove a market for capital and artisan goods. The merchant class exploded.

Landlords also started dumping money into development of labor-saving tools, which happens when most of your supply of free bonded labor suddenly dies off.

Pretty huge multi-faceted impacts.

Comment · 4 years ago
They don't work with it though.

The insult was for abusing that catalogue and falsely claiming they could commercially produce and ship something that they could not, and I think it was fairly deserved. I don't really see any sort of racial dogwhistles or subtext here, this reads like a small snipe over questionable business practices.

Comment · 4 years ago
The visual AI identification apps are neat, but can and will make dangerous misidentifications. They cannot be used for foraging.
Comment · 5 years ago
Be fascinating to hear more about how that actually works; or is it a fabrication by police or drug manufacturers? What mechanism of action would a bunch of metal and exhaust particulate possibly have to produce drug-like effects?
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
This truly isn't new; I've seen coffee table books from the 80s that used similar techniques for the photographs. This is a strangely credulous article.
Comment · 6 years ago
Nearly all the tech giants of today were not the the first in their niches; they just executed better.
Comment · 6 years ago
85 is functional at elevation, but definitely still not preferable at elevation.

Works best with carbureted engines, which are obviously few and far between these days. You shouldn't put 85 octane in a modern fuel injected engine period.

Comment · 6 years ago
Unfortunately I don't think TDR would help here: the issue isn't gross damage to the metal of the wires, it's subtle damage to the insulation.
Comment · 6 years ago
That's accurate: they're the standard in much of the rest of the world due to their lower operating costs.

I was using "Euro" only to help people picture the things, it's a common way I've heard them described.

Comment · 6 years ago
Good concept. Well implemented HDR is a great way to get phones to reproduce more "true to life" images.

Interestingly, the final rendering in the Pixel 3 looks better to my eyes.

Comment · 6 years ago
The magic product the writer is looking for does exist — somewhat. It's those Euro style mini-split heat pumps, that pump coolant through an external unit.

Up front cost is higher, but the efficiency gains are huge, and they can cool/heat much faster.

Comment · 6 years ago
That's big money for a lot of Americans, even ones using Google calendar. It's effective bait.
Comment · 6 years ago
To steal mercilessly from Wikipedia:

The most important difference between pelmeni, varenyky, and pierogi is the thickness of the dough shell—in pelmeni and vareniki this is as thin as possible, and the proportion of filling to dough is usually higher. Pelmeni are never served with a sweet filling, which distinguishes them from vareniki and Polish pierogi, which sometimes are. Also, the fillings in pelmeni are usually raw, while the fillings of vareniki and pierogi are typically precooked.

Those distinctions seem about right in my experience, and I eat all three fairly often, since I go to a lot of cultural festivals.

Comment · 6 years ago

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