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by radpanda 11d ago
Looking at the author’s Reddit post apparently things like exclaves were intentionally omitted for simplicity’s sake. https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/gxwn5r/oc_the_topo... Still doesn’t explain
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by radpanda 11d ago
Since the creation of that map Canada and Denmark have gained a border (Hans Island). That barely registers on any traditional map but would dramatically rearrange this. EDIT: Or maybe it wouldn’t? I don’t see Russia’s border with Lithuania
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by radpanda 3mo ago
Yup. My parents bought a Jeep Cherokee back in the day as the family car rather than something like a Ford Taurus just so they could drive on the beach. That probably only happened a few days a year, but they were beloved outings and made t
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by radpanda 3mo ago
If you’re an American, I highly, highly recommend the book American Ramble by Neil King, Jr. The one-sentence summary is “a guy walks from Washington to New York” but he connects with history (and the present) at a walking pace along the wa
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by radpanda 3mo ago
I dunno, New Zealand getting a big chunk of Antarctica is a pretty big percentage gain too.
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by radpanda 3mo ago
That reminds me of the story of the university librarian who lived frugally and left his savings to the university, which went ahead and spent a million of those dollars on a silly football scoreboard: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by radpanda 6mo ago
> "nova" is not a Spanish word Nova is Spainish for nova. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova
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by radpanda 6mo ago
Hotel branding might be worse. Marriott has 30+ brands, each supposedly with its own identity but I can’t really see how having that many makes sense. Should I stay at the Fairfield or the AC or the Four Points or the Aloft or the Moxy or t
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by radpanda 6mo ago
I don't really see that as the same thing as what the article was pointing out. Those are shibboleths that only an insider would know. You have to get the pronunciation of Cholmondeley or Couch "right" to pass for an inside
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by radpanda 6mo ago
I feel like I’ve seen essentially this same comment every time a Lego thread comes up but there doesn’t seem to be unanimous agreement on which brick toys are better. Sure, some people have good experiences with brand X but others will say
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by radpanda 7mo ago
I haven't used Facebook in probably a decade or so. I've missed out on Facebook Marketplace apparently - at least 5 people in this thread mention using Facebook for that specifically, and I have heard numerous friends talk about
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by radpanda 7mo ago
I dunno, I’ve been doing some genealogy research and looking at a lot of newspapers from the 1800’s. It’s striking to me how much they are essentially Facebook. Sure, on the front page there’s the news of the day, but on the inside are joke
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by radpanda 8mo ago
If the ice cream cone won't lick itself, who will?
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by radpanda 8mo ago
I’m an American living in a state with no roadworthyness inspections so I don’t have any first hand experience with this. But in previous threads, people have mentioned that the typical thing to do is, at the vehicle service (oil change or
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by radpanda 8mo ago
It seems to me that moving to lower cost-of-living cities did have a remote work boom, but it wasn’t evenly distributed. People from HCOL areas still wanted a high level of services (restaurant, airport, healthcare, recreation opportunities
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by radpanda 11mo ago
I’ve never been there but whenever I read something about it I get the vibe that they’re an HOA with a military.
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by radpanda 1y ago
To be pedantic I don’t think the 3-batter rule mentions relief pitchers. If a team wanted to use an opening pitcher to face only the first batter and then replace him, that would also be against the rules. https://www.mlb.com&#x2
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by radpanda 1y ago
I think it’s about momentum. The perception is that the US is in some ways getting worse and Mexico is getting better. Who is better off, the software engineer who lost her $250k job and had to settle for a new job that pays $150k, or the t
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by radpanda 1y ago
My understanding is that the Lucid Air Pure is more efficient than Tesla’s offerings, but yes, Teslas have tended to be more efficient than compliance BEVs and a lot of other efforts from legacy automakers.
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by radpanda 1y ago
> Ford makes plenty of sedans Does it? Since they stopped building the Mondeo in Europe they don’t sell any sedans there or in most places I’m aware of. The only Ford sedan I’m aware of in production anywhere is the Chinese-market Ford M
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by radpanda 1y ago
I worked at a three-letter agency when the prefix “cyber-” became widely used, and widely disliked. I remember someone there distributed a similar browser extension that changed every instance of “cyber” to “computery”.
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by radpanda 1y ago
The DoD is legally mandated to pass an audit but consistently doesn’t: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4992913-pentagon-fails-7t...
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by radpanda 1y ago
> There are, in fact, 88 approved Icelandic names with this exact pattern of declension, and they all end with “dur”, “tur” or “ður”. … > But that quickly breaks down. There are other names ending with “ður” or “dur” that follow a dif
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by radpanda 1y ago
> even McDonalds is charging $15 for a 4 oz burger Jeez, where is this? According to the famous McCheapest map the most expensive Big Mac in America is about 8 bucks. Have prices really shot up that much recently? https://pant
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by radpanda 1y ago
> Famously, while creating the model kit for the 1976 Porsche 934 Turbo RSR, Tamiya-san sent his designers to Porsche’s Zuffenhausen factory several times to get the measurements and details just right. However, despite repeated trips th
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by radpanda 1y ago
> I bet it if the math was done based on vacation land area, Hawaii would come up near the top, given Lanai I’d be shocked if the parcels that Larry Ellison owns on Lanai are classified in a way that would show up as a vacation home. Typ
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by radpanda 1y ago
As I understand it there was actually healthy demand for the Honda Fit and it sold profitably, but US-bound Fits were made in the same Mexico factory that made the more profitable Honda HR-V. The HR-V was successful enough that it displaced
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by radpanda 1y ago
Every HNer knows your startup needs to maintain a moat /s
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by radpanda 1y ago
I’ve always seen UBI as part of a post-scarcity sci-fi future. Once the robots run the farms and deliver the food and build the buildings and so on, and there just isn’t enough work to go around for humans, of course the fruits of this prod
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by radpanda 1y ago
I think I prefer alphaguess.com’s simpler interface

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