tanbog

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by tanbog 7y ago
X isn't pronounceable. U is, though it sounds a bit funky.
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by tanbog 7y ago
The "U" would be readable and pronounceable in Italian. Stringing a few "U" ending words together does sound a bit wierd though... like your making a hooting sound or something.
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by tanbog 7y ago
Also Italian here. The other issue with using "Lei" is everyone would sound like some overly formal grand parent or maybe a government official... it would be like people suddenly breaking into the royal "we" in english.
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by tanbog 7y ago
Iceland seems to do pretty well on almost exclusively renewables. And this includes Aluminium smelters which are amongst the most power-intensive heavy industries.
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by tanbog 7y ago
I used to think its roots lay in some kind of biblical fetish for armageddon. I have no qualifications in this area though so this is just my armchair-psychologist theory. Oh that and often weird racism about how many people live in poor co
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by tanbog 7y ago
> Until humanity has figured viable massively scalable long term power storage solutions we will always be at the mercy of natural phenomena (time of day, wind speed and direction etc). I would argue we just need to make sure ongoing pow
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by tanbog 7y ago
Neo-Malthusians generally only get as far as intro biology and avoid demography classes.
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by tanbog 7y ago
I don't begrudge money being spent on researching fusion. It is definitely a promising technology, but it's not coming to a power grid near you any time soon. Even if we can figure out how to keep a reaction going with a useful en
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by tanbog 7y ago
Security breaches used to be so much more aesthetically pleasing.
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by tanbog 8y ago
I second this. I think it was my first encounter with a genre book that totally "subverted" everything I had learned fantasy narratives should be.
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by tanbog 8y ago
This law was passed with support from the opposition labor party. The stupidy here crosses the isle.
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by tanbog 8y ago
I know plenty of people who say "Legos". But then I am from Australia.
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by tanbog 8y ago
Hasn't passed the Senate yet. There is an arm-wrestle over a nasty piece of refugee legislation that might see both acts not get voted on today. That means it won't be back in parliament until next year and the government is looki
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by tanbog 8y ago
Delusions of grandeur.
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by tanbog 8y ago
"In Great Britain, courts generally endorsed NCAs so long as they remained “reasonable” -- a quality that was very much in the eye of the beholder." Legally speaking, reasonable refers to "The man on the Clapham omnibus"
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by tanbog 8y ago
If I had a dollar for every time bluetooth failed between two devices...
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by tanbog 8y ago
Maybe part of the issue is an over-emphasis on "fidelity". People have always played around - or to be frank, many women have been assaulted and had to keep it quiet - maybe the best outcome would be more open communication and un
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by tanbog 8y ago
In political theory and International Relations studies, there is a reasonably well established set of theories regarding the difference between "A nation", "A state" and a "Nation-State" the three are not syno
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by tanbog 8y ago
To be fair, the issue here is also that for most of the last 70 or so years the Taiwanese government actually claimed to be the rightful government for ALL of mainland China and even occupied its seat at the UN in that capacity for a time.
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by tanbog 8y ago
Never Trust Syfy...
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by tanbog 8y ago
Well, Orwell fought with the POUM, who were Socialists but twith Anarchist leanings so I don't think you can really say he was "impartial". Having said that I fully concur with your recommendation of Homage to Catalonia. Amaz
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by tanbog 8y ago
This paper does some interesting work to try and unpack why that is the case: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.01952.pdf