The absence of things can be as profound as their presence.
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Having said that, a European of the 1500's would know what smoke did to kippers.
I didn't notice a simple, practical piece of advice: Leave your phone at home.
It would be inconvenient but if I did something I wanted to keep very private, I would leave my phone on my desk while I did it. A change in my activity or its absence reveals something possibly happened, but at least doesn't spell it out.
The state can build their own case.
My grandparents were part of what they called the meat circle. It was a bunch of farmers that took turns slaughtering a cow of their own to share with the group so they didn't have too much meat to deal with at home.
I don't think there's a public health concern to do with crows beyond being territorial when they're nesting so I doubt people would want to spend public money/effort on policing the birds.
It also compelled me to seek out some American band that was mentioned in there called The Grateful Dead.
Life changing in two ways.
The bigger question that should be asked is, on a global scale, how much is being wasted indulging architectural whimsy? Excessive use of materials, energy efficiency compromised for appearances, conditioned space lost to giant lobbies...
For a while I didn't even roll up pairs and had a drawer with loose socks and knew that grabbing any two was good enough.
Also, when you get a hole in one, the other isn't orphaned like with unique pairs; it just goes back into the pool.
Keep some nice dress socks for days that require formal dress, but but for everything else, just one type.
My recommendation for an inscription for the book or card, if that's all you get, is something along the lines of:
When people only want to talk about your situation, you're allowed to say you're aware of your situation, know what needs to done moving forward, you're doing it, and that you would rather talk about their day or something else.
This unsolicited advice has been well received over the years.
There are preset and custom plans available. There is a free tier that may work if what you're scraping is on their whitelist; all paid accounts are unrestricted that way.
If you're not doing any computationally intensive processing, and it sounds like you're not, the biggest factor in cost will probably be how large your database is going to be.
It did everything I needed for $5USD/month.
I have nothing to cite but, just based on their ubiquity, I would bet $5 against the hole in a bagel that Cavendish bananas produce more per acre than any other variety.
I've done it myself down to 0.5mm but that smallest one was just an exercise...if I valued my time, it was a $100 bit of much lower quality than what's easiy bought for MUCH less.
As a rule, yes, but I say it depends on how you measure ROE and what that human costs.
In situations where there's a collective agreement in place and you have to pay that labourer $50K/year + benefits (NTTAWWT), you get more wiggle room to make your case for retooling.
Another case is when I've worked for bigger manufacturers where there were some of us on site just in case we were needed and our salaries were part of facilities overhead.
We were paid no matter what and could do what we liked as long as production was running smoothly and our minor, secondary duties were being handled. In this time (~4hr/day) we could scheme or tinker to our heart's content.
Jobber shops (a.k.a. the real world) were a different matter ...
A couple of turning centres with bar feeders that were left running when we went home would run until a fault occurred or the parts hopper filled up.
It was at least two years ago that I first heard that the darker you are, the more likely you will get a false high reading on one.