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This same problem exists in other games, like Real Life, Capitalism, and Urban Living in the 21st Century.

It might be a promotional flex. Here we are talking about Mitsubishi.

It's certainly a country at the nexus of many dimensions.

What's the significance of wearing Koloradka? It looks like something christian priests wear, I don't think I understand.

Israel is very intertwined with the typical conception of "the West" via a very cozy relationship with the USA including billions in annual funding, and a great proportion of its citizens having roots in Europe and the USA.

Could still have a demo showing how example recordings got transcribed

I definitely remember seeing wood carvings of that fig sign. I never really knew what it meant and assumed it was an afro-brazilian thing, but sounds like it has european roots, interesting.

Good question. I always assumed they were unrelated to the official sign language but I don't actually know.

I wonder if there are many commonalities between the informal gestures used in Italy and Brazil.

I believe that bit about sign language in Brazil. When I spent some time there years back I was impressed that most people seemed to know a bit of sign language. There is also a lot of informal hand gesture-slang culture. I remember some things like "let's go", "robbery/rip off", "it's crowded"

The ultimate garbage dump

It matters! We still have so much in common that's not due to convergent evolution, especially at the cellular level.

I think we tend to have a lot less heavy metal poisoning in general than we did at different times in the past.

It's only fairly recently that we realized how dangerous these metals are and started removing them from things like plumbing (that word comes from french/latin for lead), fuels, paints, even eating-wares.

I think north america was using leaded gasoline up until the end of the 70s or so.

I remember some chatter on HN that sun exposure also causes the skin to produce nitric oxide, and that this is potentially under-studied.

Writing a commit message doesn't seem like a good example because it's usually a moment where you can pause the flow state because you've just completed the thing that needed flow

They're more like the period at the end of a sentence, so that you can flow into the next one.

Please, what is an MoE model?

I've been noticing a lot of these "EV hit pieces". What's going on with that? Is it organic? Are there nefarious actors (ahem ... oil?) trying to stem the tide? What's going on?

> They make a crazy dinosaur sound

Do they? Or maybe we base out ideas of what dinosaurs might have sounded like on birds like these... ;)

I think this book was the basis for the Avatar movie.

I read it as a teen and really liked it, but you do a great job of poo-pooing it haha.

The name of the ship doing the work is Falkor (too), which is named after the ship RV Falkor, which in turn was named after the Luckdragon:

> The retrofitted vessel was renamed R/V Falkor, after the Luckdragon in the fantasy novel The Neverending Story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_Falkor_Too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_Falkor

That analogy really cracked me up since we have no idea what it's like to be a tree either.

> people don't like eating straight fungus

What do you mean? People love eating all kinds of mushrooms!

That's true, but because mushrooms are so wet (~90% water), if you look at the numbers for dehydrated mushrooms vs meat, mushrooms start looking a lot better.

I think dry mushrooms are about 30% protein by weight, which is in the ballpark of dry meat.

This seems like a much more promising avenue than lab-grown meat. Fungi are already rich in protein, are a bit closer on the tree of life to animals than plants are, are sedentary by default, and are absolute chemical powerhouses.

If we can engineer a fungus to produce just the right amino profile, or whatever nutrition you're looking for, then you have a self perpetuating stock that should be much lower tech and simpler to manage than trying to grow muscle tissue in a "petri dish".

Heck, we could just be eating more mushrooms, they already are a pretty good source of protein.

> (The Mongol Empire didn't manage to eliminate the practice of Islam in the areas under its control, despite ritual washing being punishable by summary execution, so it's plausible that Islam is just that persuasive.)

When/where did the Mongol empire ever try to eliminate the practice if Islam? They definitely shed a lot of blood and destruction in the Muslim world, but afaik the point was never to eliminate Islam, but just territorial conquest. The Mongols were famously tolerant of diverse religions within their borders. Many Mongol rulers even converted to Islam.

Of course, history is vast and multifaceted, so you might be talking about a different time/place than I am.

How much hiring is going on?

I've heard some people say that it's mostly a lot of churn right now - layoffs make the headlines, but there's a healthy amount of hiring going on at the same time.

I don't really know the extent, this is a genuine question.

I think this same kind of dynamic happened with London as well.

That may be true, but fundamentally this is about autonomy. These Nations do not necessarily fall under the jurisdiction of the National or Provincial government since they never ceeded their territory.

It's a bit of a grey area for sure, but this isn't about "giving the people of the forest" stewardship of the land in order for them to protect it, it's recognizing that they didn't sign up to be governed under the nation/province.

> You probably know more about your health, lifestyle, and family history than the average person your age, so you might have a different life expectancy.

That's an interesting thought - just by virtue of the fact that you clicked on that link and read the notes probably indicates that you know and care more about your health than average, and will likely live a bit longer, statistically.

Can you give the elevator pitch on why someone should get one?

This massive gender imbalance initially made me reject the tech industry and spend my first few years after graduation in a completely different industry.

It was painful to see the comp sci program start out around 15% female in first year and drop off to 2-5% by the end of year 4.

It wasnt always so, back in the 70s at the same school the proportion was much closer to 50/50.

Only a small portion of the direct route flies over the Indian ocean, the rest is basically over land:

https://www.airportia.com/flight-img/7760680/sq308-sin-lhr-s...