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This is stoneground flour produced in small batches which will almost certainly be sold at a premium price. Flour in the UK is commonly sold in 1 or 1.5kg packets in supermarkets and this would be priced anything from £2.00 to £4.00 ($2.5 to $5 / €2.3 to 4.6)
Why Sweden rejected a coronavirus lockdown
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I wonder if the use of DSL reflects a poor choice for solving the problem rather than an inherent problem in Ruby?
> I think a lot of programmers love to build up an encyclopedia of obscure knowledge on how to do things in their languages. It gives them a sense of dominance or something. Personally, I don't want strange syntaxes that help in some obscure case. I want straight forward code that is both straight forward to read and to write.
I agree 100% and this behaviour can be found in programmers across all languages.
I'm learning Ruby at the moment and find the syntax very readable but I haven't ventured into more complex topics and I certainly want to avoid 'magic' methods.
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In the UK, a full postcode e.g B40 4XJ (made up) can be shared by more one than home or building. So the homes numbered 1-20 Acacia Avenue all share the same full postcode: B40 4XJ
Janet lives at 7 Acacia Avenue. She sells her iPhone via eBay for £200 to Patrick living elsewhere. She posts a parcel containing the iPhone to Patrick.
Patrick, via eBay, contacts Janet and says the iPhone is faulty and wants a refund.
Through eBay, Patrick generates a return label (shipping label) which lists Janet's address: 7 Acacia Avenue, B40 4XJ. However, Patrick, alters the address on the label to state: 19 Acacia Avenue, B40 4XJ.
He can do this, of course, because the label is generated online, and using some graphics editing program, he can alter the label before he prints it.
Patrick posts an empty box to 19 Acacia Avenue and keeps the iPhone. Patrick now has the iPhone and a refund from eBay for the £200 he paid for the iPhone.
What of the empty parcel posted to 19 Acacia Avenue? Presumably, the parcel isn't signed for when it is delivered? Or is it? If the parcel requires a signature on delivery, surely the resident of 19 Acacia Avenue will immediately notice the parcel is addressed to someone else?
Please do correct the above if it's incorrect.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/455422/bottled-water-con...
Many people are commenting about how wasteful it is to use LEDs instead of sunlight. But again, as the owner says in the video, consumers expect produce all year round. That might not be possible in winter or poor light. The alternative is to import out-of-season food from abroad. Or to return to eating seasonal produce only. How many consumers are willing to accept that? Not many I'm guessing.
Also, the owner of the farm states he saves over 70% water use over conventional farming. That's a massive saving.
So yes, underground farming won't solve the world's food problems but it seems like it could play a role alongside conventional farming.
There is one thing missing from the video though: What do the crops taste like?
Presumably, not like the three-wheeled Robin Reliant car that launched in the UK in the 1970s :-)
https://boingboing.net/2015/01/22/usa-mcdonalds-fries-have-1...
People will watch quality programming regardless of the language. Just witness the popularity of Scandinavian dramas that have won audiences across the world. Although Germany dubs foreign-language programmes (badly), lots of other countries are happy to watch with subtitles.
Also, contrary to what this article states, ragtime pieces are not all "happy, joyful, playful, danceable, and uplifting". To take Joplin as an example again, although many of his piano pieces are lively and melodious, there are also melancholy pieces like Solace and Bethena Waltz perhaps reflecting the troubled life he led.
The article is also wrong when it states Joplin had no intentions in the way his work is performed. Joplin did not want his rags to be played at fast speeds. This is often the case in many recordings (including, in my opinion, with Joshua Rifkin). My favourite performer of Joplin's music is the late Canadian musician John Arpin.
I listen mostly to classical music and love Joplin's piano music, but even today, there's a lot of snobbishness about Joplin's music from some quarters in the classical music field.
But wherever you start with Joplin's music, the sound of a rag is irresistible.
By the way, if you are in the UK you can listen to an 2017 episode of Composer of the Week on Joplin on BBC Radio 3 here. BBC Radio 3 is the BBC's classical, jazz and world music radio station.
That's what modern, mass-produced agriculture gives us: tasteless, low-cost produce all-year round because price mostly trumps other factors for many, if not most, consumers. But it seems that even expensive mass-produced varieties are just as tasteless as their cheaper counterparts.
If you're buying books through Amazon, consider purchasing from Amazon sellers. If you're in the UK, try Wordery. (They are based in the UK but offer free worldwide delivery - much like The Book Depository before them which is now owned by Amazon.)
No matter which country you're from, you'll recognise all the vlogger types in the series: the lifestyle vlogger, the fashion vlogger, the prankster etc. It actually touches on a lot of the issues in the Guardian article: the need for views, the pressure to make content 'viral', sponsored content, rivalry between vloggers. It's all done with a lot of humour while highlighting these issues.
I thoroughly recommend it (and in case you are wondering, the vloggers are all actors, not real vloggers):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL64ScZt2I7wFF538Kn0TR...
I think many native English speakers probably don't realise just how smaller the internet feels when you're browsing in a language with a much smaller number of speakers than English.
Instead of a normal plastic tube inside a bottle with an opening at the end, he designed a tube with millions of tiny perforations along its length. This meant the spray bottle could operate at any angle (even upside down) and could empty all liquid in a bottle with no leftover.
Here is a 1 min demo of the spray: https://vimeo.com/195318537
Here's an explanation of how it works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXk46rvzdpY
And here's the original pitch he made on Dragon's Den https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjOvyjeZyIw
A question: Do you think your choice of technology stack (JavaScript, node.js) played a part in your success?
I've read many times from product creators that developers wildly overestimate the importance of choosing a language or technology stack when in fact it has little bearing on whether a product will succeed.
Do you have any thoughts on this topic?
His piano pieces are lively and melodious, but also sometimes melancholic (like Solace and Bethena Waltz) perhaps reflecting the troubled life he led. As the article states, Joplin did not want his rags to be played at fast speeds. This is often the case in many recordings (including, in my opinion, with Joshua Rifkin). My favourite performer of Joplin's music is the late Canadian musician John Arpin.
I listen mostly to classical music and love Joplin's piano music, but even today, there's still some snobbishness about Joplin's music from some quarters in the classical field. There's a little bit of it here in this discussion of Joplin from BBC Radio 3:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01w64mq
But wherever you start with Joplin's music, the sound of a rag is irresistible.
I think this is too simplistic. The US is a country of some 320 million people and the experience of racism undoubtedly varies enormously across cities and states. A blanket statement like this can't convey the complexity of the situation.
I live in the UK, where we've seen a horrible rise in racism after the EU referendum. But what country in the EU can honestly say they don't have serious problems with racism in their society?
Across EU nations, there are many racist political parties, not at the fringes, but actively shaping and influencing political discourse.
I really don't think we in Europe are in a superior position when it comes to issues of racism. In fact, I'd argue we're probably less likely to acknowledge or consider it a problem.