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> Polynesians are definitely not "first South Americans"

Who are you correcting? Certainly not me. I'm discussing which side of the Pacific drove the pre-Columbian contact. The obvious answer is the "sea-faring people who colonised islands across the vast distances of the Pacific Ocean".

> "The distance from Rapanui/Easter Island to Chile is less than the distance from the Marquesas Islands to Hawaii", true. But since Polynesians reached Easter Island only in the 1200s, their conjectured sweet potato journey must have been either post 1200s, or much longer than the journey from Easter Island.

They only settled Easter Island in the 1200s. There is ample evidence of Polynesian temporary occupation of otherwise uninhabited islands, such as Raoul Island in the Kermadecs, New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands (Campbell, Auckland in particular), and Norfolk Island. Polynesian colonisation was largely driven by population pressure, so it's quite likely that they had discovered Easter Island long before they decided to colonise it.

> Super alternative conjecture, maybe some people during the glacial age, beneficiary of low ocean levels, brought it to the islands, and Polynesians picked it up from there?

Occam's Razor definitely applies, especially when you'd have to drop the sea level by several kilometres to have a lower ocean level make any difference to travel to Polynesia from America. Highest mountain on earth is Mauna Loa, in Hawaii, 9km from bottom to top.
Myspace had a pretty bad reputation long before facebook succeeded. As reddit has discovered maintaining a good community while being open to all is hard.

The true name policy was also very influential is stopping facebook sliding down the ghetto path once they opened up to the general public.
I can't quit somebody else's smoking. Odds are you can't either. The material is cliche because short of a lockdown or death, people have to choose to not smoke in order to quit. There's no silver bullet.

Good luck.
:) the irony was deliberate.
This is one method I've known to help people quit.

Quitting is a lifestyle change, much like losing weight. While doing the above, the trick is to gradually change habits. Instead of that cigarette, do Something else. Remember to be forgiving - one day messing up is simply one day messing up, tomorrow is a new day. Same for 10 days.

An additional suggestion is before or during the gradual cutdown on cigarettes, I suggest breaking smallish smoking habits as well. For example, waiting a little longer every day after meals and after waking (two major habit times), going one workbreak a day without a cigarette (I suggest reading or drinking liquid).

And keep in mind that part of the process is learning to be around others that smoke. Smoking can be a social activity and flavors your social life to a point.

Lastly, find something to help with the bits of enjoyment/relaxation the person loses through the day. This is, I think, the true reason an antidepressant helps some people quit. Perhaps developing a relaxation technique (used for anxiety or for things like meditation) would help, or having varied little daily rewards.

Good luck to them, for sure.
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A priori, one of these is true:

[ ] the term "universe" mathematically defined as the set of all objects, the sets of all sets is an ill-defined definition

[ ] existence is a function of the universe, thus cannot be separated from it. therefore, isExisting[universe] is non-reducable, and merely a symbolic expression.

Think about these things. They are the real crux of the marvel of the question. And it almost seems puffery to discuss it when these questions are so ...ineffable..
Reading the reply, which is as brilliantly witty and lethal as I would expect from Nabokov, I can't help but pine for intellectuals of that caliber to exist today.
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10134232
I used to use fountain pens for a long time but returned to Bic Cristal ballpoints a few years ago. They just work and they are available everywhere.
This is just a LARP… a 300-person actual boardgame would be weird/interesting, but this is just "get a bunch of people in a room with assumed roles and restricted social interaction & see what happens" which is every roleplay cons' big event since the 90s
There's evidence of Polynesian visitors to Norfolk Island, so it's entirely possible they went further afield, but in terms of the Maori doing it, it's less likely - once the archaic Maori arrived in New Zealand, and saw its abundant feathered protein, ample natural resources and space, their culture lost their ocean-going expertise reasonably quickly as it adapted to the very different environment of NZ - even when travelling between New Zealand's islands, Maori tended to use waka which were designed for lakes and rivers rather than the open ocean.

Which makes the journey of the Moriori's ancestors from New Zealand to the Chatham Islands in the 1500s even more amazing.
Probably an uninformed response, but this looks a lot like menlo to me. Edit: People compare to DejaVu sans serif - which is almost identical to menlo as well: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2009/10/the-compleat-menlov...
Hm. I was hoping maybe neovim (being, in some sense - "new" vim) might have fixed this -- apparently not (yet) -- looks like it's still modelled too closely on vim (not that that's a surprise, or all bad -- I suppose it was too much to hope for that this kind of design errors would be (easier to) fix(ed) this early:

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/1408

Proper font handling is actually one of the few things that I find troubling with these "old" nix tools.

The combination of nice font handling and otherwise being lightweight (and working fine without any borders, which makes sense when paired with xmonad for a window manager) was one of the reasons I moved to Sakura:

http://www.pleyades.net/david/projects/sakura

(Not on my Linux box atm - so unable to test if ligatures actually work -- but either way it would appear vim does a little too much -- so even if the terminal handles ligatures, vim will not. Time to upgrade to ed! ;-)

I wonder if kakoune[1] supports ligatures in a capabable terminal? I'm guessing not, but have yet to try.

Also, I just discovered that AbiWord actually have a setting to get vi(m) keybindings -- not that I'd suggest moving from vim to abiword for editing code...:

http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Keyboard_bindings

Based on the issue[2] for Emacs support, it looks like the general "easy" approach is monkey-patching from two-symbols to unicode ligatures and back on the fly. Such an approach would probably work with vim too -- it'd probably be just as well to handle that bit via a pre/post processor -- and just type in the combined symbols directly in vim (eg: iab >= ≥ to insert the symbol for "greather-then" rather than >= -- and then just deal with editing that as a single symbol. You'd need to run the source through a transformation to change all occurrences back -- for most langauges -- so I'm not sure if it's really a good idea. But seems simpler if you just want ligatures, and there's a unicode glyph that matches the ligatures you want.

Ahem, well -- from the Haskling site: "Some Haskellers have resorted to Unicode symbols (⇒, ← etc.), which are valid in the ghc. However they are one-character-wide and therefore eye-strainingly small. Furthermore, when displayed as substitutes to the underlying multi-character representation, as vim2hs does, the characters go out of alignment."

So then again, maybe not. I suppose we just have to wait for the next display server tech to reinvent display PostScript along with a friendly API ...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9764028

[2] See gist linked from issue: https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig/issues/10
> Can an English speaking tourist manage in these parts of Sweden?

Absolutely.

According to Wikipedia, 86% of people in Sweden know English. The percentage will of course be smaller in countryside and among older people, but I don't think you can find a small town where at least 50% of people wouldn't know English.
Boulder Creek, California. Less than an hour to the heart of the Silicon Valley, but worlds away.
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I was not able to stop, too. I skipped the materials and "geeked" myself into e cigarettes. I was able to quit (tobacco) smoking immediately. Thats not perfect, but the lower harm of e cigarettes compared to tobacco is already evident.
Interesting to think about how much more information you can encode in by using various hand positions (e.g. rotating on different axes.)
I used to think this too, until solar started to take off unexpectedly. We will need nuclear in the long run, but at the moment, I don't think massive adoption is a necessity.

As for Lithium, even if Li-ion remains the best technology we have for the next ten years (which it might not be? [1]), we should be able to find better ways of mining Lithium [2], like electrolysis from seawater. After all, it's probably the most abundant metal in the universe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mirai

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#Production
The time before Mathematica (2013)
Yeah, I started with Linux about 1997 or so, and by about 2000 or 2001 was running Linux exclusively as my desktop OS.

The distros certainly have a lot in common, but each has its quirks and idioms, and once you learn them, it's annoying to have to bother learning another. Like, once I've memorized how to do a lot of things with RPM and Yum, it becomes "friction" to suggest that I learn to do the same things with apt.

I don't have any problem with Ubuntu, and I think it's fine for new users. I stick with Fedora really for two reasons:

1. The aforementioned familiarity.

and

2. They are more ideologically committed to software freedom, in terms of not shipping things like mp3 support, where you have patent encumbrance issues. I have been trying to gradually shift my life to a place where I don't need that stuff at all, or where I do, I use OSS / free software to interact with it. I mean, I'm pragmatic enough to use VLC to watch DVD's, but I don't go out of my way to use any content that isn't in a free format, etc.
Have been in Cambodia the past 2 weeks and loving it. Very cheap even in touristy areas, dirt cheap otherwise
Yes, it also struck me that, with regard to usage of Russian, most of the time Wilson is either flat out wrong or argues about inconsequential things.

I wonder if Nabokov's translation was meant to serve as a reference for more traditional, future translators, like Johnston and Falen, as a source of very precise meaning. An "intermediate representation" of sorts...
I've use the same page[0] for the last 4 years to decide on which font to use for coding on new machines. I see Hack has been recently added!

[0] http://www.slant.co/topics/67/~what-are-the-best-programming...
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In the army in 1978 I was programming 8080-based tester for russian vacuum tube anti-aircraft computer. They wanted me to give some lessons for other guys in the shop. I suggested we employ some 100 conscripts to make a working CPU-simulator. Totally good idea, but they were not even amused.
I disagree a report like doesn't work on platform is highly useful to developers who care, especially when it's so painfully obvious as to what the issue is when loading on iOS/safari.

The reason it's not useful to you is because you didn't repro the issue but rather loaded it on a bunch of other browsers, so understandably you don't see how painfully obvious the problem is.
Everytime I read a comment like this (claiming nuclear is clean, ignoring the atomic waste contaminating your land with radiation for the next hundreds of thousands of years, which is starting to become a severe problem for example here in Germany), I notice that the commenter is usually from the US. I wonder why this is?
From a friend who has been clean from more serious substances for a few years now:

"It's a battle every day."

The mentality that the war is never over is an elucidating one for those of us without a substance abuse history.
I'm chair of CycleBath (http://www.cyclebath.org.uk) and we're having one hell of a time pushing for better cycle infrastructure. I think one of the more interesting problems we have is that cyclists are treated as an outlier group within the UK.

There are certain cities that "get" cycling e.g. Cambridge ( https://vimeo.com/133736570) but persuading the general public that it is worth spending money on cycling is extremely hard. We have recently taken the approach to educate people that attend the Police Community Liaison meetings where they can spend 50%+ of the time discussing illegal pavement cycling, as to why it happens. http://cyclebath.org.uk/2015/08/24/how-to-solve-pavement-cyc...

I truly believe that the transport policy of your local authority defines the health and wellbeing of your residents. I think the fact the cost of healthcare in the UK is "hidden" as it is "free" has subtlety enabled a car centric culture to persist. My father who lives in Florida stated that people are demanding cycle tracks. They want to keep fit and keep their healthcare insurance low.

In the UK obesity in boys is around 16%, in the Netherlands it's around 1.6%.

The other problem with cycle infrastructure is that if it's not good for a 7 year old to ride on, it's not going to work for the general public. Segregation is key and definitely do not allow your local authority to create shared space where pedestrians and cyclists mix "happily".

Then you have the biggest issue. Cycle infrastructure is only as good as the weakest link. So local residents can massively impact the quality of the network and thus the ability for people 5 miles away to make a decision to choose to cycle. So you get a piece-meal approach to cycle network development in the hope that it will join up eventually :(

As an aside, I noted somebody felt 10miles was too far on a bike. I would suggest investigating e-bikes. They are rather good these days and can happily tank along at 15.5mph (Europe), even faster in some countries.
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I stopped smoking for 2 months starting January this year. What helped me was a reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/stopsmoking . It was a very helpful community and also full of suggestions what to do when you have cravings for a cigarette.

There is one special book that I highly recommend . Allen Carrs - easy way to stop smoking. http://www.amazon.com/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/06154...

It just works. But you need to be persistent with the decision.
Try the heart of Switzerland, you might even get a job that pays like crazy. If you prefer to pay less for rent, move to south Bavaria in Germany's beautiful south. Munich might provide enough work, if you are willing to drive an hour every day. Working from home gets more common here, so you might not have to do the trip 5 days a week.
In Michigan the Big 3 are still funding hydrogen car projects and making primarily hybrids. Industry guys I know are not taking battery powered cars that seriously. They passed a law banning Tesla from having showrooms in the state.

http://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content/...

http://corporate.ford.com/microsites/sustainability-report-2...

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/07/30/fiat-chrysler-exec-future...
A major predictor of how easy or hard it will be to quit is how long the person can wait after waking up before having their first cigarette:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2933747/
Watch lung cancer videos on YouTube.
Quitted smoking 6 years ago, never would do it again.
To back my evidence statement:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/e-cigarettes-an-e...

Fairly comprehensive list of studies related to the matter, commented in german:
http://blog.rursus.de/studienliste/

I think its worth a shot.
Idaho has a few places that fit the bill. Sandpoint in the North and McCall in the south are both small towns with immediate lake and mountain access. Ketchum (Sun Valley) is another option, but has probably the highest cost of living in the state. Boise is situated in a valley, but the mountains are only an hour away.
For cars we don't really need nuclear power, rooftop photovoltaics are almost as cheap as coal and getting cheaper fast. Their main drawback is intermittency, but cars can charge overnight or in the office parking when the production of electricity exceeds the demand.

Furthermore, electric cars can be used as energy reservoirs during high demand periods.
You can always buy a (very) cheap old house in a village in Transylvania / Romania, and maybe spend some time to restore it, if you're into that. I don't know about the internet connection far from the city, though. See, for example:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/827b9c84-69d5-11e1-8996-00144...

http://www.transylvania-guide.com/
Well, this might not be popular opinion and many will think it's a sham, but I've used Allen Carr's book to quit drinking... His is actually more known for his 'stop smoking' book and I've known people who used it successfully as well. From my personal experience, a lot of this is in the head, so if your friend is open minded and really wants to quit then Carr's book just might be the answer. I can only vouch for his 'method' that helped me with a drink, not smoke, but it's the same principle. Just my 2c.
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Trentino in Italy: beautiful scenery, lakes, alpine mountains (unesco), forests. It is near some other beautiful countries like Austria and Slovenian (which is another beautiful place for nature and mountains and even cheaper than Trentino).

And you are near to the city i live in (bergamo) which is small, with a medieval buildings and in the Orobie area which is full of mountains where you can do trekking or climbing!

I suggested Trentino because even if it is in Italy, it doesn't suffer from common italy "problems" (burocracy, criminality, etc...)
Imagine this article recurses on itself. Thinking too much: self generated thought as the engine of thoughts about neuroticism.
Yes, I would say that the population below 60, almost all speak English, for below 40 you have almost full working proficiency in English.
E-cigarettes are a huge change. It seems to be much easier to quit smoking using e-cigarettes than other methods. First, switch to e-cigarettes. That already improves your health because you aren't getting the tar. Then you can lower the nicotine dose and it's easier than quitting smoking because you can do it gradually.
Maybe electric cars will try to fake being conventional: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8925126
Good, but this works for a while. The strongest motivation I had when I was smoking was to understand what a cigarette does to your brain and how you actually make a chain of narcotic addiction, which lasts forever.

There is actually no joy of smoking, the pleasure that you get is not because you are smoking right now, but because you've been smoking before and the body is addicted to have your next one. When you surrender to that addiction and smoke a cigarette you are thinking "what a joy", but actually what happens is "here's a little more nicotine to you, sick brain".

This helped me keep up 2 months no smoking. I later started again, because it really is a fight every day which I lost. I still know exactly what happens when I smoke, though.
Did you do double blind?
e cigarettes are the easiest first step. They appear to be much less harmful than tobacco so far and they satisfy the nicotine craving. They also have the added benefit of getting the smoke smell out of everything.

Even if your friend can't give up nicotine, he/she will be worlds better vaping.
Would Tim Wu count?
switch to e-ciggs (vape). it's about 95% less harmful and is actually way more enjoyable
The term "hybrid" does not indicate that a gas engine powers the wheels directly. A series hybrid can have a gasoline or diesel motor that exists merely to charge the batteries, as in the i3 Range Extender version.

The article specifically mentions the 3 series becoming a hybrid (not what type; the ActiveHybrid 3 and ActiveHybrid5 already exist for limited sale), but it also speculates:

"The new range of cars could be driven by separate electric motors powering the front and rear wheels, with a small gasoline engine to generate electricity to extend the range of the batteries"

So, basically, we don't know what their precise plans are, but the article does not indicate that the 3er will have a gas engine powering the wheels.
Seemingly a puff piece on McLaren...
This didn't work for me. You always say to yourself : "that's not gonna happen to me" and "back in the 60's nobody cared about that, why should I care now."

Although people are different and motivation is different for everyone.
And since at least the 2012 F30 3 series in the US, if not before then.
My wife and I both quit after reading this book.
My late grandfather quit smoking in his early 30s, and he said he would occasionally have nightmares that he started again, in his 70s.
This is why electrically assisted bikes are a huge thing. For the weak, they give the ability to ride at a decent speed and also they help with going uphill. Which is also important, if you use the bike as vehicle rather than a sports device, like biking in business clothing.
Living in the area is very cheap compared to continental Europe and the US. You can get very nice sea side house for 200-300k Euros, if you chose not to live by the sea, prices drops of a cliff, you can get a house for 10k Euros, a nice 200 square meter house
Yes. That is weird. The noise, the smell, the need for gears. Electric is so much better.
1-to-1 correlation, I meant to say. Anyway, I think my meaning was obvious.
Quitting smoking is about practice. Keep quitting and do it sincerely. Eventually you will learn how to quit.

The trick is to avoid the "F* it" mentality. After yet another failed attempt, it's easy to say f* it and go back to smoker mode instead of staying in quitting mode.

Quitting is not something that just happens. It takes years to quit. Nicotine rewires your brain to the point where you identify as a smoker. Deprogramming that is a lot of effort. Therefore quit as often as you need to. As long as you do it sincerely, eventually it sticks.

Allen Carr's book is also very nice. It is a mild hypnosis, repeating the same four things over and over again until they become as ingrained as the habit, so read it cover to cover and don't stop half way through

Also, every time you smoke, focus on the bad things about smoking - the smell, the taste, the cancer.....

Good luck.
"Fill in the box" is not referring to sums. It's referring to extremely rigid homework where you fill out each step in a process to finding out a result very precisely. It coincides with the horrific bubble tests where you select 1 of 5 answers and there is no partial credit.

This style of learning is what dominates US schools now from basic arithmetic all of the way up through advanced calculus.
... but not in a way that limits its usefulness as a street car. As mentioned, refilling time is the bigger drawback as a street car. On the road, acceleration over 100mph is not really all that important. On the track, it's crucial.

Tesla dumped the multi-speed gearbox because it was a hard problem to solve, for one, but I think that was inside of the parameters of it not being that important. If it needed a multi-speed gearbox to make it go over 60mph, they would have made it work.
I assume your friend wants to quit for health reasons. In that case, have e-cigarettes been tried? Compared to tobacco, vaping is healthier, more fragrant, and often cheaper. Sure it's worse than not smoking, but it's a hell of a lot better than the status quo.

Note: I have no dog in this fight. I don't smoke or vape, and I never have. I'm just pointing out that even if your friend doesn't quit, it's possible to get the nicotine without the cancer.