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9 votes
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Top ten books about building cities. From Mary Beard’s Roman history to Kim Stanley Robinson’s science fiction, Jonathan Carr chooses the best writing about citizens’ eternal challenges
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Ignoring initial construction costs, what takes less of a toll on the environment: a human-powered bike or an electric bike?
What’s up tildorans, This is more of a thought experiment then anything else, is the impact of consuming calories more or less impactful then producing the electricity needed to power the bike?...
What’s up tildorans, This is more of a thought experiment then anything else, is the impact of consuming calories more or less impactful then producing the electricity needed to power the bike? And I also understand this is extremely affected by circumstance. Let’s say you eat beef 3 times a day and live in a part of the world where power is mostly generated via nuclear or hydroelectric. At that point, would the impact via electricity be less then the one via calories? What if you flip the spectrum and you’re a vegan living somewhere that produces all its energy via coal and oil, how does that affect the equation? Thanks
5 votes -
What is the best ‘game within a game’ you have played?
I was playing Stardew Valley recently and ended up playing the mini arcade games in the tavern for a couple hours. I was suprised at the depth they put into a video game that is inside another...
I was playing Stardew Valley recently and ended up playing the mini arcade games in the tavern for a couple hours. I was suprised at the depth they put into a video game that is inside another video game. Truly great.
23 votes -
Potential issues with catch-all terms for all non-white races?
I was just thinking about this. It has no basis in evidence or anything, it just popped into my head. Could using terms like POC that are catch-alls for all non-white races cause a rift between...
I was just thinking about this. It has no basis in evidence or anything, it just popped into my head. Could using terms like POC that are catch-alls for all non-white races cause a rift between white people and POC? I feel like it has the potential to create a kind of "us VS. them" mentality if it hasn't already. Because it's saying you have all the races in the world, and then you have white people. I don't really have an alternative or a solution. It was just an observation I made. Of course, me being white myself, maybe there's just something I'm not understanding. I think it could spark an interesting discussion because people are bound to have many different opinions on this subject.
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The Mastermind - He was a brilliant programmer and a vicious cartel boss, who became a prized US government asset
3 votes -
Announcing the release of sway 1.0
16 votes -
The "Disney Vault" is open - Disney’s new streaming service will include "the entire Disney motion picture library"
39 votes -
Thoughts about investing in Weed stocks?
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Workshop Wednesday II: we're back!
Hey everyone, thanks to you who posted in the original Workshop Wednesday; I think it went really well! Here we are for week 2 (sorry it took me til noon, I was busy this morning!) Some questions:...
Hey everyone, thanks to you who posted in the original Workshop Wednesday; I think it went really well! Here we are for week 2 (sorry it took me til noon, I was busy this morning!)
Some questions:
- do we need a new topic every week? Or will one be enough?
- any other comments/suggestions?
Please begin your comment with
[META]
to discuss these. Otherwise, I'll copy and paste the guidelines from last week.
What's a workshop?
Basically, a workshop is when you have a bunch of people with poems or stories they've written, and everyone gets together, reads everyone's work, and comments on it, sharing what they got out of it and what the author could do to improve the work for publication. I used to do a lot of them in college, and I've missed the dynamic since graduating. I thought others might also be interested, so here goes nothing.
How this'll work (for now, anyway)
Each week, I'll post a "Workshop Wednesday" post. If you have a poem or (short) story you'd like workshopped, post that as a top comment. Then, read others' top comments and reply with what works/doesn't work/questions you have/ideas you have for the piece that could make it better. If you post some writing, try to comment on at least two other people's pieces as well -- we're here to help each other improve.
10 votes -
An All-Neural On-Device Speech Recognizer
7 votes -
Apple confirms March 25th event, expected to announce new TV service
14 votes -
Jesus warned against men like Cardinal Pell. His message could save the Church.
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Cardinal George Pell has been sentenced to six years' jail for sexually abusing two choirboys when he was Catholic archbishop of Melbourne in the 1990s
8 votes -
Prompt for unsaved changes on iOS?
I was just writing a different long post here and lost it all because of accidental navigation away from the page. I know the feature to prompt for unsaved changes works on desktop, but is there...
I was just writing a different long post here and lost it all because of accidental navigation away from the page. I know the feature to prompt for unsaved changes works on desktop, but is there any way to get it working on iOS?
Edit: maybe another solution would be to save one new topic draft in local storage, and clear the draft data on click of Save or a new Discard/Cancel button? This way if there was data on load of the new topic page, it would still be there.
5 votes -
Twitter has ambitious plans to change the way we tweet by limiting snark and improving the "health" of interactions, but so far it's gone nowhere
15 votes -
Why is customer service so bad? Because it’s profitable.
13 votes -
Odell Beckham Jr. traded to the Cleveland Browns
3 votes -
Roger McNamee, FB investor, author "Zucked": mentoring Zuck, Russia, big data, surveillance-PT1
5 votes -
The Comment Moderator Is The Most Important Job In The World Right Now
28 votes -
Brexit: MPs reject Theresa May's deal by 149 votes
15 votes -
Netflix announces partnerships to produce anime series including Altered Carbon: Resleeved, Dragon’s Dogma, Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, SPRIGGAN, Super Crooks and Vampire in the Garden
13 votes -
What are some good running shoes?
I'm looking to start going on daily runs with my dad. What are some good brands or specific shoes that are comfortable and last a good amount of time?
6 votes -
Go For It, Nakamura! is the throwback gay rom-com we always needed
3 votes -
Solar geo-engineering: It won’t hurt a bit!
4 votes -
How can a broke dude who can barely code help Tildes?
Right now I'm not only utterly broke, but also don't have access to international payment methods (you may ask the reasons for this, but I probably won't answer :P). But I wanna give back to...
Right now I'm not only utterly broke, but also don't have access to international payment methods (you may ask the reasons for this, but I probably won't answer :P). But I wanna give back to Tildes somehow.
I know enough English to communicate and have a general understanding of programming (with a focus on basic Python and very basic C) but never did anything beyond book and class exercises. I'm also familiar with Regex, Vim (including patterns) and Emacs.
I also have some Inkscape skills (not a designer), and wouldn't mind working with documentation and other things actual developers usually find trivial or dull.
20 votes -
Doesn’t matter if you’re dead, just make sure to show up
5 votes -
YouTuber threatens Google, travels cross country to confront them, gets arrested in Mountain View
4 votes -
I love to shoot in macro, and this is a picture I took of my hometown.
24 votes -
The imitation game: Some of the most beloved objects in Washington museums are not as authentic as visitors might assume
3 votes -
Decaf coffee's terrible reputation is outdated, but it's still scorned because of what caffeine represents
4 votes -
Firefox Send's free encrypted file transfers are now available to all
21 votes -
I am very excited to share these Origami models I folded over the course of last year. What do you guys think of them?
40 votes -
D.Tube as a viable YouTube Alternative?
18 votes -
Designing natural beauty in Eastshade
3 votes -
What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
21 votes -
Facts alone won’t convince people to vaccinate their kids
10 votes -
Eleven dead as Brazil's largest city flooded
5 votes -
Afrostanz episode 2 - sugar spice and Nigerian jollof rice
1 vote -
Tim Berners-Lee: 'Stop web's downward plunge to dysfunctional future'
8 votes -
'Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men
19 votes -
Hal Blaine, Wrecking Crew drummer and Rock Hall of Fame member, dies at 90
3 votes -
Ronnie O'Sullivan is the first player reaching 1000 centuries in snooker
12 votes -
Stop telling women to fix sexist workplaces
15 votes -
Ketamine: Now By Prescription
11 votes -
Elizabeth Warren proposes breaking up Amazon, Google, and Facebook
48 votes -
It feels like this is it for Felix Hernandez
1 vote -
‘Colony of hell’: 911 calls from inside Amazon warehouses
9 votes -
The striking similarities between Lion Air and Ethiopian 737 MAX crashes
9 votes -
Your chosen theme on Tildes now carries over to the Blog and Docs sites
No functional changes, but the themes available on Tildes itself now transfer over to the Blog/Docs sites (previously those sites were always using the "Solarized Light" color scheme). It was a...
No functional changes, but the themes available on Tildes itself now transfer over to the Blog/Docs sites (previously those sites were always using the "Solarized Light" color scheme). It was a little painful before if you were using a dark theme and clicking something like the "Formatting help" link took you to a bright page, so this should be a lot better.
There's currently no way to select a theme from the other sites, just on Tildes itself, but it should carry over when you've selected one here (using the dropdown in the footer if you're logged out, or through the settings page if you're logged in).
Please let me know if you come across any issues with it. It was pretty straightforward overall, but it did involve redoing a lot of the CSS and HTML for the Blog/Docs sites, so it's very possible that I messed some pages up and haven't noticed yet.
49 votes