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27 votes
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Bon Appétit - Making Perfect Season 2: Thanksgiving
Rather than post this new season's episodes individually as they came out, I decided to wait until it was complete before I submitted anything. The final episode came out yesterday, so here is the...
Rather than post this new season's episodes individually as they came out, I decided to wait until it was complete before I submitted anything. The final episode came out yesterday, so here is the season in its entirety. Enjoy!
Here are all the episodes in order:
What Makes the Perfect Thanksgiving Meal? | Making Perfect: Thanksgiving - Prologue
Brad and Andy Try to Make the Perfect Turkey & Cranberry Sauce | Making Perfect: Thanksgiving Ep 1
Molly and Carla Try to Make the Perfect Mashed Potatoes & Gravy | Making Perfect: Thanksgiving Ep 2
Chris and Rick Try to Make the Perfect Stuffing | Making Perfect: Thanksgiving Ep 3
Claire & Christina Try to Make the Perfect Thanksgiving Sides | Making Perfect: Thanksgiving Ep 4
Claire & Brad Make the Perfect Thanksgiving Pie | Making Perfect: Thanksgiving Ep 5
The BA Test Kitchen Makes the Perfect Thanksgiving Meal | Making Perfect: Thanksgiving Finale
p.s. The reason this is a text topic is because it turns out the BA playlist of this season, which I originally submitted, is out of order and so I decided to delete that and resubmit this.
10 votes -
Teardown: A sandbox voxel game, in which everything is interactive and destructible, that calls for strategy, cleverness and creativity
12 votes -
Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished
18 votes -
Labour's spending plans aren't especially unusual – just look at Sweden
5 votes -
Sounds of the Belarusian underground – Mixed by Morgotika (2019)
5 votes -
Finland's flag-carrier airline, Finnair, said it has been forced to cancel almost 300 flights amid a nationwide solidarity strike for postal workers
8 votes -
What once seemed impossible is now undeniable: The Redskins have lost Washington
6 votes -
Hong Kong District Council election: Democrats take control of seventeen out of eighteen councils in landslide victory
14 votes -
Peckish pedestrians in Copenhagen will soon be able to pluck healthy snacks directly from greenery around the city
13 votes -
Private Internet Access VPN acquired by Kape Technologies for US$127.6 million
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Looking for a domain name registrar and a hosting provider for Intergrid
I will be releasing a beta version of Intergrid in the near future, before New Year. The first thing I need is someone to buy a domain name from. I'm looking for a reasonable yearly price for the...
I will be releasing a beta version of Intergrid in the near future, before New Year.
The first thing I need is someone to buy a domain name from.
I'm looking for a reasonable yearly price for the common generic TLDs ($10~$20), combined with reliability of support.
The only previous experience I had was with GoDaddy, and I had no issues with them. I have, however, heard stories of terrible support service (which I never used, for lack of need), and I'd rather not support a company of that level of service. (Nevermind that I bear strong dislike for post-service spam.)
The second thing I need is someone to host it.
Ideally, I would host it on a personal server, which would probably be a Pi-like platform, because I like the idea of owning the host as far as personal projects are concerned. I have little idea of how viable it is, or whether it's a better option for me than renting server space at the moment.
Lacking that, I'd like to have a EU-based hosting provider with reasonably-cheap ($10~$15) basic-level plans. Since the beta of Intergrid is local-storage-only, having a database hosted or supplied is not an issue at the moment. Low time-to-connect is important.
12 votes -
Dozens of infant deaths have been tied to a popular baby product. But regulators are too paralyzed to act.
9 votes -
Sunday Afternoon at Denny’s
8 votes -
China tried to plant its candidate in Australian Federal Parliament, authorities believe
17 votes -
The Good Place S04E09 - "The Answer" discussion thread
Reminder: This is the last episode before the Winter Break. 10-14 are scheduled for next year.
13 votes -
Epithet Erased S01E01 - Quiet in the Museum
4 votes -
The most important debate in economics: What should count as real economic wealth? Who truly creates it, who merely assists the process, and who might be actively impeding it?
9 votes -
Pathologic is genius, and here's why
9 votes -
Nine secrets I never knew about airports until I worked at LAX
11 votes -
Michael Bloomberg joins 2020 Democratic field for US President
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Amanda Palmer is getting dragged on Twitter - is this cancel culture?
I've seen some debate on here about 'cancel culture', and there is a pretty good example of it happening on Twitter more-or-less now (or I guess it's probably old news in internet-time). Here is...
I've seen some debate on here about 'cancel culture', and there is a pretty good example of it happening on Twitter more-or-less now (or I guess it's probably old news in internet-time).
Here is Amanda Palmer's Original thread:
https://twitter.com/amandapalmer/status/1197525096937771010Here is the perspective of the "the guardian's music editor" (not actually the music editor, but she is the woman Amanda Palmer's tweets allude too as the music editor):
https://twitter.com/laurasnapes/status/1197572693081698310(the actual music editor also weighed in https://twitter.com/ben_bt/status/1197568113535070208)
It's pretty clear that there is an internet pile-on going down. Here is just a few of many examples:
https://twitter.com/JEHANCOURF/status/1197645652605448193
https://twitter.com/BrandyLJensen/status/1197660203937914880Palmer's husband Neil Gaiman isn't escaping scrutiny either:
https://twitter.com/harrrithon/status/1197594514564820992
https://twitter.com/ThosMcStakin/status/1197662487593635840Some unrelated anti-Palmer stories cropping up:
https://twitter.com/bombastic_luv/status/1197765401691742208
https://twitter.com/TamikaVST/status/1197672824040828928
https://twitter.com/TamikaVST/status/1197674952591327237So my question is: is this the cancel culture everyone is worried about? Is twitter going 'too far'? Or is Amanda Palmer getting what she deserved?
I'm honestly on the fence. Give me your thoughts.
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Klitmøller – Welcome to 'Cold Hawaii', Denmark's unlikely surf town
4 votes -
That Starlink problem astronomers were worried about is totally happening
19 votes -
Iraq's defence minister Najah al-Shammari accused of benefit fraud in Sweden
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Magnus Carlsen won't count Norway league games in record streak – world champion calls them 'Tivi-esque' in dig at Sergei Tiviakov
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New research results: How do cash transfers impact the people who don’t receive them?
From GiveDirectly's blog: In 2014, GiveDirectly partnered with academic researchers to launch our largest study ever in Kenya. The ultimate goal: find out how cash transfers affect local...
From GiveDirectly's blog:
In 2014, GiveDirectly partnered with academic researchers to launch our largest study ever in Kenya. The ultimate goal: find out how cash transfers affect local economies, including nearby non-recipients, enterprises, and markets. Now, in 2019, the results of this research have been released.
Abstract of the paper:
How large economic stimuli generate individual and aggregate responses is a central question in economics, but has not been studied experimentally. We provided one-time cash transfers of about USD 1000 to over 10,500 poor households across 653 randomized villages in rural Kenya. The implied fiscal shock was 15 percent of local GDP. We find large impacts on consumption and assets for recipients. Importantly, we document large positive spillovers on non-recipient households and firms, and minimal price inflation. We estimate a local fiscal multiplier of 2.6. We interpret welfare implications through the lens of a simple household optimization framework.
Some interesting tidbits from the paper:
Interestingly, sales increased without noticeable changes in firm investment behavior (beyond a modest increase in inventories), and sales do not increase differentially for firms owned by cash recipient households relative to nonrecipients. Both patterns suggest a demand-led rather than an investment-led expansion in economic activity.
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We next examine how these changes affect untreated households. Despite not receiving transfers, they too exhibit large consumption expenditure gains: their annualized consumption expenditure is higher by 13% eighteen months after transfers began, an increase roughly comparable to the gains contemporaneously experienced by the treated households themselves.
(Emphasis added.)
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Average price inflation is 0.1%, and even during periods with the largest transfers, estimated price effects are less than 1% and precisely estimated across all categories of goods.
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Real output increased, and yet there is at most limited evidence of increases in the employment of land (which is in fixed supply), labor, or capital. One plausible, albeit speculative, possibility is that the utilization of these factors was “slack” in at least some enterprises (Lewis 1954). This seems plausible because in the retail and manufacturing sectors, where output responses were concentrated, the typical firm has a single employee (i.e. the proprietor), suggesting that integer constraints may often bind. In addition, many enterprises operate “on demand” in the sense that they produce only when they have customers, and the average non-agricultural enterprise sees just 1.7 customers per hour. In addition to retail, much manufacturing in this setting is “on demand;” for example, a mill owner waits for customers to bring grain and then grinds it for them. The existence of slack may help account for the large multiplier we document, as has also recently been argued in US data, especially in poorer US regions (Michaillat and Saez 2015; Murphy 2017).
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Planet Money: Fries Of The Future
From the transcript: By 1988, for the first time, more fast-food orders were taken at a drive-through window than at the restaurant. And this was a problem for the wimpy french fry because by the...
From the transcript:
By 1988, for the first time, more fast-food orders were taken at a drive-through window than at the restaurant. And this was a problem for the wimpy french fry because by the time you got home from the drive-through, the fries were no good.
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So back then - almost 20, 25 years ago - Lamb Weston invented a coating called Stealth, which was their secret coating that you couldn't see and you couldn't tell was on the french fry, but it lasted - it was crispier longer, up to 12 to 15 minutes.
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But this potato company has a new problem now - delivery. And a 12- to 15-minute lasting Stealth french fry isn't going to cut it because delivery takes longer than a drive-through. The average delivery wait time in a busy city is 20 to 30 minutes because drivers pick up multiple orders and make multiple stops.
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They're starting to pitch these fries to fast food chains now. So they're not in stores yet, but Deb says they could be in a couple months. You won't know it's a crispy on delivery fry just like you don't know when you're eating a stealth fry. You'll just know you had a better french fry delivery experience.
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Eminem - Evil Twin (2013)
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Half-Life: Alyx
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What's gone wrong with the FTC's COPPA agreement with YouTube
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Medieval Myth Busting - Arrows vs Armour, using historically accurate reproductions from time of the Battle of Agincourt (1415)
MEDIEVAL MYTH BUSTING - Arrows vs Armour from Tod's Workshop YouTube Channel Other extra videos in the series: Find out More - The Battle Find out more - The Armour Find out More - Medieval Arrows...
MEDIEVAL MYTH BUSTING - Arrows vs Armour from Tod's Workshop YouTube Channel
Other extra videos in the series:
Find out More - The Battle
Find out more - The Armour
Find out More - Medieval Arrowsedit: Tod also re-uploaded the previous video with better sound:
Find out More - Medieval Arrows*12 votes -
Trying a Thanksgiving feast made from bugs
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Norwegian sugar tax sends sweet-lovers over border to Sweden
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Sinoia Caves - Elena's Sound-World (2014)
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Untitled II
I wanted to write about self-forgiveness because it's such a hard thing for me to do. Past mistakes and trespasses stick in my mind for decades, and it's so hard for me to shake them. This work is...
I wanted to write about self-forgiveness because it's such a hard thing for me to do. Past mistakes and trespasses stick in my mind for decades, and it's so hard for me to shake them. This work is an attempt at expressing that difficulty.
Down in the foothills the peak is so perfect Covered in pure white snow Nary a tree in sight The peak carves a visage in the sky In the clouds It just is, it exists peacefully in its austere authority Calm, serene Impossible Yet I yearn to climb To ascend Down in the foothills among the trees The greenof the hills I make my preparations Breath Training Gear I practiceand I meditate I meditate upona life A life of mistakes and triumphs Each breath preparing and steeling It's time to begin my climb Each step and the air, the precious vital air, thins Lungs emptying and muscles weakening And yet I continue Not quite undaunted, but I continue The views are stunning Yet I don't see them, eyes ever on the peak Visualizing success, not the process It's so cold Bitterly, viscerally cold There's no air Even a yogi must stop for air But there's no air The ground slick with snow and ice Snow and ice with the oxygen I need Sealed away in the mystery of the bonds Just as beautiful as it is inaccessible But I continue my climb Slipping and falling, the rocks cut and score Gashes and bruises amass I take a moment and reflect Is it worth it? Shall I ever ascend? And as I slip into meditation, I slip down the mountain All progress lost The world turns around, up and down I lose my breath And land, dizzy and hurt, down the bottom Even further from the peak than when I started.
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Environmental activist, Greta Thunberg is to appear as one of the Christmas guest editors of Radio 4's Today programme
6 votes -
KOKOKO!: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (2019)
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Would-be Chinese defector details covert campaigns in Hong Kong and Taiwan
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Peter Kay's Car Share
This is another British comedy that I think people will enjoy. The title is weird: Peter Kay is the stand up comedian, but he's playing a character in this sitcom. IMDB calls it "Car Share", but...
This is another British comedy that I think people will enjoy. The title is weird: Peter Kay is the stand up comedian, but he's playing a character in this sitcom. IMDB calls it "Car Share", but BBC calls it "Peter Kay's Car Share". It's British, so weirdly small number of episodes: only 12 (and this includes all the specials).
The setup sounds like it's going to be unbearably claustrophobic, a series long bottle episode. A supermarket sets up a car sharing scheme, and we watch John and Kayleigh share a car as they drive to work everyday. But this creates intimacy and we get to learn about the characters. It's heartfelt and lovely. It's well acted, and I think it's very funny.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4635922/
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Finland is preparing to defend itself against a mysterious activist group threatening to carry out cyberattacks – unless it gets some Bitcoin
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: "Cancel culture" has always existed - for the powerful, at least - now social media has democratized it
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Google Stadia - 4K image quality analysis and latency tests
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Feature Idea: Tildes Playlist - Would it be useful to have some sort of automated, easy to use, media categorization?
My use case: I watch videos (YouTube) and listen to audio (Podcasts) as a major part of my weekly media intake. I would love some sort of generated Tildes Playlist . IANADev, but it sure would be...
My use case:
I watch videos (YouTube) and listen to audio (Podcasts) as a major part of my weekly media intake. I would love some sort of generated Tildes Playlist . IANADev, but it sure would be nice if Tildes was able to parse, scrape, and categorize media posted as topics and in comments. Then present them to me with a date filter, and allow separating audio only and video media. Maybe something like tildes.net/?tag= but at tildes.net/playlist. I guess it would be nice to be able to sort media by tag as well.Possible other use case:
Accessibility?I see that some videos are already being tagged "videos." So there already is some organic interest in this special category, right?
What do you all think, is this useful?
From a dev perspective, is getting that correct enough difficult? Does Embedly categorize audio only and video?
edit: in the playlist view, there should of course be a link back to the topic or comment where the media was found. Also, @Deimos, I certainly don't want to take Tildes away from the text-first/only direction of the site, but sometimes I am doing stuff conducive to audio/video media intake like cooking, driving, etc. It would be cool to be able to easily consume it then, and come back to comment later.
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The shoals of Ukraine - Where American illusions and great-power politics collide
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Russians under threat for Q&A video
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The history of the Ohio-class guided missile submarine and its future as a drone-carrier platform
7 votes -
A new tracking technique using CNAME aliases to circumvent third-party cookie restrictions is blockable using a Firefox DNS API, but not in Chrome
18 votes -
Profile of a fake Amazon reviewer, who has received over $15,000 of products for free in exchange for posting five-star reviews
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The governing body for track and field will consider expelling Russia from membership following new charges that senior officials faked medical records
5 votes