...or 10,000 people could donate a $1. Not sure why we’re always looking for rich people to solve problems. There’s a lot more the rest of us could do.
There's this psychological effect where, sure, I could donate 10K from my modest net wealth, but it's also > 1 month of earnings for me and I'm sure it's pocket change for someone wealthier.
(This might be the entire libertarian case for the existence of some kind of tax-collecting state)
yeah, I should just blog my response so I don’t have to quickly, with typos, post this point again. I feel like we’ve had this same conversation before about crowdfunding and micro-transactions.
Indeed, the Wikipedia says on the matter: "On their return three days later (26 August) after the plume had dispersed, his body was found under the pumice with no apparent external injuries." Odd that the article doesn't address this at all.
Huh, so who does this skull belong to? Maybe it's one of the friends he was trying to rescue?
Come to think of it, I wouldn't be surprised if there were multiple men running around with gold jewelry and swords back then. If the Bay Area were hit by a major earthquake today and everyone got buried in the rubble, we would find a lot of bodies clutching iPhones and Tesla car keys.
I have friends whose dog is named Pliny. He convinced his wife they were naming the dog after a great historical figure, but really it's just his favorite beer. It's pretty high on my list when I visit CA to see if I can find it.
I visited Pompei just last week! What an amazing place.
Most of the paintings and mosaics and other findings have been removed from the houses and are in a museum in Naples, but still, it's extraordinary.
There had been a big earthquake in 62 AD that had shaken the whole region, and Pompei was still under active reconstruction in 79 AD when the eruption buried it.
(It is said that during the 62 earthquake, Nero was singing in Naples in front of 5000 people he had forced to come listen to him, and that when the earth trembled he explained it was because it was touched by his singing. Spectators were not allowed to leave the theater until he finished. The theater is no more, but the houses later built on top of it clearly follow its path https://goo.gl/maps/AsMRjEm9sj82).
In Pompei there were small houses, big houses (some over 3000 sq. m. with an entrance in the town, and a terrasse with a view of the sea); there was, at Herculanum, a nearby town, a huge villa (Villa of the Papyri: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_of_the_Papyri) overlooking the bay of Naples.
None of that mattered. The eruption destroyed everything.
Herculanum is really neat. The crowds (at least 5 years ago) were pretty thin, and most of the area isn't roped off, so you can just sort of wander around a semi-intact Roman city.
Pathetic that the Italian State cannot cough up 10k to get to the bottom of this. 10k is less than the monthly benefit of an Italian member of Parliament...
This article is now basically an excuse for a ton of pop-overs and pop-unders that make the site unusable. It seems that the publisher has decided to maximise their revenue from the HN hug.
At first, I only saw one ad when I went there (just now). I forgot I had my adblocker on. Then, I tried to load the page again and saw
"Haaretz.com is now inaccessible to visitors using ad blockers"
Wow, someone is actively working to squeeze the incoming traffic.
Haaretz is pretty much the only remaining media outlet in Israel that continues to pursue actual journalism. To that end I support them endlessly.
However, they are also the only media outlet that has paywalls, and I'd be fine with that if it ended there - high quality investigative journalism has a price.
The problem is that they also have a shit ton of third-party malware networks embedded on their pages, and even if you pay for a digital subscription you still get tracked and bombarded with ads. Then to add further insult, they block ad-blockers.
The solution is two fold: the Hebrew EasyList [1] blocks the anti ad-block elements allowing you to continue to view Haaretz without ads and without blocking. Second, if you want to jump over the paywall, there's an addon for that [2].
Wow. When I tried copying some text from the page to google it, it immediately opened three tabs to some shady spam sites such as entertainment.com-update.today. I am running 1Blocker with Safari, but it didn't catch this.
For the uninitiated, he's a member of the QI panel, a British comedy quiz show. There are quite a few episodes where they talk about Pliny the Elder on that show, its quite funny.
I admit that I thought this was about beer. A very very fine beer that I have not yet had the pleasure of enjoying. Pliny the Younger is still quite a nice beer that I've had on multiple occasions from the tap, and is generally more available if you are at the right establishment on the right night.
I had the same expectation. That said, in the Bay Area, the hype for Pliny is greater than it should be. Personally, I find Blind Pug from Russian River as good or better.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 103 ms ] threadThe optimum is probably somewhere in the middle.
There's this psychological effect where, sure, I could donate 10K from my modest net wealth, but it's also > 1 month of earnings for me and I'm sure it's pocket change for someone wealthier.
(This might be the entire libertarian case for the existence of some kind of tax-collecting state)
So, I’ll ask that in addition to stop being cheap, maybe we can solve the micropayment problem.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment
Oh the temptation ;)
Come to think of it, I wouldn't be surprised if there were multiple men running around with gold jewelry and swords back then. If the Bay Area were hit by a major earthquake today and everyone got buried in the rubble, we would find a lot of bodies clutching iPhones and Tesla car keys.
Most of the paintings and mosaics and other findings have been removed from the houses and are in a museum in Naples, but still, it's extraordinary.
There had been a big earthquake in 62 AD that had shaken the whole region, and Pompei was still under active reconstruction in 79 AD when the eruption buried it.
(It is said that during the 62 earthquake, Nero was singing in Naples in front of 5000 people he had forced to come listen to him, and that when the earth trembled he explained it was because it was touched by his singing. Spectators were not allowed to leave the theater until he finished. The theater is no more, but the houses later built on top of it clearly follow its path https://goo.gl/maps/AsMRjEm9sj82).
In Pompei there were small houses, big houses (some over 3000 sq. m. with an entrance in the town, and a terrasse with a view of the sea); there was, at Herculanum, a nearby town, a huge villa (Villa of the Papyri: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_of_the_Papyri) overlooking the bay of Naples.
None of that mattered. The eruption destroyed everything.
What a failed state, what a shame on us!
Shame.
Wow, someone is actively working to squeeze the incoming traffic.
However, they are also the only media outlet that has paywalls, and I'd be fine with that if it ended there - high quality investigative journalism has a price.
The problem is that they also have a shit ton of third-party malware networks embedded on their pages, and even if you pay for a digital subscription you still get tracked and bombarded with ads. Then to add further insult, they block ad-blockers.
The solution is two fold: the Hebrew EasyList [1] blocks the anti ad-block elements allowing you to continue to view Haaretz without ads and without blocking. Second, if you want to jump over the paywall, there's an addon for that [2].
[1] - https://github.com/easylist/EasyListHebrew
[2] - https://github.com/yuvadm/free-haaretz