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I guess the parent commenter meant to say hydraulic limes are inferior in terms of breathability compared to hydrated lime. Which is entirely correct. As always, it's a trade-off. …

One book I like is "Building with straw bales" [0], by Barbara Jones. It's mostly very practical. Reassuring also when it comes to using a less usual building technique. A tad bit …

Knowledge of "Roman cement" roughly speaking was never really lost. How do you think the quay walls in medieval Dutch and Flemish harbours were built? The mortar was made with Tras…

This is getting fairly off topic, but since you ask... My impressions about people born in Latvia post-1991 are numerous, but obviously anecdotal: - Most native Latvian language sp…

If language fluency would be the most important criterium - which it isn't-, the Dutch speaking 60% of Belgium are an even more logical choice. They're buried in that ranking below…

In case of the land locked EU micro states, a blockade would be an obvious way. Rather surprisingly, I can't seem to find a lot of historical examples of, say, German trade unions …

This does hit home. My significant other got a 600€/month pre-tax raise. Her net raise? 120€. She could actually go work 80% and hardly lose anything at all.

I'd say that depends on whether he wants his party to have official public mandates. Those certainly help, but they're not always strictly necessary when one's goal is to influence…

Reminds me of the remarkably little-known AlgoRythmics sorting dances [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/user/AlgoRythmics/videos

Because making even two pebbles fight is their business model.

From the archived ramenporn reddit comment thread at [0]: > This must be incredibly stressful so for your sake I hope you sort it out quickly... but for the world's sake, I hope yo…

The whistleblower said she wanted to fix Facebook. Mission accomplished, I'd say. For now at least.

What about VAT then? Value added tax as levied in the EU is not a sales tax. It's also a very popular fraud mechanism...

There's a different thing for that: tabulatures. Tabulatures come with their own limitations though. They're mostly a far less portable way to express western music. They also lose…

Bare necessities inflation in energy and food. If this is anything more than a post-covid19 curve spike, be prepared for significant social unrest where many live hand to mouth.

First home? 3% real estate transaction tax, or 1% if renovating up to high energy savings specs. Any other home? 12% real estate transaction tax. That's roughly how it works in the…

Lots of factors could be at play indeed. I'm certainly not an expert, but if I read correctly, the man has disbanded parliament and ruled by decree since two months, publicly annou…

Not anymore unfortunately [0]. [0] https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/tunisians-protest-again...

One of the only species of birds known to be capable of transatlantic flight, and also credibly thought to regularly making the crossing [0] is the magnificent frigate bird [1]. Th…

I certainly and sincerely agree with you about demands for budget efficiency and transparency. > [...] you only need to make like $250k total. It's a good amount, sure, but if you …

That sounds like something different where the answer is not so clear-cut. I've tried to rephrase the wording of the ethical dilemma I came up with to make it more neutral: Imagine…

Let's word this more sharply. Hospital capacity being limited, should ill vaccine refusers be getting priority as they are getting right now? What if you get super unlucky, and you…

wisible! Sowwy, couldn't wesist!

> First, in my mind the difference between reddit, FB, twitter, HN, forums, etc is really just configuration. The big boys are dopamine reinforced network effects incorporated by m…

Therapy. Also, one short term hack I haven't seen explicitly mentioned yet. Try to enjoy a healthier kind of buying: buy your house piece by piece. In other words, pay off your mor…