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Comment #29302428
Not the person you're replying to, but according to this site here [0], crustaceans make up $262M or 0.64% of the agricultural export for the UK. Not small, but certainly smaller t…
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Comment #27595302
Are there specific things that differentiate this app from other mood journals like Daylio?
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Comment #27052791
You make a great point that using knowledge is important in actually learning the study material. Personally, those moments of learning happen when I stumble across a problem where…
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Comment #25799784
If you're stoked for that, then I would be remiss to not say something about Robert Alter's one man translation of the Hebrew Bible. From wiki: "Alter's translation aims to convey …
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Comment #24639313
Not sure if you've used shortcuts on iOS but a lot of those customizations don't change the performance of anything. The shortcuts on an iphone add a half second each time you use …
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Comment #23633517
Its an interesting statement, but how much discussion can we get from it as an audience? I haven't thought about this very much, and there is a lot I'm curious about that he hasn't…
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Comment #19791687
"Knowledge is Golden" -- Cute name.
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Comment #19371007
> People who attempt to back up their intuitive knowledge with science seem to be the opposite of trolls. Consider the difference between seeing if your intuitions reflect science,…
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Comment #18572355
I think there is room for nuance between 'concern' about privacy and 'absolute dedication' to privacy, and the tone of your opinion ignores it. You make good points, but I would ho…
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Comment #18187731
Is there a reason the submission titles are altered away from the articles?
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Comment #17509894
While again being technically true, I would love to see any white or asian immigrants noting the ethnography of the original Hawaiian people in the time where they first made conta…
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Comment #17509859
Hawaiian will continued to be used as an adjective. And additionally better isn't always the most succinct. I use Hawaii resident or kamaaina to say I'm from Hawaii, I don't call m…
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Comment #17509766
Yeah, its tough to understand how people think of a word on a case to case basis. Everyone will have different connotations. There is murkiness that exists as part of its use as a …
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Comment #17509669
One answer is undeniably clunky, "these pineapples are from Hawaii." The AP's style guide uses Hawaiian as an adjective. It is a messy thing when typical ways of speaking English c…
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Comment #17509060
The distinction of Hawaiian as a colloquial reference to anything from the state of Hawaii is made only outside of the state itself. I can't change the way English itself works so …
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Comment #17509021
Hawaii post-Cook ended up losing a lot of its population, because of that and other immigration it began to lose its culture. Other culture loss came fron Westernization and Christ…
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Comment #17507441
Hawaiian is primarily used as an ethnonym, so saying the Aloha shirt is a 'Hawaiian Shirt' is implying the shirt as part of native Hawaiian culture. What you say is technically tru…