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Re:Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023) on Friday August 07, 2026 @01:19PM (#49213538)
In other news, the pope is catholic
Re:AI is a technology not a product on Sunday May 17, 2026 @11:16AM (#48169687)
Access to a rational, imperfect yet functional expert in lots of everyday subjects: personal finance, making decisions and plans, relationships, taboo questions, the first steps of a medical/law opinion, general problem solving and breakdown..

Even considering that it’s sometimes wrong or hallucinating, it’s doing an important job by beginning to eliminate gate keeping, be it centered on cost or access.

Re:Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro on Sunday July 07, 2024 @01:06PM (#40898879)
In Portugal it’s used quite a lot in the south in pork dishes, in a kind of bread soup (açorda) and also in a famous clam dish (bulhão pato-style clams). In the north it was very hard to find until 2 or 3 decades ago, and parsley is used a lot more.
Re:Smoking Is a Dying Habit. Not in Germany on Friday September 01, 2023 @10:27AM (#37351262)
During a recent visit to Hamburg I entered a smallish pub/bar and it was so smoky that it seemed like a portal to the 90's!
Re:Glossary of Japanese words of Portuguese origin on Thursday July 20, 2023 @05:49AM (#36798509)
In Portugal we call it "pão-de-ló"
The French movie “Irreversible” famously used these kinds of sounds to make it even more difficult to watch in theaters, I remember feeling a sense of danger and tension.
Re:Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss? on Thursday March 10, 2022 @06:31AM (#30625762)
Use smaller plates
Re:World’s first octopus farm stirs ethical debate on Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:09PM (#30462570)
On a very lateral note, pulpo a la gallega is made with boiled, not seared, octopus
I’d say they’re liberal in the European sense, not the American sense
Re:iOS 14 is available today on Thursday September 17, 2020 @05:29AM (#24502658)
This sounds great, tried it but I have Apple's silicone cover and it needs a forceful tap, which I didn't find confortable..
Re:Curry Before Columbus on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @05:05AM (#23768196)
An ad hominem side note: the author should try probiotics
I bet it’s more about all the distractions from reading you can have when you use a tablet vs the clean and disconnected experience of an e ink device
Re:Elasticsearch from the Bottom Up (2013) on Friday January 03, 2020 @08:29PM (#21952116)
Splunk is that product, but it’s only free up to 500MB/day of indexing