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  • University was always guided self-learning, at least in the UK. The lecturers are not teachers. The provide and explain material, but they're not there to hand-hold you through it.

    University education is very different to what goes on at younger ages. It has to be when a class is 300 rather than 30 people.

  • When it was first developed it was too heavyweight and too customisable. The effort needed to theme it was huge and a lot of the popular themes were poor from a UX point of view.

    Still E16 was usable, and then the development of E17 started about 24 years ago. People are still on E16 you say?

  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/shark-skin-inspired-materials-have-a-long-way-to-go-before-they-work-like-the-real-thing-180980973/

    Few people have gotten close enough to a shark to pet it. If you could run your hand from a shark’s head to its tail—not that you should—it would feel smooth, almost like suede. Reverse direction and it’s rough like sandpaper. Viewed under a microscope, shark skin is composed of ribbed, dragonesque scales layered over each other like shingles on a roof. These structures, called dermal denticles, are more like teeth than skin

  • Quite the opposite:

    1. Sharks don't have fur
    2. Shark skin is rough is one direction and smooth in the other. This allows them to get friction with the water to drive themselves forward, but the glide through the water for efficient travel.

    The idea was copied into competitive swim suits.

  • There are very few conflicts where you can paint the governments involved as black and white "good guys/bad guys". In the Iran / Israel arena I'd like to see both governments fall.

    Iran I'd like to see return to being a much more secular state, and Israel... Well they've got some very deep rot to expunge. 70+ years of "Lebensraum" type entitled-expansion. I don't know how you get that out of the culture.

  • I'm confused.

    Is the issue here you're using the term "micro-plastic" in a different way to me? My understanding of it is "small particles of solid plastic often reduced in size through mechanical processes to microscopic sizes which we find throughout the environment, often distributed by water". You seem to be talking more generally about chemical water pollution.

  • That's very different though. Nobody claims that the chemicals used in plastic manufacturing are biologically inert, just that the final result is.

    Dupont wasn't dumping Lego bricks into the pond. They were leaking liquid chemicals.

    Edit: I'm presuming because "This content in unavailable in your area".

  • Dallas Buyers Club

    For which he won his oscar for Actor in a supporting role

    House of Gucci

    Supporting role behind Lady Gaga and Adam Driver

    The Little Things

    Nominated at Golden Gloves and SAG awards for best supporting role.

    I'll give you Requiem and Mr Nobody, however there's no denying he doesn't carry films in general. He's an award winning supporting actor.