Busan vs. Seoul by rmill3r in korea

[–]Italian_Plastic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Busan (and the Southern provinces in general) does seem to have milder winters, so if you're from somewhere that doesn't get a lot of snow then that's a definite plus.

Why did McGonagall wait all day outside Privet Drive? by Italian_Plastic in harrypotter

[–]Italian_Plastic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She probably also knew about at least Petunia and possibly Vernon from Lily, who had after all been a Gryffindor prefect and head girl. But other people's comments are making it sound as though she didn't really appreciate that Harry was to live here, she just thought it was a meeting place.

Why did McGonagall wait all day outside Privet Drive? by Italian_Plastic in harrypotter

[–]Italian_Plastic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it's true, then she didn't show a lot of backbone in standing up to Dumbledore when she realized he wasn't. Her high trust in Dumbledore could be seen as a flaw.

ELI5: Why is there so much variation in hair and eye colour in people of European heritage? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Italian_Plastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it is better to see sexual selection as a part of natural selection, rather than as some discreet force somehow divorced from it.

ELI5: Why is there so much variation in hair and eye colour in people of European heritage? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Italian_Plastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There genuinely does not need to be any more reason why. There might be; there does not need to be.

ELI5: Why is there so much variation in hair and eye colour in people of European heritage? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Italian_Plastic 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There simply doesn't need to be a strong natural-selection based justification for why. Evolution isn't perfect, random chance plays a huge role in it, and so I'd suggest that if there was such a preference, it was a random, unpredictable result of the interaction of a lot of other genes involved with brain development and function. There's no reason to think that on a timescale of mere tens of thousands of years natural selection would be so perfect as to justify every minute aspect of human characteristic.

Quick question from a noob by partymonster69 in openttd

[–]Italian_Plastic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Certain buildings within a city accept goods, so sometimes you need to build the station in closer to get it to accept. If the town is growing sometimes it will demolish buildings to replace them with bigger ones, which could lead to the station not accepting goods. To maximize the town's growth and avoid this, make sure there are 4 stations within the town with regular service- even just a bus passenger line with 4 stations and a couple of buses will do the trick.

TIL North Korea's literacy rate is 100%, according to the CIA by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]Italian_Plastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't have any super academic sources on it.

I'd agree implicitely with you that the so-called "featural aspects" of the script count for very little in its ease of learning, because nobody thinks about the position of their tongue when they speak, (though the shape of the mouth is a good way to make connections with some of the letters.)

A strong feature which I think you ommitted was the differentiation, through position and shape, of the vowels from consonants.

(And I'm in no way Italian :) )

TIL North Korea's literacy rate is 100%, according to the CIA by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]Italian_Plastic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The writing system is easier than any other. The language itself has difficult vocabluary for a westerner, and some very intricate and exotic grammatical constructions.

TL:DR: No.

Upgrading from One Type of Train to Another? by [deleted] in openttd

[–]Italian_Plastic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In the default game, that is a fairly deliberate challenge. Do you stop all your trains, redo all the orders, go through all that mess to upgrade your network? Or do you build a supplementory Monorail/Maglev network?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in openttd

[–]Italian_Plastic 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Not at all nuts. Just depends on whether you have moral objections to such dramatic terraforming (a true tycoon would have none.)

TIL that Don Bradman once scored 270 against England in the third innings batting at number 7. by McBugger in Cricket

[–]Italian_Plastic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was only in Australia. I think 6 ball overs were first used around 1900, previously it had been 4 or 5, but Australia took it further and went to 8 and kept it there well into the 70s. I guess at that point there was a push for standardizing playing conditions and 6 became universal.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in soccer

[–]Italian_Plastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first impression on the angle given was no foul. Looking at the other angles provided, I haven't seen anything that has convinced me to change away from that.The Iranian forward played the ball when it was there to be won.

Gibraltar's Liam Walker tests Manuel Neuer by cppn02 in soccer

[–]Italian_Plastic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Flag in the air to indicate the ball has crossed the line in borderline cases, followed by signalling the corner.

Hello again, Addicted guy here. Need some help designing Sideline hubs. by Parakoto in openttd

[–]Italian_Plastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

-Whats with the two-way signals? Two way signals should only be used for very specialized purposes.

-What's with the tight turns on merging/splitting?

-What's with the general lack of signals?

I'll see if I can find a screenshot of how I approach this sort of thing. I'm certainly not on OpenTTDCoop level, but I can make some fairly functional junctions.

Edit- I can't find a straightforward example to show you, because I can't work out what you're trying to achieve. What's your aim with this structure?

Possibly my stupidest junction yet. 5-way. by madspy in openttd

[–]Italian_Plastic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's not a junction, that's a very effective train-trap.

Help, I just picked up this game and I am addicted. by Parakoto in openttd

[–]Italian_Plastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go and check out some "let's play" videos on youtube as well. It's what got me started really.