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I think you mean "Impossible Mission"!

When the Irish crossed the Atlantic, looking for a better life, they travelled on what became known as "coffin ships". It was common for 20-30% of the passengers to die during transit, and sometimes reportedly up to 50%.

As an interesting factoid these sort of mortality figures were not especially uncommon in naval voyages until surprisingly recently. Scurvy is kind of a joke now a days, but it killed millions of people. It was such a big deal that vitamin c is literally named after it - ascorbic acid, or anti-scurvy acid. But that only happened on into the 20th century!

The idea that such a brutal disease could have been prevented by eating fresh fruits and meats sounded more like a folktale than reality. And early experiments to try to demonstrate this were also not that conclusive since vitamin c tends to break down rapidly in the conditions it was stored in (prejuiced - metal containers). For instance during Vasco de Gamma's journey from Europe to India he lost more than half his crew, mostly to scurvy.


And not all that survived the trip across made it much further. Typhoid or "ship fever" was killing a lot of the passengers and when they arrived in North America, they were put into quarantine camps where many died.

A doctor I know worked in the US and then returned to Canada. In his US clinic, each doctor had 2-3 employees devoted to billing (patient-paid and insurance). In his Canadian clinic, they had 1 employee doing the billing for 4 doctors.


Well, the $1 million signing bonus they gave Anders (back in 1996 when that meant something, slightly over $2 million today) probably didn't hurt.


He got a technical fellow title, the money, and the company that enabled him to make all the good things in the future. He would have never made any of that if he stayed with Borland.


> the company that enabled him [Anders Hejlsberg] to make all the good things in the future.

Too bad, then, that he / they didn't.


If value by Seattle housing market, probably way more than 2 million. I'd assume people usually dump this kind of money in housing markets.


All of them are available to download, and many to play in a browser. A Google search will do the trick.


Or even better, they can be brought back as contractors with vital skills and knowledge, at much higher cost!


To cite a close-to-home example, chicken farms in Canada typically have about 25,000 chickens, whereas ones in the U.S. often have millions. So an infection that requires the entire flock to be slaughtered has a much bigger effect on the supply of eggs south of the border.


That makes a lot of sense, because I lookup up how we handle it in Denmark and it's the same, destroy the entire flock if a farm is infected. It's just it's not millions, it's 6000, 40.000, 20.000 chickens per farm, not a million.

Weird that the size of the farms aren't being regulated if you know from other countries that it makes containment easier.


But the population is about 57x smaller. So 17.5k chickens would be equivalent in terms of impact.


Are eggs regularly transported long distances in the USA? I don't think I've seen eggs from outside Denmark for sale in Denmark, though many other things (cheese, meat) are.

If people in Minnesota (same population) aren't regularly buying eggs from out of state, then the comparison with Denmark holds.


> I don't think I've seen eggs from outside Denmark for sale in Denmark,

That is because of the strict rules regarding salmonella. Danish chicken farmers will test for salmonella and kill any population of chicken found to have salmonella, leaving our eggs "guaranteed" free of salmonella. Any other country that wish to sell eggs in Denmark will need to be able to make the same guarantee. This is one of the few exceptions for the free movements of goods within the EU.


Sweden, Finland and Norway seem to have the same checks as Denmark [1] but we don't see their eggs for sale here either.

But from a quick search, it looks like I've happened only to live in egg-exporting countries within the EU, which explains why I've never seen it. Even so, whole eggs don't seem to be transported great distances — most imports and exports are liquid or dried egg.

[1] https://food.ec.europa.eu/food-safety/biological-safety/food...


Unless you segment up your chickens and spread them out, so one farmer may have a million chickens, but spread out on 40 locations. The problem is that you need to kill ALL of your chickens in just a few is sick and having a million chickens in a single location will pretty ensure that you have to constantly kill of all your chickens and replace them.

But there's probably more going on that just sick chickens being killed of.


The AI narration is annoying, with awkward pauses and occasional mispronunciations. For example, it described the motto "urbi et orbi" as "urb-eye e.t. orbee".

Movement is very jerky (maybe because of my old computer?) and I was disappointed that I could only roam freely around the wireframe model, not any of the photographic images. Because of the jerkiness, it was sometimes hard to tell what part of the architecture I was looking at.


Instant mute for me...

As someone that is not very religious, it is still a site to behold in person.


My eldest brother hated learning French in school. Hated it. He even made a deal with the French teacher that he would pass Grade 12 French if he promised not to take it in Grade 13.

Then, in his late 20s, he was travelling the world and ended up in the French island of La Reunion (kind of like Hawaii with French food and social programs).

He married and has two children and is only now, after more than 30 years and acquiring French citizenship, is he talking about moving back to Canada.


A dev tool with a monthly subscription? That's enough to stop me right there.

An alternative is B4J, a free (as in beer) BASIC that compiles to Java, so should run just about anywhere. It also has

* B4A - a free version for Android * B4R - a free version for Arduino and ESP8266 * B4I - a paid version for iOS

The main (sole?) developer is ridiculously responsive and helpful.


>A dev tool with a monthly subscription?

It seems that can buy a perpetual license for GBP £5000 / developer, which is equal to 16 years of monthly subscription (quite optimistic for a 3yo project).


They actually have a new year deal [0] on a perpetual licence to all v1 versions for £249, equal to 10 months of the subscription.

[0] https://twinbasic.com/NEWYEAR25


it seems pretty reasonable to charge $30-50 a month for somebody doing the hero's work of reimplementing and building on top of a 30 year old programming environment. also there's a free one! spray money the people who do crazy niche work! that's what makes the world beautiful!


They do have a free tier. It's nice having more dev tool options than fewer options.


twinBASIC programming has a free Community Edition.


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