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by D-Coder 6y ago
> death numbers and hospitalization numbers don't lie. Death numbers are close but still have some uncertainty. New York for example is reporting much higher than usual numbers of people found dead at home. Not clear if they have be
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by D-Coder 6y ago
>In the New Testament believers are told to love everyone, including foreigners and non-believers and are given a specific edict to pray for their enemies. But also: >34 Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I ha
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by D-Coder 7y ago
What, the Parliament building was too fireproof?
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by D-Coder 7y ago
Have you tried Duolingo ( https://www.duolingo.com/course/eo/en/Learn-Esperanto )? If so, what did you think of it? It's free, with a subscription option for more features.
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by D-Coder 7y ago
"We" is which country? (Other than that, I agree with you.)
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by D-Coder 7y ago
Thank you for this. I hear lots of people complain about how bad things are. So I ask them if they know the difference between typhus and typhoid. They never do, because at least in developed countries we never see either of those. As backu
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by D-Coder 7y ago
Nationalizing Social Security has led to very low administrative costs, around 2%.
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by D-Coder 7y ago
"Would you want a 70 year old person to be trained as a fighter pilot? Would you want him or her as a fireman, trying to carry people out of a fire?" No, but those aren't the jobs under consideration here. The President can u
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by D-Coder 7y ago
Unless the alternative includes forks to the eyeball, it could hardly be worse.
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by D-Coder 7y ago
A semi-metaphor?
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by D-Coder 7y ago
My 2019 semi-resolution was, "Procrastinate later -- there's always tomorrow!" It didn't work perfectly but it helped.
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by D-Coder 7y ago
> remember that not everything is precious and needs to be reserved. And that's Yahoo's decision to make?
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by D-Coder 7y ago
File extensions go back a lot farther than MS-DOS, kid. :-)
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by D-Coder 7y ago
Well if it takes a few centuries to work these out, I'm willing to do the work!
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by D-Coder 7y ago
You don't have a refrigerator collection???
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by D-Coder 7y ago
I think they don't do that any more. For one thing, it was too easy to game the system by hiring lousy people as targets for the next year's firings. And if a group was all good people... you ended up firing someone anyway.
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by D-Coder 7y ago
Elephants get much less cancer than their body size suggests. Lots of articles but here's one: https://www.sciencealert.com/elephant-cancer-resistance-nonc...
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by D-Coder 7y ago
Pedant note: 1600 Pensylvania Avenue. 2600 Pennsylvania Avenue appears to be an apartment building, or maybe Hacker Haven.
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by D-Coder 7y ago
I recommend _Technical Editing: The Practical Guide For Editors And Writers_, https://www.amazon.com/Technical-Editing-Practical-Editors-H...
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by D-Coder 7y ago
The author of the article, Sharon Begley, is a very good science writer. I've seen her writing elsewhere too.
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by D-Coder 7y ago
> The mandated motivation for a corporation is to maximize share value for it's shareholders. That's actually not the case. It became dogma in the 1980s but there is no legal mandate for this.
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by D-Coder 7y ago
"My credit card verification number? Hold on a sec, my card is in the other room, I'll go get it." Place phone on desk.
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by D-Coder 7y ago
> On the other hand, Star Wars is mostly free of time travel plots while they're quite common in Star Trek. Perhaps because writers have so far only needed nine plots for Star Wars but needed 79 for Star Trek (TOS alone!) episodes.
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by D-Coder 7y ago
Almost any feedback is useful. "The other candidates were a better match" — okay, perhaps I'm applying to the wrong jobs. "You failed roll of the dice" — so I did everything right and should keep doing that.
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by D-Coder 7y ago
The Duolingo course is also very good. https://www.duolingo.com/course/eo/en/Learn-Esperanto
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by D-Coder 7y ago
"It’s not perfect but I’ve spoken to enough Esperantists in Asia who have remarked that English is way way way harder and speakers are less forgiving." Anecdote: We had a Japanese Esperantist visiting a local meeting in the US and
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by D-Coder 7y ago
Any recommendations for a good replacement site?
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by D-Coder 7y ago
I'm pretty sure Yahoo isn't doing this to protect people from their old posts.
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by D-Coder 7y ago
I worked at a minicomputer manufacture (okay, Prime Computer). Software enhancements large enough to need a proposal always included a section "Non-goals of this change." This section laid out the things that might sound like they
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by D-Coder 7y ago
"How secure do you need your browsing to be?" Perhaps explain to them that many people (unwisely) reuse passwords for many sites... possibly including their banking.

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