allen_lasn

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   by allen_lasn 5y ago

   The British royal family are the descendants of the Norman William the Conqueror.
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   by allen_lasn 5y ago

   It's not entirely true that it's unrelated to Thanksgiving. That day originally became a popular day to start Xmas shopping because a lot of people took that day off, since Thursday is a federal holiday, but the actual Thanksgivin
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   by allen_lasn 5y ago

   The name Black Friday comes from the nightmare experienced by store staff, shoppers, mall cops, etc on a day of extreme overcrowding and sometimes fights over discounted items. The reference to being 'in the black' was invented af
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   by allen_lasn 5y ago

   The marginal value of your time was not $0. You could have been doing something other than shopping with your time. That thing could have afforded you pleasure or had some other utility. The dollar value of that utility was not zero. Even r
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   by allen_lasn 5y ago

   Python 2 was supported for 20 years . Python 2.7 (largely compatible with other Python 2 versions - and including backported changes from Python 3.1 - was supported for 12 years ). The Python project went absolutely above and beyond to su