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by benjohnson 5y ago
With a bonus of some being EBCDIC too.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
There is some weird inflation going on over the last decade here in the US. The price of the "basket of goods and services" in total has remained relatively constant - but the university student that needs housing and has heart
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by benjohnson 5y ago
As a manager - I've had to do crap like this now and then to light a fire under people. It can be done to indicate extreme urgency. There also are real-world implications to some delays - for example not being able to run payroll is a
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by benjohnson 5y ago
A few hundred-thousand dead Kulaks is a good example. Killed because they were just above the peasantry. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekulakization
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Thankfully it doesn't happen at all or we have a genocide for every comedian.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Thank you for reiterating and expounding on the details of the problem of a open border when it comes to pandemics.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Either way - an open border is rotten for pandemic containment.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
If your of an older demographic, that may potentially have a wad of cash, pickpocketing is still very much a problem. Especially in tourist spots.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
In my faith tradition, G-d defiantly does have a sense of humor.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
As I understand it, the current refugee crisis at the American southern border has a large Covid-19 component. This report says that at least one facility has a 10% infection rate. At the current time, in my opinion, The American border can
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Frankly this seems paternalistic. It's hard for me to read this and not translate it as: "We found something non-white people enjoy and we're going to ruin it. For their own good."
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by benjohnson 5y ago
We fight this by giving everybody a token bit of public labor - tell someone they need to bring cookies, another needs to bring party-hats and someone else to bring punch and you'll find that they don't want to let others down.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Please be careful - wire transfer often do not have an "undo" or even if available it's often too late to use it.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Yes. After seeing what the Nazis had done, those that fought the Nazis would have been justified in exacting immediate justice by killing all of them. Thankfully - they didn't.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
I'd be ok with a default deny, but it should be an option for those that want it.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
It’s not ideal. But if we don’t have a working criminal justice system, victims will take the law into their own hands and their error rate will most likely be much worse.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
I did witness a Japanese style in the 1990's - a book of coding blocks was being used with the primary value the coder was adding was glueing then together. Back then, I thought it was idiotic; how could a professional sit there and co
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by benjohnson 5y ago
It doesn’t even have to be ‘like’ that brings countries together - just a significantly better alternative to the USSR and PRC. Flawed as the US is, for a super-power we don’t seem to rack up dead bodies in the millions as others have done.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Your great advices pays dividends much further down the road too - focusing on work and creating value is also good for your children. Sadly, there’s been many children that took decades to get out of their entitled mindset caused by easy m
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Speaking for myself, it’s because I’ve seen a lot of things that not only were leading but the best in the business fail to remain relevant: We not now even using CompuServe on Commodores aver AT&T lines. Modula-2 and Prolog are just fo
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by benjohnson 5y ago
There’s a lot to unpack in the story - some of the ‘god smites ‘em’ passages can be read as a warning that bad things will happen only because the behavior contains the seeds of it’s own destruction - or punishment if you will. For example
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by benjohnson 5y ago
In my HR hat, I would be reluctant to hire anybody that had recent training that was explicitly given exclusively to one race or excluding other federally protected classes like religion, gender, or handicap.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Thank you. Some of the poorest people I know are deeply moral. Indeed a poorly run home is the largest predictor - and too little (or too much) money does magnify the problem, poverty isn’t synonymous with crime.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
I not bullish on the West - it’s being replaced by other cultures quicker than it can adapt. However the West still has a lot to offer the world from mRNA to SpaceX to Seneca. Frankly, China’s success had come from copying western civilizat
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by benjohnson 5y ago
If you don’t speak French and are introverted, a boulangerie can seem intimidating. Here’s how to go for it: Upon entering, say “Bonjour” - that will alert them that you a polite and also don’t speak French. Point to what you want that look
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Easy. When you have the idea that you’re in a fight for your life it’s very easy to make a mistake. For us IT folk, it’s wise to recognize this: When you think you just deleted the entire server or something horrid, it may be wise to take a
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by benjohnson 5y ago
I can afford anything - and I’d rather have 45 minutes of my NP’s undivided attention than the typical doctor visits of a ten minute meet and greet.
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by benjohnson 5y ago
In normal political times, I think your example with disprove my premise, but here you have the SPLC lumping in the anti-maskers with nazis, murders and racists in their Year of Hate and Extremism. https://www.splcenter.org/
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by benjohnson 5y ago
Good observation, but they’re not united based on being politically right of center - there’s many people in the Pro Life Movement who are left of center in many policies like government-run health care, government monopoly on schooling, an
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by benjohnson 5y ago
If Proud Boys are considered far-right neo-nazis, can anybody tell me of a not-far-right political advocacy group that’s allowed to protest without having them labeled as such? I mean... given that this very article shows their leader and s

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