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by cafard 2y ago
The French Revolution began when the government tried to repudiate its debts once too often. It wasn't the peasants or the urban poor who were holding the bonds. Once the revolution really got going, many things changed. But an Austria
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Back in 2014, we scheduled a vacation that took us to St. Petersburg. As I recall, the Russian visa application wanted the names and addresses of one's three most recent employers. My previous employer was a government contractor that
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Some states sharply restrict roadside advertising--Maryland does, Pennsylvania doesn't. The bus advertising business seemed to have taken a beating a few years back. It is true that in Washington the bus shelters have ads, often electr
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And then when you stop at a gas station, the pump plays ads at you.
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"Greed: A Feature of the System". I enjoy programming, but if I had the sort of inherited wealth that brought in the equivalent of my compensation, would I be programming? Maybe less. There seems to be a wide debatable space betwe
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Wikipedia describes Lake as having been an "evening anchor" for most of three decades. Doesn't that mean that she largely read news gathered by somebody else? (And yes, I do apply the same criteria to Dan Rather and his prede
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At this point I say, "Get your elbow out of my ribs. I'm not laughing because I don't get, I'm not laughing because it isn't that great." According to some USAF colonel whose stuff has been linked on HN, Wolfe
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by cafard 2y ago
I can ride the WMATA Metrobus anonymously for $2.25 cash or unregistered SmartTrip. Now that I have the senior ($1.10) SmartTrip, I've blown my cover. And an awful lot of SmartTrip cards are registered with WMATA, people use Apple Wall
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Before the classified advertising all disappeared to the Internet. In the 1990s, the Post had a larger newsroom, and published more news. Now the Metro section has fewer but larger articles, often enough not really news in the old sense.
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Have you read the Post's editorial and op-ed pages? I am long out of the habit, but when I do look at them, there are plenty of contributors who are old-line conservative (George Will's columns are syndicated through the Post) or
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Generalize much?
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I have been a Post subscriber (in a Post-subscribing household) for almost fifty years, and my consumption of the opinion pages has gradual declined over that period. I just wish the news content was back to what it once was.
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A quick scan gives me about 49 read. Having said that, a. Finnegans Wake is tough going. I think that about 20 pages is my high water mark there. b. The Phenomenology of Spirit and The Critique of Pure Reason require a lot of prelimin
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I think that in general one finds that the anthologists got it right. Randall Jarrell said that a good poet is someone who spends his life standing outside in thunderstorms and is struck two or three times. [Quotation not exact, taken proba
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Can't but think of He knows when you are sleeping, He knows when you're awake, He knows when you've been bad or good...
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I grew up in the Wonder Bread days, and definitely remember people cutting off the crusts.
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Do the certifications mean anything in particular? Beyond perhaps the primary grades, I would settle for mastery of the subject matter and an ability to manage the classroom.
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Almost 30 years ago, the nutritionist Gary Null published books, had a show on Pacifica and so on. His basic message, I think, was that we should eat a diet that was less heavy on meats and processed foods. This is probably not wrong, but I
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> The basic story is that during the aughts, we had a bipartisan education reform consensus that was focused on improving school quality as an attainable and important driver of social and economic progress. No Child Left Behind? It crea
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Trump won in big part because the Democratic Party a) pretended that all was well with Joe Biden, b) swapped in Kamala Harris when plan a) didn't work. Someday perhaps the Democratic Party will understand that the job of a serious poli
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If I understand the post, these are persons who are marked not deceased--it is not stated that they are receiving money, though it may be implied. For example, there are some persons under ten years of age who are receiving Social Security
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Yes, well, the article describes the Navy moving Olsen from Great Lakes Naval Training Station to Chicago. Great Lakes Naval Training Station is and, as far as I know, always has been in Chicago. The non-computer stuff maybe didn't get
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I like lettuce, even iceberg lettuce, but not at the cost of ingesting parasites.
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This is a real challenge, because as the left has taught us, it feels good to be a victim, especially when you can plausibly claim to be one." The current administration seems to be good at identifying victims where one might not have
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It does recall to me the complaints about Audis about forty years ago. People were reluctant to tell drivers, No, you pushed on the accelerator, not the brake, but on the other hand nobody was able to propose a different and plausible expla
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The old Nova instruction set, which lived on into the 16-bit and eventually 32-bit Eclipse instruction set, did have some curiosities: only four registers, and as I recall you couldn't do indirect byte addressing. The book does say tha
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New Zealand? Are you blaming us for Peter Thiel? That seems a bit harsh. "to extend its influence in Latin America". Its influence could hardly be more extensive there; it gets (we get) sniffy when the occasional country there pus
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Well, I certainly don't understand how it got one.
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The Rockefellers and Morgans were brought down? It was a pretty soft landing for them, then.
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Wow! I browsed the book store in the late 1980s. I'm glad to hear that it is still operating.

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