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by cafard 2y ago
Didn't George Carlin say that everyone who drove faster than one was a maniac and everyone slower was a moron?
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by cafard 2y ago
"I believe the insistence on blurbs has become incredibly damaging to what should be our industry’s ultimate goal: producing books of the highest possible quality." Certainly that should be the industry's ultimate goal. One m
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by cafard 2y ago
Washington, DC, has had "supercans" for about forty years. But it still has rats, though I suppose many fewer than it might.
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by cafard 2y ago
I am enchanted by the expression "a mere 9,000 lines of code."
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by cafard 2y ago
Yes, once the colonies the other side of the Atlantic were no longer available for the purpose.
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by cafard 2y ago
"Elon Musk, who is leading the Department of Government Efficiency and has been working out of SpaceX’s Washington office, has reportedly also been seeking to invest in a DC property, prompting a backlash from locals in the city’s Adam
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by cafard 2y ago
Now I just have to imagine a Trump supporter who trusts The Washington Post. It was not always easy to find a Bush 41 supporter who trusted it.
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by cafard 2y ago
Some years ago, I decided that if I could read the headline and the byline and then at least summarize the column, there was no point in reading an opinion piece. This has saved a good deal of time and stress.
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by cafard 2y ago
As a subscriber to the (print) Post and steady reader, the decision not to endorse struck me as bizarrely coy. Day after day the A section was full of news articles that more or less labeled Donald Trump a fool, liar, and dangerous man. Yes
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by cafard 2y ago
Posted in October 2023, 26 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37894676
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by cafard 2y ago
"Bloomsbury wishes to sell to us at the customary discount if offers to other wholesalers, and which covers their costs and then a bit more. We however, want a larger discount, because we are Amazon. If that leaves nothing for Bloomsbu
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by cafard 2y ago
Are there volunteer activities that you could take part in? Are there (natural) languages you'd be interested in learning? Are there sports that you enjoy? I know of a group in my city (Washington, DC) that meets for Saturday morning r
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by cafard 2y ago
Amen to the can opener. Our very old one is is vastly better than anything in the stores.
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by cafard 2y ago
All I can say is the John Williams's Stoner would have handed back the essay covered in red ink. For that matter, so would have John Williams himself.
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by cafard 2y ago
Steve Jobs should have offered to rename it to Zimmerman. I never heard of Dylan Thomas's estate threatening legal action against Bob Dylan.
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by cafard 2y ago
The group Turning the Page operates pop-up Carpe Librum stores in space provided by the owners of commercial properties in Washington, DC. In some cases, a building is scheduled for demolition and replacement--the store at 17th between K an
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by cafard 2y ago
Duplicate: 2 days ago, 319 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37479472 last year, 247 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37479472
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by cafard 2y ago
Henry Ford was a real piece of work for a good while. I'm not sure how much it would have affected his sales--not that he was selling to the upper end of the market.
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by cafard 2y ago
The Maryland DMV used to be quite efficient. Once, having mislaid my driver's license (at my mother-in-law's, 100 miles away), I drove to the Wheaton DMV, and was out within 20 minutes with a new license. This was about two years
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by cafard 2y ago
I don't want to see employees running in the direction of hot fat, thanks.
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by cafard 2y ago
American publishers tend to give one a choice: hardbacks, more expensive, clumsier, but made for heavy duty; paperbacks, less expensive, handier, but not holding up as well under wear. And in general the first year of publication one can bu
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by cafard 2y ago
Car bombs, and moving car bombs have been around since the 1960s and before.
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by cafard 2y ago
> when celestial navigation is all but impossible without advanced, expensive equipment (i.e., a bubble sextant). Compared to what the Navy usually steers by, how advanced and expensive are bubble sextants?
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by cafard 2y ago
What do they say about this at Gawker?
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by cafard 2y ago
I saw it on TV shortly before I started college. My first quarter, I took a class in Fortran IV, and often found the mainframe down when I wished to submit a job for a project. About then, I started wondering about the premise.
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by cafard 2y ago
In my teenage years I worked as a busboy, and part of my wage was a share of the wait staff's tips. I also worked McDonald's, including the register, and it never occurred to me that anyone would ever tip me there. (Not that at 20
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by cafard 2y ago
Yes, and the nice touch of situating Euphoria State University in the city of Plotinus.
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by cafard 2y ago
Yes, and not just at public universities.
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by cafard 2y ago
Years ago we were in Bologna. The ragu was splendid, but I would wake up in the middle of the night feeling absolutely parched. If it wasn't a lot of salt, I don't know what it would have been.
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by cafard 2y ago
e/acc? I hit four or five--the mattress and the 3+ housemates among them. But then I live on the East Coast.

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