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That cold calls are typically IVR removes any residual embarrassment over just hanging up.
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AA?
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4/ For a moment, I thought that the corn dogs and wine from a plastic cup were specifically tied to opera. I suppose that the Met doesn't use good crystal at the concession stands. 3/ Yes, high school productions. Listen to s
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I'd have thought first of the Schleswig-Holstein question.
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This fall, I read a (fairly new) translation of The Eudemian Ethics by Anthony Kenny, in the Oxford World Classics series. It is handy (fits in a coat pocket, depending on your coat), with a useful introduction and notes.
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In "The Perfect Critic", T.S. Eliot wrote that "Aristotle is a person who has suffered from the adherence of persons who must be regarded less as his disciples than as his votaries. One must be firmly distrustful of accepting
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>> Mine is an estimably materialist variety of mysticism though, Esteemed by whom?
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Will the last tree be cut? New England has much more three cover than it has a couple hundred years ago.
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a. How much tax evasion is carried on by cash payments? Certainly they aren't the only way people avoid paying taxes, and I would think that restricting oneself of bills, however high the denomination, would restrict one's scope.
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McCarthy's activities did nothing in particular to improve the security of the US government, and retrospectively tarnished earlier investigations. But there certainly were Russian spies active in the US government earlier on, and sinc
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The word "suburbs" appears in Julius Caesar , Act II, Scene 1.
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I may have a copy of the proceedings from ca. 1982. At the time I was a copy editor, and knew somebody who ran the copy editing for AFIPS and gave me some work. I had thought that the owning societies pulled the plug on the National Compute
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All I could make of it was Elizabeth, New Jersey--a fine place, I'm sure, but not one I often hear of on HN.
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If it's fifty years of feminization, and seniors 22 years ago had mustaches and were smoking cigarettes, just think what us knuckle-draggers were doing in the class of 1973. (Only a few guys smoked cigarettes, and apart from one beard-
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Good luck with that. We got nails in tires a couple of times when a Metro line was going in along one of our commuting routes. Really, all it takes for one carpenter to bend a nail, pull it out, and toss it over his shoulder.
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The Computer from Pascal to Von Neumann by Herman Goldstine.
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We decided to look for a new primary care doctor in Washington. I was amazed when I read my wife's email to the effect that our physicals were booked for 11/25. Then I understood that this was next year, not next week.
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There is a joke going back at least fifty years, to the effect that dermatology is the ideal job: the patients never recover from their conditions and never die of them.
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The Zulus won a pitched battle or two, but lost the war.
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Seriously? From whom do I buy a computer or a car or a refrigertor?
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Ask HN: Where should I look to get a domain?
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I was thinking that yesterday afternoon in dealing with some Python, but then found that import asyncio import something_else ... asyncio.run(something_else.that_runs_asynchronously(x, z, z)) took care of this.
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Not single, but I seem to know a certain number of the young (under 30, or anyway 50) who have paired up somehow. Did they meet in "real life", i.e. without the help of social media? I don't know. But when the results include
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Biden's White House staff took only their usual salaries, and were in my view far more effective in electing Trump than Musk, Vance, etc.
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Citibank ATMs will happily give you $100 bills if you don't specify otherwise. I prefer $20s, as less inconvenient for the store clerks.
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I routinely see kids catching the city bus to school unaccompanied by adults, and now and then I see them walking on their own. My main concern in this area would be the drivers, who drive negligently, and often too fast.
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Well, Maryland is indeed south of the Mason-Dixon line, but Montgomery County is pretty generic mid-Atlantic suburban, and the first "free range kids" story I remember hearing was from Silver Spring.
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Ok, but who acquired the land for them?
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Why does this notion persist? Water Pater wrote a famous essay on the painting in 1869. My impression is that it made a pretty big splash in the English-speaking world, at least: much later, W.B. Yeats used a sentence from the essay in his
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We went to one parents' weekend, during our son's freshman year. It was not an especially exciting time, and really all I remember of it was a bit of a football game. I assume that we consumed alcohol, but moderately. I did not se

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