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by cafard 2y ago
Not just "European", Western European. A whole lot of people read and write with the Cyrillic alphabet.
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by cafard 2y ago
My suggestion, as a developer in his upper 60s: program.
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by cafard 2y ago
One hopes that they will be let out of the area now and then to get a sense of how the country is doing and thinking.
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by cafard 2y ago
It must have been pretty bad. I should say that when I knew him, he walked with no obvious limp.
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by cafard 2y ago
I am old enough to remember when the central library in a city had reasonably current telephone books for every city from New York to Los Angeles. Now, this didn't have age and voting history, but it had telephone number and address. A
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by cafard 2y ago
The military has worried about lean mass loss in intense training--ranger training, SEAL training, etc. At one point, the National Academy of Sciences did a book on this, of which I recall only the words "exercise-induced anorexia.&quo
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by cafard 2y ago
A kid I knew in high school was knocked off his bike by an ambulance. He'd have come out of the incident better if the ambulance hadn't backed up to see what happened, for it backed over his legs. The city settled with him for wha
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by cafard 2y ago
For those interested: https://woerterbuchnetz.de/?sigle=DWB&lemid=A00001
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by cafard 2y ago
>> And this was accompanied by skyrocketing divorce rates: married couples with children made up 40 per cent of households in 1970, but only a quarter in 1990. The proportion of households with children would be interesting to know: t
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by cafard 2y ago
Our house was built in 1931, when they didn't pay attention to that sort of thing. The District has long since replaced the mains, and now household can get the pipes replaced at the city's cost. People do tend to stay in air cond
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by cafard 2y ago
The inside of your mouth?
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by cafard 2y ago
For those who can find it, Robert Graves's essay "Lars Porsena, Or the Future of Swearing" is worth a look. I think the collection that included it was Occupation, Writer .
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by cafard 2y ago
It may well be on HN that I read so-and-so's rule: It doesn't matter what the users say they want, they want Excel. Gratitude and an upvote to the person who can attach a name and citation to the rule.
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by cafard 2y ago
I should say, the speed of tabulation. An American election can include ballot lines for president, senator, member of congress, state senator, three state representatives, a county councilmember or two, a member of the board of education e
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by cafard 2y ago
I don't think that this is the most pure running format. I don't know what that would be, never having aimed at purity in running--maybe it's kids playing tag. Financially, though, this doesn't sound that bad. One must g
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by cafard 2y ago
From Wikipedia's entry on George Santos: "Santos ran as a Republican for the United States House of Representatives in New York's 3rd congressional district, against Democratic incumbent Tom Suozzi, launching his campaign in
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by cafard 2y ago
They have? I spent $30 on candy and took an hour out carve a pumpkin (badly) all for nothing? Was the M.O. anything like the Grinch's?
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by cafard 2y ago
As one of the boomer generation, I would be fascinated to hear how we ruined college.
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by cafard 2y ago
I remember the books as a staple of pediatricians' waiting rooms, and we had some at home, too. Scarry also published a book on how to draw things--cars, I recall, I suppose people and animals.
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by cafard 2y ago
Per capita, Wyoming does pretty well, I see. Wikipedia says that mining and tourism are the biggest components of the economy. Of course, whatever the bring in is reckoned against a pretty small population.
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by cafard 2y ago
To be fair, Tolstoy made it to 80 and a bit. And Hemingway did not drink himself to death, though I suppose he could have, given the time--but he used a shotgun. I should say that a fair number of respected writers lived long and perhaps ha
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by cafard 2y ago
Most of my tee shirts are washed most weeks--at a guess five out of six weeks. Now that I no longer hang them on hooks overnight, they really don't wear out. I have to think that the go at least 200 wash cycles. My wife will grumble if
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by cafard 2y ago
A college friend, about 5'2", married a guy 6'2" or 6'3". He had enough money that they had a house built, and the architect or builder put in a room just for her, where nobody over 5'6" or so could s
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by cafard 2y ago
I would point out that George Washington had little formal education, and John D. Rockefeller had little past high school. Dan Rather I can't be bothered looking up.
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by cafard 2y ago
This has not been uncommon in the US. A smaller military may have made it less common, guess. Nor is it particularly new. In Henry IV, Part 1, Shakespeare has Falstaff say of his troops "Nay, and the Villaines march wide betwixt the Le
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by cafard 2y ago
A crying baby is not misbehaving. A crying baby is wet, hungry, tired, or sick. If the child is sick, the parents don't really have a lot of thought to spare on the bystanders. (Or anyway I didn't. I'm sorry if you resented t
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by cafard 2y ago
Not John Hanson?
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by cafard 2y ago
I took a programming languages course from a professor what written a book on SNOBOL. It was out of print, so he distributed photocopies. I didn't see much point in it, but when I encountered Perl a bit later, it did help.
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by cafard 2y ago
Seriously, Oracle 7.3.4 in 2013? I am impressed.
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by cafard 2y ago
Back in the day when I ran a lot, and got hangovers from time to time, I found that a hard four-mile run would break a hangover. I would not smell good at the end of the run, and I would still be tired, but I would feel a lot better. Now I

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