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by cafard 9mo ago
I don't get it. Why doesn't the Air Force push the fences farther out, or put up berms to park the planes behind?
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by cafard 9mo ago
I haven't looked, but I imagine that Wikipedia gives a reasonable account of Alcibiades.
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by cafard 9mo ago
> As a third grader, Rubio convinced his family to convert to Mormonism to better fit in with their wholesome new neighbors during a short stint living in Las Vegas. He spent every spare hour of high school obsessing over football, and h
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by cafard 9mo ago
Afford books? I just pulled one from the Little Free Library around the corner. I see that a movie ticket in Silver Spring costs $14. Second Story Books on P St. has outdoor carts with $4 books, so I can get three books and change back for
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by cafard 9mo ago
> (but not English) Well, English has inherited a lot of such families ultimately from Latin: admit, commit, remit, transmit.
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by cafard 9mo ago
The Colorado School of Mines had a "host family" program for foreign students. My father was a geologist, and we lived about five miles from the School of Mines, so we/they acted as host family for students from Italy, Nigeri
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by cafard 10mo ago
Is the category identified by its measurements, or how?
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by cafard 10mo ago
I was a copy editor long ago, and pretty good at it. I have been slightly surprised to make the acquaintance of a couple of people who still do that. One said that the wages aren't great, which was my recollection. But I wouldn't
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by cafard 10mo ago
Real conversations cannot involve one or more persons trying to change another's mind?
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by cafard 10mo ago
New York Replacement Parts is the reason our faucets remain usable, years after the manufacturer went out of business: https://www.nyrpcorp.com .
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by cafard 10mo ago
Would it comfort him to know that when I think of "Tim" in an HN context, I think of Tim Bray?
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by cafard 10mo ago
Sigal published bits of reminiscence in (I think) The Atlantic about forty years ago. These did not include gossip about Lessing or Laing, rather were about making a living as a writer in the UK.
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by cafard 10mo ago
Donald Knuth wrote of Robert Floyd that (Bob used to say that he was planning to get a PhD by the “green stamp method,” namely by saving envelopes addressed to him as “Dr. Floyd.” After collecting 500 such letters, he mused, a universit
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by cafard 10mo ago
Within the last ten years I have worked with lawyers and legal secretaries who were still using WordPerfect. I have to say that I was surprised to learn this.
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by cafard 10mo ago
My apologies for dismissing this a couple of days ago.
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by cafard 10mo ago
My apologies to the guy who first proposed that the shootings were related--I thought that was a real stretch.
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by cafard 10mo ago
It does occur to me that those following the advice should be seated on the aisle, yes.
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by cafard 10mo ago
Is the NHL on a holiday break? This seems like the sort of thing one runs in a dead news cycle.
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by cafard 10mo ago
You should be able to get the Dover edition of The World as Will and Representation from Alibris for not much more than the cost of shipping. Cambridge University Press is or was bringing out a new edition of his works.
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by cafard 10mo ago
Journeys of the Mind by Peter Brown, a memoir of his life, chiefly as a historian of late antiquity. It is very long, the sole reason that I won't be giving it as a Christmas present. The Story of a Life by Konstantin Paukofsky, al
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by cafard 10mo ago
Florence King wrote that "Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors."
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by cafard 10mo ago
During the US's period as hegemon, its influence extended only so far, and was only so often used to oppose tyranny.
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by cafard 10mo ago
Capitalize "Sacks", please.
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by cafard 10mo ago
> In Texas, she said, “There’s no way we would have been able to read the entire thing. It’s [ Enemies: A Love Story ] a beautiful book, but there is an affair in it.” Wow. Wait'll they encounter Genesis, Samuel, Kings, etc.
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by cafard 10mo ago
Educational fads come and go. My brother is five (school) years younger than I am, which was time enough for our school to move from phonics to shape recognition. (His first-grade year will have been 60 years ago in September.) He survived
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by cafard 10mo ago
Props to ggm for finding a tech angle.
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by cafard 10mo ago
I guess that the good news is that Mr. Killinger should have no difficulty in finding one or more attorneys to take his case against the casino.
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by cafard 10mo ago
> Early programming languages followed similar logic: FORTRAN (Formula Translation), COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language), BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), SQL (Structured Query Language), I believe Lisp sta
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by cafard 10mo ago
While getting lunch at an Amazon tech day a couple of years ago, I overheard somebody talking about how easy it was to place somebody with a clearance and AWS certifications. Now, this was Washington, DC, but I doubt it's the only area
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by cafard 10mo ago
For about ten years I worked for composition shops, and eventually for a maker of typesetting systems. Through blurred eyes I could tell TNR from Baskerville from Garamond from Janson from ... Some of these fonts I can still identify. But I

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