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by cafard 3y ago
Well, the first American settlers in Utah were predominately Mormon.
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by cafard 3y ago
Wasn't the Incan empire highly organized?
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by cafard 3y ago
Expensive, maybe, but I see child-care groups in downtown Washington, DC, fairly regularly--three-year-olds with a hand on a rope, grownups in front and back. I could walk in fifteen minutes past two day-care centers.
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by cafard 3y ago
In the 1950s or 1960s, the American journalist Steward Alsop printed the name of the head of the British MI-5 (or maybe MI-6). He told someone that the man (Menzies) was somewhat placated because Alsop had referred to him as "legendary
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by cafard 3y ago
Did you perhaps miss an element of irony? I know parents who have sent their kids to Latin charter schools, I know parents who send their kids to learn Hebrew. But I haven't so far met any who sent a child to China to help someone qual
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by cafard 3y ago
That was the complaint about Waze from residents of formerly quiet streets.
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by cafard 3y ago
No. Perhaps gambling should be legal, but state lotteries are a regressive form of taxation.
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by cafard 3y ago
But the swim team practices at 6 am, the football practice runs until 5 pm, and band kids have to be back at school at 6:30 for a 7:30 concert.
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by cafard 3y ago
I held a number of low-paid jobs while in high school and college. I can't say that dealing with cooking grease was enjoyable, but in no case can I say that the working conditions were abusive.
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by cafard 3y ago
In my brief time at McDonald's, I was paid the then minimum wage, $1.60 per hour. That summer, $1.60 would buy a bit more than five gallons of gas. By that measure, $20 per hour in California is about keeping up with inflation. On the
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by cafard 3y ago
There was some old Irish American song I heard that included the lines "Some think it a misfortune to be christened Pat or Dan/But to me it is an honor to be called an Irishman." I suppose that Daniel O'Connell's fa
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by cafard 3y ago
Well, that or own the company.
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by cafard 3y ago
Where was this? In Maryland they would break, a lot, but I never heard of them exploding. I don't think the people in our development loved them. Certainly I had seen a few too many across somebody's lawn or walk.
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by cafard 3y ago
A cousin, a very good guitarist, once said, People complain about punk rock, but the Beatles weren't exactly Stravinsky. He was talking about the tunes ("This is the third three-chord song in a row."). But he could have said,
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by cafard 3y ago
> The left doesn't bat an eye on how unionizing is illegal in China. It is hard to say what counts as left in America. Apart from a few real old-timey nostalgists, I don't think that people look to China as providing a model th
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by cafard 3y ago
a. Who perceives Japan as backwards? b. Every Fourth of July we shoot off fireworks to remember the toppling of the institutions of colonization.
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by cafard 3y ago
During my brief employment at McDonald's, I got the minimum wage, $1.60/hour. That was about the price of five gallons of gasoline then. Five gallons of gasoline in LA now seem to cost about $17, so they are a bit ahead of inflati
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by cafard 3y ago
How is it that the hard stuff all seems to involve programming, but in 2 and 3 the smart stuff is marketing? Also, it is very possible to work hard without wasting effort on reinventing the wheel.
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by cafard 3y ago
Twitter used to be the main source of email in the "Social" folder of my home Gmail. I don't think I've received a Twitter email for a year or so now.
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by cafard 3y ago
Only the higher elevations in the PNW get snow, and I don't know how much salt the highway departments use. My wife said that when she moved from upstate New York to San Francisco, the first mechanic she took her car to asked whether s
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by cafard 3y ago
There used to be churches, indeed. I can look over my screen and see one about thirty yards away. Apart from churches, there are quite a few community events and activities I can think of that could draw on the unattached: tree plantings, p
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by cafard 3y ago
The Potomac River is pretty shallow where the Key Bridge crosses between the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, and Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia. The largest facilities upstream of it are boathouses, where one
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by cafard 3y ago
Turnabout is fair play: climate change is out to erase Florida.
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by cafard 3y ago
Years ago for a users group I reviewed Database Design for Mere Mortals . My recollection is that the author spent two or three pages almost but not quite defining a) normalization, b) Boyce-Codd Normal Form. There is a place for five-syll
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My son and his best friend in elementary school really liked this game.
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I found it very handy.
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I don't claim to have much more context. But in my college days, I decided that there was an effect, which I thought of as foreshortening. Professors remembering their own college days naturally remember their peer group, which is to s
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by cafard 3y ago
One name I don't see here is "Heidegger". I remember hearing years ago that Tillich drew heavily on Heidegger, sometimes with little more alteration than swapping in "God" for "ground of being". Perhaps so
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by cafard 3y ago
Ah, those tech-illiterate boomers. Steve Wozniak, b. 1950 Guy L. Steele, b. 1954 Guido Van Rossum, b. 1956 Anders Hejlsberg, b. 1960 (Am I an old, bitter, Boomer? Guilty on all counts, but pleading diminished responsibility on two.)
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by cafard 3y ago
He knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness' sake!

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