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by cafard 1y ago
Are you missing context perhaps? How much do you know about the late Hapsburg empire, or German thought in the early 20th Century. (I don't claim to know that much, but enough to make sense of some the book that I couldn't otherwi
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by cafard 1y ago
That is odd.
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by cafard 1y ago
Clearly a remarkable guy.
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Not that long ago, I noticed https://ploum.net/2024-12-23-julius-en.html on HN.
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by cafard 1y ago
Even during wars, people die of natural causes.
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by cafard 1y ago
Haven't they? Allegations from the Vietnam war affected Bob Kerrey's political ambitions many years later, as I recall. The US does bring people to trial, now and then, but may come away with misdemeanor convictions.
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by cafard 1y ago
Very sweet.
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by cafard 1y ago
Weather.
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by cafard 1y ago
I learned Snobol in school. It came in handy when I later encountered awk and then Perl.
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by cafard 1y ago
I have tried teaching adult literacy, and can only say that it isn't easy. I learned on phonics, I used phonics in the teaching, but phonics isn't magic.
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by cafard 1y ago
Xenophon mentions archers and slingers in the Anabasis.
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by cafard 1y ago
It seems to me that at Agincourt the archers place obstacles in front of their position--sharpened stakes. That would have provided some protection against a cavalry
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by cafard 1y ago
I have heard of Canadians making the same mistake.
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by cafard 1y ago
In an ESL class I was teaching, a student (Congolese) suggested a dictée exercise. That such an exercise exists suggests to me that French orthography isn't wholly regular.
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by cafard 1y ago
A curious slip of arithmetic here: Lincoln's four score and seven years counted back to the Declaration of Independence--which is what the article begins with-- not to the Constitution.
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by cafard 1y ago
You've Got Mail?
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by cafard 1y ago
And there are people who love to use the term RINO who belong to what is essentially a re-badged Dixiecrat Party. Trent Lott, at the time head of the Republican Senate caucus badly embarrassed himself by letting people hear him say that Str
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by cafard 1y ago
For how many years was the United States engaged in a declared war, and for how many other years did its military engage in substantial operations?
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by cafard 1y ago
Until about Mondale, VPs were seldom given much to do. Yes, Nixon made a handy bad cop to Eisenhower's good cop. But without going to a reference, I can't name an VP who didn't succeed to the presidency between George Clinton
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by cafard 1y ago
I am acquainted with exactly one Cybertruck owner, and he is a contractor, I think semi-retired. I imagine that he thought there was some utility to it.
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by cafard 1y ago
> At its best, a truck celebrates work-life balance. It is the vehicle of skilled labor. That’s what drives so many truck owners: building and strengthening communities, creating legacies, forging connections. That’s why we spend hours t
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by cafard 1y ago
Seriously? > ("I was told privately" is as good as "This was revealed to me in a dream") Unless text search has let me down, the string "I was told privately" appears nowhere else in the article, which leads
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by cafard 1y ago
> Most of the people doing this work are just surprisingly bad at it, especially for how much they charge for it. A friend quotes a sometime co-worker of his: This is C+ world, and if you can do a solid B- you won't starve.
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by cafard 1y ago
I'm on the mailing list for a couple of bookstores, so I knew. I bought something on Independent Bookstore Eve, but not on the day.
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Would James's earnings have kept him going without inherited wealth?
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by cafard 1y ago
I just checked my copy of Operating Systems: Design and Implementation , copyright 1987, and find that I was wrong: it does not have a raccoon on the cover. This is of course not to say that you are wrong--you may have had a different edit
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by cafard 1y ago
Do you know the expression "Speaking to Buncombe"? If not, it might be worth looking up. Also, do you know anyone who watches Congress on C-SPAN? I live in Washington, DC, which is full of the politically obsessed--there are at le
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by cafard 1y ago
In the 1970s, I unlocked the door on what I took to be the family VW Rabbit and got behind the wheel. It turned out that the ignition lock was fussier than the door lock, and I discovered my mistake without driving away.
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Twenty years ago, I supervised a beginner in an office parking lot that was generally empty on Saturdays. But you're right, we haven't had a car with a manual transmission in a dozen years now.
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by cafard 1y ago
Louis XIV had a notably insecure childhood, with portions of the nobility were in open rebellion. When he came of age, he set about to make damn sure that they were under his thumb. But the parallel seems lacking to me: Musk and Zuckerman c

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