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by cafard 1y ago
I think you're right. I'll check when I get home this evening.
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For the wait staff, cash has the great advantage that it is up to the staff to report tips to the IRS. For everyone else? I do carry cash, and probably use cash more than someone younger would, but for restaurant bills beyond the burger and
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by cafard 1y ago
How many of those who couldn't read knew the history of their or other languages?
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by cafard 1y ago
Up to a point, Lord Copper. [ Scoop , by Evelyn Waugh]
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HN seems to be out to disprove the assertion that there are two types.
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Not particularly.
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A while back, our neighborhood book club read Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow . One of the members said that she couldn't stand the jumping around in the narrative sequence of the book. It hadn't bothered me, and it was only l
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It should be possible without too much searching to find the Onion headline "Radio Shack CEO Admits He Has No Idea What the Hell His Business Model Is." Interesting that it should have lasted so long in Maryland, and that the last
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"Continuously learning new things helps keep you, well, maybe not young, but maybe not aging as fast." This is in response to the question, "What led you to start teaching at Princeton, and why did you decide to stay?" S
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It has been years since I read Lolita, but I don't think that one comes away from it with any insights into the mind of the pedophile. It was pretty clear in reading it that it was a grim story underneath, something intermittently ment
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by cafard 1y ago
You must remember that Softbank funded WeWork. Also, > while tutoring for cash, working in a convenience store and other side hustles We used to call them part-time jobs, not side hustles.
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Runners would try to treat joint pain with DMSO back in the 1980s. It did not sound like something I wished to try.
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One Friday at a non-tech job there were no paychecks at lunchtime. They did come through later in the day, but needless to say this was not a confidence-builder. A friend got stiffed at a tech job, a government contractor, I think. I'm
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""" In addition to Lem, Dick named three other sci-fi figures associated with him as in on the plot – Peter Fitting, Fredric Jameson and Franz Rottensteiner (also Lem’s literary agent in the West). """ I'v
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A sometime co-worker had on display in her office a list of "Molly-isms" (name redacted) assembled by those who worked closely with her. I did not particularly, and don't recall them. A woman I worked with long ago was trying
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by cafard 2y ago
Paul Fussell (I think) said that one should read Waugh's letters rather than his diaries: he wrote the letters in the morning, sober, and wrote the diaries at night, drunk.
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Having worked for a government contractor, I decided that the government was using the Charlie Sheen principle: not paying them to come around, but paying them to go away. I have no idea what they billed us for to the government, but I doub
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by cafard 2y ago
Didn't a lot of economies slow down in the later 1960s, after the economic damage of WW II was repaired?
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During most of my single days, I didn't have to pretend to be poor as fuck. On the other hand, I didn't really need to impress my father.
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Not in my experience. I have a few feet of books that I bought at Carpe Librum in Washington, DC. But the odds one one finding something there are lower than at Second Story Books or Lost City Books, the two nearest used book stores.
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by cafard 2y ago
I'd have said either "kind of everybody" or "a lot of us". HNers tend to be younger, I think, but I remember newspapers handling the McMartin Day Care case pretty badly. And how about the leadup to Gulf War II?
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I didn't think info was at all bad. But the boss who had responded 'uh-hu' to a demo of documentation in Linux, responded 'Wow!' to the same document converted to HTML and displayed in Mosaic. These days, I suppose
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by cafard 2y ago
ca. 1990, somebody quoted West as saying "people want to get their MIPS from gun-gray boxes running UNIX.
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I took up running in 1978. I don't run as often, let alone as far, as I did 40 years ago, but I still enjoy it. As the parent comment says, it's quick and easy to lace on the shoes.
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Thomas Watson, Jr.'s A Business and Its Beliefs was published in 1963 and makes no allusion to the S/360 work. It makes for curious reading today, for unrelated reasons.
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Not a sign I ever expected to see. I heartily endorse the sentiment, though.
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A sometime co-worker said that the book was required reading in the Virginia high schools of his day (class of 1972?). Taking it lightly was regarded as disrespect, and could get one ordered out of the classroom. He got to leave early a num
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by cafard 2y ago
Find a major metropolitan newspaper from 1990. Print would be best, so that you can feel the heft. Now compare it to the same newspaper (if it exists) today. Print advertising did not become illegal, just uneconomical. Now consider what hap
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I had always supposed that one was supposed to recognize a borrowing from Allen Ginsberg's "Howl": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl (Not that I'd automatically accept Ginsberg&
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Fifty years ago, one heard that Colfax Avenue was the longest street in the US, or maybe the world. I got a lot of exercise in my Denver days, some of it running or hiking, but I also spent a lot of time in cars.

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