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by cafard 2y ago
Denver is walkable? I'd have called it "sprawling".
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Since there are some Great Lakes people commenting here, I will mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Manry . Going on 60 years ago, I read Manry's account of his solo trans-Atlantic trip.
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Thank you!
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So many Dijkstra links amount to "Dijkstra on the [pejorative noun] of [whatever was bothering Dijkstra]." I promise to upvote the next Dijkstra link that I see that does not present him as Ambrose Bierce with a computer.
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No, when I am discussing military actions, I write postcards instead. But please note that I use Pig Latin for extra security.
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Something around 75 years ago, the journalist Jimmy Cannon said that if he had a son who wished to become a boxer, he would tell him to become a burglar instead. It is a damaging trade, very few boxers make real money, and even fewer hang o
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Do you count newspapers among news orgs?
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The US was fairly steadily at war against the native tribes for the first hundred some years of its existence. Except to the extent that the War of 1812 comprised part of the war with Tecumseh's loose confederacy, none of those wars we
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Usually, I'm looking for a book, actually. I prefer to buy locally, with cash. The beginning of the essay at https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-forums says something about browsing, and why I'd rather do
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That must have been a great comfort to the Russians, Tsar down to the peasantry. [Added, less flippant] An army requires officers, and it is fair to guess that the Russian army had a reasonable complement of intellectually capable officers.
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Odd to say that the Russians weren't any good, considering the devastating casualties they inflicted (mostly on the Hapsburg forces) and suffered during WW I, and the mass slaughter of WW II. How did the Marne stack up against Stalingr
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Many years ago, the National Lampoon guys brought out some magazine parodies. I think that it was the Newsweek take off that recast the Soloflex ad as Cruciflex, with the motto: No pain, no gain. But then you discovered it was the pain you
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A neighbor, who I don't think runs much if at all, was greatly taken with the book, and asked me about the minimal shoes. I told her that in my prime running days I usually weighed half again what she has ever weighed when not pregnant
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My impression is that most women strike well forward on the foot, no matter what shoes they wear.
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I use cash for small purchases probably five days a week--lunches, small stuff from the store, sometimes books. I am certainly not cheating on my taxes with by spending cash. I don't see how the vendors are by accepting it, given that
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I guess that one would have to know what "comfortably" means and what sort of texts. At the speed of English? Caesar or Tacitus? The essayist Sydney Smith, himself an Anglican clergyman, said something teasing about "false qu
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But I should say that my mother-in-law did make dandelion salad now and then, with bacon-and-egg dressing, the bacon cooked but the eggs raw.
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The good news is that the farmers have an economic interest in not following his advice. If RFK Jr. came up with a reason that farmers should burn down their cornfields, would they do that?
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I can say that in the early 1960s, the understanding was that dandelions were weeds, clover was just clover. Or maybe that was just the understanding in Ohio. My wife grew up in Pennsylvania and doesn't like clover.
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Did his Ask mention child support?
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Campaign ad? The next federal elections are 20 months out.
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"nor shall any person ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" is in the Fifth Amendment.
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Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42930528
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I didn't think of cheeseburgers when I heard Stairway to Heaven. (Past, because I haven't heard it in a while.)
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Last year I discovered that a new router from our ISP was issuing one-hour DHCP leases, which would frequently bump me out. It occurred to me to wonder whether this was a standard setting for coffee shops.
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Ballmer has a background in working for a software company. Did he ever actually work in software as such?
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Well, more generally to HN readers.
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Not only hand, but force, violence, etc.: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...
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GitHub absolutely can be used without pull requests. I don't say that this is a good idea.
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Isn't the current federal leadership the federal leadership of March 2020, minus a few grownups?

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