ci5er

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by ci5er 9y ago
> There are many in which half of usually smart people can't simply understand what's the others' position about. > The pattern is that one side considers current practice tedious, steep learning curve for professionals
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by ci5er 9y ago
I am now more than a little embarrassed that this didn't even occur to me...
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by ci5er 9y ago
> I know people who wrote code for their thesis in Python but can't grasp why indentation matters. How can one write code (that runs!) for one's thesis without paying attention to Python's semantically significant whitespa
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by ci5er 9y ago
> uptight social culture of finance Ha! You don't know traders...
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by ci5er 9y ago
You must be older than you look.
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by ci5er 9y ago
But you know, those big knobby things on the sills in the tunnels from the station to the Hyatt Hotel? Those are there to keep people from sleeping there (they weren't there in the 80s when I lived there - and they were added about the
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by ci5er 9y ago
Everything here is hypothetical responding to anecdote. And vice-versa. I have enough life experience to build a rich (and often sorrow-ful) anecdote, but that's all it is. Thank you.
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by ci5er 9y ago
I'm not sure that the Jubilee Bible was best selling.
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by ci5er 9y ago
Having lived in and worked daily with the former for about 15 years from 1985 to 2000, and the latter for a similar period afterwards, I would say: don't bet on it. Culture matters. And China has demographic scale problems that dwarf t
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by ci5er 9y ago
For me, it's understanding which types of parties across the table can and can not do what. Saves a lot of time!
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by ci5er 9y ago
> Really, someone ought to do that for all such scenarios. Agreed. I had a lawyer-gf at one point in my past, and she executed some variant of this on me every time a vacuous proposal left my mouth. Any proposal at all, really. But, I di
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by ci5er 9y ago
And not in coastal California. ..
613.
by ci5er 9y ago
I missed the context of your context switch. It reads as if you are saying that 'we' need to repeal the second so that 'we' can be loaded up and forcibly moved by our societal masters (with little resistance) Is that cor
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by ci5er 9y ago
Yes. Congress-critters try to have their cake and eat it too by punting to the regulators and claiming to the voters it is out of their hands. Dereliction of duty. (Not that I would necessarily like to see the horse-cum-camel design-by-comm
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by ci5er 9y ago
Thanks!
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by ci5er 9y ago
> While those in later years may have had an Apple ][ or TRS-80 while still kids. And unfortunately, those microcomputers fit into all sorts of cultural biases. How so?
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by ci5er 9y ago
> your cohort might not be representative Hmmm. Thank you. I will think on this and do some research on this.
618.
by ci5er 9y ago
It's still obvious to me. Please talk more.
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by ci5er 9y ago
Either your math or investigative skills are impressive. > your experience comes from working with an unusual cohort. How so? I mean - you've got me pegged, but why is it unusual? > that part of those expectations was rooted in i
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by ci5er 9y ago
I do not know. Whenever I called EMTs in Japan, they came and got me. But, that said, I do remember having to get a dead guy out of the way to be able to use the pay phone in west Shinjuku. (Lest you think I am heartless, my first call was
621.
by ci5er 9y ago
It does. I apologize.
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by ci5er 9y ago
That is possibly so. But I never saw the same thing in NYC or Berlin or Paris.
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by ci5er 9y ago
I have the right to permanent residency (by marriage, by work, by children, by investment), but that's not the same as being a citizen. Which is its own thing to go through (I know people who have - but it's tough). By law (althou
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by ci5er 9y ago
> the japanese as just naturally, culturally happy to serve whites What are you talking about? The Japanese are preternaturally polite, but they aren't necessarily any "nice"er than anyone else. And they aren't there
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by ci5er 9y ago
> No older person is benefiting from having to dig through trash for bottles to recycle for nickels. Agreed. But I think we are squandering the wealth of experience that old people can bring to the work-place by essentially aging them
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by ci5er 9y ago
I think that I have seen (tripped over) more dead aging alcoholics in Japan (Shinjuku and Shibuya in particular) than any other country I have ever lived in. I've tried to administer CPR a couple of times, but the Japanese going from p
627.
by ci5er 9y ago
> but we can build a society where old people don't have to work long hours until the day they die Why would we? I note that my father is deteriorating faster now that he does not work. Is it unreasonable to think that work is actua
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by ci5er 9y ago
Is/Can CBOR be canonicalized (like ASN.1, for example) for the purpose of unambiguous generation and interpretation of hashes? EDIT: I am happy to see that it handles date-time. Not really my favorite part of the non-spec of JSON on th
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by ci5er 9y ago
Hmmm. My formative adult years, at the beginning of my career, were spent in Japan, where every female was expected to get married and get out by the age of 28-or-so. I have no opinion or comment on whether that is good or bad for the Jap
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by ci5er 9y ago
You mean a self-describing compact schematized format that's been around for 3 decades? Please promote this as hard as you can. Then, us old guys getting aged-out of industry will be able to get jobs again.

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