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by davidgay 10y ago
You must live in some imaginary world where bacteria and viruses respond to your will and refuse to infect you. And of course, if you happen to be asthmatic, it's all psychological, and you get to decide, eg, whether that cigarette smo
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by davidgay 10y ago
I haven't got "unlucky" on an international BA flight in 15+ years. So no, it doesn't just depend on the plane.
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by davidgay 10y ago
I grew up in a small village in Switzerland (Chancy, near Geneva) which also had a bad construction scandal in the (early) 70s: the village had outgrown it's "let's run the elementary school from the church in two rooms"
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by davidgay 10y ago
Also, stories like that are always a good reminder of the pitfalls of "jury nullification"...
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by davidgay 10y ago
The idea that the US is weak and needs to increase its military budget to achieve "Peace through Strength" is laughable. The US's military budget is already nearly 3x higher than the next highest country ( https://e
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by davidgay 10y ago
To be fair, SF is far closer to and more practical for good skiing than London or NYC. And yes, living in the Bay Area, I miss (from Switzerland) skiing being an hour's drive away. It's all relative...
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by davidgay 10y ago
There's some single-lane Swiss mountain roads, with occasional passing spots. There's a specific rule in the Swiss driving code that the car going up has priority, so the car driving down gets to reverse to the closest passing spo
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by davidgay 10y ago
> All around the country you can see regulated rates that are too low and drive out investment. A great example is water utilities. Almost everywhere, water rates are far lower than they should be, and as a result water infrastructure is
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by davidgay 10y ago
> where the social security system doesn't have the facade of being a contributory system and is funded entirely out of general tax revenue So I'm curious: can you move to Australia at 64, work for one year, retire, and receive
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by davidgay 10y ago
> 'second-hand smoke' is one of those invented public-health externalities The immediate effects of second-hand smoke on asthmatics are not exactly invented, nor, alas, hard to notice.
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by davidgay 10y ago
> yet it was America that reached Berlin first, resulting in Nazi surrender. Um, no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin
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by davidgay 10y ago
Dropped articles is a good indicator of (most) Slavic language speakers, but not of most European languages. E.g., French would not have dropped those definite articles either. Definite article rules do vary a little bit, though, so extra d
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by davidgay 10y ago
Counterexample: Switzerland, where it is also the same few people (my mother has daily caregivers), and the economy is doing fine.
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by davidgay 10y ago
I like LLVM. But in the world of programming languages/compilers, someone like Xavier Leroy (a real, proved correct C compiler) is much more a name that I would associate with a drive for "software correctness and reliability&quot
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by davidgay 10y ago
Conveniently, if you started with a Dragon 32/TRS 80 Color keyboard (and presumably some others of that time?), the symbols above number N was ASCII symbol 0x2N: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/
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by davidgay 10y ago
My handwavy evaluation of the data says that 3% are "people whose parents moved in with them" - this is based on the "Annual Income" graph which basically bottoms out at 3%. And it's consistent with the Age graph, w
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by davidgay 10y ago
Isn't a normal class room in which you take tests while required to be silent and with an instructor/TA/proctor keeping en eye on you very much akin to spying on people? (using people rather than tech, but why is that distinc
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by davidgay 10y ago
> As Assar Lindbeck put it, "next to bombing, rent control seems in many cases to be the most efficient technique so far known for destroying cities." Doesn't seem to have had much success in destroying Swiss cities. Maybe
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by davidgay 10y ago
> > We're in the middle of the longest stretch of world peace in history... > But what is the status of military expenses? Looks like they've been at historically-low levels for the last 15 years: http://data.w
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by davidgay 10y ago
They didn't start by writing their tools for Linux, as all of these companies were founded in the eighties and started writing their software before Linux even existed... And Mentor Graphics initially ran on Apollo machines, which were
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by davidgay 10y ago
Yes.
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by davidgay 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy#Optical_telegraph
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by davidgay 10y ago
SBB/CFF/FFS is the government-owned national railway company, not some mysterious fly-by-night operation.
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by davidgay 10y ago
The thing that confuses me about AirBnB "vetting" is that I used VRBO for many years without any sign of vetting required. It was only on my first AirBnB that I had to fill in a "profile", explain why I was a "good&
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by davidgay 10y ago
Compared to the subject under discussion, their lot is not so bad: "After seven savage laps, those who managed not to be upended or killed, ..."
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by davidgay 10y ago
I can't quite resist: https://www.google.com/?ion=1&espv=2#q=aryan (this is of course irrelevant to 21st century usage)
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by davidgay 10y ago
Not the OP, but as someone born in Britain, raised in Switzerland and now living in the US, I concur. At least in my case think of it as my identity being some mix of Europe-in-general, Britain-somewhat, Switzerland-somewhat. Now Britain sa
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by davidgay 10y ago
Au secours! J'ai compris une-et-demi de ces réponses. Време ли е за Физз-Бузз?
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by davidgay 10y ago
Not sure about the article, but you wouldn't have demonstrated a good mastery of French (the question wasn't in the negative).
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by davidgay 10y ago
> What's the benefit to these companies of having interns? Think of it as a long-term interview and/or cheap test-hire.

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