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by dctoedt 3y ago
"Computer, computer, make me a font | find me a glyph | catch me an X-height" (I'll show myself out.)
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Cf. the Shakers, who practiced celibacy — and, no surprise, have essentially died out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers
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by dctoedt 3y ago
My biggest surprise in our first post-pandemic trip to NYC a few months ago was the frequent "aroma" of weed on the streets; I don't remember that having been the case in the Before Times.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Funny, for years (apart from pandemic years) we've been going to Manhattan once or twice a year for museums and shows; we've never had problems with bedbugs or "filth."
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> I think you’ll find that for the most part beliefs that are present across religions are pro-adaptive in the economic and technological contexts in which they arise. True! But we have to remain open to the possibility that any such b
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Times have changed ... I wrote my PhD in TeX. Not LaTeX ... that hadn't been invented. Brings to mind when I first learned TOPS-20 Emacs in law school (long story), circa 1980-81: A few of the CS grad students tolerantly looked
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by dctoedt 3y ago
You sound like Gul Madred to Jean-Luc Picard: "There are five lights." No, I'm not a socialist. Some socialist ideas are unrealistic in view of human nature. That doesn't mean all their ideas are bad.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
For some U.S. tales, e.g., the challenges of digitizing California's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) sign-up process, see the excellent Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka, former deputy CTO of the United States and
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Do you exist because he had an ejection seat? No, I was a little tyke at the time. (The story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33348425 )
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Brought back memories of my dad's "induction" into the Caterpillar Club in 1962. When we cleaned out and sold my folks' house, I took a picture of his framed membership certificate; he often wore the lapel pin on civilia
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by dctoedt 3y ago
That phrase, "utter lack of evidence": I do not think it means what you think it means. I'm done trying to argue with you — you clearly see only what you want to see. And nice try with the "some unrelated contemporary po
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by dctoedt 3y ago
"Utter lack of evidence"? You sound like Texas's far-right Senate Republicans who this past weekend acquitted state AG Dan Paxton in his impeachment trial for bribery and other offenses, on grounds of a supposed lack of evide
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by dctoedt 3y ago
That's it, keep moving the goalposts .... BTW, did you also overlook the part about Switzerland requiring military training and service for (essentially) all able-bodied men in a certain age range? Whereas in the U.S., pretty much any
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by dctoedt 3y ago
From the Swiss government Web page I linked: Banned weapons include "semi-automatic firearms with a large magazine " — as just one example, recall that the Las Vegas shooter used "a large quantity of ammunition in special h
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by dctoedt 3y ago
We've spoken ? You have the advantage of me — unlike you, I use my real name online. But you're very-much mistaken about what I think: As near as I can tell, the causes of crime are markedly more complicated than the caricature y
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by dctoedt 3y ago
You must have overlooked the word "mostly" in my comment. The first link in my post is to an official Swiss government site. If you want to quibble about what constitutes a "military-grade" firearm, that's certainly
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by dctoedt 3y ago
“The” driving factor? Are we in agreement that it’s a factor?
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Population density per square mile: - Idaho: 22.3 (44th out of 50 states) [0] - Puerto Rico: 952 [1] - India: 1,244 [2] [0] https://www.gethealthy.dhw.idaho.gov/overview-of-idaho [1] https://www.worldometers.info
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Clinging to the belief that it’s guns rather than social factors is just willful denial. That's a false dichotomy — sure, social factors play an important role, but it's a multi-variate phenomenon, and you seem to want to d
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> unlike typhoid, there is absolutely zero chance that private gun ownership in the US is ever going to be abolished "Unlike typhoid"? We've yet to abolish typhoid; the U.S. gets about 200-300 cases per year, mostly from
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Meanwhile Switzerland has 27.6 guns per 100 civilians and 2.64 gun homicides per 100,000. So not sure what to conclude about gun ownership and homicides. Another data point: Switzerland has strict gun laws that mostly ban the kind of
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Guns are a fact So are typhoid and cholera — and civilized societies enforce reasonable laws to prevent them from disrupting life. BTW, in case you're wondering: I'm a Texan who has owned multiple firearms for pretty much m
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Nonetheless, Atlanta has a homicide rate 5-10 times higher than Delhi .... Estimated number of civilian firearms per 100 people: - U.S.: 120.5 - India: 5.3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civili
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by dctoedt 3y ago
P**r-checkers are great folks, but you could have been a nuke! :)
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Done: Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier — because that's a name known to "normies" — it is!
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by dctoedt 3y ago
If you had made the font choices Times New Roman and Arial, I'd have said it's 99.99%.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Anyone who naively think so will only made them actually pay less taxes relatively to middle classes. You mean the way it worked in the 1950s [Narrator: No, it didn't] when the U.S. had something like a 91% top marginal tax ra
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by dctoedt 3y ago
From the title, I thought it'd be dining solo — from John F. Kennedy's quip at his White House dinner for Nobel laureates: "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been g
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by dctoedt 3y ago
What's with this seeming worship of sovereignty? "Sovereignty" is simply a pretty word for "collective might makes right."
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> If you accept as true the premise that a healthy > 12 week fetus with a healthy mother is a human life that must be protected I'd be curious about your basis for that premise: + If the premise is axiomatic, then it seems to b

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