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by docdeek 4y ago
Thanks for the reply - I understand. In my case we’ve largely aligned with this perspective. The kids go to a French/English bilingual school with a large (+30%) cohort of non-French national students. Their friend/peer groups are
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> A common subject among mixed-heritage students... Is 'heritage' as used here a synonym for race? In my case, my children have one parent from an Anglophone country and one parent from a Francophone country, but both parents a
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Is it not a little different when the author changes their own work (as in the 1970s edits you mention) versus when it is changed after their death?
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I’m not sure I would classify Edward Snowden as a journalist.
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> the left doesn’t have problems with others holding differing views, so long as following those views doesn’t result in the harm or impediment of liberty of others A lot comes down to the definition of “harm”. If harm includes making pe
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The Serenity Prayer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer ) has helped me to put things into perspective many times. "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the t
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Data-Free Disney(publicbooks.org)
109 points by docdeek 4y ago|46 comments
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Is this a big deal because it is the US? FWIW the Australian government has had this sort of warning out for their citizens in Russia for more than a month (at least since 11 January): "If you're in Russia, leave immediately using
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I guess it is something like that, but don't know for sure. I live in a major urban area so if they find an unexploded bomb it has probably been built over a couple of times since it was originally dropped. The most recent near me (abo
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It's a reasonably regular thing here in France. It's the sort of thing they'll find anytime there's a new building going up with underground parking beneath it - the contractor digs, finds a bomb, the army cordons off th
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> I don't see how any corporation should be able to consume someone's copyrighted work without their permission and make something of it. I'm not quite sure where I stand yet on this issue. I wonder, though, if an individu
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For me (2 kids, 1 under 4 years getting stories before bed each night) a big part of it is having a routine. Into bed, lie down, covers on, a few minutes of storytelling, calm child, kiss good night. The story is part of the routine and the
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I'm not sure I would agree. My three year old is learning to count. If I ask him what comes after the number 15 and he replies 17, I don't think he has lied to me. He made an error. He thought it was the correct answer but it wasn
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"But the harsh fact of the matter is that there is also an increasingly large number of young Americans who are neglecting their bodies—whose physical fitness is not what it should be—who are getting soft. And such softness on the part
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I'm only sick of the op-ed authors who reveal halfway through their column that "everything above was written by ChatGPT". It's no longer an original angle and seems pretty lazy at this point.
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Open Secrets has FTX.US linked to 135 House candidates (62 Democrats, 73 Republicans) and 33 Senate candidates (16 Democrats, 17 Republicans). https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/ftx-us/recipients?id=D00007...
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Dull Men's Club: Celebrating the Ordinary(dullmensclub.com)
2 points by docdeek 4y ago|0 comments
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I’m not rich but I enjoy exotic fruit and have life insurance so I am surely on my way.
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The Serenity Prayer could easily be adapted to serve as a guide here: Grant me the serenity to accept the minds I cannot change, the courage to change the minds I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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When it got to the writing-up stage of my PhD (social sciences) I tried to avoid procrastination by setting myself a target of 500 words a day. I figured that if a thesis was 100K words, knocking out 500 a day would get me there in less tha
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Reeder does the discovery for me. If I have a URL I can drop it into the app and it'll find all the RSS feeds (main, comments etc). There's also a browser extension to add straight from there, and it'll add your Read Later li
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It was happening in France, though the numbers were small - changes in the tax code to reduce/disappear the wealth tax seemed to impact the number of rich people leaving: > On the other hand, tax exile has slowed, the committee note
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AbeBooks – Most expensive sales in 2022(abebooks.com)
3 points by docdeek 4y ago|1 comments
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I'm also a fan. Been using it since v3 (it's v5 now) and it's great. Sync via iCloud on all devices, great piece of software.
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The key modifier - in the first paragraph but not the headline - is that it applies for dine-in meals at those restaurants only. If you eat in at McDo you'll get a reusable cup but your take-away order will be as it always has been.
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Thanks - the Grand Parti de Lyon was what I was finding when I was searching and it didn’t align with the idea of the Foires I was expecting to find.
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> If you had been at the great fair of Lyon in 1555, you could have seen the answer. Lyon's fair was the greatest market for international trade in all Europe. This is interesting to me as I live in the city and it's long been
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In the Reddit thread there is a comment with a possible solution: https://old.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/zl8ko3/ysk_a...
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> As Twitter has entered the Musk era, many people are leaving the platform or rethinking its role in their lives...According to the MIT Technology Review, around a million people have left so far since Musk’s ownership, and all of this
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Data stream hack gets UCI world championship qualifier banned(dcrainmaker.com)
71 points by docdeek 4y ago|28 comments

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