doctor_m

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by doctor_m 7y ago
Modern cable systems are more akin to satellite broadcast systems than they are to the terrestrial broadcast systems of yore. There's an order of magnitude more content on cable these days. When you tune a channel now, instead of simpl
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by doctor_m 7y ago
An informative look into Amtrak's genesis and a well-reasoned argument for the establishment of national passenger rail from a policy perspective. No discussion of rail from an energy-use standpoint, though.
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It's Time to Replace Amtrak(railwayage.com)
2 points by doctor_m 7y ago|1 comments
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by doctor_m 7y ago
I feel like Wikipedia is doing a pretty solid job of holding onto that dream: no shouty content, pure information that's maintained by those who are interested in it, and a fairly well outfitted battalion of bots that fend off adversar
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by doctor_m 7y ago
If crinkle-crankle walls protect fruit, then I suppose the analogous software might run on some Apple device that's unnecessarily expensive, technically lagging, and probably beautiful. Hard to justify economically, but still attractiv
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by doctor_m 7y ago
If only crinkle-crankle software were equally justifiable...
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by doctor_m 7y ago
Is your question asking about how to understand who's visiting your site and what their motivations are without engaging in creepy, dragnet-style tracking?
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by doctor_m 7y ago
What sort of men? Cisgender men? Heterosexual men? Arabic men? There's no such thing as a man -- "man" an abstract concept that needs definition before any useful statement can be made about people in that category.
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by doctor_m 7y ago
...and here I was, thinking that this would be a treatise on Haskell...