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by eplanit 5y ago
People weren't as fragile and sensitive then. It was better in that way.
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by eplanit 5y ago
It's true. Europeans of that era did not bathe everyday. My stepfather escaped nazi Germany, and moved to the us in the 40s. He grudgingly adapted to daily bathing (my mother's insistence), but remarked how very American that is.
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by eplanit 5y ago
That's me. I don't regard it as an advantage, but I've come to be okay with it. I've quit before, for months at a time, and once for 2+ years. I used to go to Japan regularly for 2-3 weeks at a time, during which I&#x27
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by eplanit 5y ago
They're allowed to in investigations: "we have a witness who saw you do it" will sometimes cause actually guilty people to confess, or to start naming accomplices, etc. Or, "we think this was an accident" can elicit
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by eplanit 5y ago
The piano is very interesting, and Molly McGee singing "Life on Mars" is fantastic.
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Rapid increases and extreme months in projections of US high-tide flooding(nature.com)
2 points by eplanit 5y ago|0 comments
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by eplanit 5y ago
The "Law of the Jungle" prevails, indeed.
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by eplanit 5y ago
I love the Kipling poem. A (lesser) companion for it is Wintle[1] [1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1033193-if-you-think-you-ar...
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John McAfee did commit suicide in Spain by suicide, lawyer says(reuters.com)
4 points by eplanit 5y ago|1 comments
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by eplanit 5y ago
I'm glad he made it to the US. Of course because it's The Atlantic, they were obligated to implicate the US as a co-conspirator: "Islamophobic discourses that gathered strength in the U.S. have been central to China’s effort
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by eplanit 5y ago
The main reasons in his conclusion are: Harvard doesn't support Palestine, he's displeased by the level of sympathy he received at his mother's passing, and general issues with the underlying politics of the curriculum. It al
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by eplanit 5y ago
I think we learned this past year that at least a few teachers are quite exceptionally spoiled (disappointing, and for me a bit surprising). Maybe I'm biased by the witnessing the antics of the California teachers union, but their ran
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by eplanit 5y ago
I've used the sniper fantasy for decades (since I was a kid). I guess I discovered it by accident, but it has _always_ worked. The key (for me, at least) is trying to concentrate on the imaginary target...waiting for it to appear in
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by eplanit 5y ago
The solution: leave New York. The idea of having to get permission to operate a business (unless it causes pollution, etc.) is anti-American. Don't accept such rules, and move to where that kind of nonsense doesn't happen. Vote
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by eplanit 5y ago
A war against people recognizing that social media like Facebook and Twitter are today's Big Tobacco equivalent?
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by eplanit 5y ago
It's stopping reading at a sentence dripping with pseudo intellectualism. When writers try too hard to sound intelligent and erudite it's off-putting, and a "bullshit" indicator.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Austin Powers in Space.
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by eplanit 5y ago
This is just what Mike Rowe talks about, and something that he's personally working on: https://www.mikeroweworks.org/about/ . More power to him!
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by eplanit 5y ago
Very sad to hear that. I guess all [good] things certainly do come to an end. I haven't been back there in a few years, so I'm recalling the "good ol' days", I guess.
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by eplanit 5y ago
It's true. From my own experience, Starbucks in Japan is far superior than in the US, too. 7-11's are _wonderful_ in Japan.
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by eplanit 5y ago
For the sabotaged code base, point them to Atlassian. I like the new mascot. People need to stop referring to the product name Github, too, as it causes confusion. It's _Microsoft_, which should serve as a deterrent.
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Feds agree to pay $6.1M to create database for Capitol riot prosecutions(politico.com)
18 points by eplanit 5y ago|1 comments
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by eplanit 5y ago
I was 8 years old when I saw it -- no movie has influenced me like that one. At that age, the star gate scene was kind of scary; but, yes, the HAL 9000 had a _huge_ impact on me. One of the best films, ever.
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by eplanit 5y ago
In 2001:A Space Odyssey, the "star gate" sequence is quite psychedelic; and this was 1967. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DNbkKBW0K8
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by eplanit 5y ago
She started off with a decent explanation and defense of her work... but then fell off completely with the complaints about the photo and the worries about getting 100% credit. I don't know if it's due to the pressures she faces,
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by eplanit 5y ago
University of California doing "studies" to defend the state of California...right before a recall election of the Governor -- color me skeptical. I personally know > 10 people who have left (in disgust) in the past 2 years. I
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by eplanit 5y ago
Does someone with such an interpretation have cause to mutilate the painting, though? Why not make a different painting (or some other art) conveying that sentiment, instead?
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by eplanit 5y ago
"There's a super portrait group of the war leaders in the National Portrait Gallery in London. I'm amazed it hasn't been mutilated by now." Why would it be threatened? I'm not clear on why the portrait of WWI
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by eplanit 5y ago
The article is good fodder for an episode of Silicon Valley (back when it was funny).
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by eplanit 5y ago
I've worked with many, and none have ever had a bona fide engineering or comp. sci. background, except for a few who didn't cut it in the ranks of developers, and so redirected themselves or were shunted off to UI (now "UX&qu

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