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by eszed 2y ago
> Have small towns really lost all their theatres? Yes. I spent the first half of my life as a working actor, and this has been a decades-long process. By "my day" ('90s - '00s) I looked at CVs and heard stories from
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This can be done by passing a PID. I believe there are other options, as well. (Not at my computer to look it up right now.) I haven't used those features "manually", but I have in scripts that I expect to generate long-runni
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> Modern cables are fiberoptic and do not increase their bandwidth once laid. No kind of expert at all, but I understood that better control over / perception of narrower bandwidths of light have allowed fiber-optic cables to improv
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I suspect GP meant that land-use restrictions were preventing grocery stores on other plots of land. Or maybe that's just where my head went, though there's way from this article to know whether that's true. If that is the ca
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by eszed 2y ago
This is a best-of comment, and I'm glad I waded through the rest of the dreck in the thread to find it. Thank you. [Edit] Thinking through your final paragraph a bit more, there are "oppressions" (and I'm putting that in
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That's a good way to look at it. However, our actions influence (even if infinitesimal) the direction of the world around us, so the consequences of our choices are worth some thought.
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We should distinguish between 1) a 30-45 minutes of walking in an ordinary day, which I agree that people in well-urbanized areas routinely do, but suburbs don't; 2) an intentional 30-45 minute recreational / for-exercise walk,
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This is fascinating. What I note is that the therapist is collaborating with the patient to create "theatre". I think they should lean into this, new therapists should be explicitly trained in performance and theatre facilitation.
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A large part of this is that ~no Americans would ever consider a 45-minute walk "natural".
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In context, I think GP meant "open" from a sociopolitical point of view. The "taxi-industrial complex" had minimal political power, so Uber was repeatedly able to steamroll the incumbents - exactly as you describe in you
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Sideshow participants often use stolen cars - which is, you know, another reason to stop sideshow: fewer reasons to steal a car, but... - impounding cars won't necessarily be a deterrent. That apart, I have a principled objection to &q
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Please do!
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I think that's actually a reasonable point of view. The Brits I know have a feeling of ownership towards the BBC that they don't towards other public affordances. ...Apart from the NHS, that is. Which hardly prevented the Tories
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by eszed 2y ago
Ha! I made the same guess in a sub-thread a bit further up. You (and the sibling poster) deserve credit for beating me to it. I agree, and I doubt the support munchkins would know anything about stationery purchase practices, which explains
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Hadn't seen either, but man.... That's a good one. Simple idea, great writing, excellent production, superb acting (I love Robert Carlyle). I've always respected Johnnie Walker, but thought their offerings are overpriced for
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Ooh! I wonder if most of the letters they send out are forms (expected to be returned), but all of their letters are on the same paper-stock, which is pre-printed with the (intended for forms) "don't write below" message. E
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Have you got a write-up or GitHub for your camera? I'd kinda like to do the same, and wouldn't mind a starting point.
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With real-time detection (I'd expect that exists, but don't know for sure) you can divert some of the airstream through this scrubber to target a particular concentration of CO2.
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As a (lapsed) English teacher, I must point out that critically examining how others communicate is essential to improving one's own ability. (Mind you, your teachers might not have approached your classes in that way, and high-end lit
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> this is an unavoidable part of having public spaces in society. Maybe, maybe not. It is something new - within the last twenty years or so - to the concept of either "privacy" or "public space". Laws and norms and
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You're completely correct. Learning how to write taught me how to think, and researching and writing essays taught me what I believe about nearly everything on which I have strong opinions. However, +90% of students will not now do any
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Holy heck. Yeah, those are what put the "emergency" in Emergency Room. Glad they got to you quickly, and hope you are doing well. With my cat bite I was checking in every half an hour, and then every fifteen minutes, showing them
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I tend to elide this experience - feel free to speculate about my psychology around the event: I do! - but when I had a stroke (in the US) I was seen very quickly. In A&E (UK for "ER") departments I've seen (half a dozen
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That stood out to me, too. The fastest I've been seen in a US emergency room was when I presented with an infection laying red tracks up my arm (cat bite: I'd been to the GP in the morning, but his antibiotics weren't worki
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> It isn't even really a "system" in any meaningful way, in the sense of being a unified entity working towards a common goal. Well said. That this could be equally applied to the US as a whole likely explains subsidiary d
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The way that I've seen GP's point expressed that makes sense to me is that the per-person cost to provide health-care for those special interests you mention is roughly equivalent to the per-person tax burden in most other develop
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The amount of wasteful overhead in the American "healthcare" system never fails to shock me. The last two companies I've worked for (one a self-insured non-profit, the current a "conventionally"-insured for-profit)
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by eszed 2y ago
You and GP are talking past each other a bit, because they're speaking to the general case, whilst you're narrowing it to tourist-dependent areas. I grew up in a tourist region, and it's been ruined (from the point of view of
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Why Mandelbrot, specifically?
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Most of them? Yes. The situation where "hey, we've got too much of [this] because [whatever reason], so we'll mark it down in order to sell it" is how a Free Market is 'supposed to work': prices operating as a

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