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811.
by eszed 2y ago
Russell's proposed mid-point is 20 (or maybe 24?) hours of work in a week. That seems sensible to me!
812.
by eszed 2y ago
Yes. I've seen this go well, and I've seen this go terribly. It works (in my experience) when the migration work is pushed down to the directly responsible teams - with, of course, affordance made for the time it will take them. (
813.
by eszed 2y ago
The movie Smoke , which he wrote, is one of my favorites. I've enjoyed several of his novels, but none of those are among my personal canon, for what that's worth.
814.
by eszed 2y ago
If you (or your partner) have complex medical history / needs then a budget plan won't cut it. $35k is a very realistic figure.
815.
by eszed 2y ago
Is an individual photon sitting in place, or is it being absorbed and re-emited in sequence within a localised structure?
816.
by eszed 2y ago
Sometime before last Christmas my wife got a text message with something about a package being on the way, and needing to confirm her address. She clicked the link, and was taken to an exact clone of usps.com. It went through several inno
817.
by eszed 2y ago
And yet it worked.... Your knowledge of Japanese orthography gives you an interesting perspective. I'd be fascinated to know, given the obstacles you note, how exactly the prisoners overcame them. Did they have someone in the camp with
818.
by eszed 2y ago
Yeah, it's different tastes. I'm split on these in a different way than I've seen in the other comments, because I generally hate brutalist buildings from the outside, but think the interiors are fantastic (including most i
819.
by eszed 3y ago
That's a thoroughly sensible proposition. However, right there in the Wikipedia article you post: > some ["Defund the Police" advocates] seek modest reductions, while others argue for full divestment as a step toward the a
820.
by eszed 3y ago
Despite being someone who's had several "do-overs", or "start-overs" in my life, I agree with the author's proposition. I hope I'm allowed to like both Proust and Amis, though! To take the point a little b
821.
by eszed 3y ago
My grandmother said approximately the same thing to me when she was ~85. Life goal.
822.
by eszed 3y ago
> I learned to write the English I have written by taking three years of Latin, in the putatively desolate educational backwater of Jacksonville, Florida, ending in the tenth grade translating The Aeneid. I was in homeroom sitting with A
823.
by eszed 3y ago
"The refunds must be issued within seven days", so (while I wouldn't put it past them to try) telling passengers something so manifestly untrue would be grounds for a lawsuit, which should make them stop.
824.
by eszed 3y ago
I'd take issue with your first sentence. The most challenging task is to distill a difficult topic into something that can be quickly understood. That inevitably takes time. When I write rapidly and unreflectively I often make readers
825.
by eszed 3y ago
Operative phrase: " see it as ". I can anecdotally confirm that central-valley relatives of mine bring up HSR as a reason not to vote for Biden. The Democrat = Democrat logic is strong, I suppose, even if the ignorance about feder
826.
by eszed 3y ago
As I understand it the problems are with Kindle Unlimited files, and it's more complicated if you don't actually own a Kindle (like, you have to use the Kindle app, but only some app versions work?). I don't have KU, and I im
827.
by eszed 3y ago
I'd push back on that, because you do get that passive-voice exclusive "we" in English, just as concisely - except it's expressed through stress pattern (as you indicate with your underlines), not vocabulary / gramm
828.
by eszed 3y ago
If you picked the right spot at the right time of the month, could you get a mushroom cloud in "profile"? That would look pretty cool, though maybe still not large enough to see with the naked eye. I don't have a good intuiti
829.
by eszed 3y ago
Iron is arguably the most important, and also degrades - past, as I understand it, the point at which it can be recovered by low-tech processes. The longer it takes to bootstrap a second industrial revolution the harder it would become.
830.
by eszed 3y ago
I set my wife's side-hustle business up on Zoho four or five years ago. It was very smooth, and excellent value. Would recommend.
831.
by eszed 3y ago
I think GP was referring to an inspection of that line / tower which noted the degraded condition of the ~century-old fasteners and recommended replacement. A decade+ passed without that work being done, and then the hook failed. The l
832.
by eszed 3y ago
What does "franchise author" mean? I'm not familiar with the term.
833.
by eszed 3y ago
Looking at the best-selling Amazon-published titles leaves the impression that this is the case.
834.
by eszed 3y ago
In my lifetime I've easily bought 100x more books used than new, which (from their perspective) is economically indistinguishable from piracy. Any of those "lost sales" estimates strike me as entirely bogus.
835.
by eszed 3y ago
Off-topic, but wow there were some good used bookstores in Brighton. I think I know the one you mean, but the quirkiest was the one with a massive pile (literally a pile) of unshelved, uncategorized books in the basement. Hardbacks were £
836.
by eszed 3y ago
This. I donated half a lifetime's collection of physical books a few years ago, when I moved into my girlfriend's apartment. I kept books which are either a) impossible to get electronically (mostly technical or academic works), o
837.
by eszed 3y ago
This is dead on. I find, however, that you have to be careful about revealing your secret, at least in so many words. I had (more or less) the following interaction with a parent we see occasionally: Them: "How'd you get $oneYearO
838.
by eszed 3y ago
Traditionally? Humanities. Those fields have the advantage of starting with common experience and a natural-language corpus, so there isn't as high a barrier to entry as STEM disciplines. But, you know... we don't do that anymore.
839.
by eszed 3y ago
What is the GP expected to do with that? Does the doctor (ideally) review case notes and their own interventions? Or does the office staff close the patient's file - without necessarily even telling the doctor "Mr So-and-so passed
840.
by eszed 3y ago
No, the average person was not. However, in a representative-democracy model people voted for someone to become better informed and then act on their behalf. I think people were (generally speaking) more aware of their own informational l

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