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by eszed 6mo ago
I won't defend those laws, if you'll agree not to defend the opposite legislation which would force very masculine-appearing individuals into the same women's spaces (obviously scary to the women there), and very feminine-app
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by eszed 6mo ago
Well, my dad got migraines from everything° on that list bar tomatoes - though he did from dried tomatoes, so does that count as everything on the list? I don't know the biological pathway, but it was neither self-diagnosed, self-deriv
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by eszed 6mo ago
Not like the 1930s, no. But there are similarities in the discourse to how jewish people were demonized in the decades (well, centuries, in that case) previous. Your comment seems to suggest that no one should speak up for themselves until
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by eszed 6mo ago
I'm as big a YIMBY as you'll find, and urban trees are really important to making a city a nice place to live. There's no contradiction to those positions - just, you know, build more housing and plant more trees. (Spotted
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by eszed 6mo ago
https://www.slowboring.com/p/playing-baseball-like-its-1864 Ha! Here's the write-up I wish I had been published last week. I hope it isn't pay-walled for you.
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by eszed 6mo ago
Depends on your measuring stick. Cheating themselves out of an education? Yep. Cheating themselves into a credential -> job - the status / remuneration of which is almost entirely divorced from the quality of the education, being al
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by eszed 6mo ago
They're socially awkward to spend, because people don't want to take them. That was true each of the four or five times I used bills from my father's stash, though I was outright refused only once. Unlike my father, I don&#x2
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by eszed 6mo ago
And they're still a pain to spend, because too many people refuse to believe they're real money. Or else don't want to take them because there isn't a slot in their cash drawer. I inherited a couple of bundles from my da
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by eszed 6mo ago
I've had that happen a couple times, too. The first time I was super excited, and looked up the collectable price, and it was like $8 for a (pristine) $5 bill. I think I kept it for a few days to show to people, and then spent it. I in
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by eszed 6mo ago
This exactly is what drew in my late father, who was a scientist (not climate, obviously!) with raw intelligence several standard deviations above average. "They" were using climate change as a stalking horse for communism /
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by eszed 6mo ago
Heh. I sometimes describe myself as "basically a communist" for the exact same reason. Actually, I lived in Europe long enough to be maybe a little left of you, but still Clinton / Obama center-right, in world historical se
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by eszed 6mo ago
Jesus. Yeah, that explains a lot. By the way, his notion that introspection is an "invention of the 1920s" is historical bullshit. I think he's taking potshots at psychotherapy? Whatever, man, but then do that. It's no
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by eszed 6mo ago
I don't know of a good one, sadly. Run a search for "vintage baseball" and you'll get various amateur sites for various local leagues, with explanations of varying quality. If you're truly interested, swing by a gam
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by eszed 6mo ago
You would probably consider me to your right, but I'm right there with you. Prison should be protective: we lock up people from whom the rest of us will not be safe unless they are segregated. Ideally it is also rehabilitatative, and o
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by eszed 6mo ago
Mazda has historically been very good at designing for repairability. My (latest) Mazda is ten years old, so I cannot verify any model later than that, but it's one reason I've been brand-loyal for decades. The 2015 CX-5 puts the
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by eszed 6mo ago
You're right. More specifically it's Cockney (east end of London) rhyming slang. Basic rule: find a phrase that rhymes with the word you mean, substitute the phrase, but leave out the rhyming word. So "butcher's" =
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by eszed 6mo ago
I play vintage baseball. It's baseball using rules and equipment from the 19th century. There's nothing else in my life that connects me to my eight-year old self, but the feeling I get running out onto the field or going up to ba
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by eszed 6mo ago
Early in the Bush administration, at least, there was continuing approchement. Bush was mocked for saying something like "I looked into his [Putin's] eyes, and I trust him". I don't remember enough about the early GWOT d
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by eszed 6mo ago
We're talking past each other, and mixing up some concepts, most of which is my fault for not writing particularly clearly. Yeah, "God did it" is the first of those answer layers at which some people stop interrogating the wo
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by eszed 6mo ago
> I see no evidence that the average humanities major is better at writing unambiguous natural language If you'd marked enough undergrad papers you would have. :-) > Most people are incapable of understanding and describing a com
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by eszed 6mo ago
> [50th percentile CS grads] are still in better shape than a 50% percentile humanities degree holder, who also is having the value of their skillset eroded by AI. That's the crux of it, and right now it appears to me that the abili
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by eszed 6mo ago
I dunno, man. The difficulty (and resentment of having to even take them) most STEM majors had in my college-level writing classes causes me to doubt that, as does the general reaction on this board to any kind of problem / domain with
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by eszed 6mo ago
You're always free to stop at the level of abstraction at which you find a certain answer to be satisfying, but you can also keep digging. Why are flat shoes better? Well, it's to do with my gait. Ok, but why is my gait like that?
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by eszed 6mo ago
Isn't that example pretty reductive, in that you have a directly-measurable output? I mean, the joint is either 45° (well, 90°) or it's not. Zoom out a bit, and the skill-set becomes much less definable: are my cabinets good - f
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by eszed 6mo ago
> the more a job pays, the harder it is to get hired That's not axiomatically true, like, at all . The odds of being hired vary according to the supply of qualified applicants vs available positions. Tech companies with large profi
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by eszed 6mo ago
The reverse is also true. My current hypothesis is that as AI forces software development down less and less deterministic pathways, I suspect that the value of a basic CS degree will diminish relative to humanities training. Comfort with a
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by eszed 6mo ago
Same, same. And... I preferred WordPerfect's separate "reveal codes" pane, which reduced the opportunity for ambiguity. WP 5.1 has never been equalled as a general-purpose word processor.
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by eszed 6mo ago
Indeed. It then follows that the optimal arrangement will find a balance, ameliorating the flaws of system each with the strengths of the other. Several Northern European countries (like the Netherlands, which GP finds congenial) pursue thi
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by eszed 6mo ago
Nose strips are springy things which hold your nostrils / nasal passages a bit further open. In context, it appears GP means that nose breathing is expected. Sorry about your medical issue; I hope you had a good result.
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by eszed 6mo ago
You're right, but local independent physician business model is being destroyed by insurance requirements. I have an uncle who ran an office like that for 20+ years. He employed two nurses, a receptionist, and a full-time coder (for

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