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by glompers 2y ago
Richard Gabriel: https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html (1991) https://www.dreamsongs.com/WIB.html (2000?)
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by glompers 2y ago
Great quotes.
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by glompers 2y ago
That 2008 archive of Kronemyer's says that he had recently completed work at RAND and all site contents are copyright 2006, 2007, or 2008. Meanwhile, "Noriega was incarcerated in the Federal Correctional Institution, Miami. Under
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by glompers 2y ago
Could perhaps UW (for instance) EE or CS alumni arrange to bid and give the collection to the department at UW across town?
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by glompers 2y ago
Elastic Compute Clowncar braking in 3, 2, 1
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by glompers 2y ago
A healthy proportion of local American hospitals were set up and later expanded through many, many rounds of charitable proto-crowdfunding in the first place. Fraternal (Shriners), ones with Saint in the name, and so on.[0] Credit unions
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by glompers 2y ago
I don't think it entered parlance through that usage. It was actually a common feature of the landscape beginning in the 1780s [2] even if we don't count Philadelphia in the 1680s [3] which later became the national capital city.
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by glompers 2y ago
"David Ricardo [1772-1823] introduced the term 'rent' in economics. It means the payment to a factor of production in excess of what is required to keep that factor in its present use." After additional economic theory d
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by glompers 2y ago
GP may be referring to Khan Academy affiliated but offline Khan Lab School. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Lab_School
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by glompers 2y ago
Good links, thanks. I had read the Houston anecdote before but never seen this photograph.
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by glompers 2y ago
Third place is a specific term for those who have not been familiarized: "In sociology, the third place refers to the social surroundings that are separate from the two usual social environments of home ("first place") and th
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by glompers 2y ago
Might differ in the way that it plays out across an entire regional office market. If deferring pain is no longer expected or even possible, then the market price should rise and fall to find the right price with fewer impediments to the l
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by glompers 3y ago
Here's one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum
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by glompers 3y ago
Not sure if this is the correct copyright law citation as IANAL. If correct, then the story's copyright expired before Abelard posted it. 304. Duration of copyright: Subsisting copyrights (a) Copyrights in Their First Term on January 1
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by glompers 3y ago
It won't be. Dubai Int'l and Istanbul were both also built by their governments to be the largest in the world and are already open. Per wikipedia neither has come anywhere close to ATL so far -- 66 and 64 million as compared to
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by glompers 3y ago
If historic Broadway theaters in NYC transitioned to blocks of server farms, then many people would have a feeling, "Singing and dancing and live art used to happen here, and that history is worth continuing, here," even if for ec
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by glompers 3y ago
Great points. Riffing on your last remark, the federal labor statistics list of Ohio occupations with the highest location quotients (prevalence in that area divided by prevalence of the same occupation nationwide) still shows machine tools
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by glompers 3y ago
Universities have always been about correctly incubating the future practictioners of each field. The recent rush to relate each field's research projects to making commerce more efficient is putting (not in all cases, but in many) th
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by glompers 3y ago
GP is saying that there are hunches that are not ready for primetime but which are creative thought nonetheless, and which need to be worked with before they can become workable. It's a good thought, echoed by quotes from other design
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by glompers 3y ago
Well -- that's one fewer criminal conspiracy to worry about! Thanks!
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by glompers 3y ago
That's readily disproven by example. https://www.postandcourier.com/aikenstandard/opinion/editori...
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by glompers 3y ago
It's not. https://www.postandcourier.com/aikenstandard/opinion/editori...
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by glompers 3y ago
Every discovered table would contain items known to the state of California to be oncogenic.
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by glompers 3y ago
What about between OAK and SFO terminals inside security, so that connecting flights (or East Bay passengers boarding and returning) could transfer to & from international gates at SFO?
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by glompers 3y ago
I always like the (grease?) smell in Montréal Metro stations but never thought about it in terms of particulate matter concentrations.
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by glompers 3y ago
That is neither stated nor implied, unless you’re simply making the objection, “But OpenAI _is_ nongovernmental.” Most readers are aware they were a research and advocacy organization that became (in the sense that public benefit tax-free n
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by glompers 3y ago
Also to Mere, Wiltshire's Wiki (English) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere,_Wiltshire#Notable_peop...
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by glompers 3y ago
AFAIK sokoloff was commenting on a GP. And that poster's further comments. And they didn't give any clear indication that they have indeed read TFA while they were engaging in discussion with sokoloff.
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by glompers 3y ago
No doubt there is. The new story (and a story probably on-topic in the context of this discussion) is the quantity of financial arbitrage firms who have lately been relocating their employees and headquarters _to_ Florida.
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by glompers 3y ago
Nisus Writer Pro [0] has been around for 40 years this year IIRC (IANANWP) and has a user base who can vouch for many of the features that HN readers want something to offer. [0] https://nisus.com/pro

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