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by jbullock35 5y ago
I'm a professor. I write a lot, and I use Bookshelf 1996 mainly for the third edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, which is great. The interface is better than the interface for the iOS app. You can get the 4th edition for free
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Some very old Microsoft games are also missing. Example: Microsoft Decathlon. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Decathlon
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Missing: Microsoft Bookshelf [1]. Encarta was a somewhat similar product, but the reference sources in Bookshelf were arguably better. For example, Bookshelf contained the unabridged American Heritage Dictionary, while Encarta used (I think
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The article is outdated. It now seems that the 2020 Census undercounted the population, partly because the pandemic made enumeration of the population especially difficult. See (for example) https://www.npr.org/2022/03&
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A shareware (freeware?) program called Graphics Workshop was popular in the 1990s and available from many BBSs. For example, you can get it at http://files.mpoli.fi/software/WIN32/GRAPHICS/ . I mention it beca
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Useful Wall Street Journal article on this point: https://archive.is/3i800 .
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"Astoundingly" is vague. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the mean salary of "family and general practitioners" in May 2020 was $214,370 [1]. This figure includes salaries from GPs throughout the country (i.e
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See also this Bloomberg article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-08/new-york-...
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Seconding the recommendation of imapsync. It works wonderfully for me.
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Thank you for the explanation. Yes, I know almost nothing about how the legal system works.
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What ability do prosecutors have to maneuver their case onto a particular judge's docket? How would they do that?
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> Thinking of hardware, I've never been much for Apple products, but the iPhone (particularly early models) is undoubtedly a design marvel. I am surprised that no one else has mentioned the iPhone. It seems to me like an obvious cho
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Possibly of interest to OP: https://archive.org/details/boardwatchmagazine .
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The cost of running government bureaucracies on COBOL(papers.ssrn.com)
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Reviews are public. But some scams are elaborate and involve the posting of fake reviews.
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An important finding is buried in the linked blog post. It turns out that Ariely was hyping the fraudulent findings on NPR in February 2020. At the time, perhaps he didn't know that they were fraudulent. But he -did- know that there wa
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Thank you —- these are good examples.
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> [...] repeated descriptions of death by drowning. My favorite example is in Jacob’s Room; a scene of some people at a party is interrupted suddenly with a description of men drowning in a World War I naval battle before returning to th
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Republic of Wales
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Milgram's obedience studies didn't involve randomized treatments, and he had small numbers of subjects (typically around 40) in each of his many conditions. On the other hand, Milgram's investigations were serious, systematic
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The linked article allows that Amazon has much more than a 40% share of certain "segments": > Amazon has well over half of US book sales, and probably three quarters of ebook sales. So if we’re arguing about how Amazon runs its
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People who weren't alive at the time may not appreciate how different the commercial app ecosystem was: how many more options, how much less concentrated. Here is a PC Magazine cover from 1988: https://archive.org/detai
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R with StatET?
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Can you say more about the Calvino and Waugh letters? Do you like them for beautiful prose, for lively gossip, for introspection -- or what?
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> There’s a statistic that the average length of the American marriage is 8 years. That statistic is not in the census report to which you linked. Instead, the report says on its first page that “First marriages that end in divorce last
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> I note there is no comment section on this piece... The absence of a comment section may be consistent with one of the author's pieces of advice: "have the disagreement away from an audience."
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Yes: the content was political. The president was directly rebuking celebrities for taking positions that he didn't like, and one of them was responding directly. But that sort of thing happened almost every day in the Trump administra
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> Many humans are less inhibited when they’re typing than when they are speaking face-to-face. Spolsky was right about this when he wrote that passage in 2004. We should take seriously the idea that the lesser inhibition of textual commu
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If that’s a political story, almost anything involving both a politician and a celebrity is a “political story.” Think of all of the times that Trump tweeted something about a celebrity, or that celebrities tweeted about Trump. I don’t thin
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Can you offer more specific citations -- say, to particular passages?

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