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by jleyank 1y ago
The common internet meme is “Canadians have two modes. ‘Sorry’ and ‘You’ll be sorry.’” And the latter has been triggered. It’s a big world, tourism and travel is discretionary and people are pissed. There’s a goods boycott going on as we
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by jleyank 1y ago
They reduced the debt under Clinton. It’s a question of political will not physics. US taxes are low compared to their counterparts and they could choose to raise these taxes for various activities.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Somewhere between 1 and 2 countries, actually.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Is the way the Ford engine is installed standard in some way, or does it take 5 years for a Ford engine, 5 for a GMC, ...? Cuz if it's unique to Ford, it's a Ford problem, not a trade school problem.
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by jleyank 1y ago
I would think it depends on what you're referring to. If it's something like a car, then Chinese model seems appropriate and equivalent to Japanese model, Korean model, ... If it's a person, then you might be on less-firm g
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by jleyank 1y ago
Downvoted? You must be thinking of the success women have as senior politicians and military officers. Or the societal rejection of viewpoints like incel, tradwife or manosphere.
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by jleyank 1y ago
One would hope, as the Eurofighter is a 20-year-old design. There are older fighters that serve their purposes quite well, but the F35 will end up being compared against fighters yet to appear. And I wonder whether any of these birds will
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by jleyank 1y ago
‘Nam ended in the early 70’s and I think the student deferment ended before the war did. But it’s a good theory. Much of academia was probably not on board. Perhaps the war edited out some classes of students that influenced grades?
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by jleyank 1y ago
55 years of programming, 44 years professionally. I've been lucky to (mostly) do what I like to do, as long as I was willing to wander about the western world. I think the one question that's left is whether debugging is a skill
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by jleyank 1y ago
The F35 is a fighter-bomber/light-bomber. Others are air superiority platforms. Different tools for different situations.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Grade inflation and automatic promotion had nothing to do with Covid - it was occurring when at uni in the 70's, with dean's list definitions changing to reflect higher GPA's. Covid isolation might have made things worse, bu
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by jleyank 1y ago
If they want to be in academia, they need grant money and students (and post docs). If they are unable to get this stuff, they have to leave academia or go where they can be acquired. I assume “academia” means research uni’s not teaching c
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by jleyank 1y ago
Verblen goods. Stylish, look at me people.
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by jleyank 1y ago
The us milirary, independent of the shutdown, should be able to send food from their larger bases in the states to their bases overseas…. Or are they all busy off South America? They’re right, sponging off the host country paints a bad pic
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by jleyank 1y ago
I think it best to go through life making an effort to not be an asshole. If you’re smarter than everybody else, they’ll notice it from what you do not what you say. Those who can’t “do” risk being called or considered a crank and Watson mi
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by jleyank 1y ago
Thought of CSNY's Chicago when I saw the headline. And, actually, it's pertinent. Except that things are probably worse now as there's no media scrutiny on what's going down.
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by jleyank 1y ago
Why not carry this all the way... Go to airport and separate. Have different rooms for the first night and "meet" in a bar that evening. One things leads to another, they share a room and then things proceed.
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by jleyank 1y ago
FWIW, I've got backups of stuff from the 80's and early 90's. Would have to be transliterated into new languages or versions of languages but the stuff's been copied from medium to medium so as to remain readable. But
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by jleyank 1y ago
It's quite sad that the computer field almost aggressively forgets or ignores its past. Find an early, say, crossbow and historians go nuts preserving and studying it. People recreate and surmise about Galileo's experiments to h
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by jleyank 1y ago
What significant college/HS level sport is not already producing people for a league-based game? Yeah, they can get women's alternatives, which lead to some exciting play, but I can't think of a sport that's not already
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by jleyank 1y ago
Decades ago, the UC system let a prof start a business from his IP that the university had. The payment was free use within the UC system. Given that the company succeeded, that was a small price to pay. Perhaps that kind of understandin
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by jleyank 1y ago
Should cause all sorts of concerns re IRBM or ICBM. or you have to broadcast the launch parameters and get your delivery captured. Neat idea though.
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by jleyank 1y ago
People should remember that “left wing” isn’t things like negotiating drug prices, it’s nationalizing the drug companies.
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by jleyank 1y ago
When Arabic numerals are banned, will Roman numerals be handled as an int or a char? How will floating point numbers be represented, and will they ban the decimal point as well. And without the zero, how will programs indicate successful
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by jleyank 1y ago
There's always a quality of life aspect, the ability to get future funding, the ability to get students and researchers, the ability to travel/present. Academic researchers need all of these things, along with facilities. If you
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by jleyank 1y ago
People on a forum run by VC types or wannabes complaining about the capitalistic system. They have the money, get to it. Figure out how to make plumbing robots or ai systems that turn software geeks into wrench jockeys. Why does $Company
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by jleyank 1y ago
You can tell Japan is not a free country. A free country, such as the US, fully supports the right to arm bears. /s
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by jleyank 1y ago
Nobody in a car company is worth 1T. Not sure anybody in any company is. Especially given his disparate distractions.
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by jleyank 1y ago
America grates just fine. Uncertainty roils the market and currency. Mid/long term planning almost impossible due to tariff and cost uncertainty. And maybe the government workers or the government itself might come back to work…
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by jleyank 1y ago
Somebody could have visited Canada from one of the US outbreaks or vice versa. All one needs is a spark. And if you're relying on herd immunity, it's polite and safer to be part of the herd.

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