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by kaitai 8y ago
I have to say, declaring the US system better because Kaiser Permanente is good is a bit like declaring rotten foods are better than fresh because you like yogurt. Lots of Americans don't have anything like Kaiser, and under the old ru
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by kaitai 8y ago
That's true for the nice layered cakes so common in parts of Europe (my favorites are the Finnish cakes with a sponge-cake layer and then a lot of berries, maybe bananas or kiwis, other fruits, cream). I think there is less moisture-sp
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by kaitai 8y ago
Most American wedding cakes are terrible. Two reasons: the one discussed in the article is that often cakes are frozen to be decorated and stored, and so they're already stale by the time the wedding happens, and the second is that man
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by kaitai 8y ago
Hey, renting a Ferrari for the day is sometimes just a way to drive a Ferrari once!
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by kaitai 8y ago
This is exactly right. There are two ingredients to making money: providing value and externalizing costs. When the value provided by an entity is essentially that it doesn't externalize costs -- that it's a sink for societal co
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by kaitai 8y ago
Hey, if Amazon's going to start providing story time every Friday morning for kids across the country, homelessness services, adult day care, job training, maker spaces, meeting rooms for community groups, and free AC in a time of hott
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by kaitai 8y ago
Libraries in the US serve an enormous homeless population. "Subsidizing internet for low income people" is easy to say but does not address the practicalities of providing internet to the homeless, for instance.
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by kaitai 8y ago
As mentioned earlier, libraries now serve many other purposes. Delivery of information is not the only one. I recently used my library in an extreme heat wave as a way to get free air conditioning. It had the side benefit of giving my kid a
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by kaitai 8y ago
Math! Math typesetting is still a huge problem -- same as back in 1997 with a few improvements here and there. I do remember the days when postscript was far more of a default, or dvi -- there were people who refused to use pdf format at th
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by kaitai 8y ago
It is not better than nothing if it actively confuses the listener. I experienced this recently when I uploaded something that got captioned automatically without my knowledge (new rollout of automated captioning on a university content man
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by kaitai 8y ago
It takes 4-5x for my videos -- not going for perfection, just making nonsense into the math words I said reasonably clearly. Jargon can be tough for the automated captioning services. They are improving, and for the version I use for teachi
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by kaitai 8y ago
It is worth remembering that the skills and the interests need to be combined in your life , not every day at work. Maybe you are passionate about gardening so you have a good job that pays well and keeps summer hours, letting you spend yo
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by kaitai 8y ago
This journal is mainly "based" in the UK (look at the editorial board) and I think they include French & Spanish abstracts as a sort of historical courtesy to colleagues. Then the French & Spanish readers can figure out if
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by kaitai 8y ago
This is a really interesting read for me, as I'm considering the purchase of a cargo bike. Apparently, I fit the stereotype pretty well -- highly-educated urban coffee-drinker (no yoga, no vegetarianism, though). The cargo bike would s
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by kaitai 8y ago
Sometimes it's for a better picture (looking up from under lowered eyebrows, for instance), and sometimes it's just how their faces look - consider the phenomenon of "resting b*&^! face". Many people do consider a ne
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by kaitai 8y ago
In much of the duvet-loving world (but not the US), you just use a duvet-cover on the comforter, and wash that as you would the top sheet.
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by kaitai 8y ago
I'd actually do the opposite. Let them use pre-rolled first, then when they actually know and care about how the system is set up, have them set it up the way they like it. (I am actually leading a machine learning for high-schoolers c
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by kaitai 8y ago
I finally got one of the papers I'm proud of published! It was in review at a major journal for over a year, and then was soft-rejected for being too specialized (nice comments from referees though). Then it went to another journal, an
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by kaitai 8y ago
It's great that you're willing to take a prescriptivist rather than descriptivist linguistic stance, but it's not that useful when it comes to consumer behavior.
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by kaitai 8y ago
Many people (regardless of gender) no longer know how to do any of these things. I've learned a lot about moisture management, mold growth, roof functioning, etc over some years of homeownership, a lot of it from my husband who learned
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by kaitai 8y ago
Because Grandma had her mom watch her kids so didn't spend $14,400/year on infant care, and her mom had time because she got fired from her school teacher job the day she got married! Today's mom, on the other hand, moved to
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by kaitai 8y ago
As recently as 1998 I had a preacher tell my Irish Catholic friend that she still had a chance to accept Jesus and be saved. There is still a feeling that Catholics are not really Christian in some circles, and that was an important factor
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by kaitai 8y ago
You may not have read a lot about the contentious history of Catholicism in the US. Until the 1960s, many Protestant Americans still considered Catholic Americans "not really American" because of their alleged allegiance to an ext
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by kaitai 8y ago
In many states the employment market is so tight that jobs are going unfilled. This is especially true in blue-collar jobs that require interfacing with computers and advanced machinery. In many areas with higher unemployment rate, employer
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by kaitai 8y ago
I have to add that because dad can't lactate, he's developed more sophisticated strategies for dealing with infant discontent than this mom :)
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That's not the whole story (re: immunoglobulin). You're right in broad-brush strokes. The abstract at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12850343 has some quick notes on the broader context. For immunoglobul
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by kaitai 8y ago
Can't agree; know too many hobbyist beekeepers who've had 20-40 years beekeeping who can't keep a hive alive through a winter now. When I was a kid peoples' hives survived a harsh Minnesota winter. Now they all die even
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by kaitai 8y ago
I did some aikido lessons for maybe 6 weeks (studied Shotokan for 8 years, but that was a while ago). The classes I did spent a lot of time on understanding the intentions of the opponent and trying to find a mutual solution, and a lot of
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by kaitai 9y ago
You're upset for someone using the word "ped" for pedestrian while using a word that's got a dictionary definition of being vulgar and offensive for women? I have to say I'm rather confused. I feel I'm being tr
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by kaitai 9y ago
Similar methods are already in use in clothing design. Programs and patterns have the "extra space" built in; the jargon for it in knitwear is "ease" and it varies not only according to desired fit but also type of yarn&

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