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by kbutler 4y ago
Orwellian newspeak definitely expanded the dictionary in doubleplusungood ways, including redefining existing terms to mean the opposite ("WAR IS PEACE, SLAVERY IS FREEDOM" - words are violence, silence is violence, facts are misi
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by kbutler 4y ago
Yes, the problems with the economy remain the same whether we attach the label "recession" or not. Yes, job growth is a counter-indicator, an unusual feature of an economy having the problems we are having. However, there are sepa
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by kbutler 4y ago
50 years ago, half the population of the world lived in extreme poverty. This percentage and the total number of people in extreme poverty have made extreme declines since that time. https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-povert
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by kbutler 4y ago
I find it a delightful bit of whimsy and am sorry you can't enjoy it.
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by kbutler 4y ago
Lawyers can work for a corporate client, but those corporations can't offer legal advice to third parties. Law firms that take on clients must be lawyer-owned. "Under Attorney Rule of Professional Conduct 5.4, law firms are barred
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by kbutler 4y ago
But agricultural water could be entered into the market for residential usage - the current legal structure incentivizes using the water for agriculture, rather than allowing reselling for higher-value-per-gallon uses. I was curious about t
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by kbutler 4y ago
Site down? archive.org has: https://web.archive.org/web/20220426103006/https://shkspr.mo...
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by kbutler 5y ago
Nightmares, crying through the night, anxiety about fantasy monsters and apocalyptic destruction. Yes, these can happen without the movie. Yes, some children will be fine with them. No, you won't always realize what the child is having
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by kbutler 5y ago
And the word list & order is definitely copyrightable. But you could probably argue that a list of historic wordles is a factual data set and thus exempt from copyright.
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by kbutler 5y ago
One extra? Maybe bbillion pronounced b-billion would be better. And to add confusion, note that UK English had 1e6 million 1e9 thousand million 1e12 billion (million million) I think this has mostly consolidated to the US usage now
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by kbutler 5y ago
I'm sorry you feel that way. What records are you looking for? Here's a page describing the available genealogical records from the Philippines and where you can find them: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wik
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by kbutler 5y ago
There is a crowd-sourced effort to "index" (create textual copies of the information) in the images sponsored by FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/1950census/ They will make the images and data search
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by kbutler 5y ago
And the law is written by...
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by kbutler 5y ago
Doesn't fit the data - if he's already been sleeping, his bed will be warm, and he wouldn't have the incentive to get up and change beds.
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by kbutler 5y ago
Sorry, that's AWS.
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by kbutler 5y ago
Compared to what? "Dad goes to work at an office 9-5, then has a commute to come home, then focuses on his own hobbies"? Frankly, this sounds like a lot of focused family time: """ At 5:00 I stop, and 5:00 until 10
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by kbutler 5y ago
> The most useless button in the world. Let me introduce you to SysRq https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_request
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by kbutler 5y ago
Because they are visual designers, not interaction designers, so appearance is the primary criteria, rather than visual affordances to guide the user. Recommend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Thing
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by kbutler 5y ago
I turn off JavaScript on the NYTimes site.
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by kbutler 5y ago
Yeah, I couldn't come up with one, either. Kibbutzim are questionably successful at best - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz_crisis for example, but they seem to be an upper scalability limit.
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by kbutler 5y ago
"What's the difference between Marxism & just unrealistic idealism" Difference between Marxism and unrealistic idealism, not between Marxism and other political regimes. But I'd love to see an example of a Marxist re
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by kbutler 5y ago
One clear difference is the leaders enriching themselves without advancing the welfare of the people they claim to be promoting.
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by kbutler 5y ago
He meant commodity 'something that can be traded, or any useful thing' rather than commodity 'when customers perceive little or no value difference between brands or versions.'
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by kbutler 5y ago
Family members have different temperature preferences. Supplemental heating/cooling can add comfort for a compromise temperature.
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by kbutler 5y ago
If you're doing machine learning, python is a very viable language to actually use.
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by kbutler 5y ago
:-D Great question. Probably? https://www.yellowpages.com/search?search_terms=snowmobile+r...
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by kbutler 5y ago
Sounds really conclusive, doesn't it? If you look a bit deeper at the statistics, this database "records disasters which have killed ten or more people; affected 100 or more people; resulted in a declared state of emergency, or a
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by kbutler 5y ago
Does climate change also explain the larger storms in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries? https://www.novec.com/About_NOVEC/Virginias-Historic-Snowsto...
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by kbutler 5y ago
"...on snowmobiles..." So the drivers could leave, but the cars would remain stranded.
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by kbutler 5y ago
Wanted to say thanks for many hours of puzzling and enjoyment with my brothers growing up. I always appreciated that the puzzles you created had logical solutions, though I confess we also examined the strings embedded in the programs for c

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