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by maw 16y ago
"Baseball is ultimately broken down into a series of 1-on-1 match-ups. A pitcher vs. a hitter, with a defense behind them. It's a team sport but the largest functions of the game are 1-on-1. No other major professional sport is like that."
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by maw 16y ago
I've seen "modest proposals" that whose authors didn't know that they're supposed to be parodies. If my reading of Dickey's piece is on target, this is one of those cases where the author didn't know.
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by maw 16y ago
For the people who do switch languages often it's very handy to be able to do so quickly. Wikipedia is in its way an excellent translation tool when you're looking for relatively specialized terms.
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by maw 16y ago
If we pretend that there are two parties, equal in all respects, except that party A eats baby boys and party B eats baby girls, that would be a tough choice to make. I can't decide which is worse. I'd be wrestling with the choice up to t
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Mokoko, the Venice of Lagos, Built on a Pile of Rubbish(athousandnations.com)
1 points by maw 16y ago|0 comments
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by maw 16y ago
Well said. The question you responded to, "What kind of person still hasn't made up their mind the day before an election?", is absurd, and that absurdity stems from unclear thinking. It's as though people think of politics as a one dimens
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by maw 16y ago
Depends on who's doing the pronouncing, I suppose, but certainly linguists are not competent in all languages. Two obvious examples occur to me. The first is the clicking sound in some African languages. Another is a speaker accustomed to
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by maw 16y ago
It would, until you have to pronounce a sound you have trouble making.
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by maw 17y ago
It's true that most people are in school because they have to be, but in what other subject are standards and expectations so low? Most of my Spanish classes had a nudge nudge wink wink aspect to them: the teacher didn't expect us to learn
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by maw 17y ago
It probably also annoyed Mrs. Jones when she made calls using the Jones' shared line which was in Mr. Jones' name.
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by maw 17y ago
Both have horizontal bars underneath. I prefer my knees and shins nonbashed when I have the choice, thanks.
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by maw 17y ago
Chile and Uruguay are supposedly well-governed. I'm not sure about taxation in either. Despite that, I agree with you: there's a lot to recommend Latin America (I've lived in Mexico for almost six years), but generally you don't include mo
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by maw 17y ago
bzr can do that with its shared repos. It's not too hard to fake it with git, either. (This assumes you know how to use git, which without a doubt is hard, despite what its apologists may tell you.)
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by maw 17y ago
How do you square that with public key cryptography?
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by maw 17y ago
Good question. Unless there's some table valid phone number patterns corresponding to various regions, the best you can do might be to check for dashes, digits, dots, and parenthesis. Maybe also check that it doesn't exceed some arbitrary
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by maw 17y ago
It looks like a great example of the all else equal fallacy: "let's take language S which is statically typed and language D which is dynamically typed [...]. Let's also say that these two languages are identical in all respects except for
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by maw 17y ago
I second the recommendation of van der Linden's book. It was through that book, along with lots of programming and experimentation, of course, that I finally understood C.
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by maw 17y ago
It is a lot of time, but don't forget that to watch TV you basically just need time. To work you need time and attention, and at some point you don't have the energy to give work the attention it needs to get done.
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Revisiting Simon-Ehrlich(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by maw 17y ago|0 comments
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by maw 17y ago
It's when you downshift your bike, pedal hard and fast, and say "woooo!" in a high voice. (I just made that up.)
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by maw 17y ago
Yet they've published Isabel Allende's talk?
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by maw 17y ago
If so, will they still be cheaper to operate? I can buy that they'll still use less energy on net, but that isn't the only concern here.
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by maw 17y ago
Some DNS caches will continue to try giving out expired records if no newer ones can be found. Unclear that it's worth it, though.
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by maw 17y ago
Not taking a side on branching philosophies (other than that I think it's good to be branching lots), but git does let you do checkouts in multiple directories. It uses hardlinks (in the repo, not in the checkout, obviously) so it's fairly
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by maw 17y ago
And then there's the impossibly naive political predictions which, the less said about the better. I think we should talk about how naïve some people were (and continue to be). Maybe it'll make people less trusting of people and institut
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by maw 17y ago
It's true of Arabic, though; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet#Primary_letters .
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by maw 17y ago
This is easy if you're speaking in English: http://english-jack.blogspot.com/2007/09/if-they-will-only-l... .
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by maw 17y ago
It's true that many young people don't care much about Shakespeare, but some people come around to reading him later in life, voluntarily. For my part, I haven't read much Shakespeare as an adult, but I have a poster about him and his lang
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by maw 17y ago
I don't think I should feel guilty either, yet I do anyway. I don't want to give the impression that I think the guilt is rational, though. Still, rational or not, the feeling is real, and I'm not the only person by any means to have it.
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by maw 17y ago
Running an OS in a VM per se is unlikely to. But if the host system has poor package management and the virtualization software proves problematic (some of them install files all over the place, including kernel extensions), restoring the

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