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811.
by narag 5y ago
I do remember more than that about the movie. It really impacted me. It's funny that I started reading the book many years later, not knowing that it was the inspiration for the movie. I realized almost half way through the book.
812.
by narag 5y ago
I remember a time when there was the good, the bad and the ugly. You knew which was each with a cursory glance. Now there are a hundred, most of them below the cut, with top ranked = SEO junk.
813.
by narag 5y ago
Same length as my kitchen knife, just thinner. Is that unusual for a dagger?
814.
by narag 5y ago
This sounds pretty much like good cop, bad cop. Also the bottom line: is it wise to have deals with someone that's not accountable to their own people? What about Xi being replaced by someone with a different personality? While it&#x27
815.
by narag 5y ago
Thank you, very useful and works like a charm: a must have.
816.
by narag 5y ago
Not a general computing book, but the one that I really enjoyed reading and following was File Structures by Michael J. Folk and Bill Zoellick. It introduced B trees to me and a certain way of thinking about computing problems.
817.
by narag 5y ago
But the IKEA hate seems mostly based on snobbery and/or brand awareness. I don't hate them, on the contrary I'm a regular customer that doesn't mind assembling. I dislike the "maze", yes I know the shortcuts,
818.
by narag 5y ago
This one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_habit#/media/File:Bari... After a long time of sanding down.
819.
by narag 5y ago
I haven't tried this one, but I will. My reason is that I quit Linux because they took away the two pane, file tree in the left, file explorer from me. I was using lxde and suddenly they decided to "redesign" the explorer (mo
820.
by narag 5y ago
Maybe for huge orchards, but I said it was hypnotic because it was more of a technical work. Once the trenches are in place (and they can be made with a tractor) the only work is one move with the hoe to switch the water flow from one trenc
821.
by narag 5y ago
Not sure if you didn't understand or you're being deliberately obtuse to make another point. Of course the implication was that the USA can still thrive even spending that money, a pittance compared with public expenses in othe
822.
by narag 5y ago
The city is gorgeus in general. Their hobby of burning things and making a big noise with gunpowder is also a plus for me... I hope I can go to Fallas one of these years.
823.
by narag 5y ago
My home as a child had been a duck farm. My father converted it to an orange trees (and all kind of vegetables) orchard, it was 3k m2 (that's almost eight acres) so we had plenty of space. It was hypnotic watching the sharecropper, wit
824.
by narag 5y ago
No, I'm from another country. From my point of view it's more like stop wasting money for other useless purposes so we can grow. If we've been able to survive, no doubt the USA can thrive.
825.
by narag 5y ago
So who exactly is going to pay for all this? Let's see (only what I have answers to): Cheap rents and affordable housing. Allow more vertical building. Protective nets for periods of illness/unemployment/etc. I and my e
826.
by narag 5y ago
But the group of people that made up the "old we" (to the extent that such a thing ever existed) still exists. I'm afraid that even if that's true, the us vs. them mindset is polluting the air.
827.
by narag 5y ago
We don't have to lean into defeatism and give up. I think the problem is we . Was there a we before? Maybe but there is no we anymore for sure. The Net used to be kind of a different world that escaped how the offline world work
828.
by narag 5y ago
There are actually three different justifications for prison: * Retribution ("a punishment") * General prevention ("a jailed person cannot keep hurting others and prison threat is a deterrent") * Special prevention (reha
829.
by narag 5y ago
You think the baby really wants to hear googoo gaagaa? Now, they are trying to say "I'm hungry. Feed me!" I suspect they know the sound they want to make but they don't know how to articulate it. They make an approxima
830.
by narag 5y ago
...but please note you’re exactly wrong about baby talk! But, but... I didn't say anything about baby talk!! The definition in that Wikipedia page is about something completely different: exaggerating intonation.
831.
by narag 5y ago
That's like speaking to little children, that are learning to talk, reproducing their errors. Some adults believe that it's cute, but it's idiotic, confuses the babies and make their progress more difficult and slow.
832.
by narag 5y ago
Another point for anyone considering whether we should send a space-probe there... We should and do send probes anywhere that's practical. The question is more like when it will be practical to build star probes. The current fastest
833.
by narag 5y ago
The person I was responding to said that German can be read without knowing the meaning, unlike Spanish. That's not correct. Depends on accent. Some regions do diferenciate. Maybe because, as I wrote in a previous comment, they speak
834.
by narag 5y ago
Exactly, there are none. Some persons make them a little different because they also speak other languages, like French or English where they're different. There's no problem wiht that, but it's not needed either.
835.
by narag 5y ago
In Spanish B and V sounds exactly the same. H and J are strictly different. H is the only silent letter. Let me remind you that I was answering to your comment where you say: ...read signs and essays aloud without having the faintest idea
836.
by narag 5y ago
Even those have a whole bunch of exceptions Are you sure? I'm a native Spanish speaker and mastered the "whole bunch" (ce, ci, que, qui, gue, gui) by the age of four.
837.
by narag 5y ago
khazhoux explained the context very well. I'd add that what clicks for me is how the story is building up until it reaches an absurd level, kind of "how the hell did we get to this" coupled with Walken's straight face. Y
838.
by narag 5y ago
... to get a laugh at that punchline (which was hilarious). I LOL'd to tears, but I was the only person laughing in a full theatre, so my girlfriend was mortified.
839.
by narag 5y ago
Don't forget they're talking about two black holes merging, so there are actually extreme relativistic effects to consider.
840.
by narag 5y ago
Is this the first time a civilian has been able to perpetrate an attack on a country? That's the definition of terrorism when it's not "domestic terrorism".

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