ocschwar

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   by ocschwar 7y ago

   In Hebrew its Chinese.
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   by ocschwar 7y ago

   A lot of young Estonians went west to make money to send home, and that money counts towards GDP in France/England et cetera, not Estonia, even though it then was sent home. Meanwhile, they were not home to add to the public health sta
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   by ocschwar 7y ago

   Easy access to opiates thanks to Russia.
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   by ocschwar 7y ago

   Israeli-Egyptian-Gazan blockade. What material makes it past the first two is then held tightly by the Hamas militias as a means of exerting control over the Gazan population.
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   by ocschwar 7y ago

   > Why would they when Israel doesn't recognize Palestine as a state? In order to get Palestine recognized by Israel as a state. > Do you think that if they did recognize Israel then Israel would automatically return the favor and
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   by ocschwar 7y ago

   Note also that the winds are driven by the temperature difference between the equator and the poles. The greenhouse effect warms the poles more than it warms the equator, thereby lowering that difference. So less wind. Which means the water
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   by ocschwar 7y ago

   Some people have a really inflated view of their understanding of the Dunning Kruger effect.
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   by ocschwar 7y ago

   > Can anyone explain to me the appeal of cruises? Got one word for you: Kindle. IOW: yeah, I don't get the appeal either. But I didn't need to. Smile and not in front of the family. Then go in a corner with a kindle.
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   by ocschwar 7y ago

   The reason you can't afford a 4 bedroom apartment when you can afford a HOUSE is that large apartments are rare in American cities, because municipal governments do everything to prevent them from being built. The few that exist were b
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    A major problem in American cities is what's called "contraception zoning." It's a de facto and sometimes de jure ban on large (as in 4 or more bedroom) apartments.
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    I really, really, really want to do a working stint in Venice. Just rent one of those apartments, VPN in to work and code all day. I know actually living in Venice is a challenge. It's a long walk to run any errand, and if you need som
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    The degree to which words are inflected by context. In English, it's almost nil. In Chinese, it's nil. Lingua Romana Perligata is an amusing example of how to use a heavily inflected language for programming, but it shows why you
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    English's largely non-inflected, positional syntax makes it a good fit for programming languages. Chinese would be better if not for the writing system.
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    Can you figure out which dialect the original author is learning here? From some of the vocabulary I'm pretty sure it isn't the Damascene Arabic I learned.
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    My first name starts with it. Owing to my accent, I have trouble pronouncing it. Growing up in Israel, among "Arab Jews" who did not have this problem, I was reminded daily of the difficulty I have in pronouncing my own name.
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    I don't know. Having read it only makes me believe more strongly in the backfire effect.
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    Very helpful!
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    Already happening. There's a bacterium that's already good at living in the interface between the aluminum foil and plastic in a CD. But we can't count on it to undo the damage within our lifetimes.
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    I am extremely out sync. I ride my bike every day right through the heart of alleged MS-13 territory. The American public thinks I've been shot into Swiss cheese by now.
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    The actual DNS system is vulnerable to domain registrar takedown requests.
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    Places like LA leave people in a situation where they literally need a license from the government just to step outside their home and fetch milk. You call this freedom?
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    It's a molecule that did not exist 70 years ago. Nothing on earth evolved to handle it, so its side effects could be N
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    Boy am I looking forward to going to Dayton for Rust Belt Rust. The bar soap better be awesome.
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    Tourism in the US is heavily concentrated in blue zones. So a double "win" for the Trumpists. Subject the foreigners to indignity and hit the liberals in the wallet. SMFH
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    5 paces out of Oslo city limits and you're surrounded by woodlots and farming. Easy to reach that line by public transit.
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    ocschwar in 1996 would have sided with Bill Gates too, albeit for different reasons. In 1996 we were seeing disinfo activists (such as Holocaust denialists) trying to emerge from the margins and turn Usenet into their space, and being pushe
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    Those companies are here because the colleges are here.
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    I'm debt free and employed, so I shouldn't be too worried about my own prospects, but when the college tuition bubble pops, so will the value of my house since I'm near BOS. It needs to happen but I am not looking forward to
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    There are other cycles, most of which are right now in a cooling phase, and yet we are warming. So those cycles (i.e. Milankovich cycles) can be written off already
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    by ocschwar 7y ago

    Not the test. When you're a PE and you stamp a design, you're affirming the following: 1. I am qualified and able to judge the fitness for purpose and safety of this design. 2. In my estimation it is safe and fit for purpose. 3.