ocschwar

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by ocschwar 9y ago
Nothing really. It's just that NYC decided to go into tech, and they have a lot of capital they can use to take in that direction. NYC could beat Boston in Red Sox fandom if they wanted to.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Dammit, the browser mangled my comment. Fixing: The authors included Chinese, Turkish and Slavic people. Not all of them could write well in English. And I didn't even have to look at their names to guess nationality, because they wou
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by ocschwar 9y ago
As part of my work, I've had t o read (and implement in code) papers from Elsevier journals. The authors included Chinese, Turkish and Slavic people. And I didn't even have to look at their 35 dollars for a paper when they don;t e
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by ocschwar 9y ago
> Also, how the hell is college so damn expensive It's a positional good, and the buyers are bidding for it using borrowed money, and bidding from a position that is underinformed and cannot be anything but underinformed. It's
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Medford to Haymarket commute for me, starting tomorrow.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
> Isn't this exactly what you would expect from something pleasant and rare? If you just want to make an area more affordable, you should make it less pleasant. I was a teenager in 1992 in a part of Chicago getting gentrified, and
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by ocschwar 9y ago
"4chan, like life, is what you make of it." 4chan is what I make of it. But it's also what the rest of society makes of it. That's why we're in deep shit.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
I first got on the Internet in 1993. In the last 23 years, I've seen the Internet evolve from primarily a text based interface, which encouraged long form writing, and line-by-line-dissection of long form writing, to a medium that is p
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Listen to the song Eleanor Rigby. It expresses it so well.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
An ounce of prevention is expensive enough in this space, and yet we expect local police forces to provide pounds of cure?
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Worth a try. Please, Frau Merkel, come to America and bore us. Please.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
The biggest problem, I am willing to bet, is that the gamification and the parameter changes are being done by desk jockeys who have never worked the floor at one of these warehouses.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Read page 12 here: https://ia801502.us.archive.org/17/items/SelectedPapers1977/...
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by ocschwar 9y ago
I'm reading what Nelson wrote in the 60's right now, and I'm dumbfounded by the guy's genius. But if I were reading his stuff in the 60's, I'd probably consider it frivolous nonsense and get on with my day. Tod
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Zoning codes in the US are mostly copies of zoning code templates published decades ago, so even though every single place has its own, it's a little-modified version of what everyone else has. Even dense US towns are zoned against den
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Brooklyn. Provincetown, MA. Charlestown, SC
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by ocschwar 9y ago
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-admin-moves-bar-hai... Well? Justify this.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
You're giving him way too much credit. And he's already taking concrete steps to round up Haitians and send them back.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
The word "shithole" isn't racist. And any of my Haitian neighbors will confirm, anywhere you go in Haiti, you put your life in your hands if you try to drink tap water, which by common definition is what makes a place a shith
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by ocschwar 9y ago
A freedom you can only exercise with a license.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Which leads to the lovely phenomenon called a lunchtime rush hour, which really belongs around the 4th circle of Hell.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Yes. There are business parks along the highways all over the suburbs, and so everyone has a hellish suburb-to-suburb commute.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Visit Atlanta, Georgia, or Charlotte, North Carolina, or Phoenix, Arizona before wishing that on your own city. We made that particular mistake already. You don't need to repeat it.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
For anyone outside the very rich, housing is not a consumer-driven market. When you're looking for housing, your choices are basically to move into something that exists, or living in a van by the rive. You don't get to put a cons
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by ocschwar 9y ago
They did that when they were trying to be recognized as a state, which they were earnestly trying to do all the way to September 10th, 2001. Without that prospect, they stopped bothering. The Taliban's popularity came despite the opium
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by ocschwar 9y ago
I would say their wording is pretty sympathetic here, when the context we're talking about is new militias operating checkpoints in Mexico.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
The top talent might be leaving, but the databases and the lovely toys are staying put. To be used by not-top-talent. Interesting times.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Patriotism: plenty of ethno-specific religions out there. I was born into one. Racism: "race is our religion" - an explicit slogan for more than one neonazi movement. Functional programming: when an advocate moves past "one m
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by ocschwar 9y ago
In The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James had to define religion. So he defined it as "the sense that there is an unseen order to things, and that one must conform to it harmoniously." Bolshevism obviously qualifies.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Of course they would have laughed, just as the Mormon leadership laughs at The Book of Mormon, the musical.

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