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by onecommentman 6y ago
1. I do wonder why in the US we permit discrimination based on place of residence and place of birth. You can legally discriminate based on accent or other indicators of your place of birth or development, but not legally discriminate for
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by onecommentman 6y ago
The sq ft per person in the average US home during the Depression was about 200 to 250. The sq ft per person in the average US home in the 2010s was about 1000. Wake me when the sq ft per person returns to the 250 level. Most comparisons
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by onecommentman 6y ago
Shhh! The earthquake gods are listening...
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by onecommentman 6y ago
Just before the heat death of the universe, the last detectable message from the last computing structure dissolving into an entropic goo will be "emacs rules vi drools". There is something oddly comforting in that fact for those
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by onecommentman 6y ago
A distinction needs to be made between the Zeitgeist of a time and the Genius Loci of a place. Is it part of the Genius Loci of the Bay Area to be Bohemian? I get the air for sourdough, and terroir for wine, but culture? It’s a deep ques
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by onecommentman 6y ago
Some ideas might be taken from what happened in Santa Fe New Mexico. Their art boom started in the 1910s, real estate went high in the 1960s, climbed even higher through the 1990s. My understanding/recollection is the living vital art
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by onecommentman 6y ago
Including, it appears, the New York Times itself. From their 2019 Annual Report, "Digital advertising revenue was flat this year as we’ve pivoted our business and focused on building revenue from audio and other new sources while als
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by onecommentman 6y ago
I much prefer MIT’s earlier article "How to dismiss that ridiculous plate tectonic theory while smoking a pipe in your office". I think it was published in the 1940s or 1950s. Popular at the time, as I recall.
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by onecommentman 6y ago
The cited CDC weekly report has a graph that compares weekly ILI (influenza-like illnesses) cases per week for each of the last few flu seasons. For the same time period (calendar week), influenza cases are roughly the same for 2020 as in
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by onecommentman 6y ago
For certain values of "success", neither...it is an internal psychological/spiritual state. For other values of "success", it is by definition arrived at only by hard work. For still others, a little of both. &qu
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by onecommentman 6y ago
I wonder if used bookstores should be thought of as that "third place" (not work or home) a significant percentage of the population like to hang out at, rather than just a retail shop. Would a used bookstore look different if i
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by onecommentman 6y ago
Two obligatory comments: 1. Manhattan is not NYC. There are five, count them, five boroughs. Didn’t Johnny T on Glove and Boots teach you numbskulls nothin’? Manhattan is one borough. The author would probably wet his pants if he stepp
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by onecommentman 6y ago
There was an episode of Monty Python I remember. The premise was that in the late 1960s Hitler and his cronies, under assumed identities, were staying at an English boarding house in Minehead, Somerset planning "to get the band back t
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by onecommentman 6y ago
If you are a freshman or sophomore and you have a modicum of self-discipline and motivation, it can be a great strategy. You know those core courses at which you want to excel but will suck up most your time? Do you realize how much eas
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by onecommentman 6y ago
Please don’t obsess about this, especially online. You play into the stereotype of the Bay Area as some latter-day 19th Century Boston, which was described in that era as "applying first principles to trifles". Forget it, kid, i
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by onecommentman 6y ago
Well, for computer science, it is straightforward. Computer science is the science that lies somewhere between science of astrology and the science of numerology, without the popularity of the former or the formality of the latter. (Not m
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by onecommentman 7y ago
Don’t listen to the haters ranting against astrology. They are computer science types for the most part and are jealous, seeing that computer science itself sits somewhere between astrology and numerology, without the popularity of the for