panzagl

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811.
by panzagl 9y ago
Yeah the 'basic' sets I got in the 70's had plenty of wheels, slopes, windows, and those weird articulated arm people- the mythic age of children building everything out of rectangles never really existed.
812.
by panzagl 9y ago
Plaster bricks for modelling in a variety of scales have been around for a long time.
813.
by panzagl 9y ago
I miss webrings.
814.
by panzagl 9y ago
There's a difference between telling students that their best way out of poverty is education and promising to end poverty. Most educators believe the first, the second is wishful thinking sold by politicians.
815.
by panzagl 9y ago
Ever plug in 20 space heaters at once in a building whose electrical systems are over 50 years old?
816.
by panzagl 9y ago
That has little to do with how expensive it is to maintain a building, especially a government building.
817.
by panzagl 9y ago
Not every state is heavily unionized, and I don't think you'd point to the states without teacher's unions as being exemplars of education. The problem is new teachers are bad, and old teachers are bad- there's maybe a d
818.
by panzagl 9y ago
Older infrastructure requiring more maintenance, plus higher expenses/labor costs of city vs suburbs.
819.
by panzagl 9y ago
Schools have no obligation to end poverty- they have an obligation to provide an education to their students.
820.
by panzagl 9y ago
Selling a farm isn't like selling a house, you can go years with no offers.
821.
by panzagl 9y ago
Just the usual 'people used to do it, so it's ok'. Maybe I read too much into it.
822.
by panzagl 9y ago
And I remember reading how you used to be able to beat your wife with a stick no bigger than your thumb. Doesn't mean anything about today.
823.
by panzagl 9y ago
For a POS system input is probably all numbers- look up customer by phone, make choices from a menu, enter quantities. Letters are for new customers and special instructions. I worked at a print shop that switched from DOS to Windows for i
824.
by panzagl 9y ago
As opposed to now?
825.
by panzagl 9y ago
Agreed.
826.
by panzagl 9y ago
It's hard to tell how much filter was applied since the BBC article only cites the team themselves- I don't see any indication that Larsson is a 'Jr level person' in their field. This could have easily have been publish
827.
by panzagl 9y ago
No one doubts contact occurred. But articles like the original are often interpreted to mean 'see a thousand years ago Islam was peaceful, everything was great then white people screwed it up.' Whether that interpretation is warr
828.
by panzagl 9y ago
For all the bashing about twitter, in the not-too-distant past this exchange would have played out over a year or so, assuming the original claim didn't just languish in some obscure journal somewhere.
829.
by panzagl 9y ago
I think Allentown was affected more by the closure of steel mills than the construction of I-78- why live in the city center if there aren't any more jobs there than elsewhere.
830.
by panzagl 9y ago
If Joe Sixpack and Mohammed can communicate with each other they won't sit idly by while the fear-mongers use the other to justify terrorism/enforced liberty importation. At least in theory.
831.
by panzagl 9y ago
My favorite story about Campaign for North Africa involves a, uh, 'innovative' solution to the POW problem. As the British roll back the Italians, management of POWs becomes a large problem, requiring the players to create POW ca
832.
by panzagl 9y ago
If it replaces COS->DEN then that's 3 hours of a lot of peoples lives back when they travel.
833.
by panzagl 9y ago
The I-25 corridor is ideal- 20 miles to the east of it is basically BFE so it should be relatively simple to acquire right of way compared to, say California or the Northeast corridor. Also easier to deal with one state gov't instead
834.
by panzagl 9y ago
Right, and an iPhone can get you to the grocery store once you plug a car into it's charging port.
835.
by panzagl 9y ago
Find the box first, adapt the PCB to fit it.
836.
by panzagl 9y ago
All delivered in Adobe Flash...
837.
by panzagl 9y ago
Have you looked into employment with a US government (either state, local, or federal)? It's pretty much exactly what you described, plus you get to work on real problems instead of churning your minimally viable product into framework
838.
by panzagl 9y ago
Hey, how's the weather up there? :)
839.
by panzagl 9y ago
How many Polish genes do you think will be in Afghanistan in 2000 years- after all, Polish units have served in Afghanistan. I have an acquaintance whose Russian family lived in Azerbaijan during the fall of the Soviet Union- they figured
840.
by panzagl 9y ago
Taleb is disregarding the entire field of history because it is 'Anecdotal' as opposed to 'Statistical'. Since there are no 'statistics' from the period he is acting like he knows as much as one of top living s

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