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by pizzetta 10y ago
That's one definition, but it has expanded into "Both in popular usage and in sociolinguistic study, the name code-switching is sometimes used to refer to switching among dialects, styles or registers" according to(1) (1) htt
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by pizzetta 10y ago
Isn't this what in linguistics people call 'code-switching'? It's a contextual and cultural thing. Just like when people go into formal settings like an interview for a white collar job, they tone down the swearing --bu
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Aren't there legacy applications which expect swap where otherwise with modern applications swap isn't necessary? Or, at least that is my current (mis)-understanding...
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by pizzetta 10y ago
Bill Maher said something along the same lines. That if people in the opposing camp decide they are going to objectify their opposition as one monolithic group of uncouth people that Democrats would lose in the next election --not sure abo
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by pizzetta 10y ago
I think we need some kind of arbiter of last resort when there is contention for resources or other things which do not respect borders (like climate, resource depletion, pollution, disease, etc).
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by pizzetta 10y ago
That describes internal migration rather than immigration (international migration). In the end the results may be similar, but it's a different thing. You can't be deported out of China (though you can be sent back to your villa
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by pizzetta 10y ago
Yep, it's the new navigation because of search noted above and because of typo squatters with malware.
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Some cultures are less sensitive to these noises than others --in some places, people chew open-mouthed normally, which can get some getting used to as someone used to chewing mouth closed.
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by pizzetta 10y ago
I found a response from essentially the horse's mouth #1: "So, there were about three candidate locations, Memphis and, as I recall, Cincinnati and Kansas City. The Memphis airport had some old WWII hangers next to the runway that
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by pizzetta 10y ago
Wasn't Cincinnati the alternate choice for hub by Fred Smith and colleagues at the founding of FedEx?
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by pizzetta 10y ago
With technology today, do we need interpreters in-situ (e-mail, voice, video, etc.)? Also, as we have Americans volunteer abroad for different missions, we too can look for overseas volunteers who could contribute to help in edge-case caus
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by pizzetta 10y ago
"Bullitt" has some nice scenes of that area as well as others in SF as McQueen chased the hitmen all over the place, including visitation valley, Guadalupe canyon road and some in the marina, etc.
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by pizzetta 10y ago
But they did engage in grand designs (like the Aral water diversion project, and more recently the three gorges dam project) and lax environmental concerns. So it's not clear to me that they were "better" however they were p
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by pizzetta 10y ago
Any such "tech automation moratorium" would have to be a world-wide thing. It would not work if everyone abided by a moratorium but the US didn't or Every did but Australia --that would create an unfair advantage to the one
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by pizzetta 10y ago
I don't know much about this industry --as in I know nothing, but I think some of the costly parts are "exploration rights" as well as regulatory hurdles and costs. If you own some land with mineral rights, then you can do s
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by pizzetta 10y ago
They probably don't have an insignificant number of Windows machines themselves so it's likely addressing some internal deployment issues for themselves. so it totally makes sense for them to build a tool like this.
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by pizzetta 10y ago
Not directly answering your question, but Lowell HS[1] is the only high performing public HS in SF. Its admission is performance-based and is mostly Asian (56+%). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_High_School_(Sa
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by pizzetta 10y ago
California is notorious for having poorly run schools. For good schools look in Massachusetts. If you look at the BOS metro area they tend towards the top of the school systems nation-wide. It's hard to find poorly run schools in th
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by pizzetta 10y ago
Also the (working) parents are tired and drained after work -all they want to do is pick the kids up and take them back home. They have little energy for any Parent-teacher meetings, functions, fund-raisers, etc. Crosstown assignments are
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by pizzetta 10y ago
If you look at the new housing stock coming on-line there is a dearth of "family" housing stock --most units have DINKs in mind. they have bikes in mind, not strollers. Yoga space, not daycare, an open floor plan with no child&#
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by pizzetta 10y ago
When the school is on the other side of town the parents get involved in the students life and education less. They drop them off and pick them up and that's about as far as the interaction goes --they don't go to school function
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by pizzetta 10y ago
Yes, the lottery system which can land your kid who lives one block away from their preferred school but gets assigned to a school on the other side of town and 45 mins away in traffic is one big red flashing migraine for many parents.
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by pizzetta 10y ago
Of course, but given that in the SF example, at least, the proportion of the pop under 18yoa is very low, so that more or less will result in fewer resources dedicated to education. If the proportion under 18yoa of people were increasing w
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by pizzetta 10y ago
Living with roommates and living in small quarters as well as spending half of your money on housing is okay when you are single and having fun exploring your self and your potential and direction --but once people have children equations c
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That genie is not getting put back in the bottle. What we need to do is have laws which protect us against not only government surveillance but company as well as private individual surveillance. Government surveillance is but one aspect o
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by pizzetta 10y ago
Any contributions go to a common pot allotted by a caucus vote system. I don't think a crackpot going up for election should get the same (monetary/election) support as people who actually have tenable platforms, so I would not a
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by pizzetta 10y ago
In the Case of some of these Uber drivers, they are kind of arbitraging costs. They live in Sacto but work in SF. But yeah, I'd support a tiered living wage (more for over 25yo, less for younger adults to give them a way to get into
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by pizzetta 10y ago
And importantly, proper sanitation facilities.
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by pizzetta 10y ago
I wonder if it would make sense in some cities to set-up "internet café" or capsule hotel-like accommodations[1]. Dense urban areas in other countries have these "overflow" spaces which diverged somewhat from their orig
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by pizzetta 10y ago
Since absence of term limits is not quite working (we get career politicians) and challengers are at a disadvantage compared to incumbents, I think it's worth trying term limits. It gets us a bit closer to "demo + cracy". If

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