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by ptero 3y ago
OK, how much are they? Honest question, I want (and afraid) to be enlightened.
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by ptero 3y ago
As an American who used to enjoy the freedom of speech 20 years ago and whose freedom of speech has been greatly eroded by (among others) the big tech I strongly support this verdict. If Google provides a neutral search it should not be r
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by ptero 3y ago
I did not read it this way. I read that post as arguing that fast writing is neither particularly important (which is what I read to be the main point) nor that hard (which, I think is what you focused on).
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by ptero 3y ago
> Going back and hunting for strong, crisp verbs is not some crutch for weak writers; it’s the minimum standard of care when writing something for mass consumption. For mass consumption, sure. But the best writers almost never wrote for
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by ptero 3y ago
It is the dominant player in this category, but a few others are there, too.
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by ptero 3y ago
Good to know, thank you! Totally fair on language, I assumed that a person moving to a country will have to learn (or, better, already know) a language. Do kids from other countries tend to be accepted well in schools? I heard that at least
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by ptero 3y ago
First of all, I am not bashing EU or Europe -- great countries, great history, etc. But I would pretty strongly disagree on "just as easy to move around the EU" part. From what I understand it is super smooth for vacations, but no
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by ptero 3y ago
US certainly has its share of horrible cities. That said, US is a collection of regions with very different social setups and it is easy to move between them. It is common, as preferences change, for youngsters to live for a few years in on
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by ptero 3y ago
Much of the nuclear delays are due to political ambivalence, not technical issues. Once there is a clear will to move, they can move very fast. Finland that you quote was marinating it's Olkiluoto reactor for many years. Then Russia in
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by ptero 3y ago
> Cities outside of US are just fine for raising children. Idk, there are many cities outside the US where I wouldn't want to stay more than absolutely necessary, let alone raise children.
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by ptero 4y ago
To nitpick, the number of actual truck drivers is likely much lower. My guess is 2.5% includes mechanics, loaders, dispatchers, etc.
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by ptero 4y ago
By "external shocks" I did not mean daily or weekly fluctuations, but price jumps lasting many months to several years. Like oil price spikes 2006-2008, or less extreme but longer 2010-2014. Or shorter, but more extreme natgas spi
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by ptero 4y ago
It probably depends on your time of arrival. With some rooms sold as fully refundable or as "one night fee for no show", the hotel does not know, even at 10PM, how many people will actually show up, so many go with first come firs
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by ptero 4y ago
A huge benefit of nuclear is the ability to generate a lot of base power to smooth out various external shocks. In addition to the fact that Germany is running on coal, as others noted, German industry has been badly decimated by the energy
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by ptero 4y ago
It feels this way to me, too; and just from a user perspective it feels better, too. Although it may not be financially sustainable.
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by ptero 4y ago
Good article (although I would also add my vote to "do not buy the cheapest iron" group). It would be great to include a few ideas on what to try in this "how to get started" guide. It can be anything from an artsy sol
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by ptero 4y ago
It might be worth trying, but you are describing CDs with souped up interest rates. Many poor folks carry credit card balances at 15+% interest. Paying those off would be much more efficient for them that those CDs. Unfortunately if they ma
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by ptero 4y ago
It is hard to come up with a setup where paying poor people takes that money to savings (i.e., gets it out of the circulation). I am not saying paying poor folks is always a bad idea, I just fail to see a single practical approach where thi
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by ptero 4y ago
Is this sarcasm? There is what, to me and many other parents, amounts to heavy advertising of medical transition in many classrooms.
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by ptero 4y ago
> I have been told from very well placed sources in the US Intelligence community this is probably a hit. I generally agree with the rest of your post that SF has become a crime-ridden hellhole, but how do they know so quickly? Are they
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by ptero 4y ago
As parents, myself and my wife get to make medical decisions for our children until they become adults. I saw a lot of push and propaganda in schools to subvert this setup, for my kids in the name of ideology. This is now the #1 issue for
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by ptero 4y ago
I bet that was it! I either got a sticker like this or got it at the university store as a free add-on to a 90% discounted VC++.
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by ptero 4y ago
Thank you for the info! As I said, I definitely remember Win2k, but not how I got it. My guess is OEM CD to be most likely, then bootleg, then full retail. Another option was student bookstore. Microsoft sold its wares at universities at st
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by ptero 4y ago
This is ancient memory for me, but it definitely didn't feel this way. Some plausible options are: (1) Win2k Home was much cheaper than Win2k Pro. Possibly an upgrade version was cheaper still. (2) I had a bootleg version (3) I started
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by ptero 4y ago
I did not use NT at home, but I occasionally used it at school. For me at that time, the ability to play games had been as strong a requirement as the ability to be stable and run word processing, email clients and VC++. So I would use Win9
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by ptero 4y ago
For me, the big change came with Windows 2000. It had user benefits from 9x in a stable package. That was the first version that I can play games on and also leave it running for months, just like a Linux box.
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by ptero 4y ago
The "elementary/middle/high school" distinction might have been virtual. My grandfather told me that most rural schools in his time, including the one he went to, had several grades in a single room. Occasionally a singl
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by ptero 4y ago
I do not think you are wrong. It was a joint declaration, but from what I vaguely remember, the idea came from Europe and everyone understood it to be a great PR value with no technical pull. My 2c.
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by ptero 4y ago
> Btw if it's either NATO or nuclear bombs, why didn't Finland get nuclear bombs in the last 60 years? Finland is a small country and nukes are very expensive (and hard) to deal with all the way: development, manufacture, deplo
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by ptero 4y ago
To nitpick: it was not the US that invoked article 5 after 9/11. It was driven by its European allies, which wanted a show of support at that time, to be expressed any way they could. The actual impact of that article 5 was pretty no

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