rodric

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by rodric 4y ago
Your point stands, but population dynamics over the last 75 years complicate matters. There are as many immigrants in the United States today (not even counting children of immigrants) as there are Black Americans – immigrants who of course
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by rodric 4y ago
‘Not too long ago, it was perfectly fine for people to turn up at your house unannounced, to pay you a visit, for no reason in particular other than to engage socially and you were expected to host them at your house (!).’ Two thoughts come
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by rodric 4y ago
It is certainly a minority position, but some historians and scholars of religion do see reason for doubt: https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/21420
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by rodric 4y ago
With the exception of Saturday. Tacitus associated the Hebrew sabbath («sábado») with Saturn, but the word for the day itself is not «saturno» as it would be if it were like English.
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by rodric 4y ago
The enemy must never know when he sleeps!
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by rodric 4y ago
Not quite true. Hide My Email is included in iCloud+, which is a paid subscription service.
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by rodric 4y ago
It should be noted, however, that those major updates had longer lifespans then. Snow Leopard, the first Intel-only version of Mac OS, came out in 2009.
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by rodric 4y ago
An alternative is to create a server on another device on your local network that the old iPad can connect to by HTTP and transfer the photos via Safari. For example, use FTPManager ( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/f
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by rodric 4y ago
HTTPS unfortunately breaks compatibility with old software. Try to focus on its offline rather than online uses: ebooks, music (AAC/MP3), movies (H.264), photos. Or, if you write, maybe it can serve as a distraction-free writing enviro
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by rodric 4y ago
You can copy them to a computer over USB, no?
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by rodric 4y ago
If only he had! I suppose it could be as you suggest, but the context does not seem to me to fit a past tense indicative. Just a few lines earlier he even writes ‘Thou … art alive still, while thy book doth live,’ and the previous sentence
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by rodric 4y ago
The argument about the poem is quite right. I’m actually taken aback that it has been read in any other way, as the English seems straightforward to me. ‘And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek’ = ‘even if you had little knowledge
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by rodric 4y ago
Lobbying is a two-way street: it would be good if for once the reporters that investigated this topic would name the politicians on the other end of it, rather than just (albeit deservedly) condemning Intuit for the thousandth time
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by rodric 4y ago
Now invite the various blogs to which this links to embed it on their web pages, and bring back the web ring of old.
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by rodric 5y ago
‘they hired a live-in maid for £36 ($2,600) per year’ It should be noted that in those days low-wage workers might spend half their income on food.* Presumably as a live-in maid her room and board were provided, so her compensation was not