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by rwl 16y ago
I love E. B. White. The year I read "One Man's Meat" (a collection of his New Yorker columns about his life in Maine from the WWII era), I think I gave it to six people for Christmas. He was a true master of the form.
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Some highlights: * "The median male worker earns less today, adjusted for inflation, than he did 30 years ago." * "By the late 1990s, more than 60 percent of mothers with young children worked outside the home (in 1966, only 24 percent did)
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by rwl 16y ago
Ahh, I see.
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That is an awesome service. But why are they tracking so few privacy policies? Where, for example, is Facebook?
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Nexus One successor?
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but that generous spirit that, afaik, built California into a great state -- that's not worth overlooking Exactly right; and that, not the numbers, is the point of the article.
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The other feature/problem is that you're hearing the two other students learning with you. They will often make the similar mistakes that you will make, which is encouraging. However, I think that 1 out of 3 fluent speakers on a tape is le
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I have to learn a language for my graduate program. I have been learning German using the Michel Thomas audio program. It isn't perfect, but I do feel like I have learned a lot with relative ease -- much more easily than I learned Spanish
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What Matters in Net Neutrality(futureoftheinternet.org)
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I would go this way, too. I'd give them a specific start date. If they're not OK with letting you fulfill your "other commitments" before that date, or if they press you to divulge what those commitments are and why they're so important,
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Awesome, thanks!
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That's helpful, thanks! Though often, the problem I have is that I don't know the name of the function I'm looking for, so things like apropos, describe, and documentation aren't going to be much help unless I can apply them to packages/mo
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Ask HN: How do you explore a Lisp/Scheme?
2 points by rwl 16y ago|5 comments
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Ah, I see: the argument is that we ought to try to maintain a little inflation, but not too much, because it acts as an incentive for better capital utilization. Perhaps I'm being thick, but I'm still unsure: when you say, "Actually, this i
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by rwl 16y ago
Can you elaborate, please?
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Shifting taxes to sales, especially in a significant way, will just dampen aggregate demand, and push us into a deeper and longer recession. (See a comment I made here, on an article that didn't get any front-page time about states looking
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by rwl 16y ago
Her discretionary income, despite the pay raise, will only dwindle if her health care costs remain fixed. But the whole point of moving to a single-payer system (or at least more government-provided coverage) is that those costs go down.
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I thought it already was the developer phone. Is this just making that official?
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Some highlights: * Eisenhower's original draft of the "military-industrial complex" speech originally referred to the "military-industrial-Congressional complex" * every $1 spent on lobbying for lower corporate taxes brings a return of $6 t
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I'm curious: do you have a data-only plan so you can use VoIP to make phone calls? I have been trying to find a device that would make it easy to make VoIP calls most of the time, since I am nearly always around free (or already-paid for) w
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Wouldn't it be nice if, instead of trying to "close the loophole" in the name of gaining revenue and "protecting" brick-and-mortar businesses, we eliminated all sales tax instead, and looked for that revenue elsewhere? Any sales tax is a
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by rwl 16y ago
This is a great list. +1 on the Philosophical Investigations . As an introductory book, I would recommend Russell's Problems of Philosophy .
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Actually, a lot of contemporary philosophy -- at least as it is practiced in the English-speaking world -- strives for exactly the "plain, clear, specific definitions" and "verifiable logic" you're looking for. I think the overgeneralizati
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Ask HN: anyone using VoIP as a cell phone replacement?
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Nobody has yet mentioned one of the main reasons to use Emacs (or Vi; substitute below as necessary): it's easily extended. Find yourself doing the same thing to your code over and over? Want to use a language that doesn't have syntax hig
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by rwl 16y ago
Heh, I was about to say that Slashdot already does something like this, but I am pretty sure they aren't covering cases 6 and 7. Cosmic rays and keyboard cats...now there's a startup problem I can sink my teeth into. Thanks. :)
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by rwl 16y ago
Really? I get downvoted for providing an alternative that the Milton Friedman crowd doesn't like?
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I learned a heck of a lot from reading John Kenneth Galbraith's books. In particular, The Affluent Society , The New Industrial State , and Money: Whence it Came, Where it Went
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1) Job and apartment search -- or "matching." I know there are all kinds of places where you can look for a job or an apartment online. But the process sucks . There is a ton of information out there, most of which is irrelevant, and th
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Poll for Debian users (and users of derivatives)(twerner.blogspot.com)
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