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by wrp 1y ago
Japan did have an extended immigration debate in the 1980s. Guess what they decided? I'm not saying things don't change, but debate on social issues without knowledge of the past is unhelpful. If only journalists would...oh, never
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by wrp 1y ago
> rooms with glass front walls that had curtains I immediately thought of the apartments in Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We , but maybe it's closer to those in Jacques Tati's movie Playtime . It's spooky when somethin
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by wrp 1y ago
My Korean colleagues have been asking me to explain this case to them, and I haven't been able to dig up enough reliable info to give much of an answer. I do think I can give a less inflammatory explanation for the shackling, though. I
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by wrp 1y ago
Huh, that's a new one to me. If some people are using it that way, I need to be careful about using "classic". In my reading, both Classic and Golden Age have been used to mean the era dominated by Universal Studios.
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by wrp 1y ago
Classic Horror generally means into the early 1950s. The genre changed a lot after that. So yeah, 70s/80s horror aesthetics were quite different.
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by wrp 1y ago
Although it's an interesting attempt, the first genre I thought of doesn't seem to fit the analysis. The predominant color scheme of classic horror was green and purple. TFA notes how green can connote the weird, but doesn't
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by wrp 1y ago
Both a Walmart and a Target near me recently moved large portions of their inventories to locked cases. I was told by workers there it was due to the massive shoplifting caused by an increase in homeless/addict population combined with
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by wrp 1y ago
Yes, the myth I was pointing out is based on loose terminology. It needs to be made clear that "backwards compatible" means that UTF-8 based tools can receive but are not constrained to emit valid ASCII. I see a lot of comments im
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by wrp 1y ago
As a student in the 1980s, I had several Soviet maps of parts of Asia because nothing of comparable detail was published in the West. Soviet ethnographic maps were incredible and I think they still surpass anything published later. The USSR
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by wrp 1y ago
I need to call out a myth about UTF-8. Tools built to assume UTF-8 are not backwards compatible with ASCII. An encoding INCLUDES but also EXCLUDES. When a tool is set to use UTF-8, it will process an ASCII stream, but it will not filter out
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by wrp 1y ago
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in the 1970s had a real submarine periscope you could use, a manned space capsule you could look into, a DC-3 airplane you could go into, and a variety of whirring/buzzing physical things to
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by wrp 1y ago
Would going with Direct Primary Care help? It is like concierge care in that you pay a monthly retainer to a doctor's office for unlimited access. You then supplement that with insurance with a very high deductible for major issues. DP
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by wrp 1y ago
For anyone with direct knowledge, what's up with current military culture regarding secrecy? I knew SF guys from the Vietnam era and they didn't talk with outsiders. In fact, I can't think of any prominent "tell all&quot
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by wrp 1y ago
Not saying it should be surprising. Just trying to answer the question.
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by wrp 1y ago
Regardless of how unhappy Beijing may be with things Pyongyang does, North Korea is of such obvious strategic importance to China that they are unlikely to ever waver in their support of the regime or even try to hide it.
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by wrp 1y ago
Wikipedia: The War Department existed for 158 years, from August 7, 1789, to September 18, 1947, when it split into the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force under the National Security Act of 1947, joining the Departm
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by wrp 1y ago
It depends on the nature of the non-profit. If membership confers some benefit, then it would be deliberately denying that benefit to the class of people who can only pay by cash or check. That would be scummy.
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by wrp 1y ago
I read once that the general attitude of the group was that their publications were not meant to be widely read, but just to provide the foundation for better expository work. I also heard that part of the bad reputation that Bourbaki got w
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by wrp 1y ago
I've seen debates on this issue for decades, and I think I largely disagree with the author's position. For one thing, native speakers of a language do have something special that non-natives, no matter how educated, do not. That
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by wrp 1y ago
American usage is for "gun safety" and "gun control" to mean different things. In Australia/UK, are they interchangeable?
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by wrp 1y ago
The description sounds like ball lightning. Were there features you observed that would eliminate that possibility?
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by wrp 1y ago
You raise a good point. I've assumed that "blue book exam" is used as a generic term for in-class tests that consist of just essays, not necessarily using the physical Blue Books that you buy at the campus bookstore.
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by wrp 1y ago
Survey question: To what extent did blue book exams go away? When I started out (and the original Van Halen was still together), blue book exams were the norm in humanities classes. I've had narrow experience with American undergrad cl
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by wrp 1y ago
Somewhat related, the 1947 movie Magic Town .
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by wrp 1y ago
People should watch some his NewsHour with Robert MacNeil to see what quality journalism used to be like. I think of the 1976-1995 period as the peak of quality TV news in America. https://americanarchive.org/special_colle
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by wrp 1y ago
I mainly agree with your argument, but I think "inevitable in hindsight" needs reconsideration. Following the incongruity model, humor comes when the punchline forces a change in perspective on the setup. So it is not that the new
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by wrp 1y ago
There are at least three definitions of creativity in circulation. One, you are the first person in history to have that idea. (rare, but I've seen it) Two, you came up with an idea that was new to you. (most common) Three, you have
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by wrp 1y ago
In research on creativity in the arts and sciences, the importance of a supportive community is seen to be so important that some researchers deny the validity of the idea of the creative genius working in isolation. Interested in your proj
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by wrp 1y ago
Similar. Anna's Archive has become a more convenient alternative to the campus library. I can grab something while at home, get the info I need, and delete. If the title is worthwhile, I'll buy my own copy. I don't buy more b
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by wrp 1y ago
Danger UXB (1979) the miniseries was also very good at portraying the bomb disposal procedures.

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