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by wrp 4y ago
Although the nanotech is indicated by the title and takes up much of the story, he leads the focus toward quantum physics. Another physicist/novelist, John G. Cramer, commented on the Blood Music in a popular article on quantum reali
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by wrp 4y ago
> ...everything is just random chance based on dice rolls. Not everybody for sure, but some people enjoy just rolling the dice and watching the scenario play out. Along the same line, there was a very popular game based on a WW2 bombing
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by wrp 4y ago
I'm guessing you are in the USA. How does one find an agent capable of giving more sophisticated advice on finances and the local market?
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by wrp 4y ago
In 1970s Oregon, I knew four cases where a guy built a house for his family over a few years. They were all outside town. I haven't heard of such projects for a long time, but then I live in town and don't hang out much with that
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by wrp 4y ago
The kind of situation you describe is the original reason why it was called a "trap".
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by wrp 4y ago
Just some random observations for context: Comparing the darkness of graphite to black ink, I find that pencil begins to look as dark as ink at around a hardness of 7B. I personally can't write cursive with a woodcased pencil softer th
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by wrp 4y ago
> Their Boxy eraser is amazing...Anyone know of a better one? Erasers continue to improve. One of the newer foam erasers, such as from Sakura, will probably perform better. There are many informative customer reviews at JetPens. Check ou
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by wrp 4y ago
...and also the same logo. Go figure. :-)
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by wrp 4y ago
What parts of the world have an undersea view interesting enough to make this worthwhile? Most of the places I can think of are not near where the super-rich like to hang out.
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by wrp 4y ago
> Is it clear people wanted to get away from Lisp rather than use a more-or-less clone of S? That's a good point. How many statisticians were familiar with S but were using Lisp-Stat just because it was free? I don't seem to ha
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by wrp 4y ago
There was a time when the State Department had a budget for promoting American "high culture" abroad. Low culture likely never needed any help. I've read articles complaining that the US government no longer has a program to
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by wrp 4y ago
Lisp syntax is an extreme impediment to uptake. Consider what happened to Lisp-Stat. It was a really slick package, but people immediately dropped it when R became available. Lisp defenders like to think that R won out because of better lib
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by wrp 4y ago
A major consideration people seem to miss when discussing JIT is that it originated in a country with extremely reliable transportation. I had some chance to observe highly resilient and flexible logistical operations in Japan in the 1990s,
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by wrp 4y ago
I agree with your points about high school completion and college enrollment, however I think the reason for the increased difficulty of getting into a school is due to increased competition rather than an increase in absolute standards. A
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by wrp 4y ago
You are correct. It is generally believed that the large increase in percentage of students going to college is a major contributing factor in the decline of average performance. I have read reports claiming that secondary education at the
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by wrp 4y ago
You are thinking of assembling pre-made kits. The math is for designing circuits from scratch.
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by wrp 4y ago
> [things]...impossible to do at the high school level without handwaving away most of the details. Something about my dad's generation is that I observed them to be more ready to resort to workbench tinkering to get over patches wh
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by wrp 4y ago
Perhaps I was being overly dismissive, but that's the kind of thing I had in mind. You have a small set of components and a limited set of illustrative circuits to make by laying in wires. The older projects I referred to involved des
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by wrp 4y ago
> ...it is not even the case that kids today were less educated either. This claim could be supported or contradicted by evidence. Do you have any? My experience is not K-12 education, but at the college level, standardized measures such
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by wrp 4y ago
Something to help appreciate the relation of science to youth culture in the 1950s is the popularity of sci-fi movies. Aside from rare exceptions like Destination Moon (1950), 1950s sci-fi was produced with no pedagogic intent. Studios ch
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by wrp 4y ago
Australian law seems to be very aggressive in eliminating perceived materials of misbehavior. I'm thinking of how the laws against guns were extended to even BB-guns and slingshots. Is this an extension of the English legal tradition o
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by wrp 4y ago
Another aspect of this issue is the apparent difference in intellectual preparedness of kids today. I think this is partly due to educational environment and partly a result of selection bias (in that accounts of the past focus on the &quot
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by wrp 4y ago
From the abstract, this is an unexpected asymmetry: ...we find significant information flows from bot-like accounts to non-bot accounts with behaviour differing between sides. Pro-Russian non-bot accounts are most influential overall, with
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by wrp 4y ago
In the PNW, their brand is "Fred Meyer", although some older folks like to call it "Freddie's".
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by wrp 4y ago
Mailing lists are usually attached to a particular project or department, so are very narrow in focus. To find a good list, search out the people you want to be conversing with and see where they interact. Some examples: Unix Heritage Socie
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by wrp 4y ago
You raise two issues, 1) avoiding bad participants, and 2) pursuing long discussions. Any forum with open membership will eventually attract people who can't/won't handle nuanced conversation. The only way to completely be sa
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by wrp 4y ago
This map illustrates how much of the world has allied with NATO in this conflict. ( https://country.eiu.com/asset_images/1632029946.gif ) What I keep hearing from my own contacts in Asia and the Mid East is how much the
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by wrp 4y ago
I remember people in elation over the idea that information would be democratized and control taken away from "the establishment". No longer would any small group of people be able to restrict flow of information.
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by wrp 4y ago
> ...the camera is the LEAST important part of photography. Having used a view camera, which really is nothing more than a flexible box, this sentiment resonates with me. But, I can see how different types of camera support types of pict
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by wrp 4y ago
Yes, they are really two different hobbies, equally valid. On the equipment side, I think of it as being interested in the engineering of things. I guess you could say that the "using" side of the divide regards equipment merely a

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