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wrt eBay, you mean Beanie Babies. the Cabbage Patch bubble was pre-internet 1980s

there's no way 1100 interns are all going to be offered full time jobs

That MOOP map is overlaid on top of the actual Burning Man POOP map: all those attendees who stream to the desert from their urbanized homes? they are People Out Of Place, and eradicating them and all the carbon footprints they leave would completely eliminate the MOOP problem while also generating positive externalities.

i have friends who did NGO aid work in Africa and they said their work developing potable water sources was often undone. build a village a clean watersource, a small dam or a well, and the rival next village over would get jealous, and some night they'd come over and destroy it. this was a couple decades ago.

>Apple Pay does not, runs the whole thing on-device

so when I use the physical card that is also on Apple Pay, and Apple Pay tells me I just made a transaction as if I had used Apple Pay, that is all happening on my device? what online service is my phone using to track my account with Visa or my credit card issuer, and it's polling or push?

I had no idea where you got your interpretation from, then I realized it was lack of interpretation.

the social pressure is traditional society on families, and then elders in families exert significant pressure on younger dependents, not to mention the strong economic pressure of nonproductive mouths to feed in circumstances without significant surpluses. It's exactly how westerners lived a century ago so it should not appear mysterious.

this critique of elite educational institutions was written in 2008.

in 2008 he was denied tenure at Yale. [wikipedia]

casualty causality?

>theater and had no idea why people liked it. Didn't make sense, boring, long, generally stupid. Then I decided to get over myself and see what the fuss was about. Now I get it

I'm a techie by choice but I was raised lit'rary. I love the idea of theater, but the actuality, no thanks, attention seeking narcissists strut and fret their hour upon the stage: I only wish they were heard no more.

I am a fan of coffee shops, though, but coffee shops in theater districts: bring name-dropping cancelling headphones.

the Baloch and the Kurds are ethnic Persians, they speak Persian languages.

>*Anything below Channel 12 is "Very High Frequency"

VHF covers up to and including channel 13

It's actually something people across the country may feel familiar with because "Channel 13" is New York City's PBS channel (WNET) and they export programming like Sesame Street out to PBS affiliates everywhere (not as much as WGBH in Boston, but a lot)

>the claim "most of the companies registered in Delaware are not trying to dodge US federal regulations" strikes me as dubious

huh? you aren't making a coherent argument. registering in any US state you are still subject to the same federal regulations, Delaware is not different, it offers no shelter from federal regulations.

in fact, if it is not your primary state of operation, then it subjects you to federal regulations for interstate commerce where you might not otherwise be.

Bill Russell, Boston Celtics, NBA national champions 2 years in a row, 67-68, 68-69 (first black head coach in NBA)

>if you own property there, you’re basically either caught holding a bag with life changing amounts of money lost

but notice people can gain life changing amounts of money by lucking into real estate that soars, but there's no sense of injustice.

if you allow people to take risks and reap the benefits, but shield them from loss, you end up with a subprime mortgage crisis all over again.

if people wanted to be protected from loss they should have to sign up on the front end to risk pool with other people who want to be protected from loss, and together they can protect each other by limiting gains jointly

could introduce subtle bugs, so doing it all at once while it's on the front of everybody's mind with as much comprehensive review and testing of parts or the whole to everybody's satisfaction. if you don't do it all at once, you'd need to repeat the same amount of testing multiple times.

>files should be functionally equivalent before and after

when you say something like this, the road you are on is paved with good intentions.

>Occam's razor would point toward...

Occam's razer is not a thing with explanatory or legal or even scientific force. if Occam's razor was really a thing, quantum theory and general relativity would be ruled out as complicated and neither 100 percent explanatory.

anybody in southern VT and wants to check on a rare variety (last of its kind) apple tree? i know exactly where it was. this was a while ago, and it was already old, but who knows.

so, you're talking not about renters but about homeowners, and you're saying housing prices are up everywhere else except they are down in New Orleans? I'm not from NOLA so I'm not going to bone up on prices, but I do doubt what you are saying holds water.

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>at $250

after subsidy

>who cares?!

fellow taxpayers, fellow ratepayers, people who care about the planet, etc. etc.

"security through obscurity" is not a term of art; it is not solely that property which RSA does not rely upon.

i don't know precisely the architectures they both used (i tend not to study things that are changing and over which i have no control), but here's what I would say:

I like boolean and literalism etc., I like control and syntactic precision, and I did not prefer google when it first got traction and buzz, but within six months of that, google's "page ranked" back-end database was clearly superior to what altavista's front-end queries could do with their own back end data.

it shocked me when people I thought I knew well would say "I always hit google's "I feel lucky" to go straight to the top search result. Me, I prefer to pore through results looking for nuance and to fine tune my query. google was giving me much better results to look at, even if I had less control for fine tuning. Google has relentlessly over time diminished literalism in queries in favor of mass market popularity. As an overly simplistic example, when I look up Thor, I am never interested in any film or who was in it, and that's pretty much all you get now. Alexander the Great is an incredible figure from history, shaping the geo landscape in ways that still affect us today, but searchwise he's just a fictionalized portrayal by a celebrity who don't even have his own authenticity.

>I think your imagination is much worse than reality

you are imagining that my imagination is worse, i am very realistic. I'm not worried about these things at all, not a germaphobe, I always assume humans have been exchanging fecal traces on the daily for a million years and there's no escaping it.

but imagination is necessary to develop hypotheses for testing, and what I said about home laundry separation is true. in the home laundry arena underwear < clothes, and obviously diapers < underwear < clothes. so in the institutional setting you mention, diapers < underwear < bed linens < clothes. don't confuse me with your confusion.

>Here we show that cyclic voltammetry can be used without any additional sample preparation to directly measure the strength of a coffee beverage and, separately, how dark the coffee has been roasted; these two properties are implicated in the sensory profile of the beverage.

those two properties do not even touch on the quality of the beans, nor how those flavors are developed and maintained through roasting. measuring the darkness of roast does not tell you how dark the coffee should have been roasted for optimum flavor profile.

I'm not aware that it can be done analytically, it requires trained tastebuds, and in my experience, tastebuds trained on many coffees over time (a sort of 10,000 hours type idea, probably needs neuroplasticity); most roasters have a sort of narrow "tunnel vision" based around their own coffees which they taste relentlessly.

to actually taste delicious coffee it needs to cool down quite a bit, below 130F 55C which is not very hot. I understand the pleasure of a hot cup of coffee, but that pleasure is not flavor pleasure.

had to search that, NEET is India's National Eligibility cum Entrance Test.

No, I was too scared to ask.

it is recommended (search, you'll see) that at home you don't wash your underwear with your other clothes because there is a nonnegligible amount of fecal matter and associated bacteria remaining after washing.

extending that notion to nappies being community washed in large vats (separated by mesh bags and kept separable?) is horrifying. I suppose they put in some chlorine bleach to sterilize? Still, chlorine bleach might whiten the masticated corn kernels but...

...unless the second one is named Alfred and is an informal person

well, if the Normans had simply spoken Norse as one would expect Norsemen to do...

I recently tried some light research (ok, i ddg'ed) recently on this topic as it wasn't that long between the Viking invasions and settling down in claimed territory, "how continuing-to-be-Norse were the Normans?" I was looking at a similar idea to another comment/statement here from a Scandinavian, "would the Normans have maintained enough knowledge of Norse language to have seen connections to Anglo Saxon/Olde Ænglish? (ok, i just wanted to use a ligature)

I didn't find it easy to to find specifics in great detail, but interestingly in William the Conquerer's family tree, his great^n-grandparents and their cohort were frequently marrying French noble women for local connections and prestige, but also having children with their "soulmate" Norsewoman side piece, made more convenient because the Norse marriage practice was more akin to "common law marriage" anyway.

I'm not reading or judging anything into this (what noble of any culture wouldn't pursue extramarital relations, hell the peasants do it too) except from variety of partners they were clearly maintaining connections to their heritage at least as Italian- or Irish-Americans frequently do in the current day.

they should have held it in the US, a country entirely resistant to what Americans want, care about, and vote for.

exactly! i love this. I always say I'd rather argue with my enemy than be bored to tears by people in the middle.

i am the least self centered person you know. I pay close attention to very specific wants and needs, mine and other people's. I want what I want, why wouldn't everybody else? but it's generally a one way street not in my direction. you come off as a bully/crybaby conformist combination.