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Comment · 6 years ago
When you say it's "obvious why this happens" are you referring to racism or something else?
Comment · 6 years ago
So you'd rather be dead than poor?
If you find yourself taking this thought seriously and you're in the US, you can call 1-800-273-8255. Please take care.
Comment · 6 years ago
Again, with "quality" versus "quantity" it sounds like you're saying that there could be a lower quantity of people (some people die) in order to increase the quality of life for others.
Comment · 6 years ago
"Is life worth living if you're destitute and living in poverty or emotional turmoil?"
It sounds like you're saying you think maybe poor people should just die.
Comment · 7 years ago
"The activity was sanctioned because of the oversight" seems to work for me with both meanings of 'oversight'
Comment · 7 years ago
That was a separate news story from a couple weeks ago. "Late Upper Paleolithic occupation at Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho, USA, ~16,000 years ago" "The stemmed projectile points closely resemble those found in Upper Paleolithic Japan, also supporting the hypothesis of a coastal route."
Comment · 7 years ago
The US also broke up Ma Bell in 1956, forcing the spinoff of Bell Canada and Caribbean operations, and before that in 1925, breaking off other international operations into ITT.
Comment · 7 years ago
I think that's called interacting with people over the normal course of business, and isn't something that's thought of as requiring specific targeted effort.
Comment · 8 years ago
Even during the cold war, Americans did business with Russia. No large computers or munitions, but Americans still ate Russian caviar. There was this call to boycott it at the same time as the Moscow olympics, but I don't think anyone called it "treason". https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/01/31/...
Comment · 8 years ago
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Comment · 9 years ago
Even on El Capitan, I was able to unlock with "root" on my first try. From there, I could add a new admin user. This seems... not good.
Comment · 9 years ago
In the late 90s, my high school used a system called NovaNET, which was based on PLATO. It was used for individual learning, special education, etc. I learned a bit of Russian with it, other kids did remedial math and English, and some just played games. It used a Windows client to connect to the NovaNET "mainframe"(?), had some color graphics, and supported Cyrillic. It only shut down in 2015: http://www.platohistory.org/blog/2015/08/august-31-2015-the-...
Comment · 9 years ago
EBCDIC seems elegant in its own way: http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/cardint.htm (scroll down) -- apparently it's descended from IBM punch card formats. The discontinuity in the alphabet seems inconvenient for sorting, but it looks like it shares some properties (like bit-flip to make lower case) with ASCII.
Comment · 9 years ago
«“It’s an epic act of generosity and altruism,” says Don Bacigalupi, the museum effort’s president. “George Lucas, as with any person of great resources and great success, could choose to do whatever he wants to do with his resources, and he has chosen to give an extraordinary gift to the people of a city and the world.”»
There's an attitude here that's a bit... off-putting.