Jordan_Pelt

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by Jordan_Pelt 9mo ago
I can go to ssa.gov and click the button that says "log into your account."
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by Jordan_Pelt 10mo ago
And the title of the book is "The Fountainhead," not "The Fountain Head."
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by Jordan_Pelt 1y ago
I'm not so sure. Every so often I browse Metafilter (remember Metafilter?) out of morbid fascination, and it's a total trainwreck. I don't think it's a model for success.
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by Jordan_Pelt 1y ago
I'm sure she does, but that's beside the point. Why should we pay any attention to the opinions of a person on replacing something he doesn't use with something else he won't use. He may as well say that he won't
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by Jordan_Pelt 1y ago
"My wife types my work..." Those five words render the entire essay meaningless.
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by Jordan_Pelt 2y ago
I'm probably a crackpot, but I'm convinced it's the other way around--matter emerges from mind. The only refutation I'm familiar with is Samuel Johnson kicking a rock, which I don't find very persuasive.
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by Jordan_Pelt 2y ago
Hank and Hal are also short for Henry.
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by Jordan_Pelt 2y ago
The only example I can think of is "munchkin" which was apparently coined by Frank Baum for The Wizard of Oz.
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by Jordan_Pelt 2y ago
An amazing project, and I love that he always calls it "Joan's organ." What a tribute.
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by Jordan_Pelt 2y ago
...and the opening of the Rush song YYZ.
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by Jordan_Pelt 2y ago
A chapter in Chemerinsky's casebook on Constitutional law is titled "Speech in Authoritarian Environments: Military, Prisons, and Schools."
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by Jordan_Pelt 2y ago
That's what I always thought it meant. For example, if a sign says "No Parking 4-6 PM" that proves that parking is allowed there at all other times.
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by Jordan_Pelt 2y ago
>and computerised taxation (except in the USA). I don't understand this. Does he not think the IRS uses computers?
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by Jordan_Pelt 2y ago
I don't know. That's kind of like saying J.K. Rowling couldn't think of just shooting the bad guys with guns.
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by Jordan_Pelt 2y ago
I "rolled" three times and got a duplicate result. What are the odds of that?
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by Jordan_Pelt 2y ago
I really want to see the insides of those buildings.
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by Jordan_Pelt 2y ago
Yes, by "work" I meant "do what they are specifically paid to do, i.e., perform in front of an audience.
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by Jordan_Pelt 2y ago
This doesn't seem to take into account that professional athletes and musicians work very few hours in a year. Imagine if programmers were like NFL players, working for four 15-minute sessions, seventeen times a year.
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by Jordan_Pelt 2y ago
Thank you for this. It has inspired me to delete my Reddit account and create an HN account. This gives me hope that the web can survive the social media era.