adavies42

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by adavies42 14y ago
> If it's serious, like assault, you're out. i've seen some examples that suggest it might not be as cut-and-dry as that. i don't have the url handy, but some time ago someone in one of this discussions linked to a publicly-accessible r
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by adavies42 14y ago
i guess the new digg is the old reddit....
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by adavies42 14y ago
i went to academic summer camps basically from sixth grade on (Duke TIP-affiliated stuff), and one year i took chemistry class. one of the three weeks was "uncontrolled oxidation" week. lots of fun. :) the biggest takeaway was that potassiu
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by adavies42 14y ago
ethanol burns relatively cool (as do (some of?) the other alcohols). the problem is that it often burns above the ignition point of its carrier substance, which itself burns much hotter. e.g. calcium acetate/isopropyl alcohol gel (lab stern
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by adavies42 14y ago
"Users may be experiencing issues" is not the passive voice (not that you explicitly said it was, but IMAO you implied it), it's the continuous aspect, modified by whatever an auxiliary like "may" does. (this is where my grammar vocabulary
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by adavies42 14y ago
istr a ds9 novel (yes, i read some) where they had to replicate some machine guns to deal with invaders who had perfect shielding, but only against energy weapons. there were security overrides involved, but it had a large collection of pro
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by adavies42 14y ago
you ever see American Graffiti ? one thing that really stuck with me was the bit at the end where they're boarding a plane--it was just walk out onto the runway, present your ticket and walk up the stairs. to do that nowadays you have to b
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by adavies42 14y ago
i've flown international business class on luxury airlines twice (once on singapore on the company dime, and once on qatar through a random complimentary upgrade). the service is just staggering--never mind the full-flat bed-seats, the unli
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by adavies42 14y ago
ever work on a non-gnu box? (old solaris, *bsd, stock os x, etc.) there's a decent chance they don't have -r at all.
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by adavies42 14y ago
this is traditional: they almost always undershoot the over-expectations
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by adavies42 14y ago
> But he's the paragon of the self made man, in the Ayn Rand sense [...] I was just thinking this. I'm sure Jobs hated Rand, given his politics, but he sounds an awful lot like Hank Rearden in TFA.
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by adavies42 14y ago
a few years ago i moved into an apartment in NYC that somehow didn't have a phone line. at all. like there wasn't a wall jack in the entire apartment. (it was a hundred-year-old building, i have no idea how this was possible.) i discovered
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by adavies42 14y ago
> What exactly is the "violence" that Austin would do to competitors? To paraphrase P.J. O'Rourke: If you run your own cable, you'll need a permit. If you do it by negotiating with the landowners without a permit, you'll be blocked. If
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by adavies42 14y ago
Rand also liked Victor Hugo and Mickey Spillane. If you're at all interested in her aesthetic principles, give The Romantic Manifesto a try--it's an essay collection, and quite short (by her standards at least--about 200 pages).
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by adavies42 14y ago
> The speech reads like an English translation of an ideological Russian novel, which I suppose in some sense it is. Rand comes across as a shrill and graphomanic anti-Dostoevsky. (Dostoevsky was a polar opposite kind of conservative to
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by adavies42 14y ago
it's old printers' stuff to do with physical properties of lead type, i think. as to why it won't go away, i have no idea. i happily ignore it in almost all my writing....
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by adavies42 14y ago
no, just illiterate. the original author and the commenters here all made allowances for non-native speakers of english, which apparently you couldn't be bothered to read....
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by adavies42 14y ago
> For example if you have a zero tolerance policy for it's vs its, or for commas making things confusing, the framers of the US Constitution would fail the test. that's a question of knowing something about history. i wouldn't hire anyo
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by adavies42 14y ago
they have their place. i saw a lovely translation recently of a french request to "tutoyer" (address in the familiar) as "i must be thee to thou".
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by adavies42 14y ago
There's also Lenin's famous line "Who? Whom?", which is a lot harder to translate without a "whom" available....
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by adavies42 14y ago
There's an Allan Sherman song ("When I Was a Lad") where one of the rhymes depends on who/whom: I learned who was going out with whom And who had the keys to the powder room
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by adavies42 14y ago
relatedly, there's a little-used rule that lets you use a semi-colon as your list separator if the individual elements contain commas: "My favorite law firms are Dewey, Cheatem & Howe; Robinall, Widowes, & Laffin; and Sue, Grabbitt,
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by adavies42 14y ago
is it clear that there were any such standards?
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by adavies42 14y ago
proofreading to match a style guide is completely different from grammar. learn the difference between grammar and style....
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by adavies42 14y ago
note that you can't actually make them work, no matter what the contract says (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_performance ). (you can sue them for compensation though.)
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by adavies42 14y ago
> We used to imprison people for publicly supporting Communism and/or publicly denouncing wars also note that the leadership in doing this came from Lincoln and Wilson....
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by adavies42 14y ago
> Who would have thought that Obama would bring back the Espionage Act? liberals politicians increase police power, conservative politicians increase social spending. their bases let them get away with it because they're "on their side"
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by adavies42 14y ago
i'd also point out that it was the 50's and they were probably all smokers....
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by adavies42 14y ago
> For people who want to have real friendships as adults, maybe what we need is some kind of structure in our lives that more closely resembles what people have earlier in life. If you're willing to dedicate time to a weekly (not monthl
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by adavies42 14y ago
sounds like asker/guesser striking again (< http://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-betw... ). i've had a job implode, and endless relationship friction, because i'm an asker all the way (as i expect are most people here

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