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by onecommentman 5d ago
Nothing discussed is addressing the true value of a university degree to those who are often the ones paying, i.e. wealthy parents. Universities provide those parents a socially acceptable strategy to get their pothead gamer sons out of th
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by onecommentman 6d ago
“Today, many feel that these experimentations have led not only to a new way of writing and sounding, but also to listening. And this, to such an extreme that it sometimes left the audience behind.” Hmm, music that takes refuge from its cri
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by onecommentman 7d ago
Interesting to compare how the 2009-2014 PIIGS countries (Portugal, Spain, Greece, Ireland, Italy) are faring in 2026 by this measure. They look like they are doing much better than Germany, France, UK in 2026 by this measure.
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by onecommentman 8d ago
When considering such foundational challenges to Mathematical Research and plagiarism as discussed here, we should turn to that elder prophet of our age, Tom Lehrer. Who made me the genius I am today The mathematician that others all quote?
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by onecommentman 9d ago
That sort of “smarter than thou” attitude resulted in the Republican victories in the Eisenhower/Stevenson US Presidential elections of 1952 and 1956. Maybe Nixon too, with the “silent majority”. Superficially smart, smug, superciliou
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by onecommentman 9d ago
Depends on how deep you want to climb down that rabbit hole. You can go all Rusty Shackleford if you’re a privacy enthusiast. It can be fun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_%28codename%29
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by onecommentman 21d ago
Hope they release their legacy audio IP in some reasonable format. Decades of Gardeners Question Time, In Our Time, I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, Letter from America, Goon Show, etc. would make the perfect ambient background for housebound&
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by onecommentman 1mo ago
A simple fix: direct the French to the wonders of jellyfish cuisine. https://olasquid.com/en/delicious-jellyfish-dishes/
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by onecommentman 1mo ago
“you’ll see an “AI Persona” badge on an artist’s profile across the app if they do “not represent a real person.”” What about performers so outrageous they may not qualify as a “real person”? Say, Keith Richards? Or Ozzy Osborne? Is there
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by onecommentman 2mo ago
Playing around with AI (not using, playing), I didn’t see much issue with the AI danger aspect. I am entering my eighth decade, so the emotional/intellectual developmental aspect isn’t in play for me. In fact, gen AI art creation wou
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by onecommentman 2mo ago
If you are prepared to go down a very deep rabbit hole, you should start with the Monroe Institute, who have been studying binaural beats for 50 years or so. It’s legitimate, bought CDs from them 30+ years ago, and they are still around.
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by onecommentman 3mo ago
For context, 739 people died during a five-day heat wave in 1995 in the City of Chicago in the State of Illinois in the United States.
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by onecommentman 3mo ago
I’ll throw in my pet theory. American football is rooted in infantry maneuvers Civil War through WWII. Soccer is closer to cavalry, a Second Millennium European experience. Cavalry was never that important in the military experiences of A
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by onecommentman 3mo ago
Then again, there is more to life than increasing its speed. (Gandhi). When I read a physical book, especially an early (hardback) edition, I’m reliving the experience of all the early readers of that book. A mug of tea, a warm light, perh
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by onecommentman 3mo ago
Boy, that’s not just a “data-driven” view, that’s a purely transactional view of “romance”. A few decades ago, sales training made the distinction between transactional connections and relational, suggesting a relational connection between
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by onecommentman 4mo ago
And be homeless, if you are truly not thinking (and assuredly acting) about it. It’s not “just another subscription” in many ways. The idea of renting being the “peace of mind” choice rings false with me.
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by onecommentman 4mo ago
35 years, .75% per year, newish home when bought, high desert
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by onecommentman 4mo ago
But at varying rates determined by use, design and location. I recommend desert living if you want low maintenance, or even a graceful manageable decline. Maybe not true adobe that requires regular remudding, but frame-stucco or stabilize
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by onecommentman 4mo ago
Maintaining your own home is a great hobby for guys 40 years old and older. The house may age, but your engagement and knowledge of your house steadily grows. Even contracting out the work has its interesting elements. Keeps you active a
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by onecommentman 4mo ago
And having a grass lawn is actually quite expensive (water) and borderline illegal/immoral (water) in the American Southwest. Having a grass lawn is only mandatory in a few gated communities with out-of-touch HOAs. We’ve gotten used
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by onecommentman 4mo ago
The student learns by daily increment. The Way is learned by daily loss, Loss upon loss until At last comes rest. By letting go, it all gets done; The world is won by those who let it go! But when you try and try, The world is then beyond
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by onecommentman 4mo ago
You can do better with corn in bulk at a grain elevator. Takes about 8 bushels (56 pounds, 25.4 kg) to provide the calorie requirements for an adult for a year. Current price for corn in USA is $5/bushel plus transport. So $40/
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by onecommentman 5mo ago
To a college friend from a Canadian academic family who was in senior management in a large tech firm, a period copy of Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Canadian professor and humorist, Stephen Leacock, published in 1914.
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by onecommentman 5mo ago
US nuclear power whispers to solar: welcome to the club.
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by onecommentman 5mo ago
This is a book review about a book about a book reviewer who reviewed books. Essentially writing about writings about writings, some of those writings presumably are themselves writings about writings. And people wonder why the humanities
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by onecommentman 5mo ago
You touched on a pet idea of mine and, since you made the mistake of actually intelligently responding to online forum comments, now I get to make a pitch for it. Thesis: every student accepted into medical school must complete 9 months as
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by onecommentman 5mo ago
The OP title isn’t clickbait. The actual article has a title that is somewhere between clickbait and excessively biased. The positive correlation between high vitamin intake and lung cancer has been studied, reported and cited in the prof
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by onecommentman 6mo ago
Looks vaguely like the Karmarkar algorithm idea for Linear Programming where you rescale the feasible region to look spherical to make the search more efficient.
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by onecommentman 6mo ago
The death of boarding schools is not an absolute good. Boarding schools helped my uncle in educating and caring for his children when his wife suffered from schizophrenia.
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by onecommentman 6mo ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/06/a-fertilizer-shortage-worsen... Let me vu that déjà for you. Prior recent experience makes potential impacts easier to forecast, understand and manage.

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