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by quisxt 17y ago
This isn't particularly new -- the theory has been around for more than 60 years. Anthropologists certainly are aware of the theory. It comes up all the time in student papers and discussions. My first encounter with it was when I was a g
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by quisxt 17y ago
I can think of two notable cases where he "changed" the news. The first was his editorial after the Tet offensive, which I already posted above. The second is his (behind the scenes) role in taking on McCarthy as part of Edward R. Murrow's
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by quisxt 17y ago
WALTER CRONKITE'S "WE ARE MIRED IN STALEMATE" BROADCAST, FEBRUARY 27, 1968 Tonight, back in more familiar surroundings in New York, we'd like to sum up our findings in Vietnam, an analysis that must be speculative, personal, subjective. Who
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by quisxt 17y ago
...but absolutely terrible leadership that couldn't figure out where they wanted to go, or how to get there and ended up going nowhere.
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by quisxt 17y ago
It's also a lot easier to compose and edit text a text comment on the fly than a video comment.
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by quisxt 17y ago
I wonder how much background checking the feds did on No. 6 before they hired him to be the warden of Alcatraz. (an absolutely beautiful casting decision)
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by quisxt 17y ago
Whether or not that is the case, the initiative immediately cut property tax income by 57(?)% and made it much more difficult for the state to raise money by increasing taxes. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but you can't lower taxes w
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by quisxt 17y ago
Yeah, right. California's problem is that we keep on spending money like it's flowing in like water, yet the flow was greatly reduced 30 years ago with the passage of proposition 13. Instead of trying to live within our means, we voted peo
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by quisxt 17y ago
I think there are at least a few nerds who also hate TechCrunch because of some pretty shoddy journalism like the whole Last.fm imbroglio.
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by quisxt 17y ago
Actually, you don't need to install anything. Dust is one of the default themes now :)
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by quisxt 17y ago
I run about 3 miles every morning and then a longer run on Saturday or Sunday. I've found that I really need to exercise every day, or during the day I can't get into that deep zone of concentration where I'm the most productive. Running
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by quisxt 17y ago
Most of the higher level math text books I've read present theorems and their proofs , but not much on strategies for actually solving problems (a notable exception: Wilf's Generatingfunctionology), so this seems like it should become a ver
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by quisxt 17y ago
80% of self-made billionaire's completed college, as opposed to 27% of the US adult population (US Census data). What exactly is your point?
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by quisxt 17y ago
This feels like SGI 5 years ago :( (except the Computer History Museum already has a nice home)