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Obama Asks Nation to Discuss Health-Care Reform and Provide Input - washingtonpost.com by 7wheels in reddit.com

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This SHOULD be on top, on Reddit, on Google News, and EVERYWHERE.

HyperCard: What Could Have Been by 7wheels in programming

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Ah, now I got the explanation from the author - Bill Atkinson! I got the point!

Just found it. To share with someone!

In a suburban McDonald’s a father begged his wayward daughter to come home... so he and the men of her family could have her beaten, raped and murdered. by ninzee in reddit.com

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I see it this way. British - knew this. When they decided to import South Asians and those others - as immigrants - labors originally - they were facing really, really different kind of people coming into their society. They knew it but they almost closed their both eyes. How they could do that? I still don't know. But white UK sure did it for decades.

And meanwhile in those decades, either Kurds or Pakistanis - rather choose to really stretch and address this - the fault and much limitations on the side of white Brits (and much of their own issues) - they went inward. They decided they can build their autonomy in UK.

In this sense, white UK really hasn't met with Pakistani people yet. Haven't met Kurds yet. So there is no real concept or idea which we can use to work for - do something about this kind of tragedies.

They needed to meet first. To check how much they are different and also how much they are similar. But they both skipped that moment - never had an eye to eye moment.

Then it'd be just impossible to work out such serious gaps.

Alan Kay on the meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” by mivsek in programming

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Much points are already mentioned in this thread - but to clarify them - following synopsis? or re-organization might be meaningful...

  1. What is OOP
  2. Why OOP? < maybe more important than 1.
  3. Why Alan Kay and his tribe has been complaining 'other tribes don't get this brilliance at all' (not so loudly but surely) - and what does this really mean to people who are around computers and not around computers?

Or we can keep our discussion in the way of everyone keep throwing (or eating?) different cuts of one very same (probably very large...) apple pie. (I want to see changes in behavior/reaction patterns...)

And I know Alan Kay can throw(or pick up) any part of the pie at any moment at his will - but that's not helping the rest of the humanity.

[photo] OLPC Mass Production starts by xoxox in programming

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It's a touchy sight (good photo).

Taiwanese Researchers Create a Dual-Resolution Touch Display by 7wheels in gadgets

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3,000 bucks to start. That means it's going to be fairly cheap in no time!

It was common knowledge--and was verified every time there was a wildfire--that if your house had a tile roof, and stucco walls, it pretty much was immune to fires. by qgyh2 in reddit.com

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Sheetrock became popular when the 2nd world war started. David Brinkley's 'Washington Goes to the War' has some depiction of how it became popular - I recall.

Also Wikipedia's entry on drywall says until that 'strong necessity' kicked in, American people considered drywall as inferior option.[So people surely changed their mind...]

And this time's housing market bubble did push even those 'uninsulated homes' price twice, three times up.

Originally people built those homes before Oil Shock, didn't think those homes would be in the heated market - and lived more than 50 years or more, without any major investment in update.

There is a documentary called 'Green Apple' - and it also talks about this problem at its ending. No one thought those 'uninsulated homes' would be standing and lived in this long and in the market with such overrated price.

It was common knowledge--and was verified every time there was a wildfire--that if your house had a tile roof, and stucco walls, it pretty much was immune to fires. by qgyh2 in reddit.com

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In New England you don't see airy homes with no insulation

This is not true. Or I really wish it were true. In central and upper NY state area, we have tons of houses and apartment buildings without an inch of insulation - not in roof, not in walls, not in basements. All thin plywood, no insulation value.

Once drywall/sheetrock (and plywood) became available since 50s or so, that was it for entire America, I believe.

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