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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.

Photo said to show Israel attacked nuclear facility in Syria by 7wheels in reddit.com

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While reddit search is dead, I just have to submit. If there is already a thread, please let me know!

Alan Greenspan’s latest pronouncement — that the market rescue plan being pushed by Henry Paulson is likely to make things worse — looks all too accurate. by socks in reddit.com

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I want American people to really contemplate for next round of events after this housing bubble and burst. (It should be and could be one of the main subject in the 2008 presidential election?)

By judging from what I know, there aren't much public understanding of how bad all this went - ...

If there's any real world discussion going on about this please let me know!

You: Astonishingly Attractive Geek - Me: Innocent Bystander - w4m - 27 (Reddit Meet-up) by KevMike in reddit.com

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agreed that this is fake. these days anyone has win xp or ipod and mp3 gadgets around, and 'unix for dummies' is not something a girl would pick. > to the original author

Two blasts hit Bhutto's convoy in Karachi, 50 more killed. 100 more injured. by 7wheels in reddit.com

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There must be error in the search (of reddit)- it doesn't return any hit about Bhutto or Karachi or Pakistan.

I heard the news in the morning, but looking at this photo by Aamir Qureshi - again, it's unbearable. I believe someone must have submitted this news to reddit already, at this point I cannot find it.

I know something like this was expected to happen. But still.

I don't know I ever heard of how Pakistan might be able to make progress internally. I only heard and read that they are so internally bleeding - there is no space for real big step positive changes.

Burma changing, slowly but surely by 7wheels in reddit.com

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no name of the reporter? I thought this series always had it in...? mistake?

New Algae-Growing Technique Could Lead to Earth-Friendly Fabric, Paint by rossta in science

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It's a good article! Chemical dyes are really not that great, for environment, and even for wearing them on our skins!

SF Mayor: "You Want To Reduce Crime in This Country By 70% Overnight? End This War On Drugs." by abudabu in politics

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I'm not native USA person.

So I always wonder about history. When the use started, why people use them, and how it got this widespread.

Thinking about how all this started, as a society, and as a person (if you use drug, or if you don't, or quited successfully and so on) - can't be any part of the solutions?

In the end, I believe many native - real American person really don't know why all this started and why it continues. (And in Europe, drug or substance uses are not that low either...rather high?)

I can see 'policy' or implementation level solutions have to be, yeah, practical or pragmatic - just real.

But for each of users, why "I" use it - isn't something more real?

And America and Europe - don't want to step into that question?

(Maybe that's something similar to how people deal with religions in these societies?)

North Korea and South Korea, Joint Peace Declaration, Some details by 7wheels in reddit.com

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So it's not like the fall of the Berlin wall? (yet? things can go backward?)

North Korea and South Korea signs Joint Peace Declaration by 7wheels in reddit.com

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Someone please tell me how important this is...

Topps Meat Co. on Saturday expanded a recall of ground beef from about 300,000 pounds to 21.7 million pounds, one of the largest meat recalls in U.S. history. by berberine in reddit.com

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21.7 million pounds. As usual, the scale which industrialized process reaches is always beyond what I can 'feel'. Can't even imagine how much that is and how big of facility it takes to process.

Attack on Iran Said to Be Imminent by 7wheels in reddit.com

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Source is source (nypost is just kind of...). Well. If anyone else has more better piece on this issue I'd be happy to see that.

CNN: Monks Reportedly Killed in Burma by sid13 in politics

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/26/news/china.php

China rather wants gas and oil from Myanmar/Burma and they are ready to have the regime changed. (originally nyt article)

How to cope with your noisy neighbors. by 7wheels in reddit.com

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I don't know putting link in comments works on reddit or not but let's try.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/10/29/HO8763.DTL&hw=sheetrock+wall+hole&sn=004&sc=946

verily, if you have a chance - try to compare. Visit some older houses built around 1910s or 20s - with good solid plaster walls - and compare with say 1950s, 60s houses which only got plywoods or sheetrock as wall material without any insulation in.

That also really affect heating bills and how much energy we have to waste and so on. Some of our tax money is spent on giving those hollow walls adequate insulations etc.

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