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Comment Re:Closed source software and assets are a bitch. (Score 1) 94

Google however was the first to make a bunch of open-source fonts.

What about SIL? They released a few fonts for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic under the SIL Open Font License before Google Fonts existed - and, in fact, Google uses their licence for some fonts.

Comment Re:Stop the war .. (Score 2) 76

agree that NATO will not advance up to the Russian border

It's a bit late for that now: there are already four* NATO members which have a land border with Russia (not counting Poland and Lithuania, which only border Kaliningrad).

*Although I'm not sure that Norway's border is very relevant in practical terms

Comment Re:They are objectively wrong (Score 4, Insightful) 197

Trump graduated from the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania and from the Wharton School of Business. Marco Rubio graduated from the University of Florida and the University of Miami Law School. Jeb Bush? University of Texas. Rand Paul? Baylor and Duke. Tom Cotton attended Harvard and Harvard Law, and Ted Cruz hails from Princeton and Harvard. JD Vance? OSU and Yale.

But you? Nah. Can't have the common folk bein' "overcredentialed". Might start gettin' uppity and askin' too many questions.

Is this about Trump, Rubio, Bush, Paul, Cotton, Cruz, and Vance all saying that people should stop going to college?

Even the summary says

"The 20-point decline over the last 12 years among those who say a degree is worth it — from 53% in 2013 to 33% now — is reflected across virtually every demographic group."

How you got from "cross-demographic survey results" to "conspiracy of all republicans" seems a bit of a leap. If the Republicans *actually have* found a way to exert that much influence on the views of every demographic group, the Democrats might as well just pack their bags and go home, they're done forever.

I think in reality this is just a survey detecting people noticing exploding tuition costs and feeling bleak about the future job market, especially being displaced by technology.

Comment Re: Japan's high speed trains (Score 1) 222

Amtrak doesn't currently use them and there is no reason to think they would need to add it.

It's a political question. In Spain you have to pass through an airport-style security checkpoint to access high-speed trains (although it's a pre-9/11-style checkpoint: no 100ml restrictions on liquids; and I've never seen anyone have to open their luggage). There's no guarantee that US politicians wouldn't expand TSA's remit to high-speed rail, so a discussion of pros vs cons should really treat it as a possible advantage of rail which can't be quantified.

Comment Re:Minor quibble (Score 1) 317

You can see a word-by-word translation of the Greek:

And having made a whip of cords all He drove out from the temple the both sheep and the oxen and of the money changers He poured out the coins and the tables He overthrew. And to those the doves selling He said Take these things from here

I've reinserted the articles which that interlinear translation omits. On a grammatical level it's fairly clear that "both the sheep and the oxen" is expanding the "all" whom he drives out with the whip; and on a higher analytic level the fact that he tells the dove sellers to take their merchandise implies that they weren't driven out with the whip: to interpret that as saying that he used the whip on some merchants but not others according to what they were selling is a harder interpretation to defend than that the whip was used to drive the animals.

Comment Re:Poor political decisions. (Score 1) 135

Not really. Every ruling power in Iran over the past century has made the exact same bad decisions in this respect. The previous monarchy, the more recent monarchy, socialists, capitalists, foreign interests, Islamic revolutionaries, they've all been drawing too much water from the aquifers too fast for terrible reasons.

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