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I admit to bristling a bit at your suggestion that I "do some reading" on the Jewish experience in America. I like to think that I'm fairly well read on the topic. But if it wasn't…

You ask why it is hard to believe that "everyone who is Jewish constantly fears for their life and lives with daily radical antisemitism." I can't speak for the poster you're respo…

I might have missed one but it looks like there is only one city (Miami) with an NFL team and a Republican Mayor. Las Vegas has an independent, former Dem. That list of team cities…

It's the project behind Plover ( https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Beginner's-G... ), a cross-platform free steno program that works with normal (NKRO) keyboards and …

I use notmuch instead of mu4e, and have been quite happy with it for the last 7 years or so. The org integration is good, though I don't actually use it all that much. What is indi…

I wrote an open-source reader for docx, including for math equations, in a week or two of part-time hobby work. The spec isn't always sensible (though I'm sure there are historical…

A couple of cool things about pandoc: 1. It's a tool built in large part by folks involved in the humanities. John, of course, is a professor of philosophy. (We could stop there, s…

This looks great! My only complaint is that sometimes I do want to work on a quick script outside of a stack environment, and this seems like an all-or-nothing proposition. (I use …

I just wish there were some way for it to deal with paywalls -- since most of the pdfs I need are behind JSTOR or Muse. I realize this would be a technical and/or legal hassle (thi…

English teacher cosign. Though I do usually advise students to be aware of their audience, and avoid the singular "they" if it will distract pedantic readers. (Essentially, and unf…

The threads in response to you are fascinating and mystifying. I'm not sure whom to respond to, since everyone seems to be saying some variation of the same thing: that Facebook is…

Pleasingly ambiguous phrasing. The first two times I read it, I got that this was the smartest anyone had ever looked (no one has ever looked smarter). Apologies for going off-topi…

I disagree with your claim that "[the set of integers] is bigger than [the set of even numbers]." They have the same cardinality, and I'm not sure how else you can reasonably defin…

The definition of losing in gambling is running out of resources. If you stipulate infinite resources, you're stipulating that you can't lose. In which case, clearly, you have a mu…