Since the word "push" is written in mirror writing, it's intended to be read from the other side of the door. Therefore, the intended action for someone on your side of the door is the opposite of "push," which is "pull."'
I subscribe to both those subs, and the signal:noise ratio is very bad. It's pretty obvious that there's a substantial amount of posts from people who have neither lived in nor traveled to these cities. I was visiting both subs regularly until I realized that they just made me anxious and depressed. Posts are frequently just signal boosts of lurid local news about rape/arson/homelessness/etc.
It's not something you see in subreddits for smaller or less popular cities with similar demographics. Subreddits for these tend to be actually useful.
I've got to thank you for this suggestion. I read this maybe 20 years ago in middle school, the concept stuck with me ("everything is oriented to this big box in the largest room, clearly it's a holy space" - television) and spent years thinking about it and never able to figure out what book it was.
The Bill of Rights was also written in an era without systematic government ID or national police system, when you could live or travel in near perfect anonymity if you just left the small town where everyone knew you.
Something I've wondered recently: in the past 10-15 years, how many functioning democracies have fallen apart vs been created?
I'm fairly ignorant about this, so please correct me if my perceptions ar wrong, but Turkey seems to have devolved to autocracy after being democratic for a while. I've heard scary things about Poland. Venezuela, as mentioned in the article, fell apart. Obviously there's Putin's Russia, though I'm not sure Russia was ever really democratic.
I can't think offhand of any new, functioning, democracies.
Fort Sumter isn't really a major site (it's got a lot of name recognition, but not much happened there compared to other places).
Antietam is one - the bloodiest day in American history. Then there's a whole bunch in Virginia: The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Fredericksburg, Manassas (site of two major battles). Further south, Vicksburg, Shiloh, Chickamauga, Stones River are all major sites. You probably haven't heard about any of these (maybe Manassas), but they're among the biggest battles of the war.
The Virginia sites are all huge, historically speaking. Shiloh is a particularly beautiful battlefield. Vicksburg is the most impressive, because it's one of the few with obvious remains of battle - it was basically a trial run for WWI. Most battlefields have a low line of earthworks and some craters, but it's tough to picture what they looked like.
Google Docs did this for a specific reason. Browsers restrict access to the clipboard on general user actions (like click, right click, etc). On the other hand, if you use ctrl+C or ctrl+V, the website gets access to the clipboard, because it's a JS clipboard event. So those work in Docs. Think about it - do you want any website to just read everything off your clipboard?
Docs overrides right click because there's things you'd naturally want to do in a word processor with right click (format, link, comment, etc). Because docs shows a custom menu on right click, the browser will not expose the default menu, and without the default menu, there's no JS copy/paste event.
Browser extensions have more access, and that's why a browser extension re-enables the functionality.
So it was a design choice: the Docs team decided that giving users all these other right click actions was more important than allowing the user to right click to copy/paste without an extension (since most people use the keyboard shortcuts anyway).
The article literally has a chart showing that the current candidates are all speaking at a higher level, and that the remaining candidates, Democrat and Republican, are speaking at 8th 9th, and 10th grade levels. Of the current cohort of candidates only Kasich is near Trump.
If you're talking about presidents (which is unfair, the type of speech you give as president vs candidate, and debates are different), it's clear that although the trend was downward, for the past few presidents the average level was about 8th grade:
Google, should they win, is donating their money to Go charities, STEM education and UNICEF.
So they're doing what you want them to (I can't find a summary of how they're allocating the money across each category). Personally I think the work UNICEF is doing to help women in developing countries is more important than Go charities, but I guess their choices should satisfy everyone.
Profession is literally 'a paid occupation' and homemakers aren't paid - so homemaking would be an occupation but not a profession. Furthermore, as the parent mentioned, there aren't really unmarried homemakers, except those who are independently wealthy. Someone may be a physicist or nurse and then _become_ a homemaker.
All this isn't to to say that homemaking isn't challenging or exhausting (it can be), just that it doesn't really qualify as a profession. I don't think the parent poster was implying it wasn't difficult, just that it doesn't fit within the framework of professions.
* Both axes of the chart are inaccurate. The temperature on the X axis intermingles ambient and O-ring temperature, but they're not the same (imagine ocean temperature vs air temperature). The vertical axis, O-ring damage, is semi-relevant, but the important question is whether the O-rings held a seal (degree of blow-by). O-ring damage probably correlates, but seems like a proxy that may be misleading.
* The data available in the chart was not available to the engineers at the time. There was only one previous failure (SRM 15) that led anyone to believe temperature itself was an issue. They had two valid temperature data points (SRM 15 and SRM 22), and correctly pointed out that another launch at 29 degrees was completely outside their tested range and would be inherently risky. It's not clear to me that a scatterplot with two datapoints would be that effective.
Furthermore Boisjoly criticizes that Tufte presumed to judge the engineers, for the following reasons:
* The engineers previously recommended no launch should occur, months in advance (due to previous O-ring issues), but NASA overruled them.
* The engineers recommended, and their managers accepted, that the low launch temperature was outside their test database. NASA came back and requested proof that the temperature was dangerous, but the engineers could not comply, because the parameters were extreme enough that they had not tested them. They couldn't prove a negative. The managers at Morton Thiokol and NASA then jointly overruled the engineers.
* The idea of putting together a chart was not something the engineers considered, because there were a variety of previous unrelated problems in O-rings (each resolved afterwards) that muddied that data, and muddies the data that Tufte presents.
* Tufte himself failed to research or note the pivotal information, and thus misrepresented the situation the engineers were in, and the data available, while imputing that the engineers should be held morally responsible for not presenting data they didn't have (and then going on to present such data himself, compiled after the fact and at his own leisure, incorrectly).
I thought the rebuttal was very well written, if a bit dense.
For (1), you're correct that the engineers did not have the historical data. More than that, though, it did occur to them to request the data, but they were stifled by Morton Thiokol Management (and NASA).
To start with, there were a variety of previous problems with the O-rings caused by variables that appear unrelated to temperature. These problems were resolved, but prevented anyone from seeing a pattern. It was only on the basis of the single data point in SRM 15 that Boisjoly requested temperature data in advance of the launch.
Obtaining such data was far from simple, because, as you mention, the temperature of the O-ring isn't the same as the ambient air temperature. Thus, obtaining the data was relatively involved and required knowing many variables: time on the pad, the gradient of ambient temperature, the temperature at which testing was conducted, and so forth. For this reason, the engineers didn't compile the data themselves (unclear what process they'd need to get the data).
The engineers thus requested the data in advance, but had not received it. They had precise data on only two data points (at 53 degrees and 75 degrees), so the rest of the data in the chart was compiled after the fact.
"The data necessary for a calculation of O-ring temperatures was thus not collected all along during the shuttle history. And when Boisjoly asked for that data in September, along with much other data, any one of which might have been the crucial missing piece to explain the anomalous cause, it was not supplied. In fact, the engineers received none of the data they requested."
You can simply drive to the rim. The entire path around the rim is paved and handicap-accessible. You can take a mule into the canyon. It's difficult to get to only in the sense that you must drive for several hours from any nearby city to reach the area.
'You should pull the door.
Since the word "push" is written in mirror writing, it's intended to be read from the other side of the door. Therefore, the intended action for someone on your side of the door is the opposite of "push," which is "pull."'
Seems right to me.