Mark French

Engineer, thinker, geek. I'm a fighter, not a lover, but I like to think I fight the good fight.

[Mark French @mrmarkfrench]

Driver rolled past multiple open spots to park in the handicapped.

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Bang-up work, @TaxiTaxiRaleigh /s

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So @danakwatson is making a cape, and I thought I knew what that was, but apparently this one is some kind of wooden vest?

The dog and I had about the same reaction to this news…

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@danakwatson She got exactly the number I could reasonably take out of the bag, carry upstairs, and give to her entirely one-handed.

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@danakwatson “He’s a 10, but…”

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Whichever brain trust called me today and then put my voicemail on hold and recorded almost ten minutes of choppy elevator music can die in a fire…

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@danakwatson There is either a brutal hand-to-hand fight scene in a very confined space or a magical shop that sells enchanted curios from another realm or existence behind that door.

Either way, you step through, you’re going to have an EXPERIENCE…

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Instructions unclear…

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What needs to happen to your understanding of your place in the world to make phone calls, on speaker, in a busy public place, seem like the best possible plan?
#IWantToKnowLessAboutYourBusinessAndYourHernia #SeriouslyDoNotTalkAboutYourHerniaOnSpeakerPhone #HashtagsWithOneTweet

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@WilsonCattle @hypomodern Likely, but local officials not responding to medium/long-term national interest (or even policy). They're making decisions against short-run incentives.

Not suggesting "best" course, just noting observed incentives in revealed preferences of political elites to minimize cases.

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@hypomodern Unlike in the West, Chinese officials are punished for high case rates but not for poor economic results. This is how their incentives align.
Ask a panel of economists and epidemiologists if that’s the right way to go, but not surprising…

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@hypomodern Bullshit. Any commander who organized this kind of half-assed, underweight area fire against an entrenched position in 1915 would have been relieved of command by sundown.

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@hypomodern Seems like they’ve been laying just fine because the car never delivered any fuel to them…

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@asoukuptx @PaulTWood0 @mattyglesias @bengrossbg @cdbrose Range on the Neptune tops out at 300km (~186 miles).

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@danakwatson @BoleynBooks After that, it’s practice, hard work, ample sweat, and a terrifying level of strength and cardio…

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@danakwatson @BoleynBooks If you really plan to make a go of it, learn to judge temperature by color, not by infrared thermometer. Then learn your tempering tables for basic carbon steel (because you ain’t making stainless).

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@hypomodern

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@hypomodern Definitely. I was really just trying to dig into how likely you believed UKR forces were to be able to maintain momentum in the face of stiffening Russian defensive posture.

My money is on slowing success and then stalemate, but they’ve surprised so far!