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by 40acres 7y ago
I live in Oregon, work in Washington County. One of my coworkers has been WFH all week with flu like symptoms. Another one was out today. I'm officially spooked.
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by 40acres 7y ago
I think Germany success with hidden champions is correlated with their banking system, there are a lot of smaller regional banks in Germany that are focused on smaller businesses and allow for a market where there is a 'middle class&#x
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by 40acres 7y ago
So is this blog post redundant?
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by 40acres 7y ago
Any idea of when this product was introduced?
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by 40acres 7y ago
For me, programming is difficult because once you reach a certain level of complexity it's very difficult to keep a robust enough model of the program in your head. TDD has really helped me in this regard because it forces me to start
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by 40acres 7y ago
From the outside looking in the combination of Coronavirus response and Hong Kong protests are the strongest challenges to the Communist Party legitimacy I've ever seen. I think we're a long way from any possibility of downfall bu
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by 40acres 7y ago
Not surprising but good to see some research. Just off the top of my head I assume working memory capacity may be slightly increased, whatever portions of the brain are used to decode / encode information, and perhaps even spatial inte
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by 40acres 7y ago
Because central banks don't direct how the money is spent. The central bank puts money into the system but it's up to fiscal policy makers to determine flows -- in the US laws lead to inflation in asset prices.
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by 40acres 7y ago
Listen to Jay Z - Reasonable Doubt.
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by 40acres 7y ago
I just bought Antifragile and can't believe this guy gets away with the constant petty swipes. There are enough interesting ideas to keep you going but there is so much petty noise in these books. If he has an editor they are doing a t
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by 40acres 7y ago
I was very surprised when I first learned this fact a few weeks ago. It's hard to think of another species that acts so differently in a pack, very similar to humans in my view.
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by 40acres 7y ago
Great article and a very convincing case that modern offices should offer noise cancelling headphones to employees who are organized with an open floor plan. The big question for me is how do you avoid paying attention to your internal stat
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by 40acres 7y ago
Network effects I suppose. When this economy was based on land and natural resources it made sense to move (and subdue the native population) to open land and gain an advantage, with a service based economy it makes greater sense to cluster
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by 40acres 7y ago
Definitely but my partner will probably disagree; I've played devil's advocate way too many times for her liking.
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by 40acres 7y ago
It's getting very difficult to see how California works its way out of this mess. SB 50 like measures can be passed at the local level in theory but if I've learned anything from these fights it's that older, wealthy homeowne
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by 40acres 7y ago
Unless I'm reading this wrong AWS generated 47% of Facebook's total 2019 revenue in Q4.
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by 40acres 7y ago
Very interested in trying LSD or other psychedelics for this reason. I'd love to be able to experience what it's like to shut off my default mode network.
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by 40acres 7y ago
Unfathomable to me. My mind is constantly racing, playing out different conversations, interviewing myself in a variety of roles to navigate my thoughts on things (one day I'm the president of the US talking about foreign policy, anoth
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by 40acres 7y ago
Huge spike in general and administrative costs, is that hiring?
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by 40acres 7y ago
The bull case for Tesla is clear. Aside from Nissan with the Leaf, who recently loss their galvanizing CEO and who's market cap has tanked since, what major automaker has anywhere near the success of Tesla with EV? No doubt execution h
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by 40acres 7y ago
I don't believe the cause has been definitely described. Education plays a part, the transition to a service economy plays a part, perhaps even video games play a part. I do believe that it's clear that labor force participation a
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by 40acres 7y ago
It's time to move to what criminal reform activists call 'restorative justice'. We lock you up, possibly contract your labor to some shady organization, and don't provide enough tools for those who've served their t
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by 40acres 7y ago
Apple finally decided to start capturing some of the value add of the iPhone itself (App store fees are solid revenue I suppose but a tiny fraction of the overall potential value of an iPhone) and now somehow an unstoppable force has gotten
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by 40acres 7y ago
iPad is an excellent consumption device, I never quite saw the appeal in productivity based add-ons. A few years ago my MBA died and I was quite slow in getting a replacement due to financial commitments. As a cord cutter w/o a TV my i
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by 40acres 7y ago
I don't cook meat without chemically washing it either. I was raised on washing meats with vinegar and sour orange and don't compromise on it at all. Chemically washed is quite the spin considering US rates on food poisoning are p
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by 40acres 7y ago
The concern is real but ultimately it does not matter. Fact of the matter is, arguments like this have been used to justify racism for a long time. "They are Savage so they need our religion. They are savages so they need to put in the
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by 40acres 7y ago
Why does this matter? Britain stole them, just because they are "safer" in Britian doesn't mean they belong there.
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by 40acres 7y ago
While it's amazing that folks can simply discuss this on the internet I would love a ELI5 style answer so us simple folk could understand.
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by 40acres 7y ago
For me, Twitter has been the worst thing to happen to journalism. There are a lot of downsides to strong institutions and gatekeeping, but when it comes to journalism I always felt like I was reading The New York Times or The Washington Pos
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by 40acres 7y ago
The literal interpretation is dead but the trend itself is still very much active. We're not only consistently packing more transistors into each chip but various advancements in packaging technology assure that performance will remain

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