Grustaf

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by Grustaf 5y ago
> I think we should use phonetic transscription We do, it's called IPA and Worcestershire is /ˈwʊstərʃər/. Using something similar for actual normal writing would be difficult though, it would hide all the etymological lin
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Wooster is a great name though, at least in books.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
And Japan has katsuobushi, which comes in dried blocks, but it's ultimately fermented tuna and is used all the time as soup stock.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Amazing! Garum was the backbone of many economies back in the day, perhaps it’s time for a renaissance?
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by Grustaf 5y ago
> But that doesn’t give Apple permission to track our lived experience at all times with its microphones, cameras and sensors. They also aren't doing that. > Thanks to Apple, physical shops can track us through our phones Is this
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by Grustaf 5y ago
The magnetic north is even affected by local phenomena, at least when you're on the ground, so it's worse than that.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I'm aware of all this, it's the same in sailing and it's a mess. But since aircraft are already set up to use magnetic north, and are basically flying computers, it shouldn't matter what crazy navigation scheme they are
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by Grustaf 5y ago
That last paragraph makes sense, changing taxi markings etc is inherently expensive. The lookup tables part is harder to understand, but perhaps the airplane software is very badly written.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
What is the advantage though? True North is of course easier to understand and use when navigating manually, but what's the benefit in a commercial airliner?
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by Grustaf 5y ago
There was a crime though.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
To pay off gambling debts?
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by Grustaf 5y ago
If they knew he was a psychopath, they wouldn't shop from him, regardless of behaviour. And that's my point. Self-interest is obviously not enough to sustain a successful society, it's only really enough when combined with al
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by Grustaf 5y ago
The con was that they claimed that they were working when they weren't. Clear as day.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Is the article trying to say that the investors somehow wanted or at least tolerated that Holmes skirted the rules and scammed patients? That would seem incredibly short sighted. It's much more likely that she misled investors, and isn
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I don't know if Adam Smith meant it in the sense that present day libertarians and other naive people take it, but I am sure nobody would want to shop from a psychopathic butcher that only cares about profits.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
In other words, even people from the UK behave like humans?
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by Grustaf 5y ago
> Any company its only purpose is profit. This isn't true for any company, not even investment banks. When people start companies, money is seldom a major reason, and as they grow they get a life of their own. Even large companies a
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Why?
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is simply arrogant.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
> No question that most of us needs to have the ego take a backseat more often. Nothing says ego in the backseat like an iamsosmart blog post. Bonus points if the website looks like it's from 2005 and if you write it in a tone as if
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by Grustaf 5y ago
There is no indication at all that the clerk was causing any trouble, and Apple retail employees never try to upsell, whatever else you could accuse them of.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
He was certainly very annoying, but his crime was misleading the youth, making them distrust authority.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I don't know who this guy is but he certainly succeeded in looking stupid.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
> actively fights anyone trying to repare them What makes you say that? What did you expect would happen if you spill juice into your laptop? What they are perhaps fighting is unauthorized repairs, in the sense that they want to be able
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by Grustaf 5y ago
This only makes sense if you presume people throw away their laptops when they replace them after "a few years". Given the incredibly high second hand value of macbooks, I think most people sell them or hand them down.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
They didn't boast. Saying many people prefer hardware keys is closer to admitting a mistake than boasting.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Well ok, maybe on twitter. But in elections the middle classes are typically pitted against each other. "Raise taxes for lawyers", "Decrease welfare payments".
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Yeah, 0.1% are directing the laws, but they are not our elected leaders. They are the unelected leaders of the largest corporations.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
And yet curiously all political discussions focus on the inequality between the lower middle class and the upper middle class.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
What is a “pizza party” and who would pay $70 for aggregating the ordering? $20 per pizza also seems pretty expensive.

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