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by User23 3y ago
Shades of C. Northcote Parkinson here.
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by User23 3y ago
> Life for someone born poor even a century ago was brutal and oppressive in a way most of us have difficulty understanding. Not really. A century ago people in many parts of the USA were dirt poor. I mean no savings, no electricity, no
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by User23 3y ago
I think you’d really enjoy the book Visual Complex Analysis.
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by User23 3y ago
I’m reliably told that diversity is a strength. Why can’t a stronger more diverse Israel work?
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by User23 3y ago
There will be 25 miles of beautiful Mediterranean coastline for Israeli settlers. At least, that certainly has to have crossed the mind of someone in power.
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by User23 3y ago
J.R.R. Tolkien himself sold the film rights to United Artists. Also, for what it's worth, it's hard to imagine a better executor than Christopher Tolkien. He basically spent his entire life serving his father's artistic inter
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by User23 3y ago
> Maybe some portion of them always wanted this, and society just didn't allow them? I don't see how it's possible to know what people "aways wanted" because people respond to changing incentives. By revealed pre
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Nobody ever got promoted for saying "hey, this is good enough, let's just leave it alone and coast." The incentives for changing things that work go far beyond just management.
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by User23 3y ago
Tinder originally was Grindr for straight people, so yes it was focused on hookups. It was just a straight up copy. I guess that both have since evolved. I think it's fascinating, albeit somewhat horrifying, watching how inducing mostl
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by User23 3y ago
I think the original MMT folks’s jobs guarantee is the best option. Everyone that is willing to work is guaranteed a job that pays some reasonable wage. That sets a floor on compensation. Employers who want to attract people away from the g
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by User23 3y ago
That’s not how pricing works. The source of new buying power injected into the demand side of the rental market is irrelevant to the effect it will have on marginal prices. And yes, with some hysteresis, suppliers of inelastic goods like ho
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by User23 3y ago
WA state law is really quite employer and landlord friendly.
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The formalisms for nondeterminism are over half a century old now. This is fundamentally a solved problem, although the typical case analysis technique many programmers tend to prefer falls down hard. Incidentally that’s why unix signals su
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by User23 3y ago
And yet many people support an automatic loss of constitutional rights if one is issued.
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by User23 3y ago
Unless the law has changed, in California back pay is senior to everything except tax debt. And the company officers are personally liable for it. It should work that way everywhere. Executives need to be incentivized to do layoffs while th
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by User23 3y ago
This is one reason why go-getting working class boys used to caddy. I wonder how much the rise of golf carts has reduced social mobility.
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“Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?”
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by User23 3y ago
> Don't abandon pen and paper, don't regress human brain capacity. Socrates believed writing regressed human brain capacity, by serving as a crutch for memory and thus leading to atrophy. Maybe he had a point, because you don’t
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by User23 3y ago
> Porsche, regarded by many as having the best-engineered sports cars in the world, didn't have a fully in-house design until 1978 (almost 50 years after founding). Ferdinand Porsche also founded VW so that’s a bit misleading, perha
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by User23 3y ago
This takes me back to 1996. It was a dark time for fans of the Mac, but there was some really cool stuff they were doing. HyperCard wasn’t quite dead yet either. On a complete tangent I lost a fair bit of that summer to the online multiplay
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It didn’t help that due to poor farming techniques a vast amount of topsoil in the west just got blown away. Whoops!
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by User23 3y ago
It’s pretty much an open secret that every Hollywood actor that needs to be muscular for a role uses some kind of anabolic androgen. You see stories like “he put on 30 pounds of muscle for this role in six months” and it’s obvious what’s go
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by User23 3y ago
Being a good manager is 90% hiring the right people. Who the right people are depends on your circumstances, but a metaphor that always worked for me is that building a team is like building a puzzle. You need pieces to fit together. If you
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by User23 3y ago
Remember pantelligent? That was the saddest casualty of the patent troll kitchen wars so far.
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To continue mining the Peircian vein, it appears to me that the most troubled areas of inquiry are the ones where the pragmatic maxim gives us the least.
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Is this more clearly stated something like “Biological models are not uniquely determined by data sets?”
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I keep a handcuff key on my keychain for giggles. It caused me a small amount of trouble when I showed up for jury duty.
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The C preprocessor is a purely functional language![1] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20230714010215/http://conal.net/...
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Common, really? Have you got any kind of figures to back that up? Because anecdotally speaking neither I nor anyone known to me has ever rented for anywhere near ten years. I always get curious when claimed statistics greatly disagree with
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If you mean dead silence in your ears when you’re in a quiet place actively listening for tinnitus then no, I’ve never heard of such a thing. Although I am curious if even people without tinnitus can will themselves into hearing a ring in t

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