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by ahi 7y ago
Maybe that's true for clocks, but it's certainly never been true for the press.
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by ahi 7y ago
The announced separation date was based on the assumption of gainful employment up until that date. Being thrown into unemployment makes that decision irrelevant. Giving notice is a courteous statement of intentions. The courtesy and intent
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by ahi 7y ago
I was looking at 1820-2008 in Maddison which gives us the 40x increase. Both those numbers are in 1990 dollars, so using your estimate of 20 million after inflation 20/36,232 ~= 1000/1,446,959 ignoring all the confounding coffee s
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by ahi 7y ago
Over the course of 250 years I think applying a CPI conversion is far too simple to capture all of the qualitative changes in a political economy. That said, this list estimates 40x increase in the size of the UK economy. https:/&#x2F
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by ahi 8y ago
He went to Harvard. He described his own high school efforts as "mediocre grades". Clearly smart and driven, but taking lessons from his experience is probably unwise. OT: at some point the Ivy's reputations have to get a li
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by ahi 8y ago
Countless lives would not have been saved. Just different lives.
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by ahi 8y ago
I know a CIO of a large private company (billions revenue) that has an associates in business mgmt and was promoted from within. Excellent people skills and a good golf game. There's no way they can recruit a competent and empowered IT
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by ahi 8y ago
I work in higher ed. Salaries are nowhere near competitive. However, everyone I work with has opted for good work environment over money. Tends to lead to self-selection of nice people, even if they aren't "rockstars".
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by ahi 8y ago
The first accident involving a 737 occurred more than 4 years after introduction. This is 2 fatal crashes in the first year with only a few hundred aircraft delivered.
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by ahi 8y ago
Title selection is heavily automated / outsourced. Selectors have lists from publishers and the library community to work off of so whatever the actual number is, it definitely follows the 80:20 rule. Most of the 1500 Wayne picks, he w
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by ahi 8y ago
A small nitpick, the Library of Congress is very much not the National Library. The service it provides the public is ancillary to its role as the library for Congress. This creates headaches for librarians, including those working for the
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by ahi 8y ago
These pages provide a decent overview of access restrictions for HathiTrust materials: https://www.hathitrust.org/features_benefits https://www.hathitrust.org/out-of-print-brittle
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by ahi 8y ago
This is not correct. "Partner" access does not provide additional access to in copyright materials. They do have more convenient download options for public domain works and additional services.
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by ahi 8y ago
HathiTrust does not provide access to in copyright materials to anyone. They provide research access for "non-consumptive" use through the HathiTrust Research Center.
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by ahi 8y ago
The DoD source gave me just enough cover to share it as general interest material.
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by ahi 8y ago
Uber and Lyft have worse economics than traditional cab companies. Traditional cab companies have the advantage of fleet maintenance and higher utilization rates. Without VCs and financially illiterate drivers subsidizing fares, Uber and Ly
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by ahi 8y ago
Tesla sells luxury cars with margins big enough to accommodate safety engineering. I have read reports that they can't compete on price with the Bolts and Leafs which is why we haven't seen a base model 3.
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by ahi 8y ago
If I employ a human too stupid to not insult my customers, I would probably fire him.
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by ahi 8y ago
There may also be some self-selection when it comes to people who choose to be weightlifters or runners. Tongue strength differences may be a genetic correlation with particular body types rather than a result of training.
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by ahi 8y ago
Based on a google image search I think that's a safe assumption. Still impressive though.
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by ahi 8y ago
While infectious, Rails doesn't risk killing the homeless.
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by ahi 8y ago
Microservices!
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by ahi 8y ago
This dataset from CMS is probably better: https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare I would be skeptical of family reviews as a reliable indicator. Nursing homes are almost always miserable places.
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by ahi 8y ago
I have seen it in grocery stores here in the midwest.
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by ahi 8y ago
Acadia is relatively tiny compared to the western parks. Still possible to get off the beaten path, although it's more like a public summer retreat than wilderness area.
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by ahi 8y ago
OT: Their pricing page appears to be broken in Firefox: https://www.meltwater.com/request-pricing/
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by ahi 8y ago
Loving County has a population of ~134 and an area of almost 700 square miles. Suburban Amazon delivery this is not.
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by ahi 8y ago
The response to automobiles when they were introduced was the correct response. It took a ton of marketing for the car companies to effectively privatize and ruin our public streets.
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by ahi 8y ago
I work in a shop that had effectively no project management. When jira was introduced it was a godsend. Obviously email and slack requests aren't better, so what is the alternative system that has people hating on jira? Honest question
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by ahi 8y ago
hard to believe the companies are knowingly lying. If you're working with the feds on a national security incident, and the PR department comes round because some reporters were asking about it, the correct answer is "I don&#x27

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