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by aomurphy 10y ago
Right. Another aspect of this is that SF is one of the few cities where minority groups have been able to use housing laws effectively to try and prevent them being kicked out of the city as prices rise (in most other American cities, the
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by aomurphy 10y ago
The United States has a much more violent anti-Union history in comparison to most of Western Europe. Take a look at the Battle of Cold Mountain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain In 1921. In Euro
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by aomurphy 10y ago
So, I'm getting the sense this is related to Glushkov's work on pricing right? My understanding, please correct me if I am wrong, was to try and track all items and use computer systems to optimize production and pricing. Was that
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by aomurphy 10y ago
Yes, and not only that, American streetcars had often gotten rights to build track from the city in return for responsibility to repair the streets the tracks were on. Which was a fine deal when there was only foot and horse traffic, but pu
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by aomurphy 10y ago
I think that's one of the biggest problems on reddit: There's no way to remove moderators, and so subs can easily be subverted by having a small group of bad actors enter the mod team, or just having the mods get burnt out. Also M
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by aomurphy 11y ago
It's an anagram and then he also "Russianized" it apparently, adding the -ff as what we now mostly transliterate as -ov.
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by aomurphy 11y ago
Because there are contexts where bringing that up is appropriate and contexts where it isn't? At a party: Appropriate. Support Channel for a Service: Not appropriate. This sort of thing should never happen in a professional context.
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by aomurphy 11y ago
Was it this one about Hofstader? http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-...
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by aomurphy 12y ago
Partially because Murakami i very involved in the Japanese to English Translation. He cares a lot about translation, he's actually a very accomplished English to Japanese translator himself, he's translate F. Scott Fitzgerald and
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by aomurphy 12y ago
Yes, this exactly. The CCA grew out of a widespread moral panic about comic book content, and its effects on youth. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_of_the_Innocent . Basically, after this, the once thriving c
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by aomurphy 12y ago
Not knowing what to believe is probably the best thing right now. Everett (the linguist who made the claims) is quite insistent that this is the case, many other linguists are not. It's definitely a big controversy right now, particula
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by aomurphy 12y ago
I thought this was going to be about pretending to be a larger company. For years my mom pretended to be my dad's secretary when people called his work number and he wasn't around, bringing the size of the company up 200%.
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by aomurphy 12y ago
Yes, he is is in some ways a very tragic figure. As a kid I was always inspired by his absolute dedication to truth, no matter what he saw it as. He really has the most incredible life story, from the child of a one armed Russian-Jewish Ana
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by aomurphy 12y ago
I've seen this cited several time on HN recently, is there a better source for this? Sorry, I imagine a lot of this stuff is in Russian only, but I would love if you could give an article/book/post about this sort of thing.
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by aomurphy 12y ago
The book where I read most of this from is Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John Dower. It's a big book, and covers a lot about occupation, not just economics, but I found it engrossing and quite readable. It&#x27
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by aomurphy 12y ago
One of the most interesting things about Japanese business, is how much was built by New Dealers who came over in the occupation. Americans rebuilt the giant conglomerates, we reinforced the idea of life time employment (salarymen were very
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by aomurphy 12y ago
Because there are benefits to this way of doing things, and not all of Japan is like this. As the link points out being incredibly careful with practices, and really ensuring the quality of a product is exactly the right thing in many situa