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I read an article in Foreign Affairs that calls this "personalism."
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Agreed about jobs in the South Bay. I commuted from Midpeninsula southward for 30 years. 100 degrees is unusual although it happens. I never lived in the South Bay so can't speak about AC. My house, built in 1947, didn't have it.
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'“The wealth creation will happen to Texas teachers and California public-sector employees, not to European pensioners,” said Stephan Leithner, CEO of Deutsche Börse, operator of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.' Well, ok.
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Stephen Kotkin, the historian, made a podcast comment that the US share of global GDP has remained about the same over time, regardless of politics/policy/crisis. We Americans love our economic growth, for better and worse. I used
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I'm now retired. I clearly applied my CS knowledge in breadth and depth in my last job. And to a lesser degree, I did the same in my first job. It's the jobs in the middle that veered me off the original path. It's like navi
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Except climate. I was on a road trip this summer and stayed in Iowa City while driving East and then St Louis driving West. Downtown Iowa City was appealing. I had a good hotel at a bargain price near the St Louis airport although the area
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Back in the 90s, it was the opposite as miliary/aerospace declined in SoCal. I'm a native Michigander and long-time Californian (both subject to booms/busts) who recently took a road trip to the Midwest and back. If it weren&
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You can learn and lose, though.
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I recently made a purchase in an Ontario used book store that only took debit cards and cash (and the clerk was behind a COVID shield). Today I went to a used book store in Buffalo, NY that took credit cards (and the clerk was roaming aroun
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Many interesting items.
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Interesting way to analyze listening. From last year's last.fm data, I played my top track 31 times. And that seems like a lot to me.
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4) When assessing a startup, consider two things first: are the founders experienced in the industry and market they are attacking? Is the value of the solution obvious? i.e. people will likely willingly pay well to have the solution? --- I
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Curio seems like an interesting package.
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https://firststreet.org/ will report climate risk, for a given address. I live in a part of the Bay Area with the following risk factor profile: 1/10 Flood. 1/10 Fire. 1/10 Wind. 7/10 Air. 3/10 Heat
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by aworks 2y ago
I switched my prescriptions from Walgreens to Safeway. Better service on medications and better selection of other stuff.
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I don't know if we'd all be better off without Walmart. I on the other hand am going through the exercise of unwinding myself from Amazon etc., with varying degrees of difficulty: [easy] Echo devices: where the UX just keeps getti
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I remember enjoying reading Computer Shopper, for the ads... https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-march-1994/mode...
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This is an insightful take on the impact. I will say, having been a caregiver multiple times around serious medical situations, that looking back, that care I gave had great meaning in my life, despite the pain for all concerned.
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I'm usually good at avoiding visual distractions but I gave up trying to read this.
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US President Harry Truman: "It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."
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I had no idea scalping was so complicated.
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Ben Thompson suggests Palantir as a company to leverage deep enterprise data with AI. https://stratechery.com/2024/enterprise-philosophy-and-the-f...
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I'd also like to subscribe to some rate-limited plan for newspapers, magazines, and newsletters. I can usually find some workaround but it's too much hassle to do that for all the sites I'd like to read (and where I would be
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by aworks 2y ago
20 years ago, Google had a custom search engine capability where you could give it a list of sites to search from. Is that functionality still around?
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Why would I want to know about Musk thinks in this situation? I don't particularly look to CEOs for guidance on political and societal issues.
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This reminds of the quake when I was driving to Menlo Park and seeing large numbers of people walking down the Caltrain track after it had been stopped in between stations. It looked like a scene out of an apocalyptic movie...
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A card processor for sale leads me to this comment: "Finally, many customers found plugboard programming easier than programming with code, both because they were more familiar with it and because it is visual and direct." https:
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I've had generally mediocre experiences with Apple products - the original MacBook Air, two iPad Minis, an early iPhone. And for whatever reason, I prefer Windows and Android to MacOS and IOS. But I agree that an iPod with the click wh
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I mostly remember being stuck in Memphis ~40 years ago... I don't remember what boarding passes looked like then. I assume detachable, printed boarding pass stubs were not yet being used. I actually started the trip in Grand Rapids, MI
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In the 1980s, I once boarded a Republic flight from Detroit to Houston. Unfortunately, the flight I paid for from Detroit to Houston was a different (and direct) one. In Detroit, there was confusion on the plane as someone else had the sam

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