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by blackshaw 6y ago
Not true. The first real corporations in the modern sense (private legal entities that existed separately from their owners) were the English and Dutch East India companies, which were founded in 1600 and 1602 respectively. 1894 is closer t
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by blackshaw 6y ago
Another one I just remembered: "automaton/automata". This site lets you search for English words by suffix, and the only words it can find ending in "-omenon" are "phenomenon" and... "superphenomon&qu
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by blackshaw 6y ago
> "I would have had eaten" Where are you from? "I would have had eaten" makes no sense to me (British). I don't think it's a valid construction.
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by blackshaw 6y ago
"Criterion/criteria"
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by blackshaw 6y ago
Ironically, while they gave their name to the French language, the Franks themselves spoke a Germanic language, not French: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankish_language
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by blackshaw 6y ago
There was an article on the front page of HN not that long ago about a guy using the waste heat from crypto mining to heat his home: https://blog.haschek.at/2021/how-i-heat-my-home-by-mining.ht...
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by blackshaw 6y ago
To make matters more confusing, modern Arabs don't use the numerals we call "Arabic": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals
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by blackshaw 6y ago
> Also, hint: saying that Hitler was voted into power as if it were an average democratic vote deeply misunderstands the situation. This is correct. Richard Evans's The Coming of the Third Reich is excellent too.
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by blackshaw 6y ago
Press F2 to go into "Buy Mode", then you can buy houseplants with your Simoleons.
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by blackshaw 6y ago
> I have never heard a Canadian ask for US style healthcare. I've never heard anyone of any nationality say they wish their country had US-style healthcare.
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by blackshaw 6y ago
Yeah, a bunch of things in this article strike me as very American (I'm British). No-one in the UK worries about not being able to afford healthcare if they're poor, nor do they need a car to get to the grocery store in under an h
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A Follow-Up to “Location-Based Pay”(blackshaw.substack.com)
49 points by blackshaw 6y ago|50 comments
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by blackshaw 6y ago
Update: I have written a follow-up post in response to the above thread https://blackshaw.substack.com/p/pay-2
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by blackshaw 6y ago
That's not really what I meant though. I don't work for Google, but I imagine their "local market-indexed compensation" assigns a single weighting to London, even though the CoL within London varies by an order of magn
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by blackshaw 6y ago
Author of the original piece here; see my response elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26141175
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by blackshaw 6y ago
Author of the original piece here. Wow, I made the front page of HN! Hmmmm... I can see how my vague words could have been read to imply that I advocate the opposite of what you suggest, or that I'm promoting a continuation of the stat