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by bschne 2y ago
Their point is simply that your cost estimate is likely wrong. > It costs pennies to produce, maybe a dollar in landed cost Kellanova last had gross, operating, and net margins of ~35%, ~13%, and ~8%, respectively [1]. Likewise, Walmart
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by bschne 2y ago
This is what has repeatedly bothered me about Doctorow, he writes quite compellingly on the surface, but the arguments are often sketchy at best, and the pandering to/expression of outrage often dominates any attempts at clear analysis
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by bschne 2y ago
> These companies have been hiking prices for years, but really started to turn the screws during the post-covid inflationary period The only one I found a time series for quickly is Lamb Weston: Their margins steadily went down after 20
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by bschne 2y ago
+1, wasn’t aware of this, curious to learn more
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Urban legend: I think there is a world market for maybe five computers(geekhistory.com)
131 points by bschne 2y ago|73 comments
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by bschne 2y ago
oh my god, today I learned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY
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Mercator: Extreme(mrgris.com)
218 points by bschne 2y ago|46 comments
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Timelines Wiki(timelines.issarice.com)
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by bschne 2y ago
https://archive.is/jjg2s
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Is NYC's Congestion Pricing Working? Fewer Private Cars Are on the Road(bloomberg.com)
6 points by bschne 2y ago|1 comments
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Nycsubway.org Table of Contents(nycsubway.org)
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Everything About Grain Bins [video](youtube.com)
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O1-pro scores in the range of 80-90/120 on 2024 Putnam problems(twitter.com)
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List of Gear Nomenclature(en.wikipedia.org)
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Strategies for Learning(andymasley.substack.com)
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by bschne 2y ago
Someone also set up a bunch of Graphana dashboards with European electricity data at https://energygraph.info/
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No one can teach you to have conviction(benkuhn.net)
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The Dirty Little Secret of Credential Inflation (2002)(chronicle.com)
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by bschne 2y ago
The map portal of the Swiss government also has a bunch of old map layers available. For example, here's Zurich in 1883. https://map.geo.admin.ch/#/map?lang=en&center=2682327.37,124...
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by bschne 2y ago
Doctors listing themselves in mail-order bride catalogues seems at least as unlikely to me, but admittedly I know nothing about the usual demographics of this phenomenon
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Elite misinformation is an underrated problem(slowboring.com)
29 points by bschne 2y ago|24 comments
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by bschne 2y ago
Detail, but I think this part here is slightly off: > Fast forward to March 1998. Saint Petersburg. A cafe next to a canal. Hans is meeting a woman. Nina Sharanova. A mail-order bride. According to his Wikipedia entry, Nina was the inter
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Oral History of Jim Keller [pdf](archive.computerhistory.org)
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Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled (2021)(papers.ssrn.com)
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Oral History of Jim Keller [video](youtube.com)
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MIT Sloan School Case Studies(mitsloan.mit.edu)
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by bschne 2y ago
I wish they did this experiment with two slits to see if cats behaved (almost) like particles and/or (almost) like waves
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by bschne 2y ago
I don't know, but I have to say I was surprised how quickly this one took off, esp. given it's the middle of the night across the U.S. :)
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Factorio – Visualizing construction material dependencies(community.wolfram.com)
184 points by bschne 2y ago|84 comments
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by bschne 2y ago
> You may have noticed that the page URL gets substituted into ${url}, and so to prevent this from messing up the command, we can simply put it behind a # which makes it a comment Is there some validation logic or something on this polic

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