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by crdb 9y ago
If you'd like to explore the ideas further: Carter's 8 etudes and a fantasy's 7th etude is just the note G (1949) and Ligeti's Musica ricercata's (1951-3) first movement almost only A (the entire work explores havin
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by crdb 9y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | GLOBAL REMOTE | Haskell, PostgreSQL We are two founders bootstrapping our startup with consulting, and occasionally have opportunities for extra work we do not have capacity for. The work splits in 3 categories: - CRUD
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by crdb 9y ago
As an example: Joel Myers of Accuweather and his brother donated $11,000 to Rick Santorum (a senator) shortly before he introduced the National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005, whose "effect would be to eliminate public disseminatio
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by crdb 9y ago
When this scene was shot in 2003, also with Scarlett Johansson, Sofia Coppola managed fine: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/79/f8/5f/79f8...
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by crdb 9y ago
I'm going to take an unpopular stance here but I must disagree, at least to the extent that whilst details were done relatively well (although no better than, say, Total Recall's recent remake) the photography was not. Here's
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by crdb 9y ago
I immediately thought of Peter Wright's bio [1]: > The Registry employed enormous numbers of girls to maintain efficient delivery of files within the building, as well as the massive task of sorting, checking, and filing the incomin
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by crdb 9y ago
An entire article on Japan, racoons, anime, and even a note on the native tanuki, yet not one mention of the excellent Ghibli anime, Pom Poko. For some reason, this charming Miyazaki (edit - Takahata, not Miyazaki! thanks for the catch) wor
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by crdb 9y ago
It's a useful rule of thumb in terms of "where you'll stop accelerating with the wind on a normal boat", not absolute hard limit. You can play with length to start planing earlier which is the source of many a fun design
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by crdb 9y ago
Hull speed (maximum speed for a non-planing aka "displacement" hull) is proportional to the square root of the length of the hull. The article says he has a "hull speed of just 2.5 knots". Most (well, all) crossings are
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by crdb 9y ago
This thread is turning into a set of recommendations related to Bach. So here's mine. Zhu Xiao Mei is a Chinese pianist who teaches in Paris. She grew up during the Great Leap Forward and spent 5 years in a reeducation camp, never givi
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by crdb 9y ago
Sure, I was just going in the spirit of the comment. I have a few friends from degrees ranging from philosophy and music to physics who did a few months somewhere in the City and then were working relatively well paid corporate jobs ("
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by crdb 9y ago
Is there a better way to create a bullet list on HN? I googled and found this. Still time to edit.
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by crdb 9y ago
Ah, but I'm not saying that Ivy/Oxbridge grads make better employees all else being equal (in particular salary). I'm specifically saying that on a financial/job hunting basis, it makes more sense to pick a prestigious u
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by crdb 9y ago
> not told to "just go to the best college no matter what" > majoring in Underwater Basket Weaving was not a great idea from a financial point of view I've met many people in places like McKinsey or Goldman Sachs (i.e.
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by crdb 9y ago
A C-level (at least an honest, non-sociopathic, non-clueless one) will stress about the mortgage, kids college, affordable healthcare and all the other things of his or her thousands of employees, since actions at that level impact all of t
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by crdb 9y ago
I'll give you Eisner, but Kroc's first franchise was the 9th McDonald's overall and he is the sole reason for its international dominance, so he's not a founder only in the technical definition of founder. Technically, W
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by crdb 9y ago
Yes, Marina Square. I usually enter at City Hall and emerge at Suntec (there used to be a great Vietnamese crab and tomato soup on the 2nd floor of one of the towers, in the days of Carrefour), and so much stuff is called Marina around ther
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by crdb 9y ago
I used to hike/run MacRitchie every weekend or other weekend, the full 16km. The trick is to bring a spare T-shirt in a plastic freezer bag (press before sealing to remove all the air). When you get back to the Mushroom Cafe, remove yo
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by crdb 9y ago
You would be amazed at the number of billionaires ambulating Singapore malls in Uniqlo T-shirts (bought on sale, naturally)... and how non-transparent and varied rent can be even in the same building: a flatshare I stayed in used to pay $4.
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by crdb 9y ago
You sort of have a small version in the Orchard Road stretch. You could conceivably live above ION Orchard, go to work in your Takashimaya office, eat at an ultra cheap Lucky Plaza eatery or blow $300 at Les Amis at Shaw Centre, shop and ex
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by crdb 9y ago
I respectfully disagree and think the 2000 version has aged very badly (artistically speaking, it also holds lower value for me). For example, watch the harvester-eaten-by-worm scene [1] [2]. Which of the two has stood the test of time? I c
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by crdb 9y ago
> I've read elsewhere on the Internet that Dune the novel actually is an inspiration for the Star Wars universe A greater inspiration is the comic series Valerian and Laureline [1]. Lucas pumped not just the characters and spaceship
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by crdb 9y ago
I am happy and sad. Arrival and Sicario are precisely the kind of complex, thoughtful directing that SF needs after years of Marvel movies. On the other hand, why reboot Dune yet again? Nobody has given Asimov's Foundation a try!
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Alternative hypothesis: something set 21,000 years (edited - well spotted!) into the future is going to be as impossible to imagine for us as today's world was for Jules Vernes. As such gothic madness might be a more realistic interpre
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by crdb 9y ago
> it's too easy for any local city to have a dominant "Uber for our city" which isn't Uber I disagree. By virtue of being in the city, and only in the city, it would be too small to withstand pressure from local inter
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Australian PM moves to replace skilled worker visa(sbs.com.au)
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by crdb 10y ago
It makes it more painful, but shareholders can sue management and the board if their interests are not represented (see the numerous lawsuits against Yahoo). Or in other words "when there's a will there's a way". The rea
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by crdb 10y ago
> the knife throwing scene in the Starship Troopers adaptation That was on purpose. Verhoeven allegedly didn't read the book (which I doubt) and set out to create a parody of it. The movie is ridiculous because it is supposed to be
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by crdb 10y ago
> readymade set of sacraments and oaths one can apply to any business to achieve magical effects On the contrary, MBAs are designed not to be a "management formula" but teach by experience in two ways: first, exposure to thousa
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by crdb 10y ago
Alternative hypothesis: these salaries are helping startups. It is fantastic that someone not born into wealth and connections can pay off their debt in record time, then save enough to cover financial security and take a few risks, such

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