david927

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by david927 5y ago
Nope. You can say Austrian Hungarian Empire or better, Prague. He, and the people of the time, would not say they lived in Austria -- which didn't exist either. The people of the area spoke Czech. You can't shorten the Austrian
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by david927 5y ago
I know it's all in jest but this bothered me: > Franz Kafka, who lived as an author in turn-of-the-20th-century Austria Kafka lived his whole life in Prague, Czech Republic. Yes, it was at the time within the borders of the Austri
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by david927 5y ago
It depends on your company. Some companies are happy to move people around internally and that can be the easiest way -- asking to lead some projects and incrementally stepping into that role. If you have no management experience, it may b
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It won't work. We're facing another 2008 but writ large, and if that plays out in a similar way, we'll see people move in together so that not only will housing prices drop through the floor but rents as well. A lot of this
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by david927 5y ago
You’re simply saying it’s not so complex to render it completely unusable. I’m not saying that either. The question is, “Can it be simpler and maintain its effectiveness?” If yes, then it’s unnecessarily complex.
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It's not just this organization. The complaint is general. Web development is bizarre and overly complex.
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You can use SVG which gives you "100% control over everything" and still is composed/rendered using the browser. Anything you see in a PDF can be done with SVG. Yet no one does. Why not?
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What I've seen is a loss in the ability to architect solutions that are simple. There seems to be a feeling that if doesn't include every technology available that it's missing something. Good architectures (think both softw
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> What benefit do we get from this complexity compared to just having static HTML pages that someone would update manually? Static HTML scales much better, actually
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by david927 5y ago
Should read: How Dominant was the U.S. Dollar? We're living in interesting times. The collapse of the U.S. Dollar brings with it the collapse of U.S. hegemony. We can only wildly speculate how this will all play out.
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This person seems to have extreme, simplistic views that they hold as the truth. Non-profit organizations exist to provide their staff with great jobs" ? He honestly believes that? How many has he worked with? I've worked with
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by david927 5y ago
The price of Coca-Cola from the 1880's to today: https://imgur.com/a/uOJqee1
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by david927 5y ago
Deserved. It's a special town, a unique place. I can only hope this spurs town planners to reconstruct the "Jette": https://i1.wp.com/thegoodlifefrance.com/wp-content/uploads/2...
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by david927 5y ago
The title is nonsense. It should read: "Russia has ensured that it could handle being cut off from foreign infrastructure and has tested that."
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by david927 5y ago
HLF = Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation These are great interviews. Please take a look. I'm mid-way through Alan Kay and it's unlike any interview I've seen with him, and I think I've seen them all.
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by david927 5y ago
You're uninformed. Resources are unequivocally dwindling. No question about it. It doesn't matter that there are only seven billion humans. We're consuming resources and we're doing so incredibly quickly. How much oi
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Technology has blessed us. We've come up with "super straws" to extract oil incredibly efficiently giving us cheap oil, we've devised huge barges which act essentially as vacuum cleaners for fish in the ocean giving us
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This is talking about global resources. As resources dwindle they will get exponentially more expensive and become available only to a few. This isn't about a temporary societal collapse, and you would be a fool to ignore it.
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Honestly, no one is asking you. They've done the DD. They like the stock. They're going to hold. I see a lot of people kicking and screaming. I have no stake in this but I'm enjoying it all the same.
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by david927 5y ago
Of course it looks strange -- the stock price reflects a short squeeze on naked shorts, not value or growth.
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by david927 5y ago
Let him try to take his ball elsewhere. We're more powerful than we're being led to believe. I can't stand the notion, "What can we do? We have to let the rich pay little to no taxes!"
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by david927 5y ago
We need a minimum tax.
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I don't remember the titles, but there are a slew of books at your local library on the topic. False Impressions by Thomas Hoving is the only one that comes to mind. What's interesting about art as a money laundering scheme is t
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by david927 5y ago
And many of the "returned/rediscovered" works are forgeries.
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by david927 5y ago
VPRI disbanded and went partially into HARC and now that has disbanded. Being able to dissect Xerox PARC and see what made it work has been a challenge that we haven't been able to meet.
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by david927 5y ago
Another survey says debt is being used to cover this. Over 60% couldn't pay for a $1,000 emergency expense without using debt: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/11/just-39percent-of-americans-...
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My daughter, three years ago at age 12, felt that she could go at a faster pace on her own, so she asked to be home-schooled. We were really nervous at first but it's been great and agency is the reason. She still takes math at school
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Another strong argument is that, if you showed the place where Bill Gates actually worked hard, it was in crushing every single competitor in sight in such vicious terms that not only did those competitors shut down but none sprang up in th
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Carrots are good for you. I had a friend who ate a carrots as a kid. He's a doctor now. I wouldn't have even written my comment but this was just a big talking point after Gladwell's 10,000 hours book a few years ago (which
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by david927 5y ago
This falls into the Malcolm Gladwell genre of arguments made on top of specious anecdotal data. Paul's not wrong, per se, but it's not a well-formed argument. Bill Gates made his fortune by being in the right place at the right t

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