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by devchix 7y ago
You're kind to ask. The paper was written a long time ago and very thinly sourced, more of a toy of dubious value. As we've agreed in this thread, attempts to directly translate asset values and income from a radically different
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Consols schmonsols! The modern prospector such as Mrs. Bennet would want to know how much is that in today's money. Using the Bank of England's trusty inflation calculator and plugging in 1813 (the year Pride and Prejudice w
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by devchix 7y ago
Oddly enough, Lane Greene of The Economist 6 days ago argued that language by and large has not changed so fast, despite the Internet, citing the same book. The Intelligence podcast 2019-07-17, near the 14:08 mark. https://podc
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> Complaints about air conditioning are mostly a form of modern self-flagellation. For your, and HN's consideration, we are losing regional vernacular architecture because of air conditioning. One of my fav episode of 99% Invisibl
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This Reboot-to-Fix mindset encroaches on other domains as well. My car had a weird issue when it would't pair to the phone, auto-technician: "reboot!" Someone here say that I'm probably a *nix admin vs a Windows user,
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Years ago around the Apple Maps fiasco, I read a very good article titled (paraphrased) "Why people follow GPS into very obviously bad places". At the time there were reports of people driving into empty fields, lakes, despite ve
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Planet Money: The Cost of Getting Your Money Back(npr.org)
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I read this thread with such a jaundiced eye; from blunt cluelessness to outright cruelty - who is on the other side of these transactions? Surely these are humans who think about the things they (do to|inflict on) their underlings? Sur
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I'm sorry to be unclear, the reporter interviewed the diners and the episode was a collection of conversations of the diners with their friends (used with the diner's permissions), and of the diners with the reporter. In no way w
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In the same spirit, but in the blue-collar band of the wealth spectrum, This American Life camped out for 24 hours at a Chicago diner called The Golden Apple and recorded the conversations of people who happened to be there. The episode
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Not a conference, but once, I wrote a book. The local bookstore, bless them, staged a meet-the-authors, tech talk. I showed up two hours early, lugging a suitcase with extra books. Cookies and lemonade were laid out, along with pristine p
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by devchix 7y ago
A recent episode of 99% Invisible: Play Mountain looked at how the playground got to be safe and boring. "A two-year-old boy named Frank Nelson was climbing a 12-foot-tall slide in a Chicago park when he slipped through a railing and h
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by devchix 8y ago
Heh, think about the bitterness in the OpenSolaris community (and the Sun diaspora). Way way back in S10, ZFS, DTrace, zones, and this other weird creature called SMF, they were all going places!
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Indeed. I recently learned of his work on HN, and have been carrying his Magic Ink paper around for 2 weeks, nibbling on it bit by bit. This was written in 2006! I see implementations of the ideas expressed everywhere - for example Netfl
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Thanks for this! I had no idea who this person is, the MagicInk paper is a wonderful, animated piece of writing to be sure.
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Fantine in Les Misérables sold her hair and then her teeth to pay for medicine for Cosette. It was her last recourse for money before falling into prostitution. A detail in a work of fiction, but not a stretch to believe it's drawn f
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by devchix 10y ago
I feel like there's a fundamental failure in this model: create and grow a business to be a target acquisition, then cash out. This implies an untested business riding on trend and PR fluff, whose creator was never committed enough to