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by etothepii 9mo ago
If first class was full lie down from LAX it must have been transcontinental to JFK or BOS.
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by etothepii 9mo ago
The sleepwear in First Class is by far the most bizarre thing about the whole experience. I've never understood why First and Business Class that are so clearly mainly used by people travelling for work don't focus more on the bus
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by etothepii 9mo ago
Perhaps this is a feature not a bug. High rents encourages startups to be founded by those who haven't coupled up and who choose to live together. A company of 3 single founders in their mid twenties that rent a two bed flat and then l
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by etothepii 9mo ago
London pays more taxes per capita than the rest of country.
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by etothepii 9mo ago
Do you have any numbers on the number that get some number of upvotes? What about a chart of upvotes on Show HN? I assume the vast, vast majority never get any upvotes.
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by etothepii 10mo ago
Because English has become the lingua franca for Europe. I suspect that now UK has left EU it will be much easier to accept this.
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by etothepii 10mo ago
I'm amazed by how few people appreciate the quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln, "If I had more time I'd write a shorter letter." Why aren't people using LLM to shorten rather than lengthen their plans? You know wha
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by etothepii 10mo ago
Deliberate planning is great but serendipity is important too. Some of the richest people I know made most of their wealth as a consequence of being in a position to act* when opportunities presented themselves. My guess is that it's i
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by etothepii 10mo ago
The million dollar earn is a fantastic example.
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by etothepii 10mo ago
Apologies, in an attempt to be precise I have used convoluted language. The point I'm trying to make is that assets such as land are not denominated in any currency and typically end up being held for such large amounts of time with
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by etothepii 10mo ago
It really comes down to valuation. The unit of account for tax is the currency of the relevant sovereign. Most contracts for income are denominated in that unit of account, even if it is not there is often a highly liquid market (FX) betwee
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by etothepii 10mo ago
This is an idea I have not encountered before but makes an enormous amount of sense. I wonder how one would create a hypothesis that could then be shown or not I the archeological record. Slavery was certainly an integral part of both the A
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by etothepii 10mo ago
The House of Lords is the most democratic hereditary system in the world. The 90 of the 92 heredities are elected from amongst the available candidates.
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by etothepii 10mo ago
Being stationary and cultivating grains allows a surplus that is much harder to achieve with hunting. This allows the formation of a priest class that can tell you what the sky father wants you to do. They may have had to but it need not be
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by etothepii 10mo ago
An observation here that wasn't quite made but in my opinion is supported by the narrative. If you raise enough capital (whether social or financial) to run for 3 years then you can run for 3 years. If your bets are paying off 2 years
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by etothepii 11mo ago
Most likely it costs a lot because there isn't enough frequency of demand for it for more than one company to offer the service thus there is no supply. However, as it is a regulatory requirement the severity of demand when it appears
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by etothepii 11mo ago
In England you don't have lollipop ladies/men?
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by etothepii 11mo ago
Check out make caps lock great again. https://github.com/Vonng/Capslock
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by etothepii 11mo ago
> so that decisions about the railways we use are made closer to us I believe this is a mistranslation of "so that decisions about the railways we use are made by me" or more precisely "so that decisions about the railways
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by etothepii 11mo ago
A sufficiently long circle of corporations would be difficult to follow. Corporations can in some jurisdictions be secretary or indeed directors.
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by etothepii 11mo ago
> For most of the industrial era, you could assume that any large physical operation, like a warehouse, would need a certain number of human bodies to move boxes and drive forklifts. Were there forklifts for most of the industrial era? G
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by etothepii 1y ago
My guess is that most startup founders are in a relationship. I've been in a monogamous relationship for nearly 16 years I would thus not be in a position to be a first customer.
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by etothepii 1y ago
And the crazy thing is that while outlook is my life it's also unbelievably bad. Why can't I have the calendar and email client open at the same time? Why don't newly received email addresses appear in the valid auto complete
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by etothepii 1y ago
I've heard this a few times. Can you explain a bit more why you think that's a problem. I've always made the assumption that once they become "not cheap" you now have the cost to offset investment against.
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by etothepii 1y ago
“Any man who must say ‘I am the king’ is no true king.” --Tywin Lannister
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by etothepii 1y ago
Does it go with his book, "knowing why you do something can be extremely helpful?"
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by etothepii 1y ago
An equity minimum would deal with this.
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by etothepii 1y ago
And yet even on the page about Chrome's new AI assistant is a cookie pop-up ...
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by etothepii 1y ago
Yes I'm talking Python. The namespaces are long, dare I say ugly, urls. Even though the xml file itself uses `<w:t` you can't unless you provide a dictionary as an argument that contains `{"w":"https://

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