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by geogra4 8y ago
>The final years of the Republic were characterized by fights over citizenship for the Italians, consolidation of land in the hands of a small number of slave-owning oligarchs, meaning that more and more people were unemployed and inelig
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by geogra4 8y ago
Yep, culture eats process/tooling for breakfast.
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by geogra4 8y ago
The Toyota Way - one of the most important books I've read to help understand why companies are dysfunctional. I knew corporate America (and even many startups) were so dysfunctional, but I didn't know what could replace it. The T
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by geogra4 8y ago
They're just copying what the CIA/NSA has been doing for decades.
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by geogra4 8y ago
Gold, or perhaps, CNY/Yuan
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by geogra4 8y ago
Does Sales Tax count? What about gasoline taxes?
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by geogra4 8y ago
One of the most ill-defined too.
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by geogra4 9y ago
Diaspora?
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by geogra4 9y ago
All of the big consultancy firms are bodyshops in some sense. But in my experience IBM is truly one of the worst. And people still keep falling for it.
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by geogra4 9y ago
This looks really neat! I'd love to experiment with this
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by geogra4 9y ago
We do a lot of large design/spec documents so we really make a lot of use of that.
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by geogra4 9y ago
Emacs is going to be just as obtuse for your everyday business analyst as LaTeX
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by geogra4 9y ago
I want to use markdown for our technical documents. But MS Word really has some features that are missing that would be needed for a markdown editor to make a dent in what we need. 1. auto-generating table of contents 2. easy table creation
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by geogra4 9y ago
I think that's a little unfair to characterize the Chinese government as uniquely nefarious. NSA's Prism gives the US Gov't free reign over troves of information held by US based software and information services companies.
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by geogra4 9y ago
On the other hand, I can't imagine Penn Station is busier than, say, Madrid Atocha. They should have used 'New World', not Western Hemisphere.
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by geogra4 9y ago
workers of the world unite!
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by geogra4 9y ago
I know, they may really like Communism! https://www.rt.com/politics/340158-most-russians-regret-ussr...
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by geogra4 9y ago
Right, they close their doors and avert their gaze
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by geogra4 9y ago
bourgeois ideology is contagious, sadly.
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by geogra4 9y ago
This, I think is the most ridiculous thing about the bay area. Everyone is spooked about 'Manhattanization' and development like NYC is some ghetto where no one wants to live. Heck, San Francisco has 20% more land area than Paris
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by geogra4 9y ago
Keynesianism (or MMT) isn't socialism, bud.
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by geogra4 9y ago
HyperCard was created by Bill Atkinson following an lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) trip.[10]
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by geogra4 9y ago
I always wondered what Jean-Louis Gassée was doing after BEoS.
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by geogra4 9y ago
Man, buffalo and pittsburgh must be doing something special compared to the rest of the rust belt? I wonder what's going on there.
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by geogra4 9y ago
Risc-V?
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by geogra4 9y ago
slavery
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by geogra4 9y ago
It is. But that doesn't stop people from playing on fear to get what they want.
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by geogra4 9y ago
Should be the responsibility of those with the most to gain from startups (ie VC firms)
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by geogra4 9y ago
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners
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by geogra4 9y ago
aren't there big players on the other side. Why aren't the big VC houses fighting this? This seriously hampers their ability to have their startups have equal access to the open internet.

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