ghaff

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by ghaff 10mo ago
I'm not sure we really disagree. Sure, there are foundational principles but how to handle non-routine transactions aren't necessarily at all obvious.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
One of the main issues I had when I took accounting was that you often couldn't figure out things from first principles because the "right" way was whatever the relevant financial accounting standards board said it was. But f
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by ghaff 10mo ago
Brussels in particular perhaps is sort of non-intuitive because, even (or perhaps especially) if you know a little bit of French, the station names don't obviously correlate to their relative locations. There is a logic but it's n
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by ghaff 10mo ago
This sort of used to be the case with Heathrow Express in London. There was a lot of signage that suggested to the unwary that Heathrow Express was the "right" way to get into London. Now, especially with the Elizabeth Line, while
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by ghaff 10mo ago
>Aren't toll roads the norm? No. I won't say they're rare but they're not especially common in the US.
876.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Yes, bill for plate OCR is typically a lot more expensive in addition to having to logon to a site etc.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
Toll collection used to be much worse in terms of collection efficiency (revenue-cost)--perhaps 50% as I understand it. With all the automated toll booths I assume it's much better today.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
I assume automatic tolls via transponders tend to make tolls a lot less transparent in practice.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
"Becoming known" (the definition of which I leave as an exercise for the reader) isn't an automatic meal ticket but it does, as I allude to in another comment, lead to connections that you can sometimes take advantage of in v
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by ghaff 10mo ago
You're sort of describing networks more broadly whether you initiate a connection or someone at a company does. Latterly, I didn't apply in the usual sense for 25 years or so. Don't code a lot but have written books which led
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by ghaff 10mo ago
There are! Central Park of course. But also pocket parks all over the place.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
I tend to default to a midrange place as I'm not much interested in spending a lot of time by the pool. And when traveling on business, if meals weren't being covered, I didn't actually much care for resorts when I felt like
883.
by ghaff 10mo ago
I don't know exactly. Maybe $400K; haven't had appraised recently. One neighbor has a Christmas tree farm. The other has a pasture with horses. I don't personally have a huge amount of land--a bit over 4 acres. Don't do
884.
by ghaff 10mo ago
And if you're presumably paying a premium for a nice resort, why wouldn't you spend a lot of your time taking advantage of it?
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by ghaff 10mo ago
I think that's a good plan. I do tend to book hotels, planes, and usually longer trains. But, especially for a longer city trip, I loosely map out--even if just mentally--things I want to see and do but, for example, one museum a day i
886.
by ghaff 10mo ago
I'm not sure quite how that works. Google Docs will suggest various changes which I take into account or don't. And they certainly correct misspellings. You can choose to decide that's not AI but it's a grey line. For wr
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by ghaff 10mo ago
I'm not really a resort person. But I do subscribe to some travel feeds mostly in the vein of maybe finding some places/attractions/restaurants/etc. that I'm not familiar with. The number of hyper-scheduled spreadsh
888.
by ghaff 10mo ago
Money is a factor. I went from, if not scraping by, never really recovered from dot-bomb to a pretty good job at a medium-size public company latterly. It was "mostly" good. But the difference in money set me up in a way that I pr
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by ghaff 10mo ago
The CDs I have seem to be proprietary for Windows from the late 90s. But I also have PDFs through 2005 on my computer which I must have "acquired" at some point.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
I have MAD archives somewhere. I thought they were in some standard format but maybe not. A lot of the gen 1 or so CD content isn't easily accessible although a more industrious person could probably get to it in some manner.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
I've traveled all over Europe; Ryanair and other low cost European carriers were never on my list.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
When a lot of content was being put out on CD/DVD, a number of publications did but they are not straightforwardly accessible these days because they're usually on an old version of Windows. (Yes, if you want to make a project of
893.
by ghaff 10mo ago
It doesn't even take new leadership. As companies grow, they (have to) put more process in place, people tend to have narrower and more tightly defined responsibilities, and the person at a smaller company--even if not a startup--who w
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by ghaff 10mo ago
Yes. A lot of properties in a small town well outside a major city limit can feel pretty rural (and may not be super-expensive). You're probably not walking to a grocery store but you can likely drive to one in 15 minutes or so. I&#x27
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by ghaff 10mo ago
Most of my titles have been pretty made-up (with acquiescence of manager). Never had the formal levels seen at large tech companies. Last job description was written for me and didn't even make a lot of sense if you squinted to hard. M
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by ghaff 10mo ago
Within Europe, I'm usually not in a big hurry or tight on budget within reason. But I understand that many are and it encourages race to the bottom budget airlines. Personally, I mostly do train within Europe even when it involves an o
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by ghaff 10mo ago
I guess MANY people are "famous" within some limited group. I suspect few here (much less more broadly) could name senior execs at the majority of large companies who are mostly wealthy by any reasonable measure.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
The topic/area definitely matters a lot. Certainly politics is a big one that generates a lot of strong opinions and emotions. Some things in open source (see systemd--at least at one time) do as well but the blast radius is probably a
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by ghaff 10mo ago
A lot of people are reasonably well-known in certain circles because of some show, podcast, book, etc. that's become something of a hit often with some calculated controversy. And, as you say, collects something of a following. There a
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by ghaff 10mo ago
Which is really going to help me living 50 miles outside a major city. (Which is considered urban according to the US Census.)

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