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by goldfishgold 1y ago
“Desperate and traumatised Jewish survivors refused to return to neighbours who had denounced or deported them; when some were returned to Poland anyway and met with pogroms and hatred, all prospect of Jewish repatriation evaporated. Follow
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by goldfishgold 1y ago
One flaw with this reasoning is that ignores the time value of money. A dollar today is worth more than a dollar a hundred years from now, if only because we’ll all be dead a hundred years from now. From that perspective and with favorable
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by goldfishgold 1y ago
What about the Taliban? Fighting them for 20 years seemed to achieve absolutely nothing.
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by goldfishgold 1y ago
For a supposedly moribund institution, live theater (esp Broadway) makes a ton of money.
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by goldfishgold 1y ago
Surely some form of stock price manipulation?
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by goldfishgold 1y ago
is zero content loss between deployments such an extraordinary feature? I feel like it’s the bare minimum for any backend.
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by goldfishgold 1y ago
Yes exactly. People who write text are not going to be excited about making saving their text such an extraordinarily complicated task, nor will they think it’s interesting in its own right.
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by goldfishgold 1y ago
Lol. I went the NY DMV a month ago to exchange my out of state license. Even with an appointment, a preapproved application completed online, and all the correct paperwork I had to wait 2 hours. My experiences with the CA DMV were similar.
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by goldfishgold 1y ago
Yes, Homer will outlive us all, but what 20th century film is likely to have Homer’s longevity? I think people will still be playing Tetris and reading Homer in a thousand years, but I’m not confident at all that they’ll be watching any of
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by goldfishgold 1y ago
I created a similar game a few years ago for guessing the year of an object in the Met’s collection. Would love any feedback if people want to try it.
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by goldfishgold 2y ago
From the article: > About 55% of Harvard undergraduates receive some type of financial aid, according to the university. Which implies that 45% of Harvard undergrads do not receive any financial aid, ie pay sticker price. Anecdotally tha
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by goldfishgold 2y ago
It says something about the inhumanity of our contemporary culture that people willingly accept that our employers have no obligations to us in any way.
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by goldfishgold 2y ago
Almost certainly, insofar as it’s already known and described in a number of places, including Wikipedia.
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by goldfishgold 2y ago
Best I can find is “But the key thing I hope people will take away from this is that the values of The Post do not need changing. The duty of the paper is to the readers, not the owners.” https://archive.is/BpcDZ He might c
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A Notion Love Story: Connie and Kyle were two singles looking for love in SF(notion.com)
4 points by goldfishgold 2y ago|0 comments
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by goldfishgold 2y ago
Not Clemenceau either. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/21/graveyards-full/?am...
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An Detailed Map of the 2024 Election(nytimes.com)
2 points by goldfishgold 2y ago|0 comments
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by goldfishgold 2y ago
Fair enough. 100yr old companies are pretty easy to come up with, 200yr old companies are much harder.
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by goldfishgold 2y ago
There are plenty of 100 year old companies doing basically what they did 100 years ago (Exxon, Coke, Hershey, Wells Fargo, etc.). They’re just not tech companies.
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by goldfishgold 2y ago
Blinken’s gf was an early supporter of Israel: https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/15/obituaries/maurice-blinke... . Biden’s current “envoy” to Lebanon and Israel, Amos Hochstein, is a former IDF soldier born
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by goldfishgold 2y ago
Classic game that universities love to play where they hire someone but that person isn’t “really” part of the university. Happens with extension but happens in degree granting programs too with adjuncts.
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by goldfishgold 2y ago
Not sure about this. Generally there’s a line out the door of highly qualified people to teach at places like Caltech for little or nothing. A few years ago, UCLA tried to hire someone to teach a chemistry course as a volunteer position.
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Students paid thousands for a Caltech boot camp that Caltech didn't teach(nytimes.com)
84 points by goldfishgold 2y ago|128 comments
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by goldfishgold 2y ago
People have spent their whole lives on the “Homeric question,” but basically Homer is well preserved and overall the variations are minor. In particular, as far as can be determined from quotations in Plato, the Homer we have is basically t
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Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for women? Or both? Or neither?(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
8 points by goldfishgold 2y ago|5 comments
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by goldfishgold 2y ago
Too bad there’s no pics of the machine running.
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by goldfishgold 2y ago
CA high speed rail has taken 16 years so far with another 15 on the horizon, and that required 0 novel technology.
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by goldfishgold 2y ago
Article discusses the Yaroze in the first few paragraphs.
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by goldfishgold 2y ago
What a ridiculous idea. You think your mother should or is capable of auditing the Facebook app before installing it?
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by goldfishgold 2y ago
This is from 10 years ago. I would be curious to know where they are now and how they feel now about this career decision and blog post.

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