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by gumby 2y ago
Most of the funds, even the big ones, trail the overall market, and even the successful ones have difficulty maintaining a long track record of success. The reason for the big pension funds and endowments to invest in VC is that it’s a bit
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Babies babble with acquired accents(rawstory.com)
72 points by gumby 2y ago|38 comments
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by gumby 2y ago
The last time I bought a house (this was in California) I read the title insurance policy (as the author says, it's short). Turns out it protects my claim in perpetuity meaning that when I sell the property I am still covered agains
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by gumby 2y ago
I use a blanket which handles 95% of my cases; in my ski cabin I have a cheap electric mattress pad that handles the other 5%
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by gumby 2y ago
RSS is my main interface to the web
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by gumby 2y ago
I had the same thing about Narmia — only learned as an adult that it was a Christian set of books. By then I’d learned a bit about Christianity so in re read them but still have no idea. Perhaps they aren’t christian and I was just being
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by gumby 2y ago
Tons of disney, richie rich, archie etc, though perhaps not sold in the USA (pretty common in Europe and SE Asia) but are pretty American!
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by gumby 2y ago
I agree that a bookshould be written for its intrinsic value, but it's possible to have an extrinsic value as well: even if you don't sell many it could be a credibility tool for a consulting or ( shudder ) 'influencer'
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by gumby 2y ago
This doesn't appear to be fakery but rather an error. This article points to the value of publishing the raw data and the software used to analyze it. Just casually dismissing it as "fakery" removes the opportunity to learn
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by gumby 2y ago
I had a similar childhood, always with the nose in the books (no BD or comics for some reason), except we couldn’t afford to buy books so it was all library. Only four books were allowed at a time so I would read my four SF books and my si
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by gumby 2y ago
And Harold Holt, PM of Australia.
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by gumby 2y ago
Sure, he would have known probability, but apparently he knew how to make up a good story to charm someone. Sounds like his losses were a good investment.
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by gumby 2y ago
Yes, the first husband was an inveterate gambler, but she did meet JvN in a casino too, with an absurd story.
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by gumby 2y ago
Honestly I don't know why they would go to the effort, especially when trying to sell the company. Surely the amount of $ saved is de minimus
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by gumby 2y ago
> People... a Time Inc. publication People actually started as a column in Time Magazine itself. Someone had the brilliant idea of doing a spinout, that as this article implicitly points out, ultimately outshone the parent. Parasocial r
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by gumby 2y ago
One of the few topics on which he has something useful to say (Software is eating the world was another).
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by gumby 2y ago
Landscape -> Netscape
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by gumby 2y ago
Was just reflecting on this yesterday: when I parked my car I saw a paper sign on the lamppost: “learn tennis from a professional”. The person was the number 1 player in Nepal, ranked in the 1200s professionally. I assume and hope he was i
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by gumby 2y ago
I had a prof back in the 80s who used to joke that they were both small island nations with large degree of foreign trade and a history of colonialism. (the joke is that it's easy to find deep parallels but that they were mosly coincid
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by gumby 2y ago
> Yet the market evolved and it's clear that "might as well be a game console" is no longer an adequate defense for these leading smartphone platform owners. Could you explain why this is the case (what evolution makes it
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by gumby 2y ago
> If driving is so bad, and public transit is so convenient, why are people still driving? [this comes from an assumption that] people are stupid; they don't know what's good for them, so let me enlighten them". It's
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by gumby 2y ago
That’s just the vegan version.
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by gumby 2y ago
> It takes guts to keep the brand name in English-speaking contries, though. I think they mostly only sell bimbo-branded goods in spanish language shops (where the brand would help sell). In, say, Safeway you only see the US brands they
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by gumby 2y ago
What I get from this is that the python interpreter is better than I would have guessed.
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by gumby 2y ago
I don't know, cinnamon bread french toast with sauteed apricots and cockroaches is a mix of carbs, fiber and protein, though probably should have more protein for a better nutritional balance.
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by gumby 2y ago
> The challenge would be that it's sometimes written in the Latin alphabet and sometimes in the Hebrew alphabet, but maybe more people would want to start learning it if they knew it existed.) This is true of Yiddish too, and it has
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by gumby 2y ago
FWIW Bimbo (a Mexican company) is the largest baking company in north america -- when you go to the typical grocery store almost all the baked goods will be from Bimbo regardless of the label ( https://bimbobakeriesusa.com/ou
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by gumby 2y ago
This is common in the US as well, typically worded as "manufactured in a facility that also processes" although the wording you wrote is common too.
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by gumby 2y ago
The body says that some people are having trouble getting help, but if it were anyone but the IRS the headline could be good news: "millions of people call google for help and 2/3 are helped without even reaching a human" (Of
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by gumby 2y ago
^U in readline isn't an emacs command (that keystroke does something else in emacs); it's the old teletype protocol for line input. So if you aren't using readline, ^U deletes everything back to the beginning of the line. Re

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