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by ioblomov 3y ago
That’s what recorded media effectively did to live performance. While far more people consume records/streaming, concerts and plays still command a premium.
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Look at How HR Lays an Employee Off: Severance Insights(financialsamurai.com)
1 points by ioblomov 3y ago|0 comments
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/G8Ppk
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Coinbase Trades Beanie Babies(bloomberg.com)
8 points by ioblomov 3y ago|1 comments
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/ShiRs
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/6JL5u
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/8K5BH
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The Businesses That Rescued America from Inflation, Recession, Lost Jobs(wsj.com)
1 points by ioblomov 3y ago|1 comments
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by ioblomov 3y ago
Exactly. China created a middle class the size of the United States all in one generation.
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by ioblomov 3y ago
Johannes Kepler was effectively Newton’s experimentalist. His detailed observations of the planetary orbits led him to formulate equations of motion that Newton later explained as the dynamics of force, mass, acceleration, etc.
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by ioblomov 3y ago
It wasn’t microscopes so much as detailed and thoughtful observation of macro phenomena—fossil and living specimens from around the world—that sparked the theory of speciation from natural selection. That is, it was noting the morphologica
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by ioblomov 3y ago
Happens more often than you’d think: * Newton and Leibniz with calculus * Darwin and Wallace with evolution * all those shared Nobel Prizes by independent scientists (eg: Feynman and Tomonaga/Schwinger with quantum electrodynamics, et
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by ioblomov 3y ago
This mindfuck struck me too. Could a physicist speak to this? Is a black-hole universe a theoretical possibility because it’s a valid solution, say, of the Einstein field equations? Or is it a possibility simply because it’s not falsifiable
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/ydtgL
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/ydtgL
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/hRwCm
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Imaginary Art Seller Drove a Hard Bargain(bloomberg.com)
3 points by ioblomov 3y ago|1 comments
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/2C60t
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by ioblomov 3y ago
All politics aside, the more countries with nukes there are, the likelier one gets used, whether intentionally or by accident.
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by ioblomov 3y ago
Guessing insider trading and speaking fees pale in comparison to brokering power through access and horse trading. As a simple example, LBJ got rich by getting radio/TV licenses and opening stations.
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by ioblomov 3y ago
And, assuming Satoshi’s is a dead wallet, every other BTC in circulation becomes worth more.
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by ioblomov 3y ago
Actually a bit more… https://duckduckgo.com/?q=26.91679286+BTC+to+usd
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/Ux0u8
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by ioblomov 3y ago
I bought the very first iPhone the day after its release. Long before iMessage was introduced, it only supported SMS at the time. People forget, but those bubbles, the original SMS ones, were green. Blue bubbles showed up only when iMessage
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by ioblomov 3y ago
Even conceding the lack of contributions to theory, their practical achievements in engineering and government (which insured centuries of cumulative, if not continuous, peace across a region that spanned three continents) combined with the
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by ioblomov 3y ago
Always thought of a “tech” company as one whose bread and butter directly depend on shipping software and/or hardware. By this definition, all of the “magnificent seven” mega-cap tech-centric companies qualify, though admittedly old me
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by ioblomov 3y ago
My pre-startup career was in advertising (before the dominance of social networks) where salaries were quite competitive and the creative atmosphere made you forget the ad biz was still corporate America. Another huge benefit was complete t
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by ioblomov 3y ago
Surprised the article didn’t mention what for me (as a horror fan) was the most famous example of the public domain immediately benefiting the culture. Due to repeated edits requested by a demanding distributor, the final cut of Night of t
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by ioblomov 3y ago
Worth mentioning that Walt Disney intended EPCOT to be his version of the company town. He only reluctantly agreed to build the Magic Kingdom as a way to fund it. After he died before the latter was finished, the board decided they didn’t w
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/xkFum

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