jgbond

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by jgbond 5y ago
Whiplash, even though it’s about music and arguably a cautionary tale
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by jgbond 6y ago
There’s a whole chapter in the popular mathematics book “How to Not Be Wrong” by Jordan Ellenberg that covers successful lottery strategies and the math behind them. As I recall from the book, the basic strategy was very simple and had a fe
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by jgbond 6y ago
I’m guessing DMs were the real loot. The public display with the BTC diversion validates any DMs that were stolen. Otherwise blackmail targets could deny them.
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How do you have deep, written discussions with your teams?
76 points by jgbond 7y ago|27 comments
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by jgbond 7y ago
The apartment complex they’re talking about in the article is (educated guess, used to live there) one of the nicest and most expensive in the country. It’s overlooking the Saigon River and has luxuries and amenities that you wouldn’t have
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by jgbond 7y ago
I read an article years ago about how urban design in China post-Tiananmen has deliberately incorporated features that prevent mass protests. Narrow, labyrinthine alleys are hard to clear out and control. With sprawling, eight-lane highways
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by jgbond 8y ago
Xinjiang is an autonomous region, too. Tibet has been thoroughly “Hanified,” though you’re right that it hasn’t been as dramatic as in Xinjiang. The same is true for other ethnic minorities, too. Traditional costumes are kept to pay lip ser
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by jgbond 8y ago
The article doesn’t touch on it much, but the palm oil industry basically runs on slave labor, too.
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by jgbond 8y ago
Or perhaps it could be a cooperative relationship where neither side has to fear?
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by jgbond 9y ago
Having worked in a meat processing plant, I can assure you that no humans would want to eat anything that goes into "rendering" for use in pet food. I'm not talking about offal, tripe, small goods, etc., all of which have mar
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by jgbond 10y ago
Finally -- I'd been driving myself nuts for about two years trying to figure out the title to the Sturgill Simpson song "Turtles All the Way Down."
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by jgbond 11y ago
WeChat is the only viable option in China because no one else is allowed to compete. It's a bloated piece of crap that has borderline become an OS within an OS. "In WeChat, everything’s in one place." Know where else everythi
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by jgbond 11y ago
The post fails to mention that WeChat is protected from competition against other major global apps. If Google, Facebook, et al, were allowed to operate freely in China, WeChat would get picked apart. Yes, there are a lot of cool things abo
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by jgbond 11y ago
This would suck for people who like to use their own cards to build rewards points and then get reimbursed.