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by josh_fyi 4y ago
They were not Akkadian. Akkadian was the international language of diplomacy in that area, as English is today, or French was a century ago. "Canaan's elite was either Akkadian" -- the writing was done by scribes, who were a
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
Even if a company exits very successfully, ordinary employees may get almost nothing because of ordinary agreements and conditions for other investors. Dilutions, ratchets, drag, tag, earn-out, black-out, convertibles, preferences, preempt
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
Why does any company nowadays start using Oracle?
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
Indeed, just as French language and Latin-based orthographies for languages in this reason are the result of a colonial legacy, so too the use of Arabic as a prestige language (mentioned in this article) and an Arabic-based orthography.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
Use annas-archive.org to search across pirate sites. Works well; no login neededs.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
Yet strangely, the word "buy" is used in the Kindle store. Seems like straight up commercial fraud.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
We call these "Guilt Alleviation Stations" where you go to get rid of your books. We have always believed that books must be treated with respect, yet nowadays, there is less and less reason to keep massive numbers of books. Yet t
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
Home auto repairs are a way for the poor to gain an income and build skills. Large formal garages see that as competition and arrange for these laws to slap it down.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
"Balls to the wall" has nothing to do with anatomy (nor does balls-out). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/balls-to-the-wall#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/balls-out#English
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
Investing it means not using it. Plausibly, boosting economic progress by training people produces much greater long-term benefits than putting the money away.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
Why are people still working there? Is it just those who are stuck on a visa or have severe financial problems? Are these people truly enthusiastic about the mission?
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
Certainly. If instead they had 20' tall poles covered in spikes (with a gap of 2" in between so as not to impinge on public property) that would not be a question. I am glad that that is not happening!
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
Why don't private landowners firmly set two tall metal poles, covered with razor wire, 2 inches from the corner? I support public right of way, but it seems a landowner who wants to de facto seize the public land could do that.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
Referring to the most recent coalition, as listed here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-sixth_government_of_Isr... The Islamist party I mentioned was United Arab List and the leftist ones I mentioned were L
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
An Arab party and two leftist parties were in the last coalition, though the Arab party was Islamist and the leftists parties were not Arab parties.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
As a Hebrew speaker, I have to say that even though one should stick to English in code, paamayim nekudotayim was probably used because it rhymes; it has rhythm; it sounds like nothing you would say in ordinary circumstances.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
When I am in the zone and people talk to me, I have a tendency to turn around suddenly, startled and distracted. So, I have trained myself turn around suddenly with a big smile and cheerfully say "How are you doing :-) :-) :-) It s
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
It was 25 years ago, so I don't remember. However, even if today I could get all my rights back -- indeed, if I could get compensated for a reasonable author's royalty going back to the start -- the amount of money would not be
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
I signed away rights to the President and Fellows of Harvard College (the legal name in this context for Harvard). That was not a problem as it was clear to me that this would not be a money-maker for anyone. The business-side was handled b
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
I was delighted when my book showed up on Z-library! I of course was never paid for authoring that book; indeed I paid a subvention to publish it with Harvard University Press. At some point, the rights were sold to the giant publisher Bri
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
What has London come to? Housing for horses and servants now serves as £10m money-havens for foreign oligarchs.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
My feet are very large (available only at specialty retailers), so a sock gift risks being useless.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
City University of New York had an incredible line up of world-class genius graduates, because they took the Jews who were excluded by the Ivies. For some reason that never translated to prestige status for the university.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
US private colleges cost about $250 to $330k for am entire BA.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
How do American colleges police the statement of race?
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
Don't sell yourself just as a "bug-fixer". Sell yourself as a lifesaver when a company has a terrible problem so severe that it emdangers millions in revenue, or even the whole company.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
Has anyone tried a legal challenge to the word "buy"? It seems like a straightforward case of misrepresentation.
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
In the US, if you can get accepted to a PhD, you get full scholarship, especially in STEM, but also in other fields. You can drop out in a year or two and get your masters. (I got my master's this way at Harvard, though I also finished
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by josh_fyi 4y ago
One alternative is to have your own domain, but run email on a service like CloudFlare, Mailgun, or even Google. If you get cut off, you can change provider and redirect the DNS records.

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