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by parenthesis 4y ago
I thought it was super fun to see Gore Vidal acting in a movie. I haven't seen it in a long time, just looking up the cast, and Dean Norris plays — you guessed it — a cop.
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by parenthesis 4y ago
His The History of England was his big hit in his lifetime.
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by parenthesis 4y ago
Stone also gets really grubby over time, but for some reason that still looks okay but the concrete doesn't so much.
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by parenthesis 4y ago
My favourite thing about Ferris Bueller's Day Off is that Alan Ruck was 29 when it was made.
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by parenthesis 4y ago
The Financial Times recently started using 'mn' for million, as in '$250mn'.
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by parenthesis 4y ago
Jeff Bezos: Hey MacKenzie, let's quit our great jobs at DE Shaw, move across the country to Seattle, and start an online bookstore! [In 1994!] By saying yes, she was, in effect, Amazon's first investor, and worked there in the ear
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by parenthesis 4y ago
(The song 'Thriller' was written by Rod Temperton, by the way.)
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by parenthesis 4y ago
Purely manual, I'm afraid. But it was fun (to me).
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by parenthesis 4y ago
I did a bit of comping a few years ago (all online, no more than minutes worth of time per week). I won: a case of wine, a garden hose, tickets to a play, tickets to a concert, tickets to a book festival event (from the Guardian, in fact).
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by parenthesis 4y ago
Roy Haynes is one of the greatest musicians I have ever heard.
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by parenthesis 4y ago
LatelyBass !
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by parenthesis 4y ago
The institutional investors should have put some people of their collective choosing on the board. These people should have had (non-racy) financial backgrounds. (The board of Theranos, notoriously, contained `great and good' people, b
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FTX balance sheet, revealed(ft.com)
238 points by parenthesis 4y ago|298 comments
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The FTX Collapse Explained(finshots.in)
1 points by parenthesis 4y ago|0 comments
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by parenthesis 4y ago
"If in doubt, spent nowt" is my principle. You'll soon notice the discomfort of doing without a purchase you do need (so now you can buy it); you won't notice the lack of something you don't need.
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by parenthesis 4y ago
The Micawber principle. (It seems there are two; the other is "Something will turn up".)
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by parenthesis 4y ago
That is actually the way I think of notes in tonal music: You've got a root, a second, a third, … , a sixth and a seventh. But there are different kinds of each degree of the scale (apart from the root): the second could be minor or ma
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by parenthesis 4y ago
But Intel would presumably be investing the forgone dividends in something that looks better to investors than the metaverse moneypit.
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by parenthesis 4y ago
My main beef with Berman is that he fired composer Ron Jones who, in my opinion, did, by far, the best music on TNG.
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Wolf Design Review(review.wolfarchitects.design)
39 points by parenthesis 4y ago|1 comments
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by parenthesis 4y ago
Because it is more difficult to make a change that affects other code without a change in types occurring, which will make compilation fail until all affected code is updated.
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by parenthesis 4y ago
I'm assuming you mean Touretzky's Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation — http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/index.html — which, yes, is a wonderful book for a complete beginner.
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by parenthesis 4y ago
Modern technology is just too damn convenient, yes, but, …, but there's a romance , let's call it, to working with a manual film camera, printing in a darkroom, DJing with vinyl on Technics 12xxs, recording on an analogue 2"
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by parenthesis 4y ago
`Happy' memories of hiking in the Cairngorms, not in winter, crossing a snow patch, losing any grip on it, sliding down, with, thankfully, my father just below to catch me (it was steep, and stretching a long way below). I don't t
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by parenthesis 4y ago
This. I want a streaming service that has more or less every movie and TV show ever made before, let's say ten years ago. Fair enough if Disney etc. want to keep new stuff exclusive to them. Also, fair enough if certain big evergreen c
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by parenthesis 4y ago
It's one of the very few movies I chose to sit down and watch but had to stop after just a few minutes. The others would be The Departed — I loved the original Hong Kong movie Infernal Affairs , but I couldn't bear to watch m
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by parenthesis 4y ago
Check out Johnny Guitar in glorious (lesser known) Trucolor.
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by parenthesis 4y ago
Don't worry! Move up here to Scotland. The SNP assures us that all our problems will be solved as soon as we are independent! (Edit: I probably shouldn't have made this comment. Let's just say I am not disagreeing with you.)
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by parenthesis 4y ago
I've commented on this before ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2670735 ): In the late 2000s, inside a university library copy of the 2003 edition of the Clocksin and Mellish book Programming in Prolog I found a p
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by parenthesis 4y ago
Arm and the underlying infrastructure of music streaming should be this.

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