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by pjmorris 5y ago
The butcher and baker a) have to understand what it takes to produce quality meats and breads and b) stand face to face with the customer, so they have both professional and reputational stakes in the game. Their stakeholder brothers and si
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by pjmorris 5y ago
A shareholder is more like the butcher or baker's brother than the butcher or baker. The incentives are different.
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That's not a problem for the people selling the robot.
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> I think we’ll also see more small companies like Craigslist that completely dominate their segment in a way that’s net positive to society without significantly warping our governments Generally speaking, I like your optimism. In the c
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> and it was just so great. I'm delighted to hear that it went so well, and I am a believer in the idea. I have seen, from time to time, oral thesis defenses become rather tense and difficult, and think that things go better in prop
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by pjmorris 6y ago
1. We were moving. They had to come off the shelves anyway. 2. I've got more books than shelves. 3. Until I figure out my book/shelve situation, the bins make it easy to keep the books out of the way in storage, but turn up a part
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by pjmorris 6y ago
Big LibraryThing fan. I paid a teenager to label bins and catalog the books in each bin and made each bin a LT collection. If I can't find something on my office shelves, I check LT to see if it's in a bin. It's really handy.
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by pjmorris 6y ago
Thirded. Toastmasters has a great education program, and the groups are populated by supportive people, usually including both experienced speakers who are willing to share tips, and beginners who are willing to commiserate. Highly recommen
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by pjmorris 6y ago
I keep a Kindle and a physical book or two on my nightstand. I sometimes read before bed, and sometimes read once I've woken in the middle of the night. The Kindle also goes with me on any kind of trip. I also take time to read every m
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by pjmorris 6y ago
'The Command of the Ocean, "when the British navy went from "decent" to not just first but first by a hilarious margin", sounds like exactly the kind of thing I am looking for.
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Fantastic, thank you. I have the same "perpetual "why is the world the way it is" fascination with everything)"
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> British Naval History is fascinating Tell me more. I'm four volumes in to the Aubrey-Maturin series, and will read the remaining 16, but I'm curious about, say, the top two or three non-fiction books for the interested layman
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The raft may have been purely quick thinking, and it may have been influenced by a knowledge of history. Thomas Cochrane was a celebrated Royal Navy captain during the Napoleonic wars. Here's Cochrane from his autobiography [0]: "
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Kelsey Hightower's 'Kubernetes The Hard Way' [0] "is optimized for learning, which means taking the long route to ensure you understand each task required to bootstrap a Kubernetes cluster." https://githu
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by pjmorris 6y ago
"Work with the smartest people who will work with you" has become one of the pieces of career advice I give myself.
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Sounds like a pretty solid moat around the business model.
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> So basically the US supplies the world with the dollars it needs to conduct global trade, and in return it can borrow for free from creditors. ... and the US receives hard goods in exchange for that paper/credit.
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by pjmorris 6y ago
Back in the dark ages when 'Data Structures and Algorithms' was our state of the art textbook, we called the author trio of Aho, Hopcroft, and Ullman the 'Three Wise Men.' Glad to see Aho and Ullman get more serious reco
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by pjmorris 6y ago
A long time ago, I described what I did as a programmer, and my friend said "Oh, so you get paid to learn?" I thought about it, and agreed. Part of programming is learning. Sounds like you've got a great opportunity to learn
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by pjmorris 6y ago
I first saw 'single serving friend' in Fight Club [0], do you think the idea was lifted from there? [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1iQp8g9SQo
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by pjmorris 6y ago
And I'd heard of the anti-vaxx movement in the mid-90's.
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by pjmorris 6y ago
How about: https://www.ontario.ca/foodland/page/availability-guide I knew to look for it because where we live, the state (North Carolina) publishes a fruit/vegetable availability chart ( http://www
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by pjmorris 6y ago
Well, at one time, cash registers, packaged food, and stores were all technological innovations. I'm asking whether 'technological or innovation advantage' can be interpreted as a sign of temporary inefficiency that will eve
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For more on the Apollo 13 crisis response, check out 'Apollo: Race to the Moon' by Murray and Cox. I haven't met a more detailed popular examination of the engineering and management effort behind the Apollo program, and they
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I've read that grocery stores operate on a ~2% profit margin. Is a high-margin business a sign of market inefficiency that will eventually be stamped out?
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I'd read in 'Apollo: Race To The Moon', Murray and Cox, that the booster engineers had done something similar with their weight budget, something the spacecraft engineers wound up needing. Contingency funds of all sorts are a
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by pjmorris 6y ago
Seems like the right time to roll out this old gem: “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with
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by pjmorris 6y ago
It's about rocketry, but it winds up touching on spy satellites more than i expected: 'This New Ocean', Burrows.
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More like the highest quality, but probably price sensitive which means 'somewhere in between.' I've thought about taking a test image to Costco to see how it comes out on metal, but figured that there might be higher quality
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I have the same question! Related question: If someone wanted to print something like this for themselves, how would they go about it? Say, I have an image or photo and I wanted to make a high quality print suitable for framing and hanging

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