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Employed people are much more likely to be customers.
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Same. I've imagined 'spines.com' for books, where the work of linking book spines to ISBN's, etc, has been crowdsourced and you can point your phone camera at a shelf and look up reviews, etc.
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> These things almost always add value and are entirely rational from a market perspective. From the perspective of efficiency for the ownership, yes. However, every laid off staff member still needs to eat, house themselves, and pay th
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> It brings manufacturing back which is the entire point. If the point is to bring back manufacturing salaries in the quantity and amount previously available, it's not the entire point.
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I've heard people speak of the book 'The Nutmeg's Curse', Ghosh, which dwells on the history here.
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> Americans already the second highest incomes in the world [1], I would like to see this broken down by decile over time; I suspect that doing so would show a shift favoring higher income deciles and disfavoring lower income deciles. I
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I lost the sleeve sometime in the 80's, but I've still got the template... somewhere. Other things I carry from my 1982 Fortran class: 1. A copy of 'A Fortran Coloring Book', Kaufmann. 2. I may have been one of the last
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We had two Dougs in our 1980's office. One of them had the cartoon on the entrance to his cube.
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About ten years ago I went back and forth a couple of email rounds with one of his aides trying to get permission to use one of his cartoons ('Old dog, new trick') in a presentation to ~200 people, but I couldn't justify the
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I appreciate the thorough response. I experienced a variation on the thunder/flash challenge response when a group from work played night paintball after work one Friday night. The other team established a code: 'Pizza' was t
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They send pension checks out to specific addresses and accounts at exactly the same scale. Does it seem unreasonable to add 'attempt to call the pensioner' into the 'maybe they are deceased' part of the verification pro
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A couple favorites that haven't been mentioned: 'An Introduction to General Systems Thinking', Weinberg, and he's got a dozen more worthwhile books behind it. 'The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in
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Seconded, phenomenal book and suggestion. IMO in a similar vein is 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb', Richard Rhodes, another industry- and world-reshaping project.
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Maybe, but there's a long tradition that suggests maybe it's necessary... "229 If a builder builds a house for someone, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built falls in and kills its owner, then that
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"Everything is free now That's what they say Everything I ever done Gonna give it away Someone hit the big score They figured it out That we're gonna do it anyway Even if it doesn't pay" - 'Everything is Free&#
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Think about that the next time you flip a light switch or flush a toilet and consider whether returns should be the only reason.
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The details of all of the battles in O'Brien's books are drawn from Royal Navy records, albeit with some adaptation to fit the plot and characters. Cochrane's (Jack Aubrey in the book) capture of the Spanish frigate is the cl
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Jerry Weinberg mentioned that a filter he uses for choosing what to read is whether three people he trusts have recommended the book. I think his plan was more comprehensive, but this seems like a useful quality filter and it's one I k
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How about 'The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet', Kahn. It isn't directly technical but it is the classic history of the field.
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'The Path To Power', Caro, first volume of his LBJ biography. Elsewhere ('Working'), Caro has explained that his career in writing is to make clear how power is acquired and used. I think he achieves this goal here and a
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r.e. 'The Flying Tigers', my high school library had a copy of 'Way of a Fighter: The Memoirs of Claire Lee Chennault' that I read multiple times. Might be worth checking out.
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About two weeks in to my first job, as a dishwasher, I told myself that I didn't want to do this for the next forty years. I stayed in restaurants another ~five years and was known as a hard worker, but that desire is what drove me to
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I recently read 'The Winds of War' and 'War and Remembrance', novels by WW2 US Navy officer Herman Wouk. It is amazing how much history he crams into the narrative, documenting, among many other things, German treatment
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In my house we have a rule that if someone proposes some 'easy or trivial' labor in addition to the current workload, the other can say 'Have at it.'
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You forgot to include the meetings and paperwork involved in reporting on the SOC2 compliance.
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There's a joke about Adam and Eve in here somewhere. Genesis 2 for reference.
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Anecdata to your point: 1. In the world of Honda S2000's, all other things being equal the 2004-05 models command a premium over the 00-03 and 06-09 model years. 2. My wife (2022 Prius) sighs when she sees how attached I am to my 2008
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This reminds me of something a friend said that's stuck with me for ~30 years: 'The bad news about taking responsibility is now it's your fault. The good news about taking responsibility is now you can do something about it.&
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I met them once, by accident, while returning my ski rental gear to the shop in the base of the Snowbird lodge. She was friendly and kind, and ribbed me a bit. I'd recently read President Carter's book on aging [0] and, being ~20
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One example: A farmer might choose to sell his produce at cost so it won't rot, so he can pay his bills and so the surrounding population can eat. A profit would be nice, but there's more to it than profit, e.g. paying the bills a

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