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by pjmorris 3y ago
I suddenly feel privileged for having gotten my eye-bee-m t-shirt as free swag at an event. I did buy my 'Think' coffee mug, and the grand prize to me, a 'Think' baseball cap, to wear when necessary. I spent eight years
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I moved from <large national bank> to a local credit union back in ~2007 and remain glad I did for an ever renewing fountain of benefits, rooted in separation from the class of large national banks.
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I'm clearly out-of-date on data, as my assertion is more in line with your chart from e.g. 1990 to about 2015. That said, if I've understood what we're looking at - wages in terms of buying power as measured by CPI, I'd
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I'd be interested to see where you get your numbers. To my eye, wages for the median worker haven't gone much of anywhere in 20-30 years, while asset prices and other costs have gone up. I'd be happy for clearer vision.
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> Why can you not understand why the US would prefer people to be invested in the future of the US? I can understand investing in the future of the US. I add an interest in investing in the present of the US, e.g. wages that support the
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It's only a model.
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I felt like I'd unlocked some kind of nerd secret treasure chest when I attended a midnight showing of MPatHG in a local theater in college in the early 80's. And again when I picked up the DVD (remember DVD's?) in the early
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“Oh! Pascal!” is on my short list and I can see the influence of 'Elements', and Feynman as well.
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'Gumbo ain't fancy' and the rest have the ring of truth to me. I'd been meaning to make Chuck Taggart's gumbo [0] as his Red Beans and Rice recipe has been a staple in my house for years and his 'Gumbo Pages&#x
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To be clear, I was not quoting Smith in support of his contextual argument, but in recognition of what appears to be a universal human tendency that remains. I deliberately did not quote the following "But though the law cannot hinder
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From the abstract, "This requires an implicit agreement which can be coordinated by sector-wide cost shocks and supply bottlenecks" Can you help me distinguish between this and the 'stale dogma?'
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“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” ― Conspiracy Theorist Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the N
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“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” ― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of
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Great story! > a demo tape that got us a single Can you dig up the single and post it someplace where we all can hear it?
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I think certification is essentially the same thing as having someone else interview the candidate, so it won't be better and is easier to game than interviews. Working together with someone on the kinds of problems you actually face i
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Offering this title for asking opinions of it more than recommendation, as I've not yet read it: 'Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age', Riordan.
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> The process is ethically neutral, or oblivious if you will. I like 'oblivious' here, as it seems to me a matter of chance about who will achieve a breakthrough. It does seem to me that once a breakthrough is achieved by some
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It appears to me that the definition is compatible with the poster's notion 'affordability is not an intrinsic value of a building' in the sense that the definition depends on income as well as the housing itself. Problems co
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Good to know a place it might show up; we live in North Carolina, but, with a little awareness, persuasion, and planning, I could talk my wife into a trip coinciding with a showing. The Castro in SF would be a more difficult proposition but
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Near topic: I realized that the movie I really want to see again on the big screen is 'Lawrence of Arabia' I told the manager at our Alamo that, and I emailed them, but if anyone here knows how to get their attention, I'm all
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In ~1991 a co-worker and I were talking about the rise of home theater systems. He thought they'd mean the end of movie theaters. I thought that there's something special about seeing a movie together with others - 'a place,
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Anecdata of one: In my most recent (~5-6 years ago) TH phase, I listened to all the albums multiple times (one nice thing about streaming services) but the ones I kept coming back to were 'Fear of Music', 'Remain in Light&#x2
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More than one?
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I am not Estonian, but my mother and her parents were. They emigrated in 1948. That generation has passed but I recognize in your description some of my own attitudes and how they came from their examples. Thank you for your window into the
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This seems like a great accomplishment; a design so good that others are inspired to implement it.
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They're not pitching to consumers in the grocery store aisles, they're pitching to corporate executives in board rooms. The world looks different in each of these places.
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Don't they have the dispute resolution mechanisms of the country implementing them, e.g. Australia, the US, India? Compared to that, PayPal seems like it'd have weaker dispute resolution mechanisms.
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Anecdata based on a sample of two: If you find things he's interested in and read to him, he'll eventually take off on his own. At least, that's how it worked for me. After my mom had read to me who knows how many times, I ca
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> Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking is a must-have. I love McGee, but we only tend to pull it out when we have a history or science question, not so much when we're cooking. A book we lean on heavily is 'The Flavor Profil
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That's a little like saying Wikipedia has more knowledge than every teacher on the planet combined. It's being able to bring the relevant knowledge to bear on the student's understandings that matters, and that depends not on

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