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> But the most productive people in the world spent their time doing what they thought was fun. This is essentially the philosophy of unschooling[0], which the recurse center[1] follows. I definitely agree with you! Pursuing fun and curi
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I didn’t know it at the time but Walden by Henry David Thoreau. I read it in high school and didn’t think it meant much to me. I’ve been rereading it recently and realized a lot of insights and observations it has on living a simpler life a
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Thanks for expanding on that!
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Based on the comment’s reference to Bob Dylan, I imagine they were more discussing the 60s, so it would be helpful to see what were the top selling things 60 years ago in 1964.
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I’ve been making a survival-horror Playdate game called Plight of the Wizard[0]. You’re a wizard that fights off an endless horde of enemies by using the crank to rotate around and cast spells quickly. It’s my first game, and it’s been a lo
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Correct. They carry a net assets balance at the end of the period. But they do not retain earnings because there are no shareholders to pay out.
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A non-profit is a company that for accounting purposes does not have shareholders and therefore keeps nothing in retained earnings at the end of the period. The leftover money must be distributed (e.g. as salaries, towards the stated missio
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Yes this is the crux and the fun of my discovery! I was surprised how using sips to rotate the image resulted in a lower size than using sips or ImageMagick to directly compress the image. I’d encourage you to download the image from the li
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Rotation-Based Compression(winstoncooke.com)
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Cool project! I think it is worth pointing out contra accounts in the section where you discuss how accounts can increase and decrease. Debiting a contra-asset account would decrease its balance for example.
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I’m a CPA that worked in Big 4 accounting before quitting and switching into software engineering. To get my CPA, I had to obtain a master’s degree, sit for and pass all four sections of the CPA exam, and then work for roughly a year under
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I do an equivalent thing in Kagi using lenses. Although I have to manually define which forums to include.
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> I firmly believe that humans need seasons, i.e. periods of time that are different from each other, either summer, winter etc This is actually a very weird part about living in Los Angeles. It doesn’t feel like time passes when the wea
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I’m not sure if it’s “my version” or simply a more macro lens at history. Like all history, it’s tricky to pick a starting point, but an easy one is the end of 400 years of Ottoman Turk occupation leading into the 20th century with the Balk
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Well in this case, the company has more than quadrupled its profits since he sold the company. The new employee owners have done a phenomenal job running it.
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> The US cultural bias is showing here, as it's assumed that profit is above all else I asked my Greek teacher what they biggest change she experienced moving to the US was, and she said that in Greece, her community prioritized hap
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My grandfather founded a construction company by himself many decades ago. He built it up over many years to a behemoth in the region and created a culture where people worked there for life. When he retired, he sold the entire company to t
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Howard Goodall has a great analysis[0] of how classical music was dying in the 1950s and 1960s until The Beatles indirectly saved it. It had taken a shift to avant-garde and strongly experimental sounds until The Beatles' influence rem
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Can companies not see how their ads are performing by looking at their income statements? An ad campaign costs x dollars. Widget sales increase by y dollars. Companies were able to run this method for a long time. I think ads have gone
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This is one of the best comments I’ve read on hn recently. Thank you!
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Motorcycles are not safe, and certainly not safer than cars. However, you can reduce the extreme fatality rate significantly if you cut out drunk riding and even more so if you have more than six months of experience and wear all the gear a
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I was only trying to help you because it appeared that you misread the comment and began ranting about an unrelated matter from that misunderstanding. Not interested in this conversation, sorry.
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> You now know why libel and slander laws in the UK don't allow the factual truth to be an absolute defense. Let’s revisit the original comment.
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Apple’s own webpage[0] doesn’t properly resize text on my iPad using safari with the text set to 125%. [0]: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-ipad/ipad-pro
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This is a really cool resource! I have been wanting to make a device that uses an sink display for learning purposes for a long time, but I don’t know where to even start with that since I’ve only ever worked on software. This looks like it
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The linked GitHub is a mirror of the original Gitlab repo: https://gitlab.com/zephray/glider
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> income isn't the only measure of happiness. I recently asked my Greek teacher about if 2008 was as bad in Greece as American media portrayed. She said things were definitely not good from an economic perspective but life kept goin
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> I'm carnivore This is your issue. You’re an omnivore, and it sounds like you’re overemphasizing meat. Buying primarily plant-based items will greatly cut down your grocery bill, and hopefully introduce you to some delicious new re
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C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton are great authors. I rather enjoy them along with Tolkien from that period and part of the world.
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Walden, in which the author, Henry David Thoreau, builds a cabin in the woods and lives there for two years, two months, and two days. He gives up many of modern life’s luxuries and makes some incredibly profound observations on how much un

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