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The dangerous separation of the American upper middle class (2015)(brookings.edu)
2 points by tafda 6y ago|0 comments
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John Authers: Bonfire of the Shorts Is a Precedent-Busting Black Swan(bloomberg.com)
1 points by tafda 6y ago|0 comments
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by tafda 6y ago
An EU passport is nice to have, doesn't look like he's moving out of California though: https://variety.com/2020/dirt/moguls/ex-google-ceo-eric-schm...
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by tafda 6y ago
I’ve heard this usually described as a German custom “lüften”, conveniently in line with Covid guidance. Would be interesting to see a world map of daily clear-the-air adoption. I hadn’t heard of it before this year. https://welc
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VF is buying streetwear brand Supreme for $2.1B(latimes.com)
2 points by tafda 6y ago|0 comments
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The Biblical Flood That Will Drown California(wired.com)
3 points by tafda 6y ago|0 comments
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Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives(maritime-executive.com)
632 points by tafda 6y ago|518 comments
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by tafda 6y ago
Highly recommend the Financial Times, a British newspaper owned by a Japanese corporation, has very robust world reporting. Letters to the editor section that sometimes reads like a Davos guest list.
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He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus(nytimes.com)
7 points by tafda 6y ago|1 comments
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Disposable People: Coronavirus and the Lifestyles of the PMC(thebaffler.com)
3 points by tafda 7y ago|0 comments
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‘Tech debt’: why badly written code can haunt companies for decades(ft.com)
3 points by tafda 7y ago|0 comments
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The Roots of Boeing’s 737 Max Crisis: A Regulator Relaxes Its Oversight(nytimes.com)
382 points by tafda 7y ago|198 comments
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by tafda 8y ago
Not true. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faile... Quote: The discrepancy over this number is magnified by another element in the System Safety Analysis: The limit of the system’s authority
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by tafda 8y ago
Transit works better if it is where people are going rather than where it is convenient to build - for example, downtown Falls Church VA instead of the freeway median. Building densely around the stations can drive ridership. See: Tokyo, H
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by tafda 8y ago
Interesting note on that, the usage of “entree” has shifted over the past 100 years; the American meaning ‘main course’ is in line with the 19th century French definition. http://languageoffood.blogspot.com/2009/08&#x2F
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by tafda 8y ago
Proof the claim Japan has lost 1/3 its standard of living in the past two decades is completely false: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDJPN Visit Japan sometime. The Japanese clearly have a standard o
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Zuckerberg Has Figured Out What's Wrong with the Country(nymag.com)
2 points by tafda 9y ago|1 comments
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Fires Aren’t the Only Threat to the California Dream(nytimes.com)
2 points by tafda 9y ago|0 comments
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Women say they quit Google because of racial discrimination(theguardian.com)
9 points by tafda 9y ago|0 comments
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Attack on American Free Enterprise System (1971) [pdf](law2.wlu.edu)
1 points by tafda 10y ago|0 comments
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by tafda 10y ago
This doesn't seem to be as big of a problem in Japan. On the popular restaurant review site Tabelog, a 3.6 (out of 5) is a very good ranking; there's more 3-star Michelin restaurants in Tokyo than restaurants above 4.5. https:&#x
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by tafda 10y ago
Horkheimer and Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment “Enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advance of thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters. Yet the wholly enlightened
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by tafda 10y ago
Available service, SLA, and region comparison for AWS, Google, Azure and Softlayer at a fairly high level: http://cloudcomparison.rightscale.com
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Patagonia's Philosopher King, Yvon Chouinard(newyorker.com)
2 points by tafda 10y ago|0 comments
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by tafda 10y ago
"Near San Francisco" coming from Vegas / LA gives you many options. Big Sur is definitely worthwhile, Yosemite is amazing but a bit out of the way. Big mountains are between Vegas and LA - perhaps go through Mammoth Lakes and
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Big Unwind Begins in San Francisco, Miami, NY, Houston: Rents Sunk by Condo Glut(wolfstreet.com)
4 points by tafda 10y ago|0 comments
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by tafda 10y ago
Having a salesperson in the room means bringing in a bullshit meter "Meter" isn't quite the right noun to go with the adjective here, .
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Bill Gurley: The billion-dollar companies Silicon Valley investors ought to fear(ft.com)
3 points by tafda 12y ago|0 comments
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by tafda 13y ago
iOS 6 was released fall 2012, the last release of Android 2.x was in 2011. A better comparison would be Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to iOS 6 - that's 35% of the android base on ancient versions (pre 4.1, relative to iOS's 4%) cf. http