theoldlove

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by theoldlove 3y ago
https://archive.is/8sFHi
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by theoldlove 3y ago
https://archive.is/mRa71
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NY Developer Bets on $800M Project to Make Queens Feel Like Shanghai (2021)(wsj.com)
1 points by theoldlove 3y ago|4 comments
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by theoldlove 3y ago
“Ultimately, they settled on approximately 3.2 kHz.” doesn’t really explain who made this decision, when, or why. All we get is “Long ago, when the phone networks were still completely analog, when the first real phone networks were being b
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Boils down to the fact that a phone line to a house was built with a a certain amount of bandwidth for a human voice, implemented with a lowpass filter of 4 kHz. But the article doesn’t explain or show why the magic 4 kHz number was chosen.
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Great piece by John Carreyrou, who broke the Theranos story and wrote the unbelievably entertaining Bad Blood. I wouldn’t be surprised if this story is his next book.
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The Untold Story of the Making of Snoopy Tennis (2021)(sidequestions.medium.com)
3 points by theoldlove 3y ago|0 comments
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Trends in Foreign Language Enrollments(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
1 points by theoldlove 3y ago|0 comments
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by theoldlove 3y ago
> I genuinely hadn’t noticed tax-inclusive pricing until a German friend pointed it out in Frankfurt. Well, you’re not used to being able to rely on prices being accurate. Surely if you’re used to accurate prices you might be paying more
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by theoldlove 3y ago
I think we all agree that tipping sucks, but it’s the world we live in (in the US at least). Wantonly refusing to tip waitstaff just means you’re Mr. Pink,[1] and I don’t think anyone wants to be Mr. Pink. [1]. https://www.youtub
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Some statistics here: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html ~60% of the state prison population (~600k of ~1m) are imprisoned for a violent crime. Much higher than I would have guessed.
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Borrowers Got $127B in Student Loans Canceled(nytimes.com)
19 points by theoldlove 3y ago|47 comments
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by theoldlove 3y ago
How many functional drawbridges in urban areas are there in the US? Seems like a funny comparison. I don’t know of any in the New York metro, and the only one I can think of in the Bay Area is the one at the eastern end of Alameda. Certainl
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by theoldlove 3y ago
What’s the old adage? Just that only the hard finance/accounting classes are worth it?
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by theoldlove 3y ago
https://archive.ph/ZZS4I
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Don’t most coffee shops sell to the “immediate community?” I don’t think many people travel long distances for coffee. Maybe I’m just a miserable misanthrope, but despite all the rhetoric I’ve never had a “community” experience at a coffee
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Love the video but it is 100% about life on the Peninsula. Dude clearly never made it to Oakland or he wouldn’t be talking about how clean the Bay Area is.
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by theoldlove 3y ago
TLG has ~20 million words of Greek before 300 CE. [1] A novel is about ~100k words. So total ancient Greek is ~200 books. Do you own more than 200 books? Lots of people do. [1]. http://vitruviandesign.blogspot.com/2008/
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by theoldlove 3y ago
I’m surprised how many of these pillboxes are scheduled monuments (i.e. preserved for historical value). Seems like it’s worth keeping one or two around, but I’m not seeing the historical or aesthetic value in preserving many of them in per
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John Legend Looks to Take on Yelp and Google Reviews with His First Tech Startup(wsj.com)
8 points by theoldlove 3y ago|0 comments
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M199h: New Findings Both Solve and Deepen Mysteries(crpgaddict.blogspot.com)
3 points by theoldlove 3y ago|0 comments
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Shell Scripts: Stay Small and Simple(testing.googleblog.com)
3 points by theoldlove 3y ago|0 comments
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One of the oldest traditions in Mission Control is the 'Reading of the Pads'(waynehale.wordpress.com)
2 points by theoldlove 3y ago|0 comments
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Brave layoffs(techcrunch.com)
152 points by theoldlove 3y ago|154 comments
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Doing Business in Japan (2014)(kalzumeus.com)
3 points by theoldlove 3y ago|0 comments
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Feels like anonymity and “loud quitting” don’t go well together.
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by theoldlove 3y ago
I don’t know enough to judge any part of the monograph or review. I certainly have no idea whether this database exists or not. My only point was that clearly the review’s author thinks that the whole book is BS and worthy of a 20 page take
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Maura Dykstra recently moved from Caltech to Yale [0], so I assume she is a rising star in the world of early modern Chinese history. You don’t get a hit job this thorough and this damning unless someone is worried that your BS is going to
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Clinical update about where the cancer is, and what’s happening with treatment(jakeseliger.com)
2 points by theoldlove 3y ago|0 comments
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Universities have disinvested from their presses just as much as their libraries(publicbooks.org)
208 points by theoldlove 3y ago|163 comments

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