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by theoldlove 3y ago
These guys claim Intel and Peloton use them: https://wellsaidlabs.com/ Discussion in a recent Planet Money episode: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1178290772
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Hilarious. Clearly she was totally forgotten and the automated systems continued to pay her. The question I guess is who should have been monitoring payroll.
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by theoldlove 3y ago
I recently abandoned my self-hosted RSS server because I was having a lot of trouble getting past Cloudflare bot checks. I recommend Inoreader as a relatively inexpensive paid solution.
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by theoldlove 3y ago
The Constitution is almost 250 years old. It’s amazing for its time, but it’s now the oldest written constitution still in use and long since improved on by its many imitators and copies. We probably should replace it.
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Google Sheds Hundreds of Recruiters in Another Round of Layoffs(nytimes.com)
42 points by theoldlove 3y ago|10 comments
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Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault Is That?(nytimes.com)
12 points by theoldlove 3y ago|18 comments
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Yeah, the name brought me back to dirty sheets in my teenage years. Glad I wasn’t the only one
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Are Target shelves not “human-scale”? They’ve always seemed perfectly fine to me, and not especially different from my (distant) memories of RadioShack shelves.
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On being ready to die, and yet also now being able to swallow ice cream(jakeseliger.com)
243 points by theoldlove 3y ago|142 comments
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Not sure your proposed answer is right, but I agree I was hoping for more of an explanation in the article for the US’ unusual position on vacation time.
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by theoldlove 3y ago
That’s pretty vague 2021 testimony defending Apple (“We tried to make Flash work.”). It would be more convincing if there was contemporary evidence from 2007 showing how much effort Apple made.
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Faculty chairs do come with physical chairs. The ones I’ve seen are nice, wooden chairs with a little metal plaque with the title and the holder of the chair. I suspect new chairs are purchased for each new holder of the title, and you get
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Jake Seliger: Regrets(jakeseliger.com)
8 points by theoldlove 3y ago|0 comments
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Connecticut Pays Double for Substandard Trains(pedestrianobservations.com)
5 points by theoldlove 3y ago|0 comments
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Yeah I don’t buy the premise of the article. Both google and apple accept crowd-sourced places after a review. Google Maps is the big player so it gets more spam attacks, but I don’t think the processes for crowdsourced places are very diff
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by theoldlove 3y ago
NASA relies entirely on public funding. What the public wants for space (if anything) is a reasonable question to consider.
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Well, that’s the whole premise of the linked website (the conversation): the latest research for a wide audience. Maybe you can subscribe to their science or astronomy sections.
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Apparently a bot, rephrasing Harmonics4714’s comment?
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What it’s like to be married to a dying man(jakeseliger.com)
73 points by theoldlove 3y ago|5 comments
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How do we evaluate our lives, at the end? What counts, what matters?(jakeseliger.com)
9 points by theoldlove 3y ago|0 comments
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I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach(jakeseliger.com)
913 points by theoldlove 3y ago|462 comments
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by theoldlove 3y ago
I think it’s likely the IRS uses some kind of database of US vital statistics (including marriages) as part of efforts to detect tax fraud. Other federal agencies do, eg the State Department’s passport office uses a proprietary database cal
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Yeah the Greek here is (Il. 6.486): δαιμονίη μή μοί τι λίην ἀκαχίζεο θυμῷ: δαιμονίη is of disputed meaning, but basically a literal translation might run: Possessed woman, don’t be so upset in your heart for me. Here Lattimore doesn’t look
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by theoldlove 3y ago
In your very article the decipherment does yield nonsense when applied to Latin. Your article converts the first line of Vergil to Linear B and then tries to understand it as Greek, offering “With brine and slime in novel fashion at Tholoia
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Just take 10 minutes and skim the book chapters. The rules of the script are nowhere near as loose as you say. For example, Linear B doesn’t differentiate between k/g/kh like alphabetic Greek does (κ,γ,χ) — an important distinctio
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Well, for one, a bunch of additional tablets discovered at Thebes in the 90s, which broadly match and hence confirm the decipherment. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thebes_tablets
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by theoldlove 3y ago
I was recently wondering about who was typically in the delivery room 50+ years ago. So when I saw my elderly grandmother last week, I asked her whether my grandfather was there when my father was born in the late 50s. She was a little offe
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Maybe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587 , though the Wikipedia page dismisses concerns about the composite’s strength.
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by theoldlove 3y ago
I agree on principle, but in the details I have some quibbles. The core of a library is the books (the root of library is the Latin for book). For me, all I really want from a library is to loan me all the books I want for as long as I need
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by theoldlove 3y ago
Hmm, your Statista link says “In total, about 59.9 percent of U.S. households paid income tax in 2022.” Maybe you flipped the direction? About 50-60% do pay income tax?

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