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by trepanne 7y ago
What do you mean, "some people"? Is there anyone saying that the Sex Pistols WEREN'T punk?? I can't truck with any taxonomy of punk rock that excludes the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, or the Clash. There were later waves
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by trepanne 7y ago
I dunno, my classical Chinese ain't all that, but I think these guys are straining with the hidden message. It is funny though. I myself am reading quite a bit of meaning into the conspicuous avoidance of the characters "tian&quo
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by trepanne 7y ago
> the costs are proportional to the bandwidth That's not how statistical multiplexing works. If it was some sort of a natural law that shipping 1 byte cost $x on the margin, then the PSTN never would have survived the shift to unmet
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by trepanne 7y ago
I hear you. One of my friends (female) is a physicist whose career has succeeded in the face of many of her peers telling her - repeatedly, for decades - that women can't be as good as men at hard sciences because their brains are jus
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by trepanne 7y ago
It would have been nice if the author had included Boy Scouts style line illustrations... I'm picturing a scoutmaster in knee socks and a kerchief on one knee in front of an easel with an options payout diagram.
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by trepanne 7y ago
It is a form of dry pedantic humor. In early 20th century USA, there were a lot of instructional books marketed at children with titles like this... "A Boy's Guide to Fishing", and so on. The author, who wishes finance stude
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by trepanne 7y ago
Ever used one of those Huawei routers? If you had, I think you'd be in little doubt about the extensive copying of IOS. Also the documentation, CLI... the entire business model was being a cheaper Cisco clone. You can pull down tons
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by trepanne 7y ago
Huawei's theft of Cisco's IP is common knowledge, and well documented. https://blogs.cisco.com/news/huawei-and-ciscos-source-code-c...
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by trepanne 8y ago
https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/08/bake-at-350-degrees... > By the 1920s, new models of gas and electric ovens gave cooks slightly more control over their hot boxes, but the dials still typically onl
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by trepanne 8y ago
> Reading the recipe, this doesn't seem to be in that vein, the recipe calls for "fat salt pork" I wonder if that's just pork fat, and its more for the fat content than anything else. Pretty much. This is closer to f
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by trepanne 8y ago
> I don't understand the ire against share buybacks. They're just a more tax efficient and flexible form of dividends to shareholders than traditional cash dividends. Not OP, and I think his ire is misplaced here... but MY ire
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by trepanne 8y ago
This usage (considering "molecule" as a superset of "atom") is entirely confined to kinetic theory of gases AFAIK - ideal gas law, Boltzmann, etc - which treat gas particles as ping pong balls in Newtonian collision. Th
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by trepanne 8y ago
> Peking was the widely-accepted transliteration - until attitudes (and power) changed and the Chinese asked the world to use Beijing instead. An interesting exception is [Peking University]( http://english.pku.edu.cn/ ) w
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by trepanne 8y ago
> They're a Democratic Republic with a Constitution and a Bill of Rights. You seem to be unaware of the role of the Communist Party in Chinese government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_China
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by trepanne 8y ago
Here I'll just drop this stoner ode to YUM Brands operational synergies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8ViYIeH04 It would've been awesome if they'd known to sprinkle their barely-rap with some interstitia
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by trepanne 8y ago
You might be surprised. Seritage is a public company (stock ticker is SRG); check out their SEC filings and investor presentations. They list several names of new tenants who've been taking up their redeveloped floor space. I think t
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by trepanne 8y ago
You've pretty much got the gist. Pre-Lampert, the SHLD bull thesis centered on its real estate assets... huge quantity of long-term leases way below current market prices. Other hidden assets included intangibles such as brands. Lamp
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by trepanne 8y ago
This is cool. Had you not considered using a pixellated Sean Connery as the logo?