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- clickety_clackI also interact with Google Docs as little as possible. I draft in Notes or Obsidian and copy the text in. I just hate the platform.
- I’m sure you’d know that this was winter. If you line 2 sticks up with sunrise, and keep adjusting them every morning, eventually you’ll see that the sun stops rising further south and starts moving north again. You don’t need complex mathematics to work it out.
- I think the question is whether a competitor can become established. Can you run a mail delivery service if you only have local coverage? I don’t know. In the past, maybe you could use the national postal service to fill in the gaps as you scale up a delivery network, but I can’t see the established monopoly giving bulk discounts to a potential competitor. Trucks, vans, sorting facilities and workforces are very expensive to set up, and once they’re set up you can basically optimize them month by month etc. A new competitor has to speculatively spend an awful lot of money before they can deploy anything in any optimal way.
- With a monopoly no less.
- This is incorrect. It was the Britons that were ruled by saxons and then normans, not the Irish (until the invasion we’re talking about obviously).
- It always puzzled me that big corps don’t have their own infrastructure. Surely there’s a point where hiring a team to manage it properly becomes economical at a certain point, and they take a lot of security risks out of a third party’s hands.
- Ya, the Scotch-Irish were the Brits doing the overbearing in Ireland.
- In an open market, customers should be able to make informed decisions. Lying to customers about your product distorts the market. People may have switched from other services to prime expecting that there would be no ads. That undermines the business of those competitors, and may drive them out so that they are no longer available if you want to switch back.
- On the ground you don’t have to fling tons of sensitive electronics to orbital speeds, you can have someone pop by to check whether everything is ok if you get an alert, you have a thick atmosphere cutting down solar radiation, you can cool everything relatively cheaply, and you can run fiber and power cables directly into the building. In space ou have to design super robust and self maintaining machinery. It’s a cool marketing stunt, but I don’t get the economics behind doing it for real.
- Art is political more than it is technical. People like Banksy’s art because it’s Banksy, not because he creates accurate images of policemen and girls with balloons.
- It reads like someone in their early 20s wrote it. There’s no way anyone who’s been around longer than that would think life progresses so definitely and neatly.
- It’s more like “plans are useless but planning is indispensable” for me. I don’t follow a script when I speak, but the rehearsal sometimes gives me the opportunity to realize when I have trouble articulating something, or it helps me pick and focus on the important pieces of anecdotes so I’m better able to land them in the actual speech.
- That is a terrible assumption to make. Regular lacquer for example does poorly under temperatures commonly encountered when preparing food and it’s basically a mix of solvents.
- Have you ever actually dealt with invoices? I have hired many many contractors in construction and tech, and I’ve never thought it to be that bad. Definitely not enough of a mess to justify another rule for how I’m supposed to run a business.
- I think there’s a difference between _wanting_ something to work and _needing_ something to work. Enforced standardized invoicing might be a very tidy and neat solution, but tidiness and neatness are not a good enough argument to mandate it in my opinion. There’s no end to the areas of our lives that could be regulated if that’s the standard we’re aiming for, and I don’t particularly want to live in such a uniform, straightjacketed environment.
- A standard for invoices seems like something that an accounting body should create that is optional for businesses, not something mandatory created by the government. People will generally follow an optional standard to make their own lives easier, but a mandatory one introduces a compliance middleman into the invoicing process.
- Maybe you should take a look at pyrsistent. That allows you to make frozen “maps”. You can “evolve” them into new versions of the objects and it keeps the references to the unchanged keys and values under the hood so it’s fast and memory efficient.
- The only non-partisan choice is comic sans.
- Ask ChatGPT “is AI programming world class?”