andrewem

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by andrewem 3y ago
The New Yorker’s eccentric diacritic is the diaeresis rather than the umlaut. https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/mary-norris-diaeresi...
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by andrewem 3y ago
It’s weird that the Wall Street Journal doesn’t say what party he’s considering running as. People who know he hired political consultants would also know who they are and thus if those consultants are Republicans or Democrats.
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by andrewem 3y ago
A plan which makes small children responsible for preventing their own deaths at the hands of adults driving vehicles they personally chose seems at the very least unlikely to produce good results, assuming you are trying to keep children f
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by andrewem 3y ago
Formatting it with the company as the top-level item would make clear at a glance that you’ve been at places for a lot longer.
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by andrewem 3y ago
A suggestion on your sample. It says “The librarian goes to the stacks, finds the book, and brings it back to you. The next time you need that same book, the librarian doesn't have to go all the way to the stacks again – they can just
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by andrewem 3y ago
Very cool! I see there are biographical sketches of you, your father, and others involved with the project at https://www.domesdaybook.net/home/contact
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by andrewem 3y ago
I liked that when a major person in Italian organized crime was arrested, US newspapers called him a “capo dei capi” while Italian newspapers called him a “boss dei boss”. For example, here’s a book using that title https://m.lib
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by andrewem 3y ago
That document says “Chinese Communist Party (CCP)” then uses CCP 7 more times. It uses CPP once, which is clearly a typo.
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by andrewem 3y ago
The half marathon record is 57:31 for 21.1km, so it’s not too far off. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_marathon_world_record_p...
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by andrewem 3y ago
As the article says: “Social-media and ad-tech industry practices, however, discourage tracking potentially sensitive traits such as sexuality, according to people who work with digital information. This data can essentially create a list o
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by andrewem 3y ago
Side note on Confluent’s products. Thanks for that link - the “Disaggregation of Revenue” table where the 73% and 61% numbers came from shows that Confluent Cloud revenue increased from $94M in 2021 to $211M in 2022, which was more than Con
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by andrewem 4y ago
My gas-powered water heater failed in my northern US location. I asked a friend who’s a plumbing engineer (!) who said to get a heat pump. I called the HVAC company which had installed the gas water heater and gas furnace some years before
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by andrewem 4y ago
I don’t know about pricing, but One Medical’s locations seem pretty clearly chosen to be in the richest areas of each city. https://www.onemedical.com/locations/
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by andrewem 4y ago
A fixed ratio makes sense in the context of how a particular company operates at a particular time. Given the example strategy you're quoting is about one company (real or hypothetical), and it doesn't say that the infrastructure
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by andrewem 4y ago
The guy who fell in the water talks about that here: “Specifically, he wants people to know there are wireless killswitches available that can attach to passengers as well as the captain.” https://www.wwaytv3.com/i-was-going
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by andrewem 4y ago
If you don’t mind my asking, how has your life unfolded as a result of following that advice?
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by andrewem 4y ago
The practical way this would work is probably insurance - if you want to pay a celebrity to endorse a product, then you also buy an insurance policy which will pay their costs if they’re sued due to that endorsement. That makes it similar t
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by andrewem 4y ago
Without commenting on the others, the Wikipedia article for Neuralink seems to say it’s taken a ton of funding but failed to make any big improvements in the science or technology, and without even reaching initial human trials. The Boring
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by andrewem 4y ago
I found https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics... which says “there were 70 non-COVID-19 on-duty firefighter deaths and 78 firefighter deaths resulted from COVID-19 in 2021”. Also “In 2021, 1,353,
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by andrewem 4y ago
A funny thing about this is there’s an obvious typo in the quote from Mark Zuckerberg. It says “Twitter is such as mess” rather than “ a mess”. Searching for that quote finds a 2013 tweet from Benedict Evans containing the typo, quoting a
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by andrewem 4y ago
There’s a saying that transportation is land use and land use is transportation. This article has a great example talking about how a bank wants to occupy a large amount of space on a busy corner mostly with parking that is mostly empty, an
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by andrewem 4y ago
“while almost every house has a driveway, there are still many people parking on the street” Perhaps that’s because they pay no cost for privatizing a part of a public way.
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by andrewem 4y ago
Peers are people who hold titles from this set of descending order of importance - Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount, and Baron (and feminine equivalents). These tended to be hereditary, so that a person who the king or queen gave a title like
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by andrewem 4y ago
Getting hit by a bike hurts. Getting hit by a car or truck kills. This is the crucial distinction which one must disregard in order to argue such equivalences.
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by andrewem 4y ago
> a Jewish Ottoman resettled to Spain Today I learned: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Carasso
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by andrewem 4y ago
Your characterization of Uber leaves out the sexual harassment from the source you mentioned: “On my first official day rotating on the team, my new manager sent me a string of messages over company chat… He was trying to stay out of troubl
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by andrewem 5y ago
Family names weren’t changed at Ellis Island. See eg this from the New York Public Library: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/07/02/name-changes-ellis-isla... (The mandated adoption of surnames is a pretty
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by andrewem 5y ago
The author of this has some videos related to swimming (0). See for example the one called "1-10-1 Final" where he jumps into cold water that is about 40 degrees F (4 degrees C) and stays in for a number of minutes, showing what t
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by andrewem 5y ago
"Application Engineer" probably means an engineer who does high-level technical support for customers, as it did when I worked for a company which sold products to technical users in the 1990s. Your customer buys some complex elec
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by andrewem 5y ago
I agree we should all aim to put up with less of this, but even with an employer you trust there’s no guarantee they won’t run into money trouble and sell to a larger company which takes a harsher view.

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