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by maire 2y ago
I don't know if bittorrent has improved - but 20 years ago I had a personal issue with it. At that time our son was using it for games. He goes away to college and came home for the first school break. I get a phone call from our inter
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by maire 2y ago
Kodak was well aware of what was going to happen. Company culture killed digital photography. I was at Apple when we worked with engineers from Kodak who were working to change various format standards to allow digital photos. This was in t
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by maire 3y ago
> I feel like these articles are written for and describe younger people. I think the opposite is true. I first read Jane Austin as a teenager. I had no concept of the economic environment of the book. I thought meh. Now that I am retire
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by maire 3y ago
FMLA only covers companies with 50 or more employees. A friend was fired in the US when she told her boss she was pregnant and discovered this limitation. Her previous work experience was in France so she did not realize this could happen.
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by maire 3y ago
That looks like a compelling argument.
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by maire 3y ago
Although Babel was removed during the final vote count, here is what the interim vote count looked like. It looks like it would not even be on the short list. https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/
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by maire 3y ago
I just looked at the votes - and Babel would not have won in any case. It was ranked #7 when it was disqualified. Netflix's Sandman was also disqualified. On Bluesky Neil Gaiman said he was never told why it was disqualified. He also s
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by maire 3y ago
This article answers one of the questions I had about this year's Hugo awards. R. F. Kuang's Babel was on many other lists of top book of the year. I was surprised that it did not even on the nomination list. Now I find out that i
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by maire 3y ago
California provides awesome homeschool support. A lot depends on where you live. In California the student enrolls in a home school program through a local public school. You are assigned a homeschool liaison and can enroll in public school
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by maire 3y ago
I love the change of subject. ;-)
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by maire 3y ago
You have to put Tocqueville in the context of his era. Europe was still in the era of monarchies. In fact, even though France had just beheaded their monarchs they tried to recreate various flavors of monarchies for decades. They even insta
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by maire 3y ago
Here is a 2003 documentary on the same subject. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/rosalind-franklin-lega... My take away was that Rosalind Franklin did support the Watson Crick paper but that there was so
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by maire 4y ago
The EN email note is somewhat kludgy. It was better before the last major upgrade. Before the last upgrade it was seamless to other EN notes. I suspect but don't know what broke. BTW - they kept around the EN classic app because so man
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by maire 4y ago
By coincidence I am moving off of Evernote right now. I broke down everything I used Evernote for right now to plan the roll off. I largely use EN for the GTD system. The first GTD step is just capturing info. EN still does this better than
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by maire 4y ago
My experience gave me tenacity and resilience. My experience was not as bad as some others on this list. I believe that is because girls are psychological bullies, and boys are physical bullies. My husband was chased and beaten up until he
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by maire 4y ago
In tech - today's leaders will not be tomorrow's leaders. The tech graveyard is full of former high fliers. How about the early days of Covid when Zoom came out of nowhere to dominate Video Communications? They were nowhere near t
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by maire 4y ago
I agree with your father that batch processing (cards) is a drag. I was in school and working in the computer lab when we switched from batch processing (cards) to a time shared system with terminal labs. I was part of the team that wired u
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by maire 4y ago
I also would not go exactly where the author goes, or do what the author does, but I appreciate the stimulation of being taken out of the pre-packaged presentation and into reality. You are a backpacker so you already embrace the spirit of
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by maire 4y ago
If new things to be expert in proliferate faster than you can become an expert then life-span extension will not work. You would need to duplicate yourself each time there is a new thing you want to pursue. One you would be a concert violin
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by maire 4y ago
Engineers continually discount the importance of usability. The easy applications to convert to open source are those that the developer of the application is the user of the application. The easiest example is Bitkeeper to GIT conversion.
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by maire 4y ago
I don't think the relation between slavery and industrialization is as simple as you think. Industrial cotton mills and the invention of the cotton gin produced more slavery in the US. I am not sure about elsewhere.
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by maire 4y ago
If you like this, then you will love this 1913 Boy Mechanic series. The Boy Mechanic Volume I: 700 Things For Boys To Do https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12655 The Boy Mechanic, Book 2: 1000 Things for Boys to Do htt
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by maire 4y ago
I found this list of companies affiliated with the Moonies (many defunct). https://culteducation.com/unif121.html Here is an interesting quote by someone who ran two of these businesses in the SF bay area. "'With
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by maire 4y ago
Moonies used to be a big deal at college campuses in California. When my husband and I went to Berkeley in the 1970s, the Moonies were everywhere. They did many questionable things before fading away. My husband is 4 years older than me - s
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by maire 4y ago
correction: VSphere 2.0 not Businessware 2.0 (wrong company). For some reason I could not edit my post so I had to reply to my post.
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by maire 4y ago
Workstation and fusion were never big money makers. They were more of a labor of love. I joined VMware just after the release of Businessware 2.0 - which I agree was 14 years ago. The big money maker was vmotion because it allowed datacente
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by maire 4y ago
Documentation and user interface face the same issues. The biggest mistake engineers make is to expose the internal workings of the software in ways irrelevant to the user. The biggest mistake marketing makes is to focus on upselling. I bel
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by maire 4y ago
If you are using google sheets you can use ycharts to pull in the dividend data. Here is my calculation to get 1 year of dividends. =query(importhtml(concatenate(" https://ycharts.com/companies/",$A4,"&#x2
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by maire 4y ago
I used ETFs (and not stocks) to simplify the test. I was mostly looking for correlations of different investments across different scenarios. I then looked at severe market downturns to see how the correlations changed. As you can imagine -
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by maire 4y ago
People (and tool developers) forget that the purpose of a stock is to ultimately produce dividends. It is like buying a house for rental income and forgetting to include the rent. When I retired I had to switch from a growth-stock mindset t

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