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This is an excellent book, but as other comments have pointed out, the review misrepresents its argument. I wouldn't say Desmond is exactly sympathetic to the landlords he profiles…

The fire has little to do with it. The stock is down because earlier this week it was priced at 100x Tesla's earning estimates for next year, and implies a 30x growth in sales by 2…

I wouldn't be so sure of that. Try reading the comments on any Boston globe article about this affair. Ortiz has strong support from law-and-order voters and many people in Massach…

Most people here have had good advice. The only thing I would add is that there's a difference between vision and delusion. Visionaries have a strong and clear focus, but are groun…

I struggled to make LD work well, then someone smarter than me suggested the two character method. :)

Oh, I'm under no illusions that it's a universally applicable string matcher. What it seems to be useful for is normalizing human input in situations where someone can pick the bes…

I've had to do this a few times when building simple input normalization features. The trouble with scoring based on Levenshtein distance in that case is that it improperly penaliz…

Yeah, I can't really remember the last time I watched a Starz movie on Netflix. It's been nothing but TV series for me for at least a year now. Occasionally I'll watch a movie that…

Disclaimer: I work for Google, this is my personal opinion, yadda yadda yadda. I've used (and continue to use) Fastmail for many years behind a personal domain. To call Fastmail re…