Viewing profile — RRWagner

I've been on jury duty several times and in each time the entire jury pool was dismissed an hour or so into the morning, with "all cases have been settled". As I was leaving, the o…

Thank you for the heads up! There was an error in the conversion process. All the images are there now.

The book is "Making Good in Business" by Roger W. Babson. Babson gifted the book to Edison in 1921. Here is a link to a scan of another copy of the book in the Internet Archive: ht…

The current administration

I have a book (not authored by Edison) that Thomas Edison scribbled his comments in the margin and I was quite happy to read them! Changing my own nearly-religious belief to never …

And if the company didn't need $XX,XXX*0.90 (or more) that you would have paid them to further develop their product and stay in business? If that other company now paid their own …

I would propose that copyrights not be eternal

This is a lovely project, and if you do the 3D print and assemble it, even if you use a different microcontroller inside, it is continual series of delightful discoveries in the de…

A friend said at one of those moments, "And other than that, how was the play Mrs Lincoln?" And the 3rd person replied, "I don't know, I've never seen the play 'Mrs Lincoln'"

Daily

I only doomscroll HN to 90 n times/day

[flagged]

At the time, I stupidly thought Blockbuster would see what was coming and use their at the time larger size to pivot and do what Netflix had demonstrated would work. Kind of like w…

I thought that this was going to be illustrations of the marvelous ways that the Japanese wrap and secure gifts without using any tape. When I was in Japan years ago I would tell t…

It seems that no one ever mentions that every dollar given up to tariffs is that much less for growing staff, equipment, facility and R&D expansion. It's literally a drag on the en…

You cant drain a swamp by filling it with billionaire alligators.

Here is an important difference. A century ago, the predator (seller) and the prey (buyer) were on equal evolutionary terms. Each generation of humans on either side of the transac…

It would be good to remember the Miranda warning: " Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." (emphasis mine). It doesn't say, "maybe" or, "only if".

Every Roman fortification, medieval city & castle? Clarifying, compared to a single villager with a sword or even two.

Do many people think that with their single assault rifle or other weap9n, that they would successfully defend against one or more truckloads of vandals looking to steal whatever t…

Sometime when you're in a used bookstore, thrift store or yard sale, keep an eye out for very old dictionaries, and if found, look up the word "conputer". You will find the proof o…

It would seem now that Sotomayer was not speaking totally hypothetically.

Pretty much every school in the US has students using touchscreen Chromebooks. It's funnyish when a young person tries to touch my MacBook screen to do a quick action, and I have t…