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The New Yorker’s eccentric diacritic is the diaeresis rather than the umlaut. https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/mary-norris-diaeresi...

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 …

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 prod…

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.

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…

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

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 exam…

That document says “Chinese Communist Party (CCP)” then uses CCP 7 more times. It uses CPP once, which is clearly a typo.

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...

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 di…

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…

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 insta…

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/

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 hypothet…

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 c…

If you don’t mind my asking, how has your life unfolded as a result of following that advice?

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 t…

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,…

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 CO…

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 201…

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 o…

“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.

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 heredita…

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.