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Except you probably didn't get permanently banned from using the library when you tried to search for that.

thanks much for the tips!

Well and honestly most of War and Peace is pretty easy and pleasant to read as well (I'm setting aside the philosophy-of-history stuff) -- there's just so much of it.

What is a "large company" in this context? My employer is on track to run about $5m through Stripe this year, which will be our fourth full year using Stripe. Our first year we did…

Or you can offer substantial tax incentives for founders to cash out by selling to their own employees; e.g., the ESOP system in the US.

Maybe "asking 'why'" isn't the right way to express it. Perhaps what the OP was really after here was a concrete illustration of the formula, rather than a rigorous derivation of t…

This goes to the question of why anything other than basic arithmetic is compulsory. The famous 10th-grader's whine "what are we going to use this for", which infuriated my own 10t…

Fair enough. Maybe I should have just said that it's possible to give concrete illustrations of basic algebraic concepts, and that doing this would probably help some students lear…

> there ARE points in a student's academic path where they HAVE TO memorize stuff and do rote operations like the multiplication tables. Sure, but imagine learning multiplication t…

Am I the only one who finds that quote-searching sort of kind of sometimes works in Gmail, but usually doesn't?

I suspect most of us have a serious imbalance in our lives between productive work, leisure, and recreation. See Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler's book "The Capitalist Manifesto" fo…

Similarly I would doubt that anyone actually thinks that the past was good simply because it came before the present. The desire to return to "the way things were" is born of a cri…

This is an interesting take on conservatism. I suppose it must be a fairly common take among people who consider themselves progressive, and helps makes sense of some things I've o…

> In the early seventeenth century, for example, the French Jesuit missionary Pierre Biard complained that the Wabanaki did not have to work hard enough to feed themselves ... “Had…

I could not get into Lord of the World although I really enjoyed another novel of Benson's.

worth it for book 3 though

> a much later add on. Yeah that's what I was thinking too. I'm going to re-read Canticle soon-ish but I wonder to what extent Miller endorses even the latter. I feel like his conc…

Interesting take, I would have thought that the early moderns were not too interested in vindicating monasticism. Do you have particular thinkers in mind here?

Yeah I think Miller was using the nuclear holocaust as a vehicle to reflect on original sin (i.e., the inevitable tendency of human beings to engage in self-destructive behavior) a…

Reminds me of Jakob Nielsen's rule for writing a good "About" page. If you can insert a "not" into a sentence and get something that no other company would ever put on their own Ab…

Your password was probably reset: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31255450

I can't be the only person who uses the Quickbooks Online API for private, non-interactive integrations between internal systems. This new process – a 40-minute legal/security ques…

ah, ratpoison. I passed many a fair hour doing network-appliance dev with ratpoison + screen + vi (not even vim) back in the day.

It seems like this is your argument: 1) If some religions are false, then all religions are false 2) Pacific-tribe cargo cults and ancient Greek mythology are clearly false, plus t…