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Seiko SSC819 is a good Speedmaster homage. And it's solar powered so you never need to open the case.

The interstate highway system is actually made up of Interstate and Defense Highways. So all the "interstates" in Hawaii are actually Defense Highways that connect Pearl Harbor wit…

Good question. Quickbooks, Xero, and Wave are all owned by publicly traded companies. (H&R Block owns Wave.)

It seems to me that this is the key takeaway for founders: Your accounting stack is 1. accounting software 2. bookkeeping (ie operating the accounting software) 3. cpa / cfo (ie fo…

One of the issues that led to this decision is regulatory overreach. Standard example is the clean air act which regulated air pollution. Years later the EPA decided that green hou…

Weapons mounts will be dealer installed options.

Le Select...

This is what we had to read in grad school. I remember the sections on how they designed RISC architectures as especially good fun. https://www.elsevier.com/books/computer-architec…

Prolog is cool but has exponential complexity which makes it impractical for real world use. The rete algorithm was supposed to be a solution but has anyone applied rete to a prolo…

Execution is harder than you think. 1. Ideas alone can get funded, but only when pitched by entrepreneurs who have done it before. e.g. the last idea-stage company I invested in wa…

Consider having children.

The fall of Rome podcast is also very good. It covers approx. 300-600 AD. https://wondery.com/shows/the-fall-of-rome-podcast/

Ontario has a bunch of make-your-own wine companies that work like wine bricks. 1. you buy 5 gallons of grape juice for ~$20 per gallon. 2. yeast is dropped into your grape juice 3…

This is your brain crying out for adderral. You could probably show this paragraph to your doctor and get an ADHD diagnosis... ;-)

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Guderian's Achtung-Panzer! is required reading here.

I was a grad student at CMU CS in the early 90s. The assholishness on the opinion bb was mostly performative. Imagine a bunch of kids in their 20s field testing opinions that they …

One answer is accounting rules. In a typical IT shop that supports a business... Spending for "business as usual" (BAU or "opex") activities must be fully expensed in the year that…

Conbini are great. I'm addicted to the relatively new coffee machines. You get a made-to-order coffee for the price of a vending machine coffee. And now that Suntory owns Jim Beam,…

Property tax laws cause the empty store fronts. In Ontario (as with most places in North America), commercial property is assessed on its highest and best use (ie potential use), n…

I also graduated into the heart of the dot com era (I was a friend's 'plus one' at the Wired Magazine 5th anniversary party). But my brain fixated on the dinnerware. I grew up in d…

I had an undergraduate research project where I implemented Guy Steeles' Constraint Propagation Language (from his PhD thesis) in *Lisp on the CM-1. I completely forgot about this.…

Yes, I was thinking to myself that 'sushi-grade salmon' was an oxymoron.

My parents live in Hnl and I love the place but have always lived and worked on the mainland. I've heard of the entrepreneurship center at UH and I've come across one angel group. …

You're reading too much into it. If you're a Japanese girl, you meet at Hachiko because it's right outside the main exit to the JR Shibuya station and across the street from the St…