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"Récoltes et semailles" (Harvest and plantings) by Alexander Grothendieck.

A couple years ago, I needed a front end developer to implement the work of our designer in a way the team could maintain. Not having a network in front end, I combed through the p…

"I think, says that everything you do illegally, you do efficiently. This, of course, is perfectly obvious. For one thing, you do not write at all because writing on an illegal pro…

> You'd want to put them in kind of nondescript areas to avoid taking out the historic stuff as mentioned in the article and maybe pay out 50% above market to existing buildings in…

At the time there were no other options in the niche, and it fitted well with what some of us wanted: huge battery life, few features that worked well, lightweight, robust... cheap…

My Amazfit Bip ($99) is supposed to have 45 days and lasts about 30 days on minute heart rate monitoring intervals (based on a month and a half of trying it). I wanted something a …

The ironic thing about your reply is that it is crafted in exactly the type of management speak that executives used to convince stakeholders in both occasions. "absolve relevant p…

> a bank fired some old people to pay a billion dollars to a contractor who would hire the same (!) people to do the job "a bank" is technically incorrect. The decision was a perfe…

> ABC giants (ADM, Bunge, Cargill) ABC(C)D. Dreyfus is in between Bunge and ADM in terms of revenue and quite influential in Africa and some parts of Latam (Cargill is the outsized…

They destroyed the tooling and already built prototypes as fast as they could. In particular: > The only airframe ever to fly, XR219, along with the completed XR221 and part comple…

Sullivan's Cove was best whisky and one of the Limeburners best international whisky. Despite this, you can't find the former at Sydney Airport's duty free (Heinemann) and only two…

The impact has been negative for the following reasons. First, the groups made whisky into a luxury good, expanding the customer base away from the amateur who bought the bottle fo…

Count me amongst those who prized the patina. A significant number of people in the arts world decried the cleaning - some even petitioning the Pope to halt it. Whilst skillful, pa…

Anecdotally, I know of a Singaporean whose brother charged for taking the daughter with his kids on holiday. He didn't outright make it a billable item but made it a markup on flig…

> Uber could operate at breakeven by raising prices slightly more than 10%. [...] Uber could be highly profitable by raising prices 20%. No, because the demand would be different a…