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Yes! In that vein, The Five Books of Moses by Robert Alter[1] is great for folks who want to get a better sense of what the original Hebrew might feel like rendered in English. [1]…

I think it's a bit of both/and. The Samson story within the context of Judges is about people doing what "that which was right in [their] own eyes," and the people of Israel devolv…

The New International Version (NIV) translation of the Bible is by far the worst translation on almost any metric you can think of, except maybe understanding how evangelical Chris…

What happened was Barry McCarthy, who was CFO at Netflix till 2010, left Netflix. Barry was an exceedingly creative and forward thinking CFO. He was the CFO responsible for taking …

Ah yes this is exactly what I needed. I was recently trying to start a CL project but I had trouble wading through all the outdated material, especially with regards to including e…

The more common and widely used 737 is assembled at the Washington plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Renton_Factorye

To your point, pretty much everyone who's ever been on SNL made their way there through The Second City.

Boeing planes are assembled in Seattle; their HQ is in Chicago. Do people aspire to work in health, energy or finance, or even software aside from the money? If so, what difference…

I think you're a bit misinformed. Chicago has two large keystone industries that serve the global economy: (1) Industrial large scale manufacturing (Boeing, John Deere, Caterpillar…