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It is, however, the setting of On the Road.

The pun being that “eu-topos” would be “good place”.

It seems to me that calling the customer to get them to agree on a quote is the most important contact? It’s like telling a salesman to just enter data into a CRM and trust their l…

I think a missing piece of this analysis for the present is the way that hyper-skepticism can come back around and make you just a different type of mark. Sovereign citizens, for e…

> Additive Manufacturing, industrial robotics, the Internet, and the proliferation of computers had already made large portions of manufacturing and low skill white collar jobs red…

Lots of farm stands in NY’s North Country operate like this. With Zelle, etc, there’s no box of cash sitting out and you don’t need to worry about making change.

Except for the Europeans that are literally fighting Russia.

But being willing to pay for something is a pretty good indicator for being willing to pay for other things too.

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To add - there’s also an Austrian general named O’Reilly, and a famously subpar Macdonald for the French. The French at the time were busy inventing nationalism. Someone suitably a…

> I'm pointing out that that's not something they did Well that settles it then!

If only you could go back and tell them what a waste those walls are! I’m sure the Mongolians would value your expertise.

This is a good point as a tangent. “Cargo Cult” is a meaningful phrase for ritualizing a process without understanding it. Debasing the phrase makes it less useful and informative.…

Even bending over that far backwards to find a useful example comes up empty. Those kinds of emails are so uncommon they’re absolutely not worth wasting this level of effort on. An…

Gotta go to Mo’s!

Irulan’s books are state propaganda! The true Paul Atreides is only revealed in Leto II’s secret diaries.

But we’re way beyond templates here. There will be niches in research, high performance computing & graphics, security, etc. But we’re in the last generation or two that’s going to…

Something I hadn’t thought about before with the V-K test: in the setting of the film animals are just about extinct. The only animal life we see are engineered like the replicants…

Your square color photos are almost certainly made from medium format film! The most common frame size used in 120 is a 6x6cm square, especially in consumer cameras of the time. 6x…

There’s a spectacular moment in Django Unchained where Leonardo DiCaprio (a generational plantation master) asks something like “why don’t they fight back?” If you understand both …

I turned screws in an Apple Store in that era, circa iPhone 3G/4. Internally that policy was called “getting to yes” and it was a huge pain in the ass. The idea: customer comes in …

I’ve switched to a thumbs down in traffic and can’t recommend it enough. Let’s then know how they should feel without escalating like a middle finger.

Obviously someone was playing a barbarian