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Pencils are great, but ever since I started using whiteboard notebooks, like this[1] and this[2], I haven't looked back. 1. https://www.esquoia.com/ 2. https://wipebook.com/
> Most American pencils had pink or red erasers at the back by the 1920s. (Today these erasers are often made of vinyl, a type of plastic.) Almost everywhere else in the world, erasers have remained separate from pencils. It is very common for pencils to have a rubber at the end here in the UK - you can buy pencils with and without in any stationary section.
Also, saw some documentary few days ago about Faber-Castel and found that the only abroad (?) factory is located in Brazil, something that I think that justifies theier almost monopoly around here.
1 - some people even collect pencils, and most of the collection is from merchandise pencils, not commercial ones (source: one friend)
2 - pens are usually borrowed and never returned, even without knowledge of the owner. Pencils, on the other hand, are hardly borrowed, and are almost everytime returned to the owner (source: 2 unrelated friends)
Pencils are great, but ever since I started using whiteboard notebooks, like this[1] and this[2], I haven't looked back. 1. https://www.esquoia.com/ 2. https://wipebook.com/
Will these pages scan cleanly in a scanner that uses an automatic document feeder, or will the ink smudge going through the scanner's rollers?
Pencils are great, but ever since I started using whiteboard notebooks, like this[1] and this[2], I haven't looked back. 1. https://www.esquoia.com/ 2. https://wipebook.com/
That's really cool, any downsides from your experience? Like does the semipermanent ink smudge for left handed people? They say it doesn't... but maybe
The pens I use now take a few seconds to dry, and so would probably be a problem for leftys. For me, they work great, and I only occasionally smudge something.
Here[1] is a scan from today. This page (and the entire notebook it comes from) has been fully erased about 10 times. (I scan in all of the pages, and then wipe 'em clean once I've filled the notebook).
Wiping can be a bit more time consuming than with a normal whiteboard. The manufacturers claim all sorts of things will work to wipe an entire page, but I've found that for best results you need to use cotton balls + pure acetone.
Nabokov's "I Pencil". A rather refreshing riposte to the tired Leonard Read FEE / Mont Pelerin Society / Atlas Networks propaganda version. http://crookedtimber.org/2011/04/16/i-pencil-a-product-of-th... See also, "I, Collateralised Debt Obligation": http://crookedtimber.org/2011/04/16/i-pencil-a-product-of-th...
That essay seems to shoot entirely past the mark. Yes, you can plan a forest, you can plan several (but so can private actors, in a piece of fun trivia, Nokia started out in that sector). Yes, you can plan a railroad (but so can private actors). Yes, you can plan the implementation of mass education (hard to argue that this wouldn't look very different without government, but also hard to argue that the system is wor…
WalMart has an annual income of $482 billion.[1]
That's more than the annual GDP of Poland, as measured by the World Bank, the 25th largest economy in the world, and of Belgium, the Philippines, Thailand, Norway, Iran, Austria, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, South Africa, Hong Kong, Malaysia, ... and 153 other countries (163 total) in the world.[2]
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That essay seems to shoot entirely past the mark. Yes, you can plan a forest, you can plan several (but so can private actors, in a piece of fun trivia, Nokia started out in that sector). Yes, you can plan a railroad (but so can private actors). Yes, you can plan the implementation of mass education (hard to argue that this wouldn't look very different without government, but also hard to argue that the system is wor…
And as I've pointed out at times previous when that claim's been made: there are companies whose annual revenues exceed many nations. WalMart has an annual income of $482 billion.[1] That's more than the annual GDP of Poland, as measured by the World Bank, the 25th largest economy in the world, and of Belgium, the Philippines, Thailand, Norway, Iran, Austria, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, South Africa, Hong Kong,…
Unfortunately, few problems in the world are like that, and that's why large companies (and governments) fail to address them effectively.