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To be fair to the article, the title is "the strange way airlines are actually central banks", implying that it's just in that one way that they are central banks.

In addition, Square still held a bunch of specific legal rights around it, which is why Paper Mario was branded as being distinct, even if it had a lot of obvious commonalities.

Wow. Probably the coolest thing to ever come out of Malta!

A classic backronym.

I always figured there was a specific board that had those sounds. Glad to see someone did a decent dive into it!

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I'm an Italian citizen and my wife is American. Getting the necessary paperwork to be married in Rome was a considerable pain. We were dealing with an especially officious dignitary in at the consulate in London.

However something wonderful happened when one of the comune we were dealing with in Italy attempted to frustrate the actions of the consulate bureaucrat. The London official, who had previously been our nemesis, suddenly flipped allegiance, and we were transported effortlessly towards our goal, surfing on a tide of paper-pushing vengeance as she sought to stamp her authority over her counterparts in the provinces.

Manhattan COL _is_ insane.

What a journey. In a world where FPGAs are our ultimate safety net for preservation, it’s remarkable what can still be sourced for a build like this.

Because it was built with the newer design language that Apple was developing - they used it in Quicktime too. I'd hazard a guess that the key difference was that at the time that MacOS 9 came out, you could get something in as long as it appealed to Steve.

It's not that Apple didn't experiment in earlier days, but this was a time when the push to the next OS and design was really strong after so many failed efforts to get a next-gen OS out the door.

LegendKeeper looks like a great product too!

I’ve had a great career mostly because of the people I’ve worked with. I’d say a huge motivator getting to where I am now has been the chance to gather those people and work with them in a team again.

Same! After something like 12 years I couldn’t imagine not having it around. It makes every coffee taste better.

See also: carrying around your own chopsticks and cutlery.

When I was reading for the bar in 2011 (analogous to 'taking' the bar in the US), one test, that of writing 'opinions' was, incredibly, still a handwriting-only assessment. It was expected that you would have to turn in something like a dozen full pages to cover all the pertinent topics in the exam question.

Having primarily touch typed from a young age and being in possession of some truly horrible handwriting, the only way I could get through it was to spend half an hour practicing -every day- in order to reach the requisite speed.

I looked then at the experience of handwriting that exam as massively anachronistic, and a decade later, my feelings are the same. However I can now handwrite at a decent pace, and I still find going to pen and paper a great aid when tackling complex problems.

Is it a vital skill? I don't think so, but I'm quite certain it's a helpful one. Gen Z won't miss it, but then, playing a musical instrument isn't vital to one's education either, but few people who do would say they regret spending the time to learn it outside of school.

The more expensive the Bay Area is to live in, the more the VC approach becomes the only game in town

Li KaShing's son.

More specifically head of PCC - a digital conglomerate from/in HK.

Well. After the first 2 instances of being out of compliance, that's exactly where they'd be anyway.

I agree it seems unlikely but the math checks out.

I lived in Fingeringhoe. I was an adult before someone pointed out how smutty the name was.

The principle of the local primary school told us that the older name was “fingeringahoe” which if anything was worse!

I also don't fault the British too much for a lack of true democracy after I read the unclassified diplomatic cables re: what Zhou Enlai said about taking 'positive action' (ie: invasion) if HK ever got self-rule, at least we got 1-man-1-vote. It sucks, but the British couldn't even defend Singapore from the Japanese.

Nice! I was just complaining about the CI/CD environment startup time that causes a lot of friction in our local testing. This seems like a great solution!

By taking part in this program, you are essentially taking a personal loan, partially secured by your stock options which will vest later.

If you don't happen to understand Stock options: At a later date you will have the OPTION to buy company stock at a set price (often referred to as a Strike price)

So some entity is lending you money because they know you have Stock options and presumably will be good for the money when they vest/mature.

Of course, if the value of the Stock at the point of your options maturing is LOWER than your strike price, you essentially have earned yourself the option to buy $4 apples at the price of $50 an apple. Eg: your options are worthless (beyond their ability to purchase shares which might not be buyable on a public market)

So since you took out a _personal loan_ you now have to pay it back.

EDIT: I missed one thing - you actually get to exercise _now_ if you take out this loan... This has slightly more upside because it means that you could have in theory, sold those shares for immediate upside on the secondary market and thereby have de-risked yourself. If you didn't, then you got hosed. You could also have a capital gains advantage by spreading the gains I suppose

I'm the CTO of a company tackling exactly this problem (www.salesbricks.com) and I'd go one further.

The complexity in billing, invoicing, payments etc are _not_ the stuff that computers or systems do. The complexity is and always will be in the stuff humans do.

As a parent, none of the risks are as profound as that of some other member of the public calling the police to inform on your “dangerous parenting”.

I’ve deliberately chosen to live in a walkable part of the Bay Area in the hopes that my kids can be more independent when they get older, but I’m more worried about the social pushback than I am about their safety.

A huge task indeed but perhaps less than people think.

Chinese imports are heavily overrepresented in certain sectors (Tech for instance) but the US imports far less than most other countries. It's one of the peculiarities of the global economy.

It's also quite a helpful metric.

Most British people are aware that the national grid used to spend a lot of time making sure they had the power available to draw during the commercial breaks of mass-media TV events (series finales, half time in a cup match etc) purely for the nation boiling water with electric kettles en masse.

Great intersection of hard science (energy necessary to boil water + extremely efficient energy transfer) and everyperson knowledge. Good journalism!

Django admin has 2 modes of operation:

In scope operation and extension: - Incredibly smooth and effortless

Slightly out of scope: - F U, buddy.

It’s amazing for so much stuff that it’s honestly a superpower for a tech or tech leveraged company, and great for prototyping internal process automation.

The trick is knowing when to throw in the towel and go purpose built. I’ve definitely missed that boat at least once in my career.

The same pain many users felt with the end of a lot of federated chat services.

It's even worse now that most desktop chat applications embed entire web browsers to render their UI. In fact I can only think of iMessage/Messages as being a native app.

* insert usual boilerplate about not hating on Web Technologies for App dev/delivery, just Electron's bloat *

I think it warrants inclusion, he was clearly speaking on behalf of his 'brand' and ought to be considered in the same company as other commercial entities. Or you could construe it as an apology on behalf of whatever movie studio he was working with at the time.

The implication of the tweet is that somehow the U.K. standards dropped.

In fact the EU changed their standard for consumer messaging, and the U.K. hasn’t adopted a new scale yet.

So no. Not deregulation.

By the same measure, the U.K. could adopt a new scale where this bulb was listed TRIPLE F. It wouldn’t have made it any more or less efficient in the EU.