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sevenfive··on Instagram CEO on Stories: Don’t Call It a Copycat
Internet was growing more then. Eventually growth stabilizes and whoever's on top gets locked in.
sevenfive··on Samsung chief Lee arrested as S.Korean corruption probe deepens
> The relationship among different Chaebol families is less like different Mafia factions, and more like different Wall Street bankers. They may compete in the market, but they're all in the same boat, and they have a vested shared interest in keeping themselves largely out of the law's reach.

This isn't describing a difference -- Mafia families have the same interest. Omerta and all that.

sevenfive··on Considerations on Cost Disease
OPRF is infuriating. We lost Greenstone to Francis Parker because his year in china allegedly reset his seniority -- the real reason ofc was they just didn't like him. The dude wrote a novel that nearly got turned into a movie. And his china stories were great. Probably made the other overpaid goons feel threatened.
sevenfive··on Jack Ma's theory of how America went wrong over the past 30 years
> Minimum wage was about $20/hr in inflation adjusted dollars.

Google says 10. [Citation needed]

sevenfive··on Cracking the 12+ Character Password Barrier, Literally
> Rolling until you get a word you "like" reduces randomnesss significantly.

Rerolling 32 times loses 5 bits of security... not a big deal.

sevenfive··on [dead]
> In September of 2015, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed showed up to his high school with a clock he’d made himself

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CEmSwJTqpgY

More like he took apart a walmart alarm clock and glued the parts to a mini suitcase (Described by the media as a "pencil case")

sevenfive··on Magic and the rise of science
Seems to be paywalled.
sevenfive··on A Quine Puzzle
How do you use these strings?
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