“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we will be lucky to live through it.”
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“Mr. Belloc, your thoughts?”
“The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine — but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.”
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American business is a high trust venture. Most b2b work is done on credit with 30-90 day payment terms. Of course, there is usually a purchase order and contract involved, but if it gets to that point a lot of small businesses will just write it off. Legal costs eat the invoice.
Recently thinking about this looming disaster:
A very large portion of the economy rests on a foundation of legal agreements negotiated and documented by fallible (some of them *very* fallible) human attorneys.
Think of the chaos unleashed when super-competent AIs are set loose to identify loopholes, imperfections, inconsistencies, etc. in that highly imperfect corpus.
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Indianapolis is one of my favorite places to visit for work, other than the irrational hatred for all sports teams Boston/New England.
They have one heck of a Union monument.
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In my seat waiting for everyone to board, and the speakers on this plane are playing a muzak version of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”.
Sigh…
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Dostoyevsky on the death of his infant daughter. A passage that has stayed with me years after I first encountered it
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One of the best teachers that I ever had. I haven’t seen him in over 30 years, but I still remember him with fondness and admiration.
Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen.
everettfuneral.com/obituary/…
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FriendsofCharlieCoyle retweeted
Found the Greatest Man in the World again, this time at the British Embassy pub
@UKinUSA @UKdefenceUS
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This applies to police and fire as well. Why don’t good cops call out bad cops? Well, it can be a very unpleasant and even dangerous environment if you report misconduct, particularly by a superior. If I’m 5 years away from my pension, I’d have a strong incentive to look away.
I'm a huge bore about making teacher pensions portable across the board, but we really really really need to. People are more mobile now than they were when these systems were created. The retirement statement should be able to move with them across state lines.
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FriendsofCharlieCoyle retweeted
Coca Cola is a direct descendent of Mulled Wine, a drink invented during the expansion of the Roman Republic & perfected in Europe. By necessity, the drink requires an Empire's worth of spices.
What does Coke taste like?
Like Carthage being burned.
Like Conquest.
Have a Coke.
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Drugs are bad, kids. Don’t do drugs.
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Mintzy has been planning this Outfit Reveal for weeks
He had a shirt shipped to the Super 8 specifically for this
He carried it around all day
We are now in the front row (3rd) of the LSU section (kinda)
AND HE DUNKED IN THEIR FACES!!!
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That was almost the Everton finish ever.
Should have been 3 or 4-0. But we’ll take the 3 points and run.
#UTFT
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