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Back in the early 80s, some people used home computers as seriously as they used work computers:

- organize follow-up reminders for business calls. Automate a modem-based upload.

- crunch investment options in commodities. Not in an econometric way, but a table listing which analyst said what and which analyst was silent. Automate a modem-based upload.

So, with regard to the article, we can presume the author did claw-like things with DOS. As he aged, now he probably needs to organize many trips to doctors and specialists. Who is doing all that administration for your older folks?


We're more than 40 years past the first boycotts on rainforest beef. Not small boycotts, either; big ones which were effective at scale. If we translated the concerns here into Chinese, would it affect the current top importer of rainforest beef?

I think the authors are sincere; the original title is "Only half of the calories produced on croplands are available as food for human consumption". The commenters here are talking about beef, with very little reflection on 16% of our farmed calories devoted to biofuels.

Around me, 90-120 days on max 60% field corn. If it weren't field corn, it'd be another cereal.

I think the first shots looked like the strategy at Pearl Harbor. So it’s more appropriate to learn that Japanese success at Pearl Harbor didn’t grant Japan any choices about how the war would end.

Sounds like they want to justify increasing their ad spend on X, rather than Facebook and Instagram.

Would you say the same about Dogecoin? It’s current market cap would run NASA for 9 months.

Investment banks should worry about proximity to cryptocurrency exchanges.

We knew it’d be north of 3%. 3.3% seems intermediate. From Reuters,

"There is a second wave coming, which will be the fuel surcharges that will start to show up and cross to the other commodities, food in particular“

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-consumer-inflation-expec...


The article links to methodology. The scope of the Panama Papers is one way.

It’s interesting that the Forbes top list of billionaires is significantly incomplete.


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