FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices 6 years ago
Yep. One such story is a podcast episode from Planet Money https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis...
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Which was brilliant (no pun) as it keeps up with inflation.
The MBA Myth and the Cult of the CEO 7 years ago
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Is that for his own protection? People aren't going to drop from helicopters into my home, are they?
MedleyText 9 years ago
Reminds me a bit of Typora.
Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda 9 years ago
Negative. The status quo has been neoliberalism.
::waves::
It's generally from researching a topic while working on a project. It's a bit like a cache of bookmarks, you don't really know what you're going to need until you've made some headway and found what was truly helpful that you may need later versus what you can safely close.
Speaking of puff pieces..
Firefox 52 released 9 years ago
Sounds like a part of what pushbullet does. That's a welcome function.
While you can bookmark stories, it doesn't seem to be tied to the new(-ish) HN feature that allows one to favorite stories and comments.
Anything that can work as well as Clearly. It's the best I've found at clipping articles for off-line archiving but it still makes me nervous having them on Evernote's platform when they said they were going to shut Clearly down (but apparently had a change of heart, for now).
It doesn't support a procedurally generated world like you are asking but there was a game for Sega CD called Third World War that I loved to play that had a good balance of diplomacy, trade, and war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_World_War_(video_gam...
There's a Paradox game I played a few years ago called Supreme Ruler that I got excited about thinking it was similar but it tends to get bogged down in the military in my opinion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_World_War_(video_gam...
I haven't played Victoria II but know it also fits this mold. It is set in the colonial time frame so not quite modern but close.
Look at how Google has changed their hiring practices because hiring is close to impossible to get right
How has Google changed their hiring practices?
Commuting Takes Its Toll 10 years ago
It's probably less for him and made for family. People will sacrifice a lot for their kids.
Modernizing Python's IDLE 11 years ago
Of course a friendly REPL is part of any good IDE, but I could not have learned Python as fast as I did without DreamPie[1]. It's basically an IDLE that separates the input from the output—color highlighted as well. It seems small, but at least for me it really made a big difference.