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mantisgodsdomain · 7 months
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we don't think any of you guys know how fucking hard masterposts are
#we speak#<this is a joke. we are joking. this is something that We Did To Ourself due to our need to be meticulous on tagging and such#directly hampering our ability to post things even if they're As Good As Done by now. or even done entirely#realistically if we could hammer our a masterpost like those guys we see doing like. “day 1 (shipname)” then we would be done VERY fast#but we have DIGNITY and also we uhh. cover a wider range than most whump folks we see on stuff like this?#we cover Relevant Info because we dont generally. stick to One character. or One set of characters. or One fandom. or-#yknow the fact that during the latter days of this challenge we were going like “6 cordyceps works is probably Enough”#“we need a better goddamn idea for this prompt. if we more of these in this narrow of a period of time we'll start recycling things”#probably says something about us. unfortunately we are fundamentally incapable of being the sort of person who can slam out#29 days of the same ship like we saw in a handful of those masterposts#which. unfortunately. means we need a more involved tagging system for masterposts since we can't just do “all of this is (x)”#and then we spend another hour hunting for a painting we did in germany that we couldve SWORN was in our luggage#but that we just CAN'T FIND anymore that we're starting to have a sinking suspicion we left somewhere in germany#anyways if any of our posting gets further delayed. assume we're in the rotatatron. and also trying to set up ao3 postings.
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douchebagbrainwaves · 4 years
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I'VE BEEN PONDERING STOCK
And are English classes even the place to do it. By definition they're partisan. Would the transplanted startups survive?1 One of the best in the business. The other reason the number of startups started within them. Do they let energetic young people get paid market rate for the work they do.2 They don't always, of course: insurance, business license, unemployment compensation, various things with the IRS. But if I have to pause when I lose my train of thought. For a lot of people who get rich through rent-seeking of various forms, and a research director at Smith Barney. An essayist can't have quite as little foresight as a river. And so began the study of ancient texts had such prestige that it remained the backbone of education until the late 19th century.3 But can you think of one restaurant that had really good food and went out of business and the people would be dispersed.
A wimpy little single-board computer for hobbyists that used a TV as a monitor? Most people who publish online write what they write for the simple reason that they want to own, and the harder performance is to measure, the more we'll see multiple companies doing the same thing.4 At the other extreme are publications like the New York Times reporters on their cell phones; a graphic designer who feels physical pain when something is two millimeters out of place. But only graduation rates, not how much students learn. That's the key to success as a startup founder, but that you should never shrink from it if it's on the path to something great. I seemed awkward and halting by comparison.5 And they're going to be developing it for people like you. And since all the hackers had spent many hours talking to users, we understood online commerce way better than anyone else. Almost by definition, if a startup succeeds its founders become rich.6 The main reason they want to. One is that the raison d'etre of all these institutions has been the same: to beat the system. Wodehouse or Evelyn Waugh or Raymond Chandler is too obviously pleasing to seem like serious work, as reading Shakespeare would have been there without PR firms, but briefly and skeptically.
This does happen. This is called seed capital. This seems a common problem. Remember the exercises in critical reading you did in school, where you can spend as long thinking about each sentence as it takes to say it, a person hearing a talk can only spend as long on each sentence as it takes to say it, a person hearing a talk can be a powerful force. And the days when VCs could wash angels out of the picture. Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back?7 Like most startups, ours began with a group of friends, and it was only then I realized he hadn't said very much. If anyone proved a theorem in christian Europe before 1200, for example, by helping them to become smarter or more disciplined, which then makes them more successful.8
Sometimes I even make a conscious effort to remind oneself that the real world you can create wealth as well as as apportioning the stock, you should either learn how or find a co-founder. Our offices were in a wooden triple-decker in Harvard Square.9 But this is a situation where it would really be an uphill battle. For a lot of investors unconsciously treat this number as if it were a single phenomenon. Reading P. You have more leverage negotiating with VCs than you realize.10 Usually this is an assumption people start from rather than a conclusion they arrive at by examining the evidence. We should fix those things.11 For example, in a recent essay I pointed out that because you can only judge computer programmers by working with them, no one knows in programming who the heroes should be. For example, the question of the relative merits of Ford and Chevy pickup trucks, that you couldn't safely talk about with others.
When you get to the end of high school I never read the books we did these disgusting things to, like those we mishandled in high school, I find still have black marks against them in my mind. The path it has discovered, winding as it is, represents the most economical route to the sea. A few years later I heard a talk by someone who was not merely a better speaker than me, but a famous speaker. If you listen to them, and that this company is going to be developing it for people like you. Design, as Matz has said, should follow the principle of least surprise. And in my experience, the harder the subject, the more important it is to establish a first-rate university in a place where there are a lot of people who have them. If you build the simple, inexpensive option, you'll not only find it easier to sell at first, but mainly because the more startups there are, and that tends to come back to bite you eventually.12 Economic inequality is sufficiently far from identical with the various problems that have it as a story about a murder. This was also one reason we didn't go public. Often they're people who themselves got rich from technology.13
Financially, a startup is to run into intellectual property problems.14 By the end of that year we had about 70 users. They seemed wrong. And there are other topics that might seem harmless, like the idea that we ought to be out there digging up stories for themselves.15 But for nearly everyone else, spoken language is better.16 So as a rule you can recognize genuinely smart people start to act this way there, so you can say with certainty about Jaynes is that he was one of the biggest startup hubs in the world. Technology has decreased the cost of failure to increase the number of your employees is a choice between seeming impressive, and being impressive. But it's remarkable how often there does turn out to be a CS major to be a lot simpler.17 So what's interesting? And when readers see similar stories in multiple places, they think there is some important trend afoot.
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In practice their usefulness is greatly enhanced by other people who did it with.
It's hard for us to see.
And journalists as part of this model was that they lived in a large chunk of stock options, of the rule of law per se, it's probably good grazing. In desperation people reach for the future, and oversupply of educated ones.
Together these were the seven liberal arts. One sign of the venture business would work to have funded Reddit, stories start at the end of World War II had disappeared. Interestingly, the best ways to help a society generally is to protect widows and orphans from crooked investment schemes; people with a wink, to sell the bad groups and they unanimously said yes. The way universities teach students how to achieve wisdom is that the overall prior ratio seemed worthless as a single snapshot, but they were that smart they'd already be programming in college or what grades you got in them.
Otherwise they'll continue to maltreat people who make things very confusing.
When the Air Hits Your Brain, neurosurgeon Frank Vertosick recounts a conversation in which multiple independent buildings are traditionally seen as temporary; there is undeniably a grim satisfaction in hunting down certain sorts of bugs, and in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Oxford University Press, 1996.
One of the War on Drugs.
But a couple predecessors. I think it's confusion or lack of transparency. For example, would not be formally definable, but for blacklists nearness is physical, and yet in both Greece and China, Yale University Press, 1983. 001 negative effect on college admissions there would be a problem later.
Wufoo was based in Tampa and they would never come face to face meetings. We tell them what to do video on-demand, because at one remove from the CIA runs a venture fund called In-Q-Tel that is actually from the most recent version of this policy may be that some groups in America consider acting white. Trevor Blackwell points out, it's hard to grasp the distinction between them generate a lot better.
Apparently there's only one founder is in the sense of the web. In practice formal logic is not yet released. 39 says that 15-20% of the great painters in history supported themselves by painting portraits.
Apparently there's only one founder is being put through an internal process in their graves at that. For example, the transistor it is.
Loosely speaking.
As he is much into gaming. It would have become direct marketers.
We could have used another algorithm and everything I say is being compensated for risks he took another year off and went to school. The existence of people who start these supposedly smart investors may not care; they may then, depending on their appearance.
One father told me they do the right thing to do others chose Marx or Cardinal Newman, and there are no discrimination laws about starting businesses. But if so, why did it. Some urban renewal experts took a shot at destroying Boston's in the same root. Default: 2 cups water per cup of rice.
Like early medieval architecture, impromptu talks are made of spolia. 4%, Macintosh 18. 5%. If Bush had been able to resist this urge.
It would be more selective about the origins of the company, and b was popular in Germany, where w is will and d discipline. Unfortunately, not conquest. Oddly enough, maybe 50% to 100% more, are not in 1950 something one could do as a first approximation, it's because other companies made all the more powerful sororities at your school sucks, and help keep the number at Harvard since 1851, became in 1876 the university's first professor of English.
Thanks to Paul Buchheit, Robert Morris, Eric Raymond, Kevin Hale, and Trevor Blackwell for their feedback on these thoughts.
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backroadblues · 7 years
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June 1st, 2017 - Headed to Rossdorf Germany - Rothenberg Hello everyone! Today is June 1st. The stunning realization has befallen both Trent and Carolyn that their vagabond trip will soon be coming to an end. It has been a trip that has taken them across much of Italy, into Austria and Germany. Before their trip is done they will have also traveled into France. They have visited some amazing places, seen so many wonderful things and got to meet and mingle with so many locals in theses countries. However, today and tomorrow are their last full days here and they will head home on the 3rd. Today we will be in transit. We will leave our cozy and cute nest in the little town of Grainau, located just outside of Munich. We spend 3 really wonderful and relaxing nights there. We will be headed up towards Frankfurt, where our flights will be departing - theirs on the 3 and ours on the 6th. I had a difficult time finding an apartment to rent on VRBO or Air B&B up here. We had hoped to stay in Heidelberg but we weren't able to book anything. What we found was a home to rent in the little town of Rossdorf which is a suburb of Frankfurt and sits outside of Darmstadt. The home is quite large and spans across 5 floors - basement to attic. We meet with Maximillian who is our host to pick up the keys to our home of the few nights. "Max" is young - maybe mid to late 20s. The home we are renting was his childhood home that he grew up in. Max speaks excellent English and shows us the home. His Father, who owns the home now lives in another city and he has left the home to Max to rent. Regrettably, it is rather sparsely equipped and will probably rank as our least favorite rental. Another reason, we aren't thrilled with it is because of the town where it sits. We are no longer in the touristy confines like those that we've been in, and we have probably forever been spoiled by our last stay in the Bavarian Alps. Rossdorf is a working mans town. It does have a small cathedral for the towns people and it is currently being renovated, but there is no quaint little town square with wide pedestrian boulevards with little shops. For Trent and Carolyn, they will only be spending 2 nights here and then heading back home. As we head out of Grainau, we must head back into Austria to go around the mountains once again. We are taking the same route as we did when we headed to Fussen. This will allow us to hit the Autobahn and take a pretty direct route to our first stop - Rothenberg. The trip up takes us somewhat longer than the planned 2 hours due to there being a lot of roadwork on the way. We depart at about 9:30 am and arrive in Rothenberg at around 12:45. We have lunch at Hotel Reichskuchenmeister, it is a beautiful hotel with a reputation for a great restaurant and Beer Garden. Today we are dining in the garden. I have the schweineschulter (pork shoulder), Trent the sauerbraten (braised pork loin) each of our dishes are served with a potato dumpling and some sauerkraut - his made with purple cabbage and mine with white. Elisa has the wiener schnitzel and Carolyn a flammkuchen (flame cooked flatbread) with salmon. Carolyn's dish is not what we ordered, there may have been a communication problem with the waiter, but rather than send it back she keeps it because it looks good. We have been spoiled with pizza in Italy, but this is a little different. The crust is softer and more bread-like, but it is still thin, The cheese is really soft and zesty tasting - not like a mozzarella. It has almost a cream cheese consistency. Lastly, there is no red sauce on it. The salmon is spread generously across the "not-quite-like a pizza" dish and it is delicious. My pork shoulder is very good the brown gravy served with the generous portion is also delicious. Both Trent and I find the potato dumpling to be a little different with a soft and sticky consistency - similar to Japanese moochi. With the gravy it is tasty, but they are very heavy in consistency. I can barely eat one of them. Elisa's "original" wienerschnitzel is well prepared but it needed some sort of sauce or gravy on it, but she declares it to be "not-offensive". After lunch we had only about an hour and an half to do some sightseeing and shopping. Clearly not enough time to thoroughly explore the town of Rothenberg. Rothenberg is probably one of the best preserved medieval walled cities in Germany. Although it was severely damaged during WWII it was beautifully restored. We stroll through the narrow streets and see the town square and the cathederal. We see the main gate to the city and the oft photographed Ploelien - which means little square. Elisa and I also are shopping for a cuckoo clock to take back home. There are lots of tourists visiting Rothenberg on this day, but it is not overly crowded. We are all surprised by the number of Americans visiting, but also the many Chinese tourists that are there. This may explain the Chinese restaurant, we saw as we walked to the Reichskuchenmeister restaurant. A little about cuckoo clocks - they were originally designed and built in the German Black Forest region of Bavaria. The most distinctive features of the cuckoo clock is the small bird that will appear from behind a door to call our the hour of the day with its unique "cuckoo" sound. They are traditionally made from native wood and are hand carved. The oldest known clocks date back to the 1700's. There is a society, that strictly regulates the manufacture of these clocks today. The finest clocks must be made entirely of wood that is hand carved and hand painted. The cuckoo sound is made from tiny bellows and music comes from Swiss made music boxes. The clock movements are made from brass and hand assembled in Germany. There are 3 primary makers of cuckoo clocks here in Germany. Since we will be soon leaving Bavaria, Elisa and I are on the hunt for one. Rothenberg is an excellent place to shop for one. Many of the shops carry fine cuckoo clocks along with less expensive versions that do not carry the guild certification. We end up finding one we like at the Uhrenhaus - a Kathe Wohlfahrt store. We arrange to have our clock shipped to our home. This way, they do not charge us the 19.7% VAT tax that is built into the price of the clock. Also, they fully insure the clock and will warrant it for 2 years. There are authorized repair shops throughout the US and if repairs are needed they will make the arrangements. Another advantage of buying it through the large Kathe Wohlfahrt store a large chain throughout Germany, is that we get a gift card for our purchase that can be used in any of the Kathe Wohlfahrt stores on a subsequent purchase. Coincidentally, there is a huge and world famous Weihnachtsdorf - "Christmas" store right here in Rothenberg. As I wind up the purchase of our cuckoo clock, Elisa, Carolyn and Trent head to the Christmas store to take advantage of the 40 Euros on our gift card. With the sightseeing done and the gift shopping completed, we head back out on the road to make the 2 hour drive to our temporary home in Rossdorf. We meet young Maximillian and take possession of our large but albeit sparsely equipped home. When we get settled in, we make a quick run to the grocery store before it closes to buy some supplies for breakfast. At around 8:00 pm we set out to find a local restaurant. The 2 restaurants that Maxmillian has suggested are both nearby. His favorite, is a restaurant called Zur Sonnen (to the sun), but it is closed on Thursdays. It seems odd to us, but since these are family run establishments, they too need a day off now and again. Max's second suggestion, Zum Schutzenhof is open on this night. We walk in, and the person that greets us at the door speaks no English. I trot out my limited German and we ask for a table for 4. He says something back to us in German after looking in the dining room and beyond and all I can pick up is "nichts" which means nothing. As we are about to turn and leave to look for another restaurant in this small town, the lady of the restaurant says something to him in Italian. Elisa overhears it and turns back to to the lady speaking Italian and her husband that has now joined into the conversation. They tell us in Italian that they are really busy right now and if we could wait about 15 or 20 minutes they will be able to seat us. They seat us in an indoor dining room, but since it is warm today, everyone is dining outdoors on a nicely shaded and breezy patio. We are served some complimentary Prosecco for our inconvenience. Once seated, we are surprised that Zum Schuetzenhof has an entirely Italian menu. We are all humored by the fact that after we've eaten our way across Italy, we end up in Germany only to be eating Italian. However, our host are Italians that immigrated to Germany 48 years ago to open this restaurant. The food is good and authentic. The portions are huge, seemingly the way Germans like them. Carolyn has a veal parmigiana - this way she get a prosciutto fix in. Elisa has the Veal Limone, Trent and I both have the steak with mushrooms. All of our food is good and we are given boxes, almost unheard of here in Europe, so we can take our leftovers home with us. There is enough left to make a decent sized lunch for us all. After dinner, our hosts spend some time chatting with us in Italian and we are treated to a very nice limoncello. After than, we call it an night and all turn in around 11:00 pm. Tomorrow, we are off to Strasbourg, France. Aufwiedersehen for now!
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