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Comment · 3 years ago
The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths is a page long, and you can find it online (html). It is a small example of his style. If you like that one, then you will probably like his other stories. Of his short stories, my personal favorite is The Secret Miracle (it is included in his book Fictions). He also wrote poetry. My personal favorite is The Golem (included in the book The Other, the Self).
Comment · 4 years ago
What about banning the postal service from selling customer's data, and funding it some other way?

What about changing the "do not call me register" to a "please call me register" and making do not call me the default, and penalizing those who break the rules?

How about banning all those websites that aggregate and sell personal information from social media and public records?

Comment · 4 years ago
The "FUCK YOU" part you don't need. The "PAY ME" part is great advice.
Comment · 4 years ago
Do you have any plans of open-sourcing the UI framework?
Comment · 4 years ago
I took my laptop for repair to an Apple store in Germany. After that, they kept emailing me, despite me asking them to remove me from their mailing list several times. I then wrote an email to Tim Cook. They never answered back, but did not get any further spam.
Comment · 4 years ago
Do you know if this will be open-sourced, or if the repo is already available?
Comment · 4 years ago
I think a tree view was promised (listed on a presentation) when Flutter 2.0 was released, but no details were provided, and I haven't heard of it ever since.
Comment · 4 years ago
After both sides have gotten a given number of acknowledgement of the acknowledgement of the acknowledgement ... of the acknowledgement: isn't it obvious that the original message was delivered?
Comment · 4 years ago
Some companies even do this for job applications. A manager has a person they want for a role but, because of policy, they must publish it on their employment website, and go through the charade of interviewing candidates, wasting everybody's time. In the end, their preferred candidate wins.
Comment · 4 years ago
I don't get it. As a pibe chorro, you should have just taken it and ran away.
Comment · 4 years ago
This was more than 10 years ago. If I recall correctly, they sold the BigMac but did not advertise it (not sure if they even displayed it on the menu).
Comment · 4 years ago
I would add to your excellent answer an anecdote about the tricks of a previous government (with mostly the same people as the current one) to hide inflation: the Secretary of Interior Commerce (a complete thug) forced McDonalds to freeze the price of the BigMac, so that Argentina would look good on the BigMac Index. The prices of all other burgers were more or less free to increase.
Comment · 4 years ago
Since Argentina started having its own currency, it had to reset it 5 times, dropping a total of 13 zeroes. I have memories of two of those resets and, similar to what you say about your grandma, I remember older people translating to the older currency for a while, until they fully adapted to the new one.
Comment · 4 years ago
You will be compelled to exchange your dollars at the "official" exchange rate (which is about 1/2 of the real market value), so you lose ~50% there. On top of that, you have to pay taxes.
Comment · 4 years ago
That seems unlikely. That foreman most probably belongs to a union. Unions in Argentina are very powerful and they negotiate at the National level. Whatever increase they negotiate, your friend's father-in-law will have to pay.

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