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The list of sound defeats is kind of a who's who from back in the day: Black, Hawk, Robison, Klein, Leo the Jap, Price, Stein.

> ... it is hard to think of a competitor in all of history more dominant over his sport or game than Tinsley.

I've got another one: famous hold 'em poker player Stu Ungar never lost a game of gin rummy. Utterly dominant.

The darkest Sesame Street skit I ever saw had a muppet jumping up and down on a manhole cover, gleefully repeating "99! 99! 99! ...". A second muppet shows up wondering what it's all about, and the first muppet concedes his spot. The second jumps up once, saying "Ninety---", the manhole cover slips out of place, and the muppet falls to its doom. The first resumes his jumping: "100! 100! 100!"

Right! Didn't think to look it up as a term of art.

That means the missing information is temporal: the subsitution in point III narrows indemnity to only those claims which satisfy finally settled at the moment the contract binds.

Does anyone know the meaning of "all finally settled claims" in point III?

> III. Blanket indemnities. I'm not wealthy, and my insurer won't cover claims that you settle without their consent. Asking me to indemnify you against "all claims" exposes me to the risk of bankruptcy – and still doesn't protect you. I change this to "all finally settled claims."

A claim not finally settled leaves nothing to indemnify against. I'm missing something here.

Edit: Maybe "I indemnify Publisher against all claims which at the time of contract signing are finally settled"?

> ... you are abusing OOP and think it's the only way of doing things

> ... when you then say you decided to stick with C, you contradict with yourself

Figments of your imagination.

> Denying people information ... on-brand for Dan Luu.

Just to be clear, he does not deny the information. Chronology matters a lot, danluu knows this, and he does make it available. He also made finding it a personal journey for any first-time visitor looking for a date, costing about 60s per user lifetime.

He's unduly sensitive to bad criticism by ignorant people and admits as much. Reducing his exposure to them helps get him through the day, and so all the power to him.

As for the arrogance, I love this site and would keep coming here even if danluu were Pol Pot himself. Users and moderation make the site.

You mount the remote file system as a volume and traverse it as part of the local file system. Super convenient for comparing contents of a local folder to a remote in the command line, using local tools on the remote FS, batch copying both ways, all that good stuff.

The hung file systems can be a buttpain, enough that I wrote a Bash script that calls `mount` to get the hung FS IDs and `umount` them with the results. After that easy peasy.

Holy crap I had no idea this was Galbraith's insight. I've heard William K. Black talk about Gresham's dynamics a few times, but always wondered why his use of the term didn't comport with Wikipedia's article on it. It's because he's using it in Galbraith's sense. I'll be checking out the book for sure. Thank you.

Seconded. I subscribed to Financial Times for a year, whose prose, editorial balance, and coverage insight are noticeably inferior to The Wall Street Journal's. I also subscribed to The Economist and feel it is also inferior, but it is a weekly, so that's kind of comparing kettles and fish.

I subscribe to Noam Chomsky's opinion that the best journalism is found in the financial press because businesses need a more accurate and timely view of what's going on.

And yes, the op-eds are a blemish on the paper's outstanding journalistic reputation. It got jammed full of cronies after News Corp purchased the paper. Its workaday editorial staff remain fiercely independent, however.