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Yup, and the “industry standard” wholesale discount publishers give to e.g. bookstores is usually 55%

I don’t get the threat from folks like Zuckerberg and Brin. First of all these feel like empty posturing. But if they are not, what if they do leave CA? And even if (however unlikely) they take the HQs with them? What does CA lose? It’s not like these folks and companies are paying their share anyway. What am I missing?

I looked up RCS, thanks! Correct me if I’m wrong but does it mean that if my kid turns it on, her texts will appear green, not blue, to her iMessage’d friends?

I’ll dump my iPhone for an Android as soon as:

- iMessage works so I can participate in the family group chat

Binging on Barbara Ehrenreich: Nickeled and Dimed, Dancing in the Streets, Natural Causes

“To Chicago and Back” is a travelogue book by the Bulgarian author Aleko Konstantinov describing his trip to the exposition. Very famous in Bulgaria, introducing America to us. Probably why the most Bulgarian immigrants still live in Chicago (based on the number of restaurants). There’s a bust of the author inside UChicago.

I personally love walking the grounds when I visit, imagining what it must’ve been.

There’s not even a need for armed men on horseback. The lord/patron is your protector against overly draconian laws where just about everything is punishable by death. Lose the patron and next time you e.g. look at the neighbors’ wife, you get to be shorter by a head for entertainment of the folks with a patron. Some of these patron’d folk might have killed somebody last week for which they get to spent time with a priest working on the salvation of their soul and no further punishment.

Source: Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer

For rethinking the Luddite movement I recommend the book Blood in the Machine (I think I learned about it here on HN)

And written the same day she wrote Jolene