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"Welcome to my very old antiquarian bookshop, Daniel"
versus:
"This is a place of mystery, Daniel, a sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. This place was already ancient when my father brought me here for the first time, many years ago. Perhaps as old as the city itself. Nobody knows for certain how long it has existed, or who created it. I will tell you what my father told me, though. When a library disappears, or a bookshop closes down, when a book is consigned to oblivion, those of us who know this place, its guardians, make sure that it gets here. In this place, books no longer remembered by anyone, books that are lost in time, live forever, waiting for the day when they will reach a new reader's hands. In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you here has been somebody's best friend. Now they only have us, Daniel. Do you think you'll be able to keep such a secret?"
she'd crafted and penned -
A letter to Philip
that she'd never send.
From reddit's resident poet, "poem_for_your_sprog": https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/mnerwn/prince_ph...
In comparison top 10% of the Danish tax payers paid just 31.3% of the total income tax, despite Denmark having rather high taxation (the OECD method that puts it as #1 is controversial, but I pay e.g. a 42% marginal tax rate on any capital gains).
For the Wikipedia of food, Nikki Segnit's Lateral Cooking / Flavour Thesaurus are great -- you start out with basic "stew" technique and then a dozen usual and unusual variations.
For a more extreme example, Pocahontas' "Colors of the Window" in 33 languages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLKD8tIMlV8
Mixing bonds gives you a slightly higher safe withdrawal rate but you do lose 2 percentage points average yearly returns.
Turns out some other guest reported the host for having a hidden camera (which was really the standard Danish fire alarm). The AirBNB messaging made it out to be the host's fault.
When I search the map shows me a price per night for the amount of nights I picked including the corresponding part of the cleaning and service fees.
So it is not an "engineering problem" but a 100% deliberate "dark pattern" choice on AirBNB's part.
"Use of the Services for serving video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content is prohibited, unless purchased separately as part of a Paid Service or expressly allowed under our Supplemental Terms for a specific Service. "
But then you need another graphics card for your main Linux system.
This is large retailer, but once of a dozen in Denmark.
The procedure was 20 minutes, painless and slightly uncomfortable where the nurse had to push on my stomach to help the probe round the guts, that was like some brief constipation. You get to your appendix from the inside and physically realize how much the colon takes up in your body.
BTW, in Denmark, a 40+ yo patient with rectal bleeding that cannot be physically confirmed as hemorrhoids by the GP would likely be referred to the emergency cancer track, with I think, 2 weeks before all the tests have to be finished.
So it was quite an eye opener to read about how Orleans introduced Virtual Actors, activations and placements of actors and how these are exactly the things I've thought about over the years. I've read about e.g. the classic Erlang actors, but the concept of virtual actors in Orleans really fit my model.
I'll be sticking with Python, but starting with the Orleans paper has lead me to quite a few similar systems: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233416056_Orleans_C... that reference it.
So here's a smaller community where the majority is fine with high taxation in exchange for freely available health care, higher education etc.
Family funds exist here (e.g. Novo Nordisk is 25% owned by a humanitarian fund, Mærsk) but are less important than US.
It's fun to compare it with the historical top500 list: https://www.top500.org/statistics/perfdevel/
In German, wikipedia claims "Polish in reverse" (though there's no other reference to that phrase on the Net, other than Reverse Polish Notation).