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wahooliganon What's Accenture? (2020)

Seconding the other comments, this was a great write up.

One data point for you, you can see how much Accenture got from the US Federal Government on USAspending.gov. ~2B over the past 12 months (source: https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/6a40a8b7-77e4-2d39-6c0...).

wahooliganon The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest (2016)

They took advantage of diversification. Unfortunately most of us don't have access to more esoteric asset classes (e.g., fine wine, art, high end cars).

wahooliganon Ask HN: Object you'd like to see connected to the internet?

Check out Tile (http://www.thetileapp.com/) and StickNFind (https://www.sticknfind.com/).

wahooliganon Poll: What's your least favorite component of MS Office

Agreed. I love nothing more than waiting five minutes for Outlook to load just to see that it's got connection problems.