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People care less about the dollar value than about reconciling. If there is some external system they should match, they really want it to match exactly.


Peak inflation in Argentina was 20262.80%.

So, not as much margin as one might think.


> A shocking number of people ... are unaware of how many decimal points of accuracy their local tax code requires to calculate

A shocking number of people who create tax codes have no idea how many decimal places they are using.

It's probably better now, but I recall having to reverse engineer the tax tables to figure out how many decimal points of accuracy were used, and what rounding rules were used, so we could match their numbers.

These numbers would change from year to year, with no change in the underlying tax codes.


I always hated tables. At least when I last had to implement UK VAT rules the rules were very precisely defined. But I've had to deal with stupid tables implementing rules they couldn't be bothered to spell out before. Yikes.


My cat is an indoor cat. It wears a tracker. Cats escape, sometimes. This way we get an alert if he manages to get out.


I think many of the dating sites started that way. That's why they were better in the beginning. But eventually, they go public, or get acquired, and end up getting run by people who are bottom line focused.


All 10 million of them?


Any large corporation likely has more individual shareholders than that (particularly when you include indirect ownership via mutual funds).


Looks like that is still invitation only.


Really? I was under the impression that it is available to everyone. Are you attempting to access the API? There might be a waitlist for that. But, it should be readily available for use here: https://www.anthropic.com/index/claude-2


"Unfortunately, Claude.ai is only available in the US and UK. We're working hard to expand to other regions soon."


The problem with leet code is what it really measures is how long you have spent on leetcode. Yes, you can solve the problems if you have experience, but you are not going to look as good as someone who had done that specific problem on leetcode and could just write down the optimal answer.


This was great science. Hypothesis, test, and attempted confirmation. Too bad it's not superconducting, but the process worked the way it is supposed to.


It's the people. If you shop for "fun", then you probably like sales. It's a game.

If, however, you don't like to shop, and you do it solely to acquire things, you probably don't like sales.

Very clearly, Ron Johnson was in the latter category, while JC Penney shoppers were in the former.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/j-c-penney-apologize...


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