Longterm planning

People keep telling me humans can't plan for the long-term, on the scale of decades of centuries. But here are 45 examples of 'cathedral thinking' from the past 5000 years, featured in The Good Ancestor 1/2 pic.twitter.com/UNhvL4tYp6
— Roman Krznaric (@romankrznaric) August 31, 2020

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Emerging Domestic Markets: How Financial Entrepreneurs Reach Underserved Communities in the United States

Emerging Domestic Markets: How Financial Entrepreneurs Reach Underserved Communities in the United States slotting fee Various case studies of minority owned businesses social finance Elsewhere: Moolahsense is a debt crowdfunding company in fintech . "B usiness loans tend to be a product that does not differentiate on non-price factors." I've gotten way more into the real estate and finance world in the last year and someone absolutely needs to open a bank designed to service entrepreneurs, freelancers, and self employed people. Not being on a normal W2 makes getting a mortgage and other financing so complicated — Nat Eliason (@nateliason) July 30, 2020 Support small businesses doing great things for their communities

The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid

The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid by Ugo bardi Seneca Effect Usually you want to slow the decline but nature like us must abhor things that taste bad and want to get it over with like a dentist appointment. Implosion, if the buildings around can take it. Many times when companies go bad, repackaging useful pieces and selling them buys time for other parts. eg Nokia to Microsoft. When is study of declines helpful? study of shark population

Reverse index

Looking at this overloaded page on typesense , I wanted to understand some of the terms. A good example of reverse index is when you have to search for 234, 235, 236. Here it makes sense to find the differeing last number sooner than the initial long, same numbers. The time to dynamically reconstruct inverted index is important. Levenshtein automaton what-is-tf-idf Term frequency - inverse document frequency. Faceted search vs Filtering

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