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by Aloha 9mo ago
The issue is old IBM while it had amazing hardware and software, its cost basis was so high that they were wildly uncompetitive in the market. It doesnt matter how good your tech is, if it costs 200% more than everyone else's, you wont
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by Aloha 10mo ago
I dont know how much employee nationality matters (if it did some of the big tech companies could be thought of as Indian ;-), even though they're American owned). To me a 'chinese company' is headquartered in china, has pred
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by Aloha 10mo ago
This is really a great point to make - people, so many people say nothing is better today - but if you know the past, and have heard the tales of yesterday, you know better. This is a great example of that. We've got a kinder more verd
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by Aloha 10mo ago
Was Volvo an American car company when it was owned by Ford?
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by Aloha 10mo ago
I'd actually argue that Aviation is the outlier among Part 90, Amateur, and Public Safety users. The general rule in most radio services is using both phonetics and not, as to try to balance intelligibility and communications density.
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by Aloha 10mo ago
In phonetics?q
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by Aloha 10mo ago
I took issue with calling out the airport, multiple times in full phonetics, both at the beginning and the end of the transmission. All other callsigns, perfectly reasonable.
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by Aloha 10mo ago
The only complaint is it uses phonetics for everything multiple times in each transmission, I'm a radio guy, I would use phonetics once, then otherwise spelled out letters - aka, "whiskey lima foxtrot" and WLF the next time I
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by Aloha 10mo ago
I'm a product manager in my day job - and, I guess the gripe I have with FOSS stuff, is they're all too often designed as expert systems - which is great, super powerful, lots of control, but not suited to the workflows actual use
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The FOSS community acts like a cult and it's not helping the cause(torrent-empress.leaflet.pub)
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by Aloha 10mo ago
not only that, word (and others) will convert a dash into an em-dash in text.
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by Aloha 10mo ago
you beat me to it - or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory in general, space is probably closer to an electrical delay line in practice.
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by Aloha 10mo ago
I'm T2D - I've come to believe obesity is a side effect of diabetes, if I'm not on my medications, I can fast for 2-3 days before my blood sugar comes down, because my liver is constantly pumping out glucose into my system. T
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by Aloha 10mo ago
Various cars did (any of the vehicles with the gas tank mounted above the rear axle), some also had issues with side impact (GM square body trucks). The 'crime' of the pinto was not that it was an unsafe car (it wasn't), it w
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by Aloha 10mo ago
Plus there was a significant contribution from England - VC10, deHavilland Comet, etc. England also made what I consider to be the prettiest bomber ever made - the Handley-Page Victor
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by Aloha 10mo ago
I thought the McD add was hilarious - I would have preferred it not be AI.
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by Aloha 10mo ago
I also endorse this - maybe not outright ban but at least highly discourage.
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by Aloha 10mo ago
There is a large gap between "maybe trying to take lead out of solder causes more issues that it solves" and "lead paint is good"
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by Aloha 10mo ago
I'm a very large believer that aggressive RoHS regulations have created more intractable problems than they have solved.
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by Aloha 10mo ago
If you're writing an essay to prove you can or to speak your words - then you should do it yourself - but sometimes you just need an essay to summarize a complex topic as a deliverable.
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by Aloha 10mo ago
that may be so, but a stack of bills or small bag of coins is sure easier to cart around than things I can eat are.
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by Aloha 10mo ago
Better food, living conditions and sanitation has helped greatly.
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by Aloha 10mo ago
Agreed.
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by Aloha 10mo ago
This is a bit meta, but looking at the comments on this thread - Nostalgia is a hell of a powerful drug, probably the most powerful one our brains can self generate (because of the complexity of feelings generated). While I like some bits,
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by Aloha 10mo ago
Your tone is a bit acerbic - but most of your facts are correct. Part of what was driving feedsack dresses was the agricultural depression from 1918-1939/40
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by Aloha 10mo ago
1850-1950 is much closer to a norm over human history - 3+ catastrophic major wars 3+ other minor ones. 2+ great depressions (each of which was as large as ever financial panic 1951-current combined) 3+ financial panic events At least one p
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by Aloha 10mo ago
The people that run that killing power are also citizens, and they either must be bought at an increasing steep price, or they will go with the bulk of the nation (mostly with their near and distant relatives who are suffering) - network
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by Aloha 10mo ago
They had a place that was familiar and comforting to go return to. Anyone who is of a modern industrialized society who is waxing poetically about becoming a hunter gatherer is both, looking at history thru very rose colored goggles and wel
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by Aloha 10mo ago
Indeed! Antibiotics and Insulin - those two things have saves untold lives. Before about 1920, the difference between rich and poor and the likelihood to recover from disease had more to do with ability to rest and diet. The rich and poor a
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by Aloha 10mo ago
Commonly called masking - learning the 'rules of the road' for peopling - the hardest thing that young folks with autism or ADHD need to learn is that you must learn how to do this, the world will not (often or always) change to

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