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by Breza 5y ago
Similarly, Collins wrote a memo to the astronaut corps explaining that on the Mercury missions, if someone became incapacitated during EVA, they'd have to cut their life support cable and close the hatch and come home alone.
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by Breza 6y ago
Beautiful!
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by Breza 6y ago
That makes sense. If I want somebody to change my locks or cut down a tree at my house, they need to post a bond first.
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by Breza 6y ago
Plus the United States probably would have sent a diplomat as soon as the press found out what was happening.
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by Breza 6y ago
I agree with you. I remember the early days of Paypal. It was back when buying something online often meant using a website you'd never heard of and weren't sure you trusted with your credit card number. Getting a few bucks from P
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by Breza 6y ago
I agree with you. I run a corporate data science department. Maybe I'm an anomaly, but I have a lot of freedom to decide how things get done. And when our website went down the other day, I got to hand the problem to our Tech team, go
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by Breza 6y ago
Even simpler than that, you could have inherited a billion dollars, stuck it in an index fund, and not made a big deal about it. I'm certainly no billionaire but I can appreciate living below your means and not having a flashy lifestyl
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by Breza 6y ago
That's exactly why successful companies generally have to pay more than their stock value to go private.
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by Breza 6y ago
I just finished reading Billion Dollar Loser and I think you might like it.
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by Breza 6y ago
It's incredible that Amazon was able to build such a moat in the early days. Logically, you'd think that somebody like Sears (which became a huge company in the first place by offering the convenience of shopping from home!) would
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by Breza 6y ago
Good perspective. This blog post is a start. If I were him, I'd try to get my fifteen minutes in the press. Whenever a prospective employer searches his name even years in the future, they'll see "this guy made a really popul
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by Breza 6y ago
This is exactly the right approach. Anything specific enough can be traced back to an individual.
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by Breza 6y ago
It's so refreshing to see somebody who has had a similar experience to my own. I've never been a member of a church like the ones that people describe in a lot of the comments. We focus on devotion to God and improving the earth.
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by Breza 6y ago
I'm a Lutheran and I've studied the works of Luther. When I learned about the Orthodox church as an adult, I really liked what I saw. If Luther had been an Orthodox priest, I wonder if he would have launched his gentle rebellion (
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by Breza 6y ago
I run a corporate data science department and I've been fortunate enough to have management's support to run things however I want as long as I'm getting the job done. I built an MVP for a report in R with an intention of rep
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by Breza 6y ago
It depends on what goes wrong. If the failure is within the design spec (eg Engine 2 just flamed out) then it could speed through the checklists faster than humans. That kind of system may have prevented the loss of Air France 447. I think
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by Breza 6y ago
Agreed. Computers have been massively important to flying for decades. It's already basically impossible to fly a modern warbird without computer assistance. Here's a Hacker News-level amount of nuance for that statement: https:&
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by Breza 6y ago
You're exactly correct about war games. Warfare is more than just moving units around a battlefield. It involves psyops, cyber, logistics, and other factors that are way too complex for contemporary AI to consider.
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by Breza 6y ago
Well said. The biggest products I've designed for my employer came from times when I could sit around and think. Being a little bored means having time to try things and build some MVPs. Having every minute of my day scheduled means I
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by Breza 6y ago
Reminds me of this excellent old poem: https://poets.org/poem/calf-path
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by Breza 6y ago
Old SCUBA tanks didn't have gauges, they had a reserve tank with enough air to get you to the surface. You'd realize you were running low (which I'm sure was terrifying) then hit the switch and slowly surface (you don't
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by Breza 6y ago
I run a corporate data science department and my wife has a more respectable job and we still couldn't imagine spending that kind of money on a joke.
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by Breza 6y ago
Here in the United States, there's well-publicized research into how hard many families would have to work to come up with the money to cover an unexpected $400 expense. https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/
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by Breza 6y ago
I like that approach
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by Breza 6y ago
This is a topic we covered in pre-marital counseling. The exact approach you pick matters less than making sure you both agree on it. My wife and I share all of our money and agree on big expenses before they happen.
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by Breza 6y ago
This is also how my wife and I approach our money. We don't stop each other from having fun but we're aware of any big spending before it happens.
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by Breza 6y ago
I totally agree with you. A company with consistent profits shouldn't be seen as a bad thing.
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by Breza 6y ago
Very well said!
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by Breza 6y ago
The Affordable Care Act (also called "Obamacare") requires that all health insurance plans offer one healthy checkup every year at no cost to the patient.
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by Breza 6y ago
If you're ever in the area, it's worth driving over and walking around. It's a bizarre place.

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