GVIrish

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by GVIrish 7y ago
Yep. Normally we'd like to think that the Senate confirmation process would stop outright unethical enablers of presidential misconduct from getting confirmed. But, here we are.
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Yeah but the US government has checks and balances the average private company does not. The president has to get an attorney general confirmed, there are laws preventing him from using political considerations to affect civil service hiri
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I think the thing that a lot of people doing cold outreach really don't understand this. Pinging someone on LinkedIn with, "Hey we have a job!" is not differentiating you from the other 10 people that contacted that person t
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by GVIrish 7y ago
Investors have been massively wrong before on all kinds of things which has led to market crashes. So the fact that some investors believe Uber will become a strong, profitable business in the foreseeable future doesn't count for much
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That is absolutely not feasible right now. To start with, many cities have no fly zones around their airports that already cut down on who you can serve. Then there's the fact that you need a sizable drone to carry a payload big enoug
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by GVIrish 7y ago
What food delivery logistics? Ubereats is not tackling any part of the food preparation, food supply chain, or even the problem of keeping food hot. All they're doing is pick up and delivery. There's no moat there and there&#x27
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The problem with that is that the restaurant business is low margin in the first place. So Uber cutting into the restaurants' margins will quickly make it not worth it for the restaurants. Kind of like how Groupon and Living Social of
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by GVIrish 7y ago
Yep, gun lobbying groups have succeeded in convincing lawmakers to be hardliners despite what most gun owners and non-gun owners actually support.
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Some 2nd amendment supporters think there should be no limitations but in my experience that is not the majority. Most people agree with background checks, restrictions on automatic weapons, bans on felons buying guns, etc. Many are agains
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There are plenty of skilled trade jobs that pay as well or better than a number of undergraduate degrees. Electrician, aviation techs, construction managers, plumbers, radiology tech, LPN, and dental hygienists are all jobs that pay as wel
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by GVIrish 7y ago
I mean, I would assume that humans are used to improve the speech recognition capabilities of voice assistants. Accents alone are a big challenge to voice recognition, not to mention regional dialects, and the more complex languages. Peopl
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Only if you're winning a lot of money. They don't care that a small fish wins a few hundred dollars every now and then.
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Yeah but what are the chances that someone from the hiring team will call an old reference and get told the story about how said developer's shiny thing chasing caused them a lot of pain? What are the chances that the developer gets a
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by GVIrish 7y ago
Don't take it so literally. Can you find 100 people (or a few dozen) in your circles that could be first users of your product? Start with them. If you have trouble gaining traction with those folks, you may have trouble getting oth
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by GVIrish 7y ago
> Audi, for instance has said that part of the reason it’s discontinuing its rotary controller is that a touchscreen better supports Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. The baffling thing about that is that Audi's MMI system was actuall
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by GVIrish 7y ago
The fuselage across all three variants is the same, as the other poster stated, the result has been that the F-35 has worse aerodynamic performance, is heavier, and has a wider radar cross section than it would have had if it didn't ha
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by GVIrish 7y ago
That is the result of the brilliant idea of "concurrent development", where they start producing aircraft for delivery before the testing and validation phase is done. The idea was that computer modeling would obviate the need fo
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> The three variant JSFs are essentially three separate aircraft run by one program office. They're actually shutting down the joint program office because it is now in fact, three separate aircraft. Which again, puts lie to the wh
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> I'm baffled that the largest airforce in the world is so desperate for a jack-of-all-trades aircraft. A big motivation was that developing combat aircraft is stupidly expensive and extremely prone to cost overruns, which then make
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by GVIrish 7y ago
Very unlikely. Ideally you want your adversaries to be so afraid of how capable your new weapons system is that it acts as a strong deterrent. Not only that, but a large component of the Joint Strike Fighter program was selling it to allie
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by GVIrish 7y ago
The big risk I see with drones is that with aggressive jamming and cyber attacks your drone fleet could ostensibly be crippled. But as you said a drone could easily turn harder than any manned aircraft could, loiter/patrol for far lon
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by GVIrish 7y ago
Controlled flight into terrain used to be one of the leading causes of aviation accidents. All it took was for the pilot(s) to get disoriented, distracted, or make a bad miscalculation, particularly at night or in cloudy weather. Ground wa
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by GVIrish 7y ago
> But would the alternative of designing and manufacturing many different aircraft be cheaper? And would it be as effective? Yes. The military has tried the multi service aircraft idea in the past, wasted a lot of money, and failed comp
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>We are the only animals in the animal kingdom that cooperate across genetic boundaries. Most animals don’t even cooperate. But when they do, they cooperate only in packs where they co-evolve together, and they share blood, so they have
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Assisting people in an effort to steal classified materials is not in fact something journalists fo all the time. The moment you cross the line from just receiving classified materials to paying for or helping to attempt steal, your steppi
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No such thing as secret charges, just sealed indictments.
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In the 50's or 60's the Soviets tried some passive listening devices that were basically reflectors hidden in walls. When they were hit with microwave radiation, the reflected beams could allow them to capture conversations. It&
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> A truly senior developer who really wants the job, with a few weeks of practice for an hour every night can considerably improve their chances. Thing is, very good people always have a plethora of options. So a company that tries to m
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She was offered immunity to testify so even if she reveals something incriminating it wouldn't be admissible as evidence against her. Furthermore, she already has the right not to self-incriminate. So if a question came her way that wo
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by GVIrish 7y ago
Forgive me if I mischaracterized her objections but previously I saw her quoted as being against the concept of being forced to testify. And ultimately grand jury proceedings are non-public and they are a key part of our judicial process.

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