GVIrish

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by GVIrish 5y ago
I would go one step further. We wouldn't have had to close schools for so long or at all if we had responded aggressively to Covid before the outbreak got large. South Korea largely controlled their outbreak without lockdowns because
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by GVIrish 5y ago
Amazon can be one of the most productive companies ever, and still be doing self-sabotaging things that will erode their long term success. Truth is that any given time no company is perfect, they can simultaneously being doing things that
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by GVIrish 5y ago
I think the email can be inappropriate and Dean's response can be problematic at the same time.
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by GVIrish 5y ago
As others have mentioned, clover can be a great substitute for grass that still allows your kids to play. You can mix in wildflowers along the edges or certain areas of the yard, and flowering shrubs that attract pollinators. Berry bushes
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by GVIrish 5y ago
The concurrency is a major reason for massive cost overruns. If you're building production aircraft before the testing and evaluation phase is done with prototypes, every time you find a major issue you have to retrofit dozens or even
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by GVIrish 5y ago
> I think the point of the F-35 is it's one jet that can do it all. That was the idea, but it is also why the program has performed so poorly on cost, timeliness, and capability. The F-35 was supposed to achieve 80% parts commonalit
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by GVIrish 5y ago
Seems unlikely that they're participating in a large scale fabrication like this but it's possible. I think it's more likely that there is some black project that uses novel propulsion systems and they're covertly testi
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by GVIrish 5y ago
The alleged affair would have occurred while he was still CEO. It's definitely an issue if the CEO is having affairs with employees.
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by GVIrish 5y ago
> There is a fair amount already written on it but the insinuation that laughing a names leads to genocide ended up in the picture. I think that's a misinterpretation of what that graphic is trying to convey. The point isn't t
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by GVIrish 5y ago
> Uh, the administration Biden belonged to more or less ignored worse stuff than this that enabled attacks like this. Take, for example, the OPM "hack." I worked at State Department during the Obama era and into the Trump era.
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by GVIrish 5y ago
That article doesn't disprove a microwave attack at all, it just says there is no known public evidence that matches up with what is described. Fact is that if this is real, it is the work of a sophisticated adversary that may have fou
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by GVIrish 5y ago
They could try that, but it seems like personnel are being attacked outside of embassies. They'd need to equip everyone's domicile with detectors as well. That said, State Dept and the intelligence community should've been a
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by GVIrish 5y ago
> I think what basecamp is experiencing is what can still happen even though you as a manager believed you managed it well. But it doesn't really matter if the manager (or owner) believes they handled it well. It matters if the emp
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by GVIrish 5y ago
The initial blog post did not make that distinction. Not only is that a significant mistake in clarity, it was a significant mistake to announce a change like that via blog post. With that change they also got rid of the D&I committee
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by GVIrish 5y ago
> Do you think people in charge of hiring, particularly outside of the SV bubble, are going to be eager to pick someone up who left their last job because they couldn't agree to stop bitching about politics on the company dime? I th
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by GVIrish 5y ago
Huh? There are flights arriving daily from India, India was where the strain was first detected months ago, and in some parts of India it is the predominant strain. Neither of the two mutations that strain has acquired match the mutation t
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by GVIrish 5y ago
One word: variant. Variant B1617 has emerged and India and seems like it could be driving a surge. There's not a lot of data yet on that variant's transmissibility and lethality but it has already been detected in the UK. Thus fa
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by GVIrish 5y ago
Potentially. Sometimes a bike commuter is someone who would've taken the bus or subway to get to work. That said, it still depends on commuting patterns, road topography, etc. Some cities have a majority of workers driving in from di
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by GVIrish 5y ago
> Roads have such limited throughput that a new bike lane might inconvenience only a few hundred people in cars, while opening up the city to thousands of people on bikes. I think that is massively underselling the disruption to traffic.
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by GVIrish 6y ago
While you have the right idea, the problem is that taxi laws are not enforced enough to deter ride-discrimination behavior. Plenty of times before Uber/Lyft I had cab drivers refuse a ride because they didn't want to drive outsid
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by GVIrish 6y ago
My first memory of Red Bull was in game advertising in the PS1 game WipeoutXL. As a teenager living in Panama at the time I had no idea what it was, I thought it was a made-up product just for the game. Looking back they were way ahead of
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by GVIrish 6y ago
The way I would state it is that you need to understand the tradeoffs of given best practices and whether those tradeoffs justify implementing those best practices on your project. It also gets into what best practices should be prioritize
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by GVIrish 6y ago
> I hear this a lot from people online. But how realistic is this really? Say we enter 4 degrees of warming. I assume that we will experience food losses in both agriculture and fishing. The expectation seems to be that we will make no a
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by GVIrish 6y ago
Widespread crop failures due to extreme conditions during growing seasons and collapse of pollinator populations Collapse of fisheries globally due to ocean-acidification. Some 1 billion people currently rely on seafood as primary protei
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by GVIrish 6y ago
I think when experts are wrong it negatively impacts their credibility. If they're wrong often enough, or wrong on something important enough, sometimes they lose enough credibility that people no longer solicit or listen to their inp
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by GVIrish 6y ago
> The experts in baseball for a long time thought baseball should be played a certain way. Bill James starting proposing radically different approaches that were later put into practice by Billy Beane (described in Moneyball) and later b
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by GVIrish 6y ago
I don't think the answer is to step on the rights of people, I think it's that culturally we have to expend a lot more effort on challenging ignorance and elevating the voices of reason. I also think we have to stop promoting igno
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by GVIrish 6y ago
This. Reverence for celebrity also engenders a weird trust in celebrity viewpoints even when they are wildly misguided and completely divorced from a particular celebrity's training/knowledge/experience. Not to say a tennis
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by GVIrish 6y ago
I don't think that undermines his point at all. Experts can be wrong on things, experts can disagree, experts can change their position. I think that's one of the big problems with how people are approaching experts in this clima
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by GVIrish 6y ago
> If you were just doing car to car communication for automatic driving and didn't need to send ads, track, or remotely update the car, the way to do it would be through the vehicle radars. In a vehicle application wouldn't tha

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