Kadin

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by Kadin 7y ago
It is extremely difficult to negotiate labor rates above a certain threshold; the government contracting officers can and will just refuse if they think you are demanding above-market rates. Sometimes you can justify some overage, but it&#
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by Kadin 7y ago
The Soviet design bureaus certainly had their irrationalities. They behaved like big, vertically-integrated companies, and preferred 'their' stuff over the other design bureaus' stuff. Soviet gear was robust because robustne
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by Kadin 7y ago
The point of NASA was to create an agency for non-military aerospace development, while ARPA was supposed to handle military applications. I think Eisenhower thought that this would insulate NASA from postwar budget cuts and make its fundin
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by Kadin 7y ago
However, practical experience suggests that second-system syndrome is very real, and the cost of replacing 'obsolete' systems is often vastly higher than just maintaining them, even taking into account the need to train people in
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by Kadin 7y ago
Believe it or not, there are still cost-estimation methodologies that use LOC. You somehow go from the problem, to an estimated number of lines of code that will need to be written, and then you divide and multiply that out by the number o
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by Kadin 7y ago
There is nothing about how charities work under US Federal tax law that would produce this result. Tax-exempt charities (which must by definition be non-profit, but not all non-profits are charities, and not all charities are tax exempt!) m
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by Kadin 7y ago
History also suggests that having a significant number of unemployed people who suddenly can't afford basic necessities because their jobs / way of life suddenly disappeared, is destabilizing as hell. Very few people are actually
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by Kadin 7y ago
> And now I'm trying to recall why Ethernet transceivers were necessary I think the idea was to decouple the card that went inside the computer from the physical media. You could use the same card for 10BASE5 or 10BASE2 or even 10B
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by Kadin 7y ago
There's some pretty questionable stuff going on in that article. First, it's highly specific to Australia, where the impact of Eurasian cereal farming is profoundly negative, because they're nothing like the native grasses.
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by Kadin 7y ago
It's not that straightforward; there was concrete on top of the soil, it had functioned as designed for many years. There are problems with infrastructure maintenance at a national level, and lots of deferred maintenance/upgrades.
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by Kadin 8y ago
Not exactly meaningfully harder for a computer to do one than the other. Probably the thing to do is work backwards from the resources that are available to investigate them. Then just skim off that many outliers. Do it until it's no
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by Kadin 8y ago
The Army wasn't a fan of replacing the A-10 with the F-35 because they're totally different aircraft and it made no damn sense at all.
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by Kadin 8y ago
Sorta makes sense -- it was subject to a lot of bad publicity for a long time, because all anybody knew of it was that it cost a lot, and didn't work well. That's kinda true of any product when it's in its final stage of dev
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by Kadin 8y ago
It's not a question of whether you have a Chinese spouse; that's not correct, and that would be racist. It's a question of whether or not you or your spouse have ongoing relationships with Chinese nationals and could, as a re
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by Kadin 8y ago
Replying to myself because I got an email from a user with a match: http://igra23.ru/katalog/karuseli-kacheli-balansiry/kacheli-... It has the swept-bend tubular corner reinforcements, the polyethylene (or some ot
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by Kadin 8y ago
That's obvious: it's cheap. I've participated in office buildouts and seen architectural sketches of cubes vs. "open plan" tables. You can put a lot more people into the same area when you are just giving everyone
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by Kadin 8y ago
Honestly I think this has more to do with the profit margins in the defense industry, not because of any IA/OPSEC concerns. Though I have noticed a very unwelcome trend where some newer defense companies are building open-plan offices
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by Kadin 8y ago
Who cares what articles say, if a company can still recruit employees? When good candidates start turning down positions because of the office layout, that might create some pressure to change, though. But I think one of the problems is tha
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by Kadin 8y ago
> I really don't understand why there is such an aversion to doing an open-ish office, segmenting groups of desks into smaller closed off (floor to ceiling frosted glass) areas Because that costs money, and open offices are a cost-s
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by Kadin 8y ago
IMO the optimal arrangement for technical teams is small groups of people in shared offices, say ~4 per office. What I've noticed is that a handful of people together in a space will typically work out issues like music vs. no music, l
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by Kadin 8y ago
I worked in an office that transitioned to hoteling. It was the last in a series of increasingly-escalating "fuck yous" from the company's ownership to employees. TBH they would have been better off just cutting 20% of their
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by Kadin 8y ago
Looking at the swingset photo ( https://www.europol.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/eur... ) That's an interesting design of swingset; not one I've seen before. Unlike the bog-standard swing
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by Kadin 8y ago
I thought that container looked very familiar. My first guess was going to be Jergens, but I can't find an exact match on Google Images. Nivea might be it; again I can't find a dead-ringer but it's close to some of their pa
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by Kadin 8y ago
I think they are releasing a few at a time to try and get the most eyeballs concentrated on the images. I don't know if that's the most effective strategy, but maybe there are other reasons why they can't just dump them all a
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by Kadin 8y ago
It's certainly possible, but with a lot less steel and concrete you could just build walls and have, you know, apartments. My guess is it's easier to find investors for that, too. The only reason I can imagine a multi-storey RV p
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by Kadin 8y ago
Germany also has many fewer freight trains than the US. Their rail network is optimized for passenger use, and it works well. The US rail network is optimized for freight hauling (and it's largely owned by freight railroads and mainta
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by Kadin 8y ago
Nearly all the privatized rail systems share the characteristic that the government (in some fashion) still owns the underlying trackage/right-of-way. This is not a bad model: the public retains the land and tracks, and provides them f
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by Kadin 8y ago
There's no reason to think that what makes train service in Japan better than in America is related to it being privatized. I have total faith that we could privatize Amtrak and have it be just as execrable in comparison. And then it
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by Kadin 8y ago
> It can be frustrating to experience long delays if you have a tight schedule Very true. Although I've had some awful delays on airlines as well, and given the choice between being stuck on a passenger train and in a plane, I&#x27
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by Kadin 8y ago
In case anyone is interested in Mail and Express: http://utahrails.net/pass/amtrak-mail-express.htm It stopped in 2004, presumably due to declines in mail volume. (Which I wonder if it would make sense again now, due t

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