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by Stranger43 2y ago
I wonder why US companies keep pulling stunts like this despite the data showing little negative impact of unionization to overall productivity nor company survival. It looks to be a purely dogmatic ego trip where somehow blind loyalty is d
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by Stranger43 2y ago
There is in general a lack of understanding that bad cycling infrastructure can be significantly worse then no cycling infrastructure as it often create more dangers, here the better solution would be to design for lower speeds and shared r
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by Stranger43 2y ago
It should and the if it don't this is going to lead to "House Select Committee on Assassinations" levels of distrust with the entire sector. Its still possible that this is a freak occurrence but any agency claiming that as a
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by Stranger43 2y ago
The likely scenario is that the local electrical utilities supplying/servicing the chargers will take over the operation in the shadows until they develop their own brands and change the signage and payment terminals. The Immediate eff
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by Stranger43 2y ago
It's the rational consequences of Tesla failing to turn it's charger network into an network effect creating an monopoly for Tesla. Essentially the ploy was for Tesla to use the charging network as a loss leader to make Tesla the
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by Stranger43 2y ago
The problem with the later generation raspberry pi's is that almost everything that made the early generations special have been eroded, to the point where almost every project where the GPIO is required is better served by an mk 2 the
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by Stranger43 2y ago
Lost of labor hours are the real answer. Basically what would happen was that someone would write it down on a paper form, mail that form off to the typing pool at the corporate headquarter where some clerk would then type it into the centr
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by Stranger43 2y ago
Tesla failed at the monopoly grab that most VC funded tech companies depend on for their "valuation" and super-normal profits. Cars have no network effect as the roads are open standard accessible to any vendor and Tesla never had
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by Stranger43 2y ago
Do we have actual data for this other then the usually wrong common sense derived from our cultural values? Most drugs are relatively harmless if taken rarely and in relatively low doses, the problem is that a lot of users don't and th
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by Stranger43 3y ago
and yet thats only ever brought up when defending windows despite the fact that MS is cauing this kind o issues every 3-5 years. So how is it that people can go from XP->vista->10->11 and not break the bank on retraining or from wi
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by Stranger43 3y ago
For AWS we rely almost entirely on backup/restore and database level log shipping on prem this is is in some cases argumented by storage level(netapp and previously hpe 3par) replication but this is going away for cost reasons. Given t
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by Stranger43 3y ago
As someone who split his time 50/50 between AWS and vmware based instances, i cant really think of anything we run in AWS that is not eventually supposed to go back on prem when we have stabilized the specification and lifecycle expect
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by Stranger43 3y ago
Normal no but it's in the 2-3% range so not completely unthinkable and usually supported well enough by the core organisations that an company must interact with to be entirely feasible.
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by Stranger43 3y ago
If the alternative is not getting the security certifications required to operate legally in the sectors they depend on for revenue what alternative does an organization really have to seeking/implementation solutions in sync with the
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by Stranger43 3y ago
The drive here is to reduce dependencies to locations the state itself have jurisdiction over i.e. things that can be controlled. It's essentially to avoid having the states data taken hostage when the slowly brewing conflict between A
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by Stranger43 3y ago
Probably lower then people think once the applications are identical across the two platform. and if Linux turns too complex there is always macos. The big push is going to be getting rid of old excel and word macro's and replace share
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by Stranger43 3y ago
The germans have been tinkering with policies mandating non-cloud dependent products for a while wondering if this is a start of it actually getting implemented on a large scale or if the delay attempts will remain successful elsewhere acro
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by Stranger43 3y ago
The blockchain might not be the best solution for most of those problems especially those that cannot be solved by traditional pgp/gpg signatures and certificates, and for those where traditional signatures work the blockchain add most
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by Stranger43 3y ago
Correction it's a disaster of at least 4 languages and this is probably why English is so hard to dethrone as it have no strict ownership so everyone is kind of equal in speaking it incorrectly. Sometimes lack of rigidity is actually a
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by Stranger43 3y ago
At this point i suspect excel is as dangerous as powerpoint to the quest for sharing and improving human knowledge, in that it gives the illusion of allowing people to analyze data but not the tools to make sure they get their data and mode
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by Stranger43 3y ago
I don't think it's that people fear that AI will make everyone live in luxury while the machines do all of the hard work, it's that people realize that LLM's and ML models have enough limitation and caveats to be of limi
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by Stranger43 3y ago
McDonald's don't your bank does know you authorized an transaction using pin/card/app. The payment terminal is essentially not actually talking directly to the POS except to tell it that transaction id "xyz"(wh
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by Stranger43 3y ago
It's stored by your bank but your credit card or account id is never transferred to the retailer by the payment processors instead what happens is that McDonalds get an unique transaction ID that only your card provider knows was gene
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by Stranger43 3y ago
unless you realize how much logistics happens to keep ingredients arriving on an Just in time basis and keep track of every little QA data-points so crucial to the fast food chain employee experience. Cutting that $1,- off the average meal
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by Stranger43 3y ago
So this is essentially on the FCC for approving an quality assurance scheme that leaves them with no clue to figure out if this event would have been prevented if Boeing had followed it's own processes. The problem for this investigati
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by Stranger43 3y ago
We all know that the Boeing mess will end up with everyone involved in creating the mess walking away richer as the state goes in an cover whatever bill to keep boeing from collapsing as the alternative will be for non-american companies to
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by Stranger43 3y ago
But doesn't that either disprove capitalism as an realistic working system or make an argument that the state have an obligation to protect the market by destroying large corporations before they become dominant. A lot of the tradition
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by Stranger43 3y ago
It's probably worth remembering that there is a tremendous amount of political pressure on the coroner and prosecutors dealing with this to not leave behind an unsolved murder finding that could sully the reputation of the entire syste
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by Stranger43 3y ago
The revolving door problem is mostly people coming back from a stint at a regulator to private employment at an salary that sometimes affect how beneficial their stint as a regulator was to the company hiring them post public service. If th
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by Stranger43 3y ago
It's of cause worth noting in comparing cars to bicycles that cars are the number one cause of bicyclist and pedestrian fatalities, so fewer cars will lead to fever cyclist dying. Railways and busses are a lot closer to airplanes in st

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