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by _djo_ 4y ago
True, so that's one benefit, but it's also one shared by any other service member including those in positions with far less responsibility and difficulty. Keeping a ship fed while at sea for months is a hard task.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Being a sole chef on board a Coast Guard ship is a much more challenging job than being a line cook at a fast food restaurant, as it includes all the aspects of planning and logistics that would normally be management's duties at the f
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by _djo_ 4y ago
The messages shared as part of the trial don't show a particularly rigorous or deep level of thought regarding what to do with Twitter once he acquired it. One would hope that still took place, but the haphazard approach so far doesn&#
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by _djo_ 4y ago
It's remarkable how quickly so many of those defending Musk are emphasising the 'lords' and 'peasants' language after he used that terminology in a tweet. It's not original, it's not adding to the discussi
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Agreed. Though it does seem that Elon's family were quite well socially connected and that at least some of his early success in raising funds comes from that. For instance, his connection to Roelof Botha, who in turn leveraged the con
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Currently? Protection against impersonation is the key benefit for most who have it. By most accounts the additional tools they provide in terms of filtering aren't that valuable. In Musk's proposal basically a slightly better Twi
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by _djo_ 4y ago
That'll immediately remove a lot of useful contributors, including journalists in developing countries, people working on interesting things in niche areas, and so many others. Every network analysis of Twitter shows that the majority
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Indeed. This discussion has been far too American-centric and not considered the impact this would have on Twitter users elsewhere in the world. Especially journalists in developing countries and war zones, who have been able to use Twitter
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Nope. That may be true for a thin slice of Twitter's most active and popular users, but not at all for the long tail of people posting in niche interest areas that keep people engaged. The scientists, engineers, artists, philosophers,
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by _djo_ 4y ago
To be fair, it was specifically introduced because of how impersonation of well known people was becoming a problem. Twitter was sued by Tony La Russa because of an impersonation and had a bunch of celebrities complaining about it. [0] That
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by _djo_ 4y ago
> Sorry, but knowing the way many countries count unemployment, that doesn't mean shit. In my country, you're only part of the unemployment statistics if you receive unemployment benefits and only that. There are standardised w
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Tesla’s AI expertise is narrow and has no applicability to Twitter’s situation. In reality, the world leader in the application of machine learning and other AI tools to social media content right now is Twitter. They’re also probably the b
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Possibly, but I didn’t see anything in the parent post that suggests that’s the intended takeaway. In any case it also implies expanding trade, in order to have the drawdown of trade as a credible tool. However, sanctions, extra tariffs, an
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by _djo_ 4y ago
I think it’s clear that influence through trade, or what the Germans called Wandel durch Handel, is an abject failure and doesn’t work. Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia have only grown more extreme in the past twenty years despite ever tight
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Ah, got it. Yup, the Dutch office is the original one, there are a bunch of others around the world. As far as I can tell though each different country office operates largely independently, almost as a franchise. So it might still be that
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by _djo_ 4y ago
No it’s not, why would you claim it was? The domain TLD is South African (.co.za), the phone number listed is in Cape Town, and it’s a South African registered company. > Voys Telecom SA (Pty) Ltd A company with limited liability duly in
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by _djo_ 4y ago
But how can you seriously compare a statement like 'capitalism is the problem', which is an opinion about how society chooses to organise itself, to bigotry and prejudice against what people were born as, including anti-semitism?
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by _djo_ 4y ago
You already require confirmed identity to receive a Twitter blue checkmark. So that wouldn't be a new change.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Doesn’t have to have been one specific red line. Something else that’s being lost is that China has long had similar export restrictions on high technology items of strategic importance, including many items in biotech, AI, materials scienc
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by _djo_ 4y ago
I didn’t go into all the ramifications, consequences, and threats to the global order that results from China’s change in direction under Xi, I only showed how Xi’s premiership has been a distinct change in direction for China than his rece
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by _djo_ 4y ago
The answer to that is Xi Jinping, and the way he has not only adopted a level of personal power not seen by any Chinese leader since Mao but has shifted China's domestic and foreign policy in a much more authoritarian direction. This h
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by _djo_ 4y ago
That's not unexpected after a while, as the telco switches prioritisation and bandwidth from 4G cells to 5G cells, as happened with 3G to 4G. But it's too early for it to be happening at a noticeable level and might mean your prov
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How Academic and Nonprofit Researchers Shield Tech Companies from Accountability(waxy.org)
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by _djo_ 4y ago
When you have an interest in creating distrust in using science for policy, anything goes. One of the key anti-lockdown advocacy groups, PANDA, started out fairly sane-sounding and was packed full of hedge fund and other finance people. But
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Ultimately, yes. It’s impossible to keep this sort of thing up indefinitely, and over the decades the evidence became overwhelming enough that it was impossible to ignore. Researchers who were co-opted were shunned, losing career opportunit
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by _djo_ 4y ago
My apologies, you mentioned the explosives being 'redirected', when I guess what you meant was that the explosive circuitry would be redirected. Even so, those checks aren't sufficient to handle counterfeit parts that might o
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by _djo_ 4y ago
DHS didn't start from nothing, it was formed from a bunch of other departments and agencies. Like the Pentagon, there was partial auditing in place in that various levels and entities had internal and external audits, but nothing on th
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by _djo_ 4y ago
To maximise survivability the seat needs to be able to orient itself optimally, then you need a number of sensors reading air speed, temperature, air pressure, and acceleration to determine when the best time for each sequence step is. For
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Military systems do usually have extensive self-test functionality in place, but when it comes to things like ejection seats and canopy detonation circuits that absolutely must fire reliably the more logic you have in between the higher the
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by _djo_ 4y ago
That would be extremely expensive in terms of the rocket and cartridge usage and would subject the seat to a huge amount of stress, substantially reducing its lifespan. Even then, you can't be sure that the issue wouldn't only sho

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