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by altacc 6y ago
That seems like a false equivalence as perhaps the requirement to add a SSN for children was precisely because there was evidence of the fraud. In US elections there are fraud monitoring systems in place and there's a lot more anti-fra
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by altacc 6y ago
Many very wealthy people already donate to charity as a form of tax avoidance, by showing that they are benefitting others therefore they should be allowed to dodge tax. The main problems with the argument that if wealthy people didn't
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by altacc 6y ago
Whilst you'll find that in Norway many people have all the best available equipment, many also don't and are just out and about in what they have. On the metro to the forest you'll find skiers with amazingly expensive skis &a
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by altacc 6y ago
It seems so. They played a major role in pioneering the technology but couldn't see or leverage it's potential. The reaction inside Kodak was to try to suppress and ignore the technology and hope it would go away and not affect th
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by altacc 6y ago
Also known as sustaining innovation vs disruptive innovation. When you’re embedded in a technology or business it’s harder to come up with something totally new, your perspective is often limited by your situation (everything is a nail when
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by altacc 6y ago
Sounds good. My question would be where can I get hold of this water?
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by altacc 6y ago
This seems a simple and exaggerated view of social activity drivers, but I think the answer to the question of what would happen if men stopped constantly hitting on women, would be that women would get some peace & quiet for a change a
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by altacc 6y ago
It may not have been the customisation, more the processes of pre-fab in general and what the production process is. I didn't build my house but it's a recent pre-fab build, straight from the catalogue (a Swedish company). The amo
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by altacc 6y ago
One-upping Obama seems to be a primary motivation for Trump, but it’s not how awards work. Just because Obama got the peace prize when he shouldn’t have doesn’t mean Trump should also get it when he shouldn’t have. Two wrongs not making a r
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by altacc 6y ago
We’re talking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict here. There is sustained and ongoing armed conflict between two or more groups. So yes, to win the peace prize for solving the Israeli-Palestine situation you have to have actually stop t
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by altacc 6y ago
There have been many different attempts to solve the Israel/Palestine conflict and its many associated issues. Every US president has a go and having yet another attempt doesn’t win anyone awards until real results & a resolution b
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by altacc 6y ago
Out of curiosity, please list these recent peace deals. If the UAE/Baharin normalization with Israel is on that list, them remove it. Getting two countries, who are not in conflict, to acknowledge each other and begin a formal relation
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by altacc 6y ago
> Waymo has burned money for 10+ years I don't think you can disparage Waymo and cheerlead Tesla on the basis that you think Waymo a money fire whilst ignoring that Tesla is massively in debt and has yet to post a positive annual ne
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by altacc 6y ago
Some residential parking lots have these but they're not ubiquitous. They're often old or broken and not many people use them (modern cars are better engineered for winter starts). However the wiring for these cannot handle what a
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by altacc 6y ago
Norway's sovereign fund doesn't invest in companies which only carry out exploration & production, and invests in fossil fuel companies only if they also fund renewable research (although that may be token efforts for some). I
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by altacc 6y ago
I find people often use Excel (or Access if they're brave) when they have a known problem and can visualise the solution in something they know, like Excel. The crucial factor is implementation time. They can open an Excel and start wo
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by altacc 6y ago
We have multiple legacy systems where I work, communicating via batch csv files, some of which are authored & curated by staff in Excel. I can confirm that doing this would be a very bad thing indeed and make our systems grind to a halt
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by altacc 6y ago
Introducing standards across many companies is incredibly difficult but your main problem is that a lot of healthcare IT systems are very old and not actively maintained, they're essentially on life support. So changing the format of a
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by altacc 6y ago
> Perhaps I'm way off though, since my perception is probably skewed by tech companies. Where you're standing makes a massive difference to your perception. Using your back of the envelope calculations, 200k or even quite a bit
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by altacc 6y ago
Definitely. One interesting aspect of multi-national interactions is the differences in high & low context cultures. There are some nationalities where I know I won't ever get a straight answer, so have to do a lot of inference. Fo
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by altacc 6y ago
This is one of the effects I most fear from the pandemic induced recession. Large and delivery based companies will have the capacity to survive, whilst smaller companies don't. I see small companies & stores as proving some of the
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by altacc 6y ago
See also World Englishes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Englishes English is my first language but I definitely speak different versions based on who I'm speaking to. I live in Scandinavia but work for a mul
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by altacc 6y ago
Depending upon if you're counting daily or regular usage, it looks like somewhere between 50+% (daily) and 75+% (occasional usage) of boomers are on facebook. The number for YouTube are a bit lower but not by much. For comparison, Tikt
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by altacc 6y ago
> TikTok is the generation that is most malleable to propaganda in a way that can undermine an entire generation. You don't have to look far to know this hypothesis won't stand up to any scrutiny. Not only are TikTok users typi
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by altacc 6y ago
The people you’re dealing with and owning these places are not necessarily poor. There are many poor people in Thailand but many very, very wealthy people and you might not be able to recognise which is which. The wealth divide is very big.
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by altacc 6y ago
> It can get pretty frustrating communicating with someone who doesn't understand. They understand, they’re just aiming to maximise monetary gain. There’s so many scams to avoid that it’s actually hard work to travel there. The cul
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by altacc 6y ago
There are degrees but the average consumer is blind to many differences which are only obvious if you're looking for them, or an expert. Debadge one of the many homogeneously designed cars and an average consumer wouldn't have any
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by altacc 6y ago
True, I see your point. It seems that anything is open for weaponisation these days and previous frameworks for making assumptions have been shown to be invalid.
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by altacc 6y ago
This is how a lot of "design" works, be it product design, fashion or software. A standard is set by a market leader and consumers want as close to that as they can get. So other companies offer similar versions, often sharing som
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by altacc 6y ago
I'd be more tempted to apply Hanlon's razor: Don't attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.

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