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by analog31 5mo ago
The paradox that strikes me is that "hiring is broken" yet these companies are beyond successful. So there's still yet another layer of something in between observing that employees are capable / incapable, and the compa
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by analog31 5mo ago
If it's any consolation, this is also a mystery to non developers like me. And developers likewise wonder why a business needs so many managers and what they do all day.
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by analog31 5mo ago
It seems to me that cranking up the heat on developers would not be the only way to harness this increase in productivity, if it's real. For instance just let projects finish on time, or on a predictable timeline. End the "softwar
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by analog31 5mo ago
I keep reading about "inflammation" and think about things like swollen joints, bruises, etc. It must mean something else. What would I notice in my body if the oils that I consume are causing severe inflammation?
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by analog31 5mo ago
I work in an area that involves, among many other things, analysis of cooking oil in factories. It might be hard to pin down the terminology of "reused" frying oil, because many of the frying processes are continuous. The raw mate
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by analog31 5mo ago
Living in the US Midwest, there are lots of towns that are laid out on north-south grids, including portions of mine. As a cyclist, I take note of the days when the sun is coming up over east-west streets, because the car drivers can barely
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by analog31 5mo ago
I can imagine a time in the near future when the conversion of integers to decimal strings becomes a limit to the rate at which AI can generate text that's not worth reading.
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by analog31 5mo ago
It's referred to as the Grothendieck Prime for this reason.
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by analog31 5mo ago
I'm not an engineer, but I learned that the full size Edison incandescent bulbs can't get hot enough to burn anything. And if anything breaches the bulb, the filament opens up instantly. Kind of an old fashioned failsafe design. T
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It's also pretty widespread in the US business world. I rarely see a manager's office where they're not facing the door. I've made it my practice throughout my own career, even when it meant improvising the fixtures in d
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by analog31 5mo ago
God bless gluten. ;-)
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Market cap and valuation are the same thing.
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by analog31 5mo ago
If someone sells the stock, someone else buys it. The value is still the net present value of future earnings. This is a redistribution of wealth, not a decimation. The wealthy can still earn more if they want to.
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by analog31 5mo ago
Yeah, I appreciate the sentiment. Being a liberal, perhaps I was assuming that competent governance was possible. At the same time, the opposite tack, "starve the beast" was a failure.
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by analog31 5mo ago
All of the people I mention wealth tax to give me the same two counter cases: Grandma and Elon. I think there's no reason why a wealth tax can't be progressive. Just making up numbers here, it could be zero for your first 30 milli
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by analog31 5mo ago
Interestingly, my state (Wisconsin) has a two step process for constitutional amendments. An amendment has to pass a referendum in two consecutive legislative sessions. It still doesn't prevent us from doing stupid things, but it seems
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by analog31 5mo ago
Indeed, I had forgotten about England. I'll have to think about it, because it was absent from my long list of priors. Here in the US, it's generally assumed that the countries "across the pond" are less religious. The U
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by analog31 5mo ago
I'm not blaming the kids. They are a reflection of society as a whole. It's just a statement of how a significant portion of society have changed their views of tech billionaires over the span of just a few years.
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by analog31 5mo ago
The same people who are being boo'd for being AI tycoons would have been cheered by the same students 4 years ago for just being tycoons. I hope everybody reflects on the fact that it's the same people.
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Who thought it was a good idea to invite a billionaire?
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Yes. ;-) Granted there are only so many countries, so it would be hard to see a clear statistical picture. And it's complicated by the fact that religion may be secondary to democracy as a predictor of well-being. But I don't know
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by analog31 5mo ago
This is indeed the paradox. I call it a paradox because it seems like religions value those things on paper but religious societies counteract them. I'm as puzzled as anybody as to the root cause. The development of democracy may h
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by analog31 5mo ago
>>> It's the human value that welcomed slaves, prostitutes, wretches, merchants and kings as peers in something grander than economy or state or lineage or tribe or creed. This sounds a lot like an appeal to democracy, yet it
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by analog31 5mo ago
You can ban possession of the data if you attach statutory damages per infraction.
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Something that I muse about is that this bubble may indeed be a thin shell. My rationale is that already the bulk of our communications are confined to waveguides -- optical fibers. Our wireless comms continue to be engineered to produce le
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by analog31 5mo ago
I'm reminded of the classification of military officers by Karl Von Hammerstein-Equord. The people described in this article seem to fall into the "stupid and industrious" catagory, which are classified as the most dangerous.
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There are some applications, such as IR optics, where natural diamonds aren't pure enough.
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We have a saying in the US, "a pint's a pound, the world around." As the other post mentions, not everything has the same density, but a lot of stuff is pretty close to water. The ironic thing is that an Imperial pint of wate
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Keypunch operators learned to type with just their index fingers. I saw this with some older operators of the airline ticketing system at the airport years ago.
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Threaded holes and rivnuts. Now a rivnut is a part, but the fabricator keeps it in stock instead of us. More shaped stampings and castings so that spacers aren't needed. Reducing parts also reduces handling of parts. Probably CAD makes

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