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by avalys 4y ago
I have heard of companies reacting to a chargeback in situations like this by banning your account.
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by avalys 4y ago
There's a fine line between "revolutionary ideas", exaggerated claims, and bullshit.
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by avalys 4y ago
This is not a "breakthrough", it's an announcement that they turned their machine on for the first time and took the first measurements, and measured a signal (i.e. reaction rate) so small that they have to go through some le
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by avalys 4y ago
What product innovation has Google produced in the last 5 years? Microsoft?
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by avalys 4y ago
This is so stupid. His email address was at the bottom of every Dilbert strip. Was AIM doing email verification in 1999? The obvious answer is some trolls signed up for those accounts with his address.
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by avalys 4y ago
This hasn’t happened since Apple ditched x86 processors.
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by avalys 4y ago
> To roll with your 1950s analogy, it feels a lot more like the office secretaries being told that instead of shredding inter-office memos, they have to hold on to them. There are still interoffice memos in a modern office - they're
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by avalys 4y ago
The point is that we use written communication a lot more in a modern (especially remote) office than we did in 1950, and for a much broader range of purposes and interactions than when the regulations requiring records retention were writt
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by avalys 4y ago
This is regulatory and legal overreach. Yes, there are laws about preserving evidence and records. However, these laws haven't been updated to reflect how office communication has changed over the years. No one would propose, circa 195
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by avalys 4y ago
In discussions like this, it's worth reviewing where total government spending in the US actually goes. This is actually not the easiest thing to pin down, but the best analysis I've seen is at https://www.usgovernments
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by avalys 4y ago
I worked in this field, or very close to it, for a few years. The issue is that demonstrations are relatively easy, but validation and achieving acceptable performance over the entire range of the human population and entire range of operat
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by avalys 4y ago
That engine is totaled.
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by avalys 4y ago
I am a reasonably successful person by any measure. I honestly credit Bill Watterson for a huge part of my brain development while growing up. It sounds a little silly but I would not be the person I am today without Calvin and Hobbes.
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by avalys 4y ago
Why is it shameful?
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by avalys 4y ago
Yes, the rich consume more resources and emit more carbon, what else is new? As a fraction of total worldwide emissions, private jets are irrelevant. The environmental movement wants everyone to be poor. Live in a small house, don't us
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by avalys 4y ago
Oh, in fact, I have heard of it, and all the coverage I've heard is people grimly telling me about how horrible it is and how no one is covering how terribly horrible it is. What I haven't seen is any actual reporting . You know,
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by avalys 4y ago
The response is certainly novel. The F-22 had zero recorded air-to-air kills a week ago, and as of today has three. Whether these intrusions by unknown objects were commonplace and previously had been ignored, is something I've wondere
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by avalys 4y ago
Yes, and that's why we should oppose more tax increases and more government spending, and focus instead on how to make government more efficient and get more value for the money we do spend.
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by avalys 4y ago
> Welcome to America, we're broke because we spent all our money on guns rather than infrastructure, healthcare and education. This sentiment is completely untrue. Defense is approximately 12% of US government spending, healthcare a
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by avalys 4y ago
A car can be impressive in ways other than materials and fit-and-finish. I agree this is an area of weakness for Tesla.
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by avalys 4y ago
I was a Tesla skeptic for years, then I rented a Model 3 on Turo about a year after it was first released, and was hugely impressed. It really is a fantastic car by any standard: quiet, smooth, powerful, precise steering and good handling,
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by avalys 4y ago
You know, you don’t have to watch any of this stuff.
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by avalys 4y ago
This happens all the time and is quickly dealt with.
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by avalys 4y ago
In this context, "my personal information" really means "Your records of my interactions with your company", right?
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by avalys 4y ago
That's great. Cars have been including integrated magnetic chargers for a few years now, and they're almost universally useless because it's impossible to get your phone properly aligned with them, and after a few bumps in th
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by avalys 4y ago
These conversations are kind of like the airplane on the treadmill problem, where there are (approximately) two orthogonal sets of assumptions/preferences that lead to obvious but incompatible conclusions, and people end up yelling at
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by avalys 4y ago
As the article says, Wunderlich reached a conclusion of 37C in the 1800s, and that’s what we’ve used since then. The real problem appears to be that converting to Fahrenheit and reporting this as “98.6F” suggests an order of magnitude more
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by avalys 4y ago
It's not really a software "crash", it's more like, they know their process can't handle more than a certain amount of disruption before falling apart. And so if you can see that due to weather, etc. a lot of disrup
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by avalys 4y ago
Astonishing. Based on reports from employees on Reddit ( https://www.reddit.com/r/SouthwestAirlines/comments/zw32yt/p... ), the actual story here is that Southwest has had a complete operational failure an
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by avalys 4y ago
I don’t tolerate it - I don’t give them any money.

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