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by babesh 6y ago
The colonists were ALL for maximizing economic power (pursuit of estate). They were ALL for limiting political power against economic power. So this notion that colonists were against economic power is just wrong. Others may have held the n
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by babesh 6y ago
Because it wasn’t concentration of power they were concerned with. They were only concerned with concentration of power against them (political power against their right to profit). It was a selfish play not a principled one. For example, s
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by babesh 6y ago
There is no FAA requirement to maintain the old certificate. Boeing and it’s customers wanted to do that for cost savings. It is supposedly costly in time and money to acquire a new rating but it has been done obviously. The airlines wanted
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by babesh 6y ago
Nah. The founding fathers were the richest colonists and George Washington was the richest of them all. It was some rich people opposing richer people overseas that they were descended from. They didn’t want concentration of political power
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by babesh 6y ago
More concisely, if you won’t do it, then you will be replaced by someone who will.
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I have heard someone spouting that but it was all baloney since that person supported actions just as bad.
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by babesh 6y ago
I have an example. We built a feature that would be good for users. However we found out that it would result in lost revenue. The decision of whether to keep the feature got bounced up management. Eventually we were told to can the feature
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by babesh 6y ago
That is foolish. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. It is too early to put trust in Triplebyte. The classic Silicon Valley playbook is to do something that crosses a boundary, get pushback, apologize, and later try agai
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by babesh 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncovirus "The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer estimated that in 2002, infection caused 17.8% of human cancers"
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by babesh 6y ago
I think you are mostly right but reality, as usual, is much more complicated than that. HPVs give you cancer. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_papillomavirus_infection Also there are other viruses that also caus
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by babesh 6y ago
My read of it was that there was a Jomon culture that was superseded by the Yamato culture. The Yamato culture was mostly from people coming from what is now Korea but there probably was admixture with the people already there. But this peo
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by babesh 6y ago
You can absolutely catch cancer. Just work in a toxic environment or have a spouse that smokes a couple of packs a day. It just takes a lot longer.
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by babesh 6y ago
The lockdown order wasn’t her doing. It was supposed to have been orchestrated by Santa Clara county’s health director , Sara Cody. Also, SF has no power over the other counties. It was a joint health order. It’s remarkable the amount of ju
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by babesh 6y ago
They made PC makers pay a license fee per computer even if the computer didn’t ship with Windows. They coined the term embrace, extend, extinguish. See the history of Internet Explorer.
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by babesh 6y ago
More background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_period It’s supposedly more complicated since Yamato people are partly descended from Jomon who are s
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by babesh 6y ago
This feels like 1994 all over again. In 1994 you had one dominant software monopoly in Microsoft. Today you have several: Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook with dominance in individual spheres of influence. Power corrupts. Absolute power c
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by babesh 6y ago
It’s all about the $$$$$$. Privacy be damned.
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The Information had a good article on the engineering layoffs (at least the previous round). The CEO decided to cut people to shift development to lower cost countries even when some managers were willing to cut their own salaries to save
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by babesh 6y ago
Yes.
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The way a former boss explained it to me is that bosses need to form pyramids to support their own ascension. It is just subtribes within the big tribe fighting for power and dominance. Those networks that you form to support your own rise
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Also the one that probably more people know about: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel Mendel’s work was not appreciated for 30 years. Ignoring ignored works is following the herd.
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It might make more sense to get a Powerwall if it becomes cheap enough. The batteries that go into a Tesla car are the same batteries that go into a Powerwall. This implies that improvements in battery cost posited by the article will most
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by babesh 6y ago
A common practice is to perform market research by expressing interest in acquiring competitors and then having them provide technical information to show acquisition worthiness. It’s all supposedly under NDA but the reality is that the big
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by babesh 6y ago
Marin County is one of the six counties in the group that form the lockdown group. If you don’t know that then you really have problems. Based on your criteria San Joaquin is a better candidate to be in the group than Marin County. Good bye
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by babesh 6y ago
There are a few top students at a random state school that are just as good. The difference is that there are just many, many more good students in an Ivy League institution. Also, the Ivy League students just have a much better education.
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by babesh 6y ago
The solution IMHO is to perform your own test. It is hard to scale unless you have some superior filter or are a magnet of some sort (back channel references or your company is really hot).
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by babesh 6y ago
I think part of the discomfort is that there is no exam that software engineers have to pass (other than a few states) unlike real engineering professions. I suspect and I suspect many others suspect that a large percentage would not actual
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The soft discrimination actually happened much earlier than that. I think it was happening in the 20s and 30s already.
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I stand by the statement. You again pick and choose parts of statements. https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/take+things+out+of+cont... Do you really think there is less movement of people between San Joaquin County and th
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by babesh 6y ago
It invalidates your point. The whole area is deeply interconnected. You try to nitpick half a sentence and take it out of context. You know nothing.

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