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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Delegating more of their less-challenging tasks to junior developers. (But wrapped in appropriate buzzwords & boss-speak.)
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
There's a little perl script on the CEO's front end, which alerts HR and Security.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Does this remind anyone else of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars ?
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
I see ample coverage of the "obsessively clicking refresh" aspects. But zero coverage of the "who's buying that fitness tracker data?" issues.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Yes. Unfortunately, the Minneapolis Fed would get a whole lotta push-back if they suggested any such metric. That risk bearing & interest-rent is a near-perfect way for the 0.01% to milk the "could afford a house" demographi
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> His point appears... No, Levit said that in 1948, when Americans were vastly better-connected (socially) than today, "Godless Communism" was their #1 fear, and everybody was aware of communism's easy appeal to those who
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
No mention of vacation homes, homeless people, or some other situations - but their new metric appears to treat those properly. (Yes, I saw the reference to dorms, nursing homes, & prisons.)
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> But any underwater kite faces the same fundamental challenge, says Chris Vermillion, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Michigan. “It must be continuously flying. That periodic motion requires substantial control.”
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
I'd assume that site selection managers understand how recommending "only useful for training" locations might impact their careers.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Ask an old English teacher whether "poetry" implies anything favorable about quality.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
The article is from last Thursday, it's now Sunday, and last I heard - https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-announces-new-starship-13-t... - SpaceX announced last Friday that they'll retry tomorrow. Feels like an &quo
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> I'd do my best impression of a dog for you... A better comparison - you're a member of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actors%27_Equity_Association , the part which you auditioned for says "dog&quo
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Meh. The Gestapo reference is needlessly inflammatory, and not particularly germane. Few of the comments are useful or enlightening. Google is handling the situation poorly, but "Google Handling X Poorly" ain't news on HN.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Daydream: Sites display 5.0 star ratings for everything in Germany - doesn't matter if it a junk yard, morgue, or sewage treatment plant. With no further details at all, except "Due to current German law, our attorneys have inst
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
But not short-term gratification for the too-competitive parents of the imagined-potential-elite kids. (No comparison intended to quarterly-results-obsessed American business exec's:)
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
I could agree with his title, but not with any of his chosen cows.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
The traditional conflict between enjoying short-term gratification and reaching long-term goals.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
I've worked in some rather dense undergrowth and forest debris, but not done this particular sort of forest works. Still... > Shovel and/or rake. ...multiplied by how many man-hours it takes per tree, by how many such trees pe
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
To completing the too-long Title - Subtitle: > ... build a missile shield with Europe—and without America. It sounds like he's still really shady. But so long as Ukraine is in a tight spot, and Denys Shtilerman's missiles are
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Ukraine's Dr. Strangelove – a rocket designer with dubious past sets out to(theatlantic.com)
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
The ability may take time to develop. If you have a couple under-5 children handy, who'd love the ritual of having the same ultra-simplistic and repetitive books read to them every night, night after night after night, when your hea
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> even if a vendor is doing the right thing today, ... they could fail to realize that they were hacked last year. Sadly, the same issues apply to the copies of your private health data in your doctor's computer, your insurance comp
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> In several opinion polls, Ardern's domestic popularity had reached all-time lows by 19 January 2023...[when] Ardern announced she would resign as Labour leader and prime minister by 7 February. -Wikipedia Other political leaders
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Only one (of the six reviewed) that I'd call acceptable - > Euki is the only app Mozilla recommends without reservations. "Euki is special," Wodinsky* says. > Unlike the other apps on this list, Mozilla says Euki keeps
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
I'm thinking that very few folks, these days, have the mindset & skill set & finances & timeframe to build their own houses. And it wouldn't be just the currently-active NIMBY's who fought tooth and nail against a
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Not an expert - but the legal/diplomatic/regulatory "attacks" would be slow and uncertain, and the US would obviously push back hard. Jamming is localized by definition. Direct physical destruction obviously invites co
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Seems like you could put the same area of solar cells on short poles along suitable bits of RR right-of-way, slanted at the optimal angle for the sun, and get considerably more watts. At a much lower cost. Those between-the-rails cells hav
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> need to refund in full the purchase cost. In practical terms, the logistics of many-years-later refunds would be unwieldy at best. Do the purchase records still exist? What if I no longer have that credit card or email address? How
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
On the one hand - you're correct that "an apprentice with a grinder and a file" could not possibly produce a modern-era artillery shell. They're just too complex. But OTOH - nobody forges, molds, machines, etc. an artil
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> What's so amazing is that... You, for better and for worse, are thinking like an honest person. Who wants to actually produce a badly-needed product. Please try to understand that General Dynamics managements' ethics and mot

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