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by bell-cot 5mo ago
> ... like Covid, where I recall almost everyone on HN believed it'd be the end of the world ... Looking back, but don't see that. Maybe I'm just failing to hit Peak Doomer? For example - https://news.ycombinat
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
One classic , at-scale disaster, in a should-be-easy field: https://www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/safety-injury-prev/environmen...
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
LTO can be great. But if you aren't familiar with modern tape, then two things to carefully note: - Inter-generation compatibility has been going downhill recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open#
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
True-ish. But centuries before the first nuclear power plant fired up, boilers full of pressurized hot water were notorious for killing people. Both those who were "simply not good enough", and innocent bystanders. Leaking low-p
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
If you have good engineers, using molten sodium as your primary coolant does have a fair number of safety advantages over water. The stuff boils at 1,621 °F - so you lose 99.9% of the traditional (water cooling) problems with ultra-hig
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
Unless those weak spots are quietly addressed by a Field Service Bulletin, just before the revolution kicks off.
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
Yeah - though I might phrase it "don't want to understand this". Which is, in many ways, a mindset which they are carefully taught. Late-stage capitalism's 0.01% need the 10%, or at least the 1%, to really believe th
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
And at least as important is the title claiming "Told to Stop Hiring" - but then the article walks that back through - "1 in 6 Have Been Told to Deprioritize Hiring White Men" - and - "1 in 6 have been asked to depr
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
The USSR was economically socialist, ideologically communist, and politically somewhere on the autocracy-dictatorship spectrum. (That last varied over time, as is normal for such governments. Underlings always want autocracy, which means
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
> ... Standard and Poor one day being worth trillions ... S&P - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_Global - is a business intel & analytics firm, not an investment firm. Their S&P 500 list just one o
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
Collapsed while it was sitting at a gate, with no passengers yet on board - meaning the the gear was under far lower loads than during a landing. While slowly-failing gear could have collapsed anyway just then, the obvious question is whe
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
While I'm neither a Brit, nor a professional historian, my understanding is that corruption - meaning everything from foot-dragging delivery to inferior & defective goods to exorbitant prices to outright theft - is an ageless probl
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
OP is just using "union" as a way of articulating that he's extremely unhappy with current corporate behavior, and also that he wants there to be some sort of at-scale, easy-ish way to correct that behavior.
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
"One rule for thee, but another for me." Similar are situations where employees of a labor union are themselves unionized - under a different union - because they feel ill-paid and ill-treated by the union which employs them.
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Thought_m... ADD: A local press story about Oracle's CEO and Altman "celebrating" a new DC in my part of the country, with sounds-less-creepy language:
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
Subtitle: > A survey finds that academic supervisors can have a huge impact on their students’ mental health And it's mostly not about America's recent-years drama over research funding: > Respondents came from 65 countrie
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
RAM price booms & busts have been a thing since at least the early 1980's, when Andy Grove got Intel out of the memory manufacturing business - because he didn't like the financial aspects, nor the sort of big competitors who
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
> People can surely sue... Would either published indexes or investment funds exist, if suing them for poor performance was anything resembling that easy? I'm thinking "no".
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
Big Hype, but the reality is only a tiny spaceport on a tiny Portuguese island in the Atlantic Ocean. Their goal seems to be "a cost-effective launch site for smaller rockets with smaller satellites, within the EU". Once construc
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
While I can't rule it out, I can remember when https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netburst was going to be the Next Great Thing from Intel. And when https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium was goin
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
I'd reserve "hack" for something requiring some technical skill. Or at least scripts or something written by someone with technical skill. Kinda like how it ain't "breaking & entering" if you found the vic
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
Wikipedia notes both the Spartan and Sprint missiles as having nuclear warheads. That was reasonable-ish, since Wikipedia also notes them being cold war-era anti-ICBM weapons. Less bad to have your own interceptor nukes going off "ne
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
That "stupidly expensive" system provides extremely nice campaign donations, executives bonuses, stock appreciation, dividend checks, and paychecks to a stupidly large number of insiders. Even when they're (say) just medical
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
Big picture: Nice-sounding economic theories claim that stock market valuations are rational, but those theories are mostly bullshit. As soon as the actual humans in the real-world stock market get excited, or scared, or otherwise emotion
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
Efficient burning is far better than shipping it off to a dump in some poor country, while claiming that it'll somehow be recycled there.
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
So...if I just happened to know a landlord with several thousand college student tenants busy moving out right now - should he contact Shift? Or does he need to remind his tenants of his own high cleaning fees, then helpfully suggest that
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
Possibly. Though these days, I wouldn't be surprised if the WSJ was A/B testing versions with different opening examples, while showing 99% of their audience the current "max. clickiness" one.
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
In simpler terms: A bullet-hardened rocket would be about as usable as a lead balloon.
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
(Assuming you are referring to last night's incident, not the 2016 one.) No, I wouldn't completely discard it. Nor would I limit sabotage scenarios to stealthy snipers. It could be anything from a suicidal pyromaniac with a ha
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
"Sleepwalking" is a poor metaphor here, and "sleep" appears nowhere else in the article. Vs. "head-in-the-sand" - introduced two dozen paragraphs later - is a far better fit for the situation. It'd be mor

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